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

1,799 papers, page 24 of 36

1151. ICML 2026MIND: Multi-rationale INtegrated Discriminative Reasoning Framework for Multi-modal Large Models
1152. ICML 2026Mining Useful General Data for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation
1153. ICML 2026Mitigating Label Shift in Tabular In-Context Learning via Test-Time Posterior Adjustment
1154. ICML 2026Mitigating Premature Exploitation in Particle-based Monte Carlo for Inference-Time Scaling
1155. ICML 2026Mitigating the Safety–Utility Trade-off in LLM Alignment via Adaptive Safe Context Learning
1156. ICML 2026MixReasoning: Switching Modes to Think
1157. ICML 2026MLLM-4D: Towards Visual-based Spatial-Temporal Intelligence
1158. ICML 2026MME-Reasoning: A Broad-Spectrum Benchmark for Evaluating Logical Reasoning in MLLMs
1159. ICML 2026Modeling Hierarchical Thinking in Large Reasoning Models
1160. ICML 2026Models Under SCOPE: Scalable and Controllable Routing via Pre-hoc Reasoning
1161. ICML 2026Monitorability as a Free Gift: How RLVR Spontaneously Aligns Reasoning
1162. ICML 2026Monitoring Monitorability
1163. ICML 2026More Sail than Ballast: Addressing Harmful Knowledge Leakage in the Expansive Reasoning Space of LRMs
1164. ICML 2026Multi-Integration of Labels Across Categories for Component Identification in Multi-trial Time Series
1165. ICML 2026Multi-Objective Protein Design via Memory-Aware Test-Time Scaling in Diffusion Models
1166. ICML 2026Multimodal Fact-Level Attribution for Verifiable Reasoning
1167. ICML 2026Multimodal Function Vectors for Visual Relations
1168. ICML 2026MultiPriv: Benchmarking Individual-Level Privacy Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
1169. ICML 2026Neuro-Fuzzy Concept Learning for Interpretable Large Multimodal Models
1170. ICML 2026Noise-corrected GRPO: From Noisy Rewards to Unbiased Gradients
1171. ICML 2026Not All Invariants Are Equal: Curating Training Data to Accelerate Program Verification with SLMs
1172. ICML 2026Omni-Perception Policy Optimization for Multimodal Emotion Reasoning
1173. ICML 2026OmniVideo-R1: Reinforcing Audio-visual Reasoning with Query Intention and Modality Attention
1174. ICML 2026On Robustness and Chain-of-Thought Consistency of RL-Finetuned VLMs
1175. ICML 2026On the "Induction Bias" in Sequence Models
1176. ICML 2026On the Emergence of Implicit Curriculum in RLVR Learning Dynamics
1177. ICML 2026On the Generalization Gap in Self-Evolving Language Model Reasoning
1178. ICML 2026On the Interplay of Pre-Training, Mid-Training, and RL on Reasoning Language Models
1179. ICML 2026On the Intrinsic Limits of Transformer Image Embeddings in Non-Solvable Spatial Reasoning
1180. ICML 2026On the Limits of Test-Time Compute: Sequential Reward Filtering for Better Inference
1181. ICML 2026One Step Forward and K Steps Back: Better Reasoning with Denoising Recursion Models
1182. ICML 2026One-shot Entropy Minimization for Language Model Reasoning
1183. ICML 2026One-Way Policy Optimization for Self-Evolving LLMs
1184. ICML 2026Op-CAD: Benchmarking and Investigating Operation-oriented CAD Generation
1185. ICML 2026Open-o3-Video: Grounded Video Reasoning with Explicit Spatio-Temporal Evidence
1186. ICML 2026Open-World LLM Logical Reasoning
1187. ICML 2026OpenDeception: Learning Deception and Trust in Human–AI Interaction via Multi-Agent Simulation
1188. ICML 2026OpenHA: A Series of Open-Source Hierarchical Agentic Models in Minecraft
1189. ICML 2026OpenTSLM: Time-Series Language Models for Reasoning over Multivariate Medical Text- and Time-Series Data
1190. ICML 2026OPT-Engine: Benchmarking the Limits of LLMs in Optimization Modeling via Complexity Scaling
1191. ICML 2026Opt-Miner: Empowering Information-Seeking Agent with Tree-Guided Data Synthesis for Optimization Modeling
1192. ICML 2026Optimal Self-Consistency for Efficient Reasoning with Large Language Models
1193. ICML 2026Optimizing Inference-Time Compute for Medical Reasoning via Uncertainty Quantification
1194. ICML 2026Orchestrating Spatial Semantics via a Zone-Graph Paradigm for Intricate Indoor Scene Generation
1195. ICML 2026Out-of-Distribution Evaluation of Rule-Based and Strategic Reasoning in Chess Transformers
1196. ICML 2026Outcome Rewards Do Not Guarantee Verifiable or Causally Important Reasoning
1197. ICML 2026Overthinking: Amplifying Reasoning Weights to Extract Learned Secrets
1198. ICML 2026Panini: Continual Learning in Token Space via Structured Memory
1199. ICML 2026Parallel-Probe: Towards Efficient Parallel Thinking via 2D Probing
1200. ICML 2026PATRA: Pattern-Aware Alignment and Balanced Reasoning for Time Series Question Answering

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.