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 20 of 26

951. NeurIPS 2024On the Power of Decision Trees in Auto-Regressive Language Modeling
952. NeurIPS 2024One Token to Seg Them All: Language Instructed Reasoning Segmentation in Videos
953. NeurIPS 2024Open-Book Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
954. NeurIPS 2024OpenMathInstruct-1: A 1.8 Million Math Instruction Tuning Dataset
955. NeurIPS 2024PutnamBench: Evaluating Neural Theorem-Provers on the Putnam Mathematical Competition
956. NeurIPS 2024PUZZLES: A Benchmark for Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
957. NeurIPS 2024ReMI: A Dataset for Reasoning with Multiple Images
958. NeurIPS 2024ReXTime: A Benchmark Suite for Reasoning-Across-Time in Videos
959. NeurIPS 2024SciInstruct: a Self-Reflective Instruction Annotated Dataset for Training Scientific Language Models
960. NeurIPS 2024SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
961. NeurIPS 2024Self-playing Adversarial Language Game Enhances LLM Reasoning
962. NeurIPS 2024SemCoder: Training Code Language Models with Comprehensive Semantics Reasoning
963. NeurIPS 2024SG-Bench: Evaluating LLM Safety Generalization Across Diverse Tasks and Prompt Types
964. NeurIPS 2024SG-Nav: Online 3D Scene Graph Prompting for LLM-based Zero-shot Object Navigation
965. NeurIPS 2024SLED: Self Logits Evolution Decoding for Improving Factuality in Large Language Models
966. NeurIPS 2024Slot State Space Models
967. NeurIPS 2024SocialGPT: Prompting LLMs for Social Relation Reasoning via Greedy Segment Optimization
968. NeurIPS 2024SpatialPIN: Enhancing Spatial Reasoning Capabilities of Vision-Language Models through Prompting and Interacting 3D Priors
969. NeurIPS 2024SpatialRGPT: Grounded Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
970. NeurIPS 2024SPIQA: A Dataset for Multimodal Question Answering on Scientific Papers
971. NeurIPS 2024StrategyLLM: Large Language Models as Strategy Generators, Executors, Optimizers, and Evaluators for Problem Solving
972. NeurIPS 2024TACT: Advancing Complex Aggregative Reasoning with Information Extraction Tools
973. NeurIPS 2024TopoLogic: An Interpretable Pipeline for Lane Topology Reasoning on Driving Scenes
974. NeurIPS 2024Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the 'Reversal Curse' via Training Dynamics
975. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Limits of Vision Language Models Through the Lens of the Binding Problem
976. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Transformer Reasoning Capabilities via Graph Algorithms
977. NeurIPS 2024UniBench: Visual Reasoning Requires Rethinking Vision-Language Beyond Scaling
978. NeurIPS 2024Unlocking the Capabilities of Thought: A Reasoning Boundary Framework to Quantify and Optimize Chain-of-Thought
979. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models: Reality or Mirage?
980. NeurIPS 2024Visual CoT: Advancing Multi-Modal Language Models with a Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmark for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
981. NeurIPS 2024Visual Sketchpad: Sketching as a Visual Chain of Thought for Multimodal Language Models
982. NeurIPS 2024VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images
983. NeurIPS 2023[Re] Numerical influence of ReLU'(0) on backpropagation
984. NeurIPS 2023$\mathcal{M}^4$: A Unified XAI Benchmark for Faithfulness Evaluation of Feature Attribution Methods across Metrics, Modalities and Models
985. NeurIPS 20233D-Aware Visual Question Answering about Parts, Poses and Occlusions
986. NeurIPS 20233D-LLM: Injecting the 3D World into Large Language Models
987. NeurIPS 2023A benchmark of categorical encoders for binary classification
988. NeurIPS 2023A Diffusion-Model of Joint Interactive Navigation
989. NeurIPS 2023A Logic for Expressing Log-Precision Transformers
990. NeurIPS 2023A Massive Scale Semantic Similarity Dataset of Historical English
991. NeurIPS 2023A*Net: A Scalable Path-based Reasoning Approach for Knowledge Graphs
992. NeurIPS 2023Active Reasoning in an Open-World Environment
993. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive recurrent vision performs zero-shot computation scaling to unseen difficulty levels
994. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive Test-Time Personalization for Federated Learning
995. NeurIPS 2023Align Your Prompts: Test-Time Prompting with Distribution Alignment for Zero-Shot Generalization
996. NeurIPS 2023Anonymous and Copy-Robust Delegations for Liquid Democracy
997. NeurIPS 2023Approximate inference of marginals using the IBIA framework
998. NeurIPS 2023Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?
999. NeurIPS 2023ATTA: Anomaly-aware Test-Time Adaptation for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Segmentation
1000. NeurIPS 2023Attentive Transfer Entropy to Exploit Transient Emergence of Coupling Effect

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.