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

203 papers, page 2 of 5

51. ICLR 2025DOTS: Learning to Reason Dynamically in LLMs via Optimal Reasoning Trajectories Search
52. ICLR 2025Dualformer: Controllable Fast and Slow Thinking by Learning with Randomized Reasoning Traces
53. ICLR 2025DyCAST: Learning Dynamic Causal Structure from Time Series
54. ICLR 2025Efficiently Learning at Test-Time: Active Fine-Tuning of LLMs
55. ICLR 2025Emergence of a High-Dimensional Abstraction Phase in Language Transformers
56. ICLR 2025Enhancing Cognition and Explainability of Multimodal Foundation Models with Self-Synthesized Data
57. ICLR 2025Enhancing Graph Of Thought: Enhancing Prompts with LLM Rationales and Dynamic Temperature Control
58. ICLR 2025Enhancing Language Model Agents using Diversity of Thoughts
59. ICLR 2025Episodic Memories Generation and Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models
60. ICLR 2025Explore Theory of Mind: program-guided adversarial data generation for theory of mind reasoning
61. ICLR 2025From Isolated Conversations to Hierarchical Schemas: Dynamic Tree Memory Representation for LLMs
62. ICLR 2025From Models to Microtheories: Distilling a Model's Topical Knowledge for Grounded Question-Answering
63. ICLR 2025From Probability to Counterfactuals: the Increasing Complexity of Satisfiability in Pearl's Causal Hierarchy
64. ICLR 2025From Sparse Dependence to Sparse Attention: Unveiling How Chain-of-Thought Enhances Transformer Sample Efficiency
65. ICLR 2025G-LLaVA: Solving Geometric Problem with Multi-Modal Large Language Model
66. ICLR 2025GameArena: Evaluating LLM Reasoning through Live Computer Games
67. ICLR 2025Generalization, Expressivity, and Universality of Graph Neural Networks on Attributed Graphs
68. ICLR 2025Generalizing Reasoning Problems to Longer Lengths
69. ICLR 2025Generative Verifiers: Reward Modeling as Next-Token Prediction
70. ICLR 2025GenVP: Generating Visual Puzzles with Contrastive Hierarchical VAEs
71. ICLR 2025GeoX: Geometric Problem Solving Through Unified Formalized Vision-Language Pre-training
72. ICLR 2025GraphArena: Evaluating and Exploring Large Language Models on Graph Computation
73. ICLR 2025GReaTer: Gradients Over Reasoning Makes Smaller Language Models Strong Prompt Optimizers
74. ICLR 2025GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
75. ICLR 2025HARDMath: A Benchmark Dataset for Challenging Problems in Applied Mathematics
76. ICLR 2025Holistic Reasoning with Long-Context LMs: A Benchmark for Database Operations on Massive Textual Data
77. ICLR 2025Holistically Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Creating Language Models
78. ICLR 2025Improved Sampling Of Diffusion Models In Fluid Dynamics With Tweedie's Formula
79. ICLR 2025ImProver: Agent-Based Automated Proof Optimization
80. ICLR 2025Improving Complex Reasoning with Dynamic Prompt Corruption: A Soft Prompt Optimization Approach
81. ICLR 2025Improving Reasoning Performance in Large Language Models via Representation Engineering
82. ICLR 2025Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation
83. ICLR 2025Inference Scaling Laws: An Empirical Analysis of Compute-Optimal Inference for LLM Problem-Solving
84. ICLR 2025Interpreting Emergent Planning in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
85. ICLR 2025Is Your Model Really A Good Math Reasoner? Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning with Checklist
86. ICLR 2025KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models
87. ICLR 2025KOR-Bench: Benchmarking Language Models on Knowledge-Orthogonal Reasoning Tasks
88. ICLR 2025Language-Image Models with 3D Understanding
89. ICLR 2025Large Language Models Meet Symbolic Provers for Logical Reasoning Evaluation
90. ICLR 2025Latent Space Chain-of-Embedding Enables Output-free LLM Self-Evaluation
91. ICLR 2025Layer Swapping for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer in Large Language Models
92. ICLR 2025Lean-STaR: Learning to Interleave Thinking and Proving
93. ICLR 2025Learning How Hard to Think: Input-Adaptive Allocation of LM Computation
94. ICLR 2025Learning the Optimal Stopping for Early Classification within Finite Horizons via Sequential Probability Ratio Test
95. ICLR 2025Limits of Deep Learning: Sequence Modeling through the Lens of Complexity Theory
96. ICLR 2025Lines of Thought in Large Language Models
97. ICLR 2025LLM-based Typed Hyperresolution for Commonsense Reasoning with Knowledge Bases
98. ICLR 2025Logically Consistent Language Models via Neuro-Symbolic Integration
99. ICLR 2025Logicbreaks: A Framework for Understanding Subversion of Rule-based Inference
100. ICLR 2025MAPS: Advancing Multi-Modal Reasoning in Expert-Level Physical Science

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.