Reasoning Models papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Reasoning Models went from 470 papers in 2023 to 1,799 in 2026, roughly 3.8x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Reasoning Models work: 1,253 papers from 2023 to 2026, 36% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Reinforcement Learning: papers tagged with both rose from 9 in 2023 to 437 in 2026.
• Among the 4 topics under Trending Systems, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, AI Agents, is up 12x versus 3.8x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Looped Reasoning Language Models
• ICML 2026A Formal Comparison Between Chain of Thought and Latent Thought
• ICLR 2026A Simple "Motivation" Can Enhance Reinforcement Finetuning of Large Reasoning Models
• CVPR 2026Asking like Socrates Socrates helps VLMs understand remote sensing images
• NeurIPS 2025A Frustratingly Simple Yet Highly Effective Attack Baseline: Over 90% Success Rate Against the Strong Black-box Models of GPT-4.5/4o/o1
• ICML 2025A Reasoning-Based Approach to Cryptic Crossword Clue Solving
• ICLR 2025A Formal Framework for Understanding Length Generalization in Transformers
• CVPR 2025Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
• NeurIPS 2024Are Large Language Models Good Statisticians?
• ICML 2024Algorithm of Thoughts: Enhancing Exploration of Ideas in Large Language Models
• ICLR 2024Amortizing intractable inference in large language models
• CVPR 2024Generate Subgoal Images before Act: Unlocking the Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts
• NeurIPS 2023A benchmark of categorical encoders for binary classification
• ICML 2023Can We Scale Transformers to Predict Parameters of Diverse ImageNet Models?
• ICLR 2023Automatic Chain of Thought Prompting in Large Language Models
• CVPR 2023ActMAD: Activation Matching To Align Distributions for Test-Time-Training
• NeurIPS 2026A Solvable Model of Chain-of-Thought in In-Context Learning
• ICML 2026A Narrowing Geometry in Contaminated Reasoning
• ICLR 2026A State-Transition Framework for Efficient LLM Reasoning
• CVPR 2026Beyond Weak Supervision MLLMs-Guided Graded Knowledge Distillation for Unsupervised Camouflaged

All Reasoning Models papers

1,253 papers, page 19 of 26

901. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs via Principled Synthetic Logic Corpus
902. NeurIPS 2024Entity Alignment with Noisy Annotations from Large Language Models
903. NeurIPS 2024Evaluating Numerical Reasoning in Text-to-Image Models
904. NeurIPS 2024Found in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts Better via Plug-and-Play Positional Encoding
905. NeurIPS 2024GameTraversalBenchmark: Evaluating Planning Abilities Of Large Language Models Through Traversing 2D Game Maps
906. NeurIPS 2024GITA: Graph to Visual and Textual Integration for Vision-Language Graph Reasoning
907. NeurIPS 2024Global Lyapunov functions: a long-standing open problem in mathematics, with symbolic transformers
908. NeurIPS 2024Grokking of Implicit Reasoning in Transformers: A Mechanistic Journey to the Edge of Generalization
909. NeurIPS 2024GTBench: Uncovering the Strategic Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs via Game-Theoretic Evaluations
910. NeurIPS 2024How Far Can Transformers Reason? The Globality Barrier and Inductive Scratchpad
911. NeurIPS 2024Information Re-Organization Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models
912. NeurIPS 2024Initialization is Critical to Whether Transformers Fit Composite Functions by Reasoning or Memorizing
913. NeurIPS 2024Instance-adaptive Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought Prompting
914. NeurIPS 2024Interpret Your Decision: Logical Reasoning Regularization for Generalization in Visual Classification
915. NeurIPS 2024Interpretable Image Classification with Adaptive Prototype-based Vision Transformers
916. NeurIPS 2024Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Words? Delving Into Spatial Reasoning for Vision Language Models
917. NeurIPS 2024Iteration Head: A Mechanistic Study of Chain-of-Thought
918. NeurIPS 2024Iterative Reasoning Preference Optimization
919. NeurIPS 2024JiuZhang3.0: Efficiently Improving Mathematical Reasoning by Training Small Data Synthesis Models
920. NeurIPS 2024KptLLM: Unveiling the Power of Large Language Model for Keypoint Comprehension
921. NeurIPS 2024Large Language Models-guided Dynamic Adaptation for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning
922. NeurIPS 2024Learning Formal Mathematics From Intrinsic Motivation
923. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Reason Iteratively and Parallelly for Complex Visual Reasoning Scenarios
924. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Reason via Program Generation, Emulation, and Search
925. NeurIPS 2024Leveraging Environment Interaction for Automated PDDL Translation and Planning with Large Language Models
926. NeurIPS 2024LINGOLY: A Benchmark of Olympiad-Level Linguistic Reasoning Puzzles in Low Resource and Extinct Languages
927. NeurIPS 2024LLMDFA: Analyzing Dataflow in Code with Large Language Models
928. NeurIPS 2024LogiCity: Advancing Neuro-Symbolic AI with Abstract Urban Simulation
929. NeurIPS 2024MAmmoTH2: Scaling Instructions from the Web
930. NeurIPS 2024Many-Shot In-Context Learning
931. NeurIPS 2024Mars: Situated Inductive Reasoning in an Open-World Environment
932. NeurIPS 2024MARVEL: Multidimensional Abstraction and Reasoning through Visual Evaluation and Learning
933. NeurIPS 2024MathPile: A Billion-Token-Scale Pretraining Corpus for Math
934. NeurIPS 2024Meaningful Learning: Enhancing Abstract Reasoning in Large Language Models via Generic Fact Guidance
935. NeurIPS 2024Measuring Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning with MATH-Vision Dataset
936. NeurIPS 2024MediQ: Question-Asking LLMs and a Benchmark for Reliable Interactive Clinical Reasoning
937. NeurIPS 2024MEQA: A Benchmark for Multi-hop Event-centric Question Answering with Explanations
938. NeurIPS 2024Metacognitive Capabilities of LLMs: An Exploration in Mathematical Problem Solving
939. NeurIPS 2024Mind's Eye of LLMs: Visualization-of-Thought Elicits Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models
940. NeurIPS 2024MindMerger: Efficiently Boosting LLM Reasoning in non-English Languages
941. NeurIPS 2024MR-Ben: A Meta-Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating System-2 Thinking in LLMs
942. NeurIPS 2024Multi-modal Situated Reasoning in 3D Scenes
943. NeurIPS 2024MutaPLM: Protein Language Modeling for Mutation Explanation and Engineering
944. NeurIPS 2024Natural Counterfactuals With Necessary Backtracking
945. NeurIPS 2024NaturalBench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Natural Adversarial Samples
946. NeurIPS 2024NeuralSolver: Learning Algorithms For Consistent and Efficient Extrapolation Across General Tasks
947. NeurIPS 2024Neuro-Symbolic Data Generation for Math Reasoning
948. NeurIPS 2024Observational Scaling Laws and the Predictability of Langauge Model Performance
949. NeurIPS 2024OlympicArena: Benchmarking Multi-discipline Cognitive Reasoning for Superintelligent AI
950. NeurIPS 2024On the Inductive Bias of Stacking Towards Improving Reasoning

FAQ

How many Reasoning Models papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

3,512 in total: 470 in 2023, 311 in 2024, 932 in 2025, 1,799 in 2026.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 361 Reasoning Models papers, versus 500 the year before.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 652 Reasoning Models papers, versus 203 the year before.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 582 Reasoning Models papers, versus 159 the year before.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 204 Reasoning Models papers, versus 70 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Reasoning Models papers?

NeurIPS, with 1,253 papers from 2023 to 2026.