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 28 of 36

1351. ICML 2026The Signal is in the Steps: Local Scoring for Reasoning Data Selection
1352. ICML 2026The Silent Thought: Modeling Internal Cognition in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models via Latent Reasoning
1353. ICML 2026The Tell-Tale Norm: $\ell_2$ Magnitude as a Signal for Reasoning Dynamics in Large Language Models
1354. ICML 2026The Two-Hump Problem: Bridging the Difficulty Gap in Mathematical Reinforcement Learning
1355. ICML 2026The Value of Variance: Mitigating Debate Collapse in Multi-Agent Systems via Uncertainty-Driven Policy Optimization
1356. ICML 2026Theoretical Perspectives on Data Quality and Synergistic Effects in Pre- and Post-Training Reasoning Models
1357. ICML 2026Think Deep, Not Just Long: Measuring LLM Reasoning Effort via Deep-Thinking Tokens
1358. ICML 2026Think in Latent, Explain in Language: Self-Explainable Latent Reasoning
1359. ICML 2026Think Less, Act Early: Reinforced Latent Reasoning with Early Exit in Vision-Language-Action Models
1360. ICML 2026Think Twice Before You Act: Enhancing Agent Behavioral Safety with Thought Correction
1361. ICML 2026Think-at-Hard: Selective Latent Iterations to Improve Reasoning Language Models
1362. ICML 2026Think-Then-Generate: Reasoning-Aware Text-to-Image Diffusion with LLM Encoders
1363. ICML 2026Thinking in Flow: A Dissipative Stabilization Operator for Robust Autoregressive Reasoning
1364. ICML 2026Thinking in Latent Space: Progressive Multimodal Simplification for Visual Reasoning
1365. ICML 2026Thinking in Scales: Accelerating Gigapixel Pathology Image Analysis via Adaptive Continuous Reasoning
1366. ICML 2026Thinking in Structures: Evaluating Spatial Intelligence in Constraint-Governed Spaces
1367. ICML 2026Thoughtbubbles: an Unsupervised Method for Parallel Thinking in Latent Space
1368. ICML 2026ThoughtFold: Folding Reasoning Chains via Introspective Preference Learning
1369. ICML 2026ThreadWeaver: Adaptive Threading for Efficient Parallel Reasoning in Language Models
1370. ICML 2026Time Series Reasoning via Process-Verifiable Thinking Data Synthesis and Scheduling for Tailored LLM Reasoning
1371. ICML 2026TimeOmni-VL: Unified Models for Time Series Understanding and Generation
1372. ICML 2026TimeSpot: Benchmarking Geo-Temporal Understanding in Vision–Language Models in Real-World Settings
1373. ICML 2026Topological Active Inference for Task Disambiguation
1374. ICML 2026Toward Culturally Aligned LLMs through Ontology-Guided Multi-Agent Reasoning
1375. ICML 2026Toward Cybersecurity-Expert Small Language Models
1376. ICML 2026Towards Efficient Large Language Reasoning Models via Extreme-Ratio Chain-of-Thought Compression
1377. ICML 2026Towards Feedback-to-Plan Decisions for Self-Evolving LLM Agents in CUDA Kernel Generation
1378. ICML 2026Towards Long-Horizon Interpretability: Efficient and Faithful Multi-Token Attribution for Reasoning LLMs
1379. ICML 2026Towards On-Policy SFT: Distribution Discriminant Theory and its Applications in LLM Training
1380. ICML 2026Towards One-to-Many Temporal Grounding
1381. ICML 2026TRACE: Toulmin-based Reasoning Assessment through Constructive Elements for LLM CoT Evaluation
1382. ICML 2026TRACER: Trajectory Risk Aggregation for Critical Episodes in Agentic Reasoning
1383. ICML 2026Training-Trajectory-Aware Token Selection
1384. ICML 2026Transformers with RL or SFT Provably Learn Sparse Boolean Functions, But Differently
1385. ICML 2026TRAP: Hijacking VLA CoT-Reasoning via Adversarial Patches
1386. ICML 2026TreePO: Enhancing Policy Efficacy and Inference Efficiency with Tree Modeling
1387. ICML 2026TriAttention: Efficient Long Reasoning with Trigonometric KV Compression
1388. ICML 2026TrustworthyQENN: A Quantum Evidential Neural Network Based on Complex-Valued Contrastive Learning for Uncertainty Pattern Classification
1389. ICML 2026Truthfulness Does Not Scale Like Reasoning: Why Polling Fails as a Proxy Verifier
1390. ICML 2026TSRBench: A Comprehensive Multi-task Multi-modal Time Series Reasoning Benchmark for Generalist Models
1391. ICML 2026Turbo Connection: Reasoning as Information Flow from Higher to Lower Layers
1392. ICML 2026Turning Drift into Constraint: Robust Reasoning Alignment in Non-Stationary Multi-Stream Environments
1393. ICML 2026TVI-CoT: Text-Visual Interleaved Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Multimodal Understanding
1394. ICML 2026UFO: Chain-of-Evaluation for Omni-Condition Alignment in Multi-Modal Image Generation
1395. ICML 2026Unbiased Dynamic Pruning for Efficient Group-Based Policy Optimization
1396. ICML 2026Uncovering the Gradient Geometry of Long CoT: A Spectral-guided Approach to Reasoning Distillation
1397. ICML 2026Understanding Dynamic Compute Allocation in Recurrent Transformers
1398. ICML 2026UniCode: Augmenting Evaluation for Code Reasoning
1399. ICML 2026UniScale: Adaptive Unified Inference Scaling via Online Joint Optimization of Model Routing and Test-Time Scaling
1400. ICML 2026Universal Reasoner: A Single, Composable Plug-and-Play Reasoner for Frozen LLMs

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.