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

932 papers, page 19 of 19

901. NeurIPS 2025Unlabeled Data Can Provably Enhance In-Context Learning of Transformers
902. NeurIPS 2025Unlocking Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning via Process Reward Model
903. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling Chain of Step Reasoning for Vision-Language Models with Fine-grained Rewards
904. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling the Compositional Ability Gap in Vision-Language Reasoning Model
905. NeurIPS 2025Vad-R1: Towards Video Anomaly Reasoning via Perception-to-Cognition Chain-of-Thought
906. NeurIPS 2025Value-Guided Search for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
907. NeurIPS 2025VeriThinker: Learning to Verify Makes Reasoning Model Efficient
908. NeurIPS 2025VeriThoughts: Enabling Automated Verilog Code Generation using Reasoning and Formal Verification
909. NeurIPS 2025ViCrit: A Verifiable Reinforcement Learning Proxy Task for Visual Perception in VLMs
910. NeurIPS 2025Video-R1: Reinforcing Video Reasoning in MLLMs
911. NeurIPS 2025VideoChat-R1.5: Visual Test-Time Scaling to Reinforce Multimodal Reasoning by Iterative Perception
912. NeurIPS 2025VideoRFT: Incentivizing Video Reasoning Capability in MLLMs via Reinforced Fine-Tuning
913. NeurIPS 2025Vinci: Deep Thinking in Text-to-Image Generation using Unified Model with Reinforcement Learning
914. NeurIPS 2025VisDiff: SDF-Guided Polygon Generation for Visibility Reconstruction, Characterization and Recognition
915. NeurIPS 2025Visual Structures Help Visual Reasoning: Addressing the Binding Problem in LVLMs
916. NeurIPS 2025Visual Thoughts: A Unified Perspective of Understanding Multimodal Chain-of-Thought
917. NeurIPS 2025VisualQuality-R1: Reasoning-Induced Image Quality Assessment via Reinforcement Learning to Rank
918. NeurIPS 2025VL-Rethinker: Incentivizing Self-Reflection of Vision-Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
919. NeurIPS 2025VLM-R³: Region Recognition, Reasoning, and Refinement for Enhanced Multimodal Chain-of-Thought
920. NeurIPS 2025VLMs have Tunnel Vision: Evaluating Nonlocal Visual Reasoning in Leading VLMs
921. NeurIPS 2025VPO: Reasoning Preferences Optimization Based on $\mathcal{V}$-Usable Information
922. NeurIPS 2025Walking the Tightrope: Autonomous Disentangling Beneficial and Detrimental Drifts in Non-Stationary Custom-Tuning
923. NeurIPS 2025Weaver: Shrinking the Generation-Verification Gap by Scaling Compute for Verification
924. NeurIPS 2025WebThinker: Empowering Large Reasoning Models with Deep Research Capability
925. NeurIPS 2025What’s in Common? Multimodal Models Hallucinate When Reasoning Across Scenes
926. NeurIPS 2025When Less Language is More: Language-Reasoning Disentanglement Makes LLMs Better Multilingual Reasoners
927. NeurIPS 2025When No Paths Lead to Rome: Benchmarking Systematic Neural Relational Reasoning
928. NeurIPS 2025When Thinking Drifts: Evidential Grounding for Robust Video Reasoning
929. NeurIPS 2025When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs
930. NeurIPS 2025Which Data Attributes Stimulate Math and Code Reasoning? An Investigation via Influence Functions
931. NeurIPS 2025Who Reasons in the Large Language Models?
932. NeurIPS 2025Wider or Deeper? Scaling LLM Inference-Time Compute with Adaptive Branching Tree Search

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.