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

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51. CVPR 2026Efficiently Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes One D4RT at a Time
52. CVPR 2026EgoMind Activating Spatial Cognition through Linguistic Reasoning in MLLMs
53. CVPR 2026EgoProx Evaluating MLLMs on Egocentric 3D Proximity Reasoning Across a
54. CVPR 2026EmoThinker Advancing Visual-Acoustic Emotion Analysis via Structural Token Selection and
55. CVPR 2026Energy Waveify and Redistribution for Test-Time Adaptation A Control System
56. CVPR 2026Enhancing Video Vision Language Model with Hippocampal Sensing
57. CVPR 2026Evolutionary Multimodal Reasoning via Hierarchical Semantic Representation for Intent Recognition
58. CVPR 2026FantasyVLN Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-and-Language Navigation
59. CVPR 2026Fast Reasoning Segmentation for Images and Videos
60. CVPR 2026Fast-ThinkAct Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning
61. CVPR 2026FireScope Wildfire Risk Raster Prediction With a Chain-of-Thought Oracle
62. CVPR 2026FOZO Forward-Only Zeroth-Order Prompt Optimization for Test-Time Adaptation
63. CVPR 2026From Contrast to Consistency Rethinking Event-based Continuous-Time Optical Flow Estimation
64. CVPR 2026From Intuition to Investigation A Tool-Augmented Reasoning MLLM Framework for
65. CVPR 2026From Manuals to Actions A Unified VLA Model for Chain-of-Thought
66. CVPR 2026From Scale to Speed Adaptive Test-Time Scaling for Image Editing
67. CVPR 2026Fuel Gauge Estimating Chain-of-Thought Length Ahead of Time in Large
68. CVPR 2026FunFact Building Probabilistic Functional 3D Scene Graphs via Factor-Graph Reasoning
69. CVPR 2026G-MIXER Geodesic Mixup-based Implicit Semantic Expansion and Explicit Semantic Re-ranking
70. CVPR 2026Gated KalmaNet A Fading Memory Layer through Test-time Ridge Regression
71. CVPR 2026GeoAgent Learning to Geolocate Everywhere with Reinforced Geographic Characteristics
72. CVPR 2026GeoCoT Towards Reliable Remote Sensing Reasoning with Manifold Perspective
73. CVPR 2026Geoint-R1 Formalizing Multimodal Geometric Reasoning with Dynamic Auxiliary Constructions
74. CVPR 2026Global Underwater Geolocation from Time-Lapse Polarization Imagery
75. CVPR 2026Grounded 3D-Aware Spatial Vision-Language Modeling
76. CVPR 2026Grounded Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Large Language Models
77. CVPR 2026GuardTrace-VL Detecting Unsafe Multimodel Reasoning via Iterative Safety Supervision
78. CVPR 2026Harnessing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models for Face
79. CVPR 2026Hear you are Teaching LLMs Spatial Reasoning with Vision and
80. CVPR 2026Hilbert-Geo Solving Solid Geometric Problems by Neural-Symbolic Reasoning
81. CVPR 2026History to Future Evolving Agent with Experience and Thought for
82. CVPR 2026HoneyBee Data Recipes for Vision-Language Reasoners
83. CVPR 2026HSI-GPT2 A Dual-Granularity Large Motion Reasoning Model with Diffusion Refinement
84. CVPR 2026Human-like Abstract Visual Reasoning via Understanding and Solving Reasoning Loop
85. CVPR 2026HUMORCHAIN Theory-Guided Multi-Stage Reasoning for Interpretable Multimodal Humor Generation
86. CVPR 2026HybridDriveVLA Vision-Language-Action Model with Visual CoT reasoning and ToT Evaluation
87. CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Prototype Learning with Uncertainty-Aware Consistency for Continual Test-Time Segmentation
88. CVPR 2026Hypergraph-State Collaborative Reasoning for Multi-Object Tracking
89. CVPR 2026Incentivizing Versatile Video Reasoning in MLLMs via Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
90. CVPR 2026Inference-time Physics Alignment of Video Generative Models with Latent World
91. CVPR 2026Inter-Photon-Limited Videography
92. CVPR 2026iSHIFT Lightweight Slow-Fast GUI Agent with Adaptive Perception
93. CVPR 2026JarvisEvo Towards a Self-Evolving Photo Editing Agent with Synergistic Editor-Evaluator
94. CVPR 2026KV-Tracker Real-Time Pose Tracking with Transformers
95. CVPR 2026LASAR Towards Spatio-temporal Reasoning with Latent Cognitive Map
96. CVPR 2026Latent Chain-of-Thought World Modeling for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
97. CVPR 2026Latent Implicit Visual Reasoning
98. CVPR 2026LayoutAD Exploring Semantic-Geometric Misalignment Reasoning for Scene Layout Anomaly Detection
99. CVPR 2026Let VLMs Grade Their Own Thoughts A Self-Quantification Approach to
100. CVPR 2026Leveraging Verifier-Based Reinforcement Learning in Image Editing

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.