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 21 of 26

1001. NeurIPS 2023Autonomous Capability Assessment of Sequential Decision-Making Systems in Stochastic Settings
1002. NeurIPS 2023Benchmarking Large Language Models on CMExam - A comprehensive Chinese Medical Exam Dataset
1003. NeurIPS 2023Beyond Invariance: Test-Time Label-Shift Adaptation for Addressing "Spurious" Correlations
1004. NeurIPS 2023BoardgameQA: A Dataset for Natural Language Reasoning with Contradictory Information
1005. NeurIPS 2023Boosting Adversarial Transferability by Achieving Flat Local Maxima
1006. NeurIPS 2023Budgeting Counterfactual for Offline RL
1007. NeurIPS 2023Building the Bridge of Schrödinger: A Continuous Entropic Optimal Transport Benchmark
1008. NeurIPS 2023BuildingsBench: A Large-Scale Dataset of 900K Buildings and Benchmark for Short-Term Load Forecasting
1009. NeurIPS 2023Can Language Models Solve Graph Problems in Natural Language?
1010. NeurIPS 2023Can Language Models Teach? Teacher Explanations Improve Student Performance via Personalization
1011. NeurIPS 2023Causal Interpretation of Self-Attention in Pre-Trained Transformers
1012. NeurIPS 2023Censored Sampling of Diffusion Models Using 3 Minutes of Human Feedback
1013. NeurIPS 2023Chameleon: Plug-and-Play Compositional Reasoning with Large Language Models
1014. NeurIPS 2023Change point detection and inference in multivariate non-parametric models under mixing conditions
1015. NeurIPS 2023Characterizing the Optimal $0-1$ Loss for Multi-class Classification with a Test-time Attacker
1016. NeurIPS 2023Circuit as Set of Points
1017. NeurIPS 2023CLadder: Assessing Causal Reasoning in Language Models
1018. NeurIPS 2023Classification of Heavy-tailed Features in High Dimensions: a Superstatistical Approach
1019. NeurIPS 2023CLeAR: Continual Learning on Algorithmic Reasoning for Human-like Intelligence
1020. NeurIPS 2023Collaborative Alignment of NLP Models
1021. NeurIPS 2023Computing a human-like reaction time metric from stable recurrent vision models
1022. NeurIPS 2023Concentration analysis of multivariate elliptic diffusions
1023. NeurIPS 2023Conditional independence testing under misspecified inductive biases
1024. NeurIPS 2023Coneheads: Hierarchy Aware Attention
1025. NeurIPS 2023Continuous-Time Functional Diffusion Processes
1026. NeurIPS 2023Contrastive Sampling Chains in Diffusion Models
1027. NeurIPS 2023Convergence analysis of ODE models for accelerated first-order methods via positive semidefinite kernels
1028. NeurIPS 2023Convergence of mean-field Langevin dynamics: time-space discretization, stochastic gradient, and variance reduction
1029. NeurIPS 2023Counterfactual Memorization in Neural Language Models
1030. NeurIPS 2023DDCoT: Duty-Distinct Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Multimodal Reasoning in Language Models
1031. NeurIPS 2023Decoding the Enigma: Benchmarking Humans and AIs on the Many Facets of Working Memory
1032. NeurIPS 2023Deductive Verification of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
1033. NeurIPS 2023DeepfakeBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Deepfake Detection
1034. NeurIPS 2023Demo2Code: From Summarizing Demonstrations to Synthesizing Code via Extended Chain-of-Thought
1035. NeurIPS 2023Differentiable Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning on Large-Scale Knowledge Graphs
1036. NeurIPS 2023Differentiable Sampling of Categorical Distributions Using the CatLog-Derivative Trick
1037. NeurIPS 2023Diffusion Hyperfeatures: Searching Through Time and Space for Semantic Correspondence
1038. NeurIPS 2023Diffusion-TTA: Test-time Adaptation of Discriminative Models via Generative Feedback
1039. NeurIPS 2023DIFUSCO: Graph-based Diffusion Solvers for Combinatorial Optimization
1040. NeurIPS 2023Diplomat: A Dialogue Dataset for Situated PragMATic Reasoning
1041. NeurIPS 2023Dis-inhibitory neuronal circuits can control the sign of synaptic plasticity
1042. NeurIPS 2023Discriminative Calibration: Check Bayesian Computation from Simulations and Flexible Classifier
1043. NeurIPS 2023DisDiff: Unsupervised Disentanglement of Diffusion Probabilistic Models
1044. NeurIPS 2023Disentangled Counterfactual Learning for Physical Audiovisual Commonsense Reasoning
1045. NeurIPS 2023Dissecting Chain-of-Thought: Compositionality through In-Context Filtering and Learning
1046. NeurIPS 2023Diversified Outlier Exposure for Out-of-Distribution Detection via Informative Extrapolation
1047. NeurIPS 2023Django: Detecting Trojans in Object Detection Models via Gaussian Focus Calibration
1048. NeurIPS 2023Does Visual Pretraining Help End-to-End Reasoning?
1049. NeurIPS 2023Effective Robustness against Natural Distribution Shifts for Models with Different Training Data
1050. NeurIPS 2023Egocentric Planning for Scalable Embodied Task Achievement

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.