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 27 of 36

1301. ICML 2026Small Generalizable Prompt Predictive Models Can Steer Efficient RL Post-Training of Large Reasoning Models
1302. ICML 2026SmartThinker: Progressive Chain-of-Thought Length Calibration for Efficient Large Language Model Reasoning
1303. ICML 2026SpaceVista: All-Scale Visual Spatial Reasoning from mm to km
1304. ICML 2026SPARC: Separating Perception And Reasoning Circuits for Test-time Scaling of VLMs
1305. ICML 2026Sparks of Cooperative Reasoning: LLMs as Strategic Hanabi Agents
1306. ICML 2026SpecExit: Accelerating Large Reasoning Model via Speculative Exit
1307. ICML 2026Spectral-Progressive Thought Flow for Lightweight Multimodal Reasoning
1308. ICML 2026SPLIT-VLM: Salience-Guided Partitioning towards Local Coverage for Importance-Aware Token Dropping in Vision-Language Models
1309. ICML 2026SRPO: Self-Reflective Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Reasoning
1310. ICML 2026ST-Veto: Spatio-Temporal Token Veto for Diffusion MLLMs via Taylor Prediction and Visual Grounding
1311. ICML 2026Stabilizing MoE Reinforcement Learning by Aligning Training and Inference Routers
1312. ICML 2026Stabilizing Recurrent Dynamics for Test-Time Scalable Latent Reasoning in Looped Language Models
1313. ICML 2026Stable Asynchrony: Variance-Controlled Off-Policy RL for LLMs
1314. ICML 2026Star Elastic: Many-in-One Reasoning LLMs with Efficient Budget Control
1315. ICML 2026State Space Model with Continuous Limit of HiPPO Matrix: Eigenvalue Analysis and Explicit Solution Formula
1316. ICML 2026Statistical Early Stopping for Reasoning Models
1317. ICML 2026Step-Level Sparse Autoencoder for Reasoning Process Interpretation
1318. ICML 2026Step-Resolved Data Attribution for Looped Transformers
1319. ICML 2026StepCodeReasoner: Aligning Code Reasoning with Stepwise Execution Traces via Reinforcement Learning
1320. ICML 2026Stop When Further Reasoning Won’t Help: Attention-State Adaptive Generation in Reasoning Models
1321. ICML 2026Strat-Reasoner: Reinforcing Strategic Reasoning of LLMs in Multi-Agent Games
1322. ICML 2026Strategy Executability in Mathematical Reasoning: Leveraging Human–Model Differences for Effective Guidance
1323. ICML 2026Structure Enables Effective Self-Localization of Errors in LLMs
1324. ICML 2026SuCo: Sufficiency-guided Continuous Adaptive Reasoning
1325. ICML 2026Symbol-Equivariant Recurrent Reasoning Models
1326. ICML 2026Syntax vs. Semantics: How Transformers Learn Deep Dependencies
1327. ICML 2026T-POP: Test-Time Personalization with Online Preference Feedback
1328. ICML 2026Tailoring the Training: Difficulty-Aware Learning Strategy Allocation for Large Language Models
1329. ICML 2026Task-and-Model-Aware Fractal-Consistency for Efficient LLM Reasoning
1330. ICML 2026Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability
1331. ICML 2026Test-Time Detoxification without Training or Learning Anything
1332. ICML 2026Test-time Generalization for Physics through Neural Operator Splitting
1333. ICML 2026Test-Time Learning of Causal Structure from Interventional Data
1334. ICML 2026Test-Time Training with KV Binding Is Secretly Linear Attention
1335. ICML 2026Testing For Distribution Shifts with Conditional Conformal Test Martingales
1336. ICML 2026TFRBench: A Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating Forecasting Systems
1337. ICML 2026TG-RAG: A Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Reasoning Guidance in Specialized Domains
1338. ICML 2026The Abstraction Gap in Vision-Language Causal Reasoning
1339. ICML 2026The Art of Interrogation: Consistency Amplifies Factuality in Spatial Reasoning
1340. ICML 2026The Decrypto Benchmark for Multi-Agent Reasoning and Theory of Mind
1341. ICML 2026The Deterministic Horizon: When Extended Reasoning Fails and Tool Delegation Becomes Necessary
1342. ICML 2026The Easy, the Hard, and the Learnable: Confidence and Difficulty-Adaptive Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning
1343. ICML 2026The Expressive Power of Low Precision Softmax Transformers with (Summarized) Chain-of-Thought
1344. ICML 2026The Flexibility Trap: Rethinking the Value of Arbitrary Order in Diffusion Language Models
1345. ICML 2026The Geometric Reasoner: Manifold-Informed Latent Foresight Search for Long-Context Reasoning
1346. ICML 2026The Geometry of Reasoning: Self-Evaluation via Layerwise Trajectory Evolution
1347. ICML 2026The Power of Power Law: Asymmetry Enables Compositional Reasoning
1348. ICML 2026The Quality-Utility Paradox: Why High-Reward Data Impairs Small Model Mathematical Reasoning
1349. ICML 2026The Shadow Price of Reasoning: Economic Perspective on Optimal Budget Allocation for LLMs
1350. ICML 2026The Shape of Addition: Geometric Structures of Arithmetic in Large Language Models

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.