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

159 papers, page 2 of 4

51. ICML 2025GuardAgent: Safeguard LLM Agents via Knowledge-Enabled Reasoning
52. ICML 2025How Transformers Learn Regular Language Recognition: A Theoretical Study on Training Dynamics and Implicit Bias
53. ICML 2025HyperIV: Real-time Implied Volatility Smoothing
54. ICML 2025HyperTree Planning: Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Hierarchical Thinking
55. ICML 2025Hypo3D: Exploring Hypothetical Reasoning in 3D
56. ICML 2025Imagine While Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought
57. ICML 2025Implicit Language Models are RNNs: Balancing Parallelization and Expressivity
58. ICML 2025Improving Rationality in the Reasoning Process of Language Models through Self-playing Game
59. ICML 2025Interchangeable Token Embeddings for Extendable Vocabulary and Alpha-Equivalence
60. ICML 2025Is Complex Query Answering Really Complex?
61. ICML 2025IT$^3$: Idempotent Test-Time Training
62. ICML 2025KernelBench: Can LLMs Write Efficient GPU Kernels?
63. ICML 2025Large Language Models to Diffusion Finetuning
64. ICML 2025Latent Thought Models with Variational Bayes Inference-Time Computation
65. ICML 2025Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States
66. ICML 2025Learning to Plan & Reason for Evaluation with Thinking-LLM-as-a-Judge
67. ICML 2025LLMs Can Reason Faster Only If We Let Them
68. ICML 2025LLMs can see and hear without any training
69. ICML 2025LMAct: A Benchmark for In-Context Imitation Learning with Long Multimodal Demonstrations
70. ICML 2025Lower Bounds for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Hard-Attention Transformers
71. ICML 2025MA-LoT: Model-Collaboration Lean-based Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning enhances Formal Theorem Proving
72. ICML 2025Machine Learning meets Algebraic Combinatorics: A Suite of Datasets Capturing Research-level Conjecturing Ability in Pure Mathematics
73. ICML 2025Machines and Mathematical Mutations: Using GNNs to Characterize Quiver Mutation Classes
74. ICML 2025MapEval: A Map-Based Evaluation of Geo-Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models
75. ICML 2025MARGE: Improving Math Reasoning with Guided Exploration
76. ICML 2025MATH-Perturb: Benchmarking LLMs' Math Reasoning Abilities against Hard Perturbations
77. ICML 2025MathConstruct: Challenging LLM Reasoning with Constructive Proofs
78. ICML 2025Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation
79. ICML 2025Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse
80. ICML 2025Mirror, Mirror of the Flow: How Does Regularization Shape Implicit Bias?
81. ICML 2025MME-CoT: Benchmarking Chain-of-Thought in Large Multimodal Models for Reasoning Quality, Robustness, and Efficiency
82. ICML 2025Neural Genetic Search in Discrete Spaces
83. ICML 2025Noise Conditional Variational Score Distillation
84. ICML 2025On the Power of Context-Enhanced Learning in LLMs
85. ICML 2025One Example Shown, Many Concepts Known! Counterexample-Driven Conceptual Reasoning in Mathematical LLMs
86. ICML 2025Optimizing Test-Time Compute via Meta Reinforcement Finetuning
87. ICML 2025PDE-Controller: LLMs for Autoformalization and Reasoning of PDEs
88. ICML 2025PENCIL: Long Thoughts with Short Memory
89. ICML 2025PokéChamp: an Expert-level Minimax Language Agent
90. ICML 2025Policy Guided Tree Search for Enhanced LLM Reasoning
91. ICML 2025Position: A Theory of Deep Learning Must Include Compositional Sparsity
92. ICML 2025Position: Formal Mathematical Reasoning—A New Frontier in AI
93. ICML 2025Position: It Is Time We Test Neural Computation In Vitro
94. ICML 2025Position: Language model developers should report train-test overlap
95. ICML 2025Position: LLMs Need a Bayesian Meta-Reasoning Framework for More Robust and Generalizable Reasoning
96. ICML 2025Position: Trustworthy AI Agents Require the Integration of Large Language Models and Formal Methods
97. ICML 2025Position: We Need An Algorithmic Understanding of Generative AI
98. ICML 2025Premise-Augmented Reasoning Chains Improve Error Identification in Math reasoning with LLMs
99. ICML 2025Primal-Dual Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
100. ICML 2025Product of Experts with LLMs: Boosting Performance on ARC Is a Matter of Perspective

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.