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 29 of 36

1401. ICML 2026Unveiling the Entropy Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
1402. ICML 2026Unveiling the Structure of Do-Calculus Reasoning via Derivation Graphs
1403. ICML 2026USE: A Unified Self-Ensembling Framework for Test-Time Prompt Tuning
1404. ICML 2026V-ABS: Action-Observer Driven Beam Search for Dynamic Visual Reasoning
1405. ICML 2026V1: Unifying Generation and Self-Verification for Parallel Reasoners
1406. ICML 2026VAnim: Rendering-Aware Sparse State Modeling for Structure-Preserving Vector Animation
1407. ICML 2026Verifying Meta-Awareness via Predictive Rewards in Reasoning Models
1408. ICML 2026Video-MTR: Reinforced Multi-Turn Reasoning for Long Video Understanding
1409. ICML 2026VideoSEG-O3: A Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning Framework for Reasoning Video Object Segmentation
1410. ICML 2026Vision Language Models Cannot Reason About Physical Transformation
1411. ICML 2026Vision-aligned Latent Reasoning for Multi-modal Large Language Model
1412. ICML 2026VisionPulse: Dynamic Visual Sparsity for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning
1413. ICML 2026Visual Para-Thinker: Divide-and-Conquer Reasoning for Visual Comprehension
1414. ICML 2026VisualPuzzles: Decoupling Multimodal Reasoning Evaluation from Domain Knowledge
1415. ICML 2026VLA-ATTC: Adaptive Test-Time Compute for VLA Models with Relative Action Critic Model
1416. ICML 2026VR-Thinker: Boosting Multimodal Reward Models through Think with Image Reasoning
1417. ICML 2026VT-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Visual-Tabular Multi-Modal Learning
1418. ICML 2026Wait, Wait, Wait... Why Do Reasoning Models Loop?
1419. ICML 2026What Characterizes Effective Reasoning? Revisiting Length, Review, and Structure of CoT
1420. ICML 2026What If We Allocate Test-Time Compute Adaptively?
1421. ICML 2026What LLMs Explain Is Not What They Believe: Evaluating Explanation Sufficiency Under Models' Own Input Beliefs
1422. ICML 2026What Makes Effective Supervision in Latent Chain-of-Thought: An Information-Theoretic Analysis
1423. ICML 2026What Really Improves Mathematical Reasoning: Structured Reasoning Signals Beyond Pure Code
1424. ICML 2026When AI Agents Compete for Jobs: Strategic Capabilities and Economic Dynamics of AI Labour Markets
1425. ICML 2026When LLMs Develop Languages: Symbolic Communication for Efficient Multi-Agent Reasoning
1426. ICML 2026When Simple Problems Wear Complex Costumes: Improving Efficiency in LRM's Adaptive Reasoning
1427. ICML 2026When to Memorize and When to Stop: Gated Recurrent Memory for Long-Context Reasoning
1428. ICML 2026When to Think, When to Speak: Learning Disclosure Policies for LLM Reasoning
1429. ICML 2026When to Trust the Cheap Check: Weak and Strong Verification for Reasoning
1430. ICML 2026Which Heads Matter for Reasoning? RL-Guided KV Cache Compression
1431. ICML 2026Why Agentic Theorem Prover Works: A Statistical Provability Theory of Mathematical Reasoning Models
1432. ICML 2026Why Tree-Style Branching Matters for Thought Advantage Estimation in GRPO
1433. ICML 2026Words & Weights: Streamlining Multi-Turn Interactions via Co-Adaptation
1434. ICML 2026World-Model Inspired Emotion-aware Token Refinement for Training-Free Multimodal Emotion Recognition
1435. ICML 2026XDomainBench: Diagnosing Reasoning Collapse in High-Dimensional Scientific Knowledge Composition
1436. ICML 2026XRPO: Pushing the Limits of GRPO with Targeted Exploration and Exploitation
1437. ICML 2026You Don't Protect if You Don't Expect: Breaking the Key Assumption behind CLIP's Test-Time Defenses
1438. ICML 2026ZeroBench: An Impossible Visual Benchmark for Contemporary Large Multimodal Models
1439. NeurIPS 2026A Batched Hartigan's $k$-Means Clustering
1440. NeurIPS 2026A Diagnostic Benchmark for Layered Layout and Template-Variant Reasoning
1441. NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Looped Reasoning Language Models
1442. NeurIPS 2026A Solvable Model of Chain-of-Thought in In-Context Learning
1443. NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Online Learning with Autoregressive Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
1444. NeurIPS 2026A Tight Hierarchy For Chain of Thought
1445. NeurIPS 2026A$^3$Bench: A Benchmark for Compositional Reasoning over Aggressive Interactions in Videos
1446. NeurIPS 2026Activation Functions Shape Token Synchronization in Stochastic Transformer Dynamics
1447. NeurIPS 2026Active Probabilistic Reasoning in Humans and LLMs
1448. NeurIPS 2026AdaKVQ: Adaptive Mixed-Precision KV Cache Quantization For Efficient Reasoning Models
1449. NeurIPS 2026Adapting in the Dark: Efficient and Stable Test-Time Adaptation for Black-Box Models
1450. NeurIPS 2026Adversarially Attacking Symbolic Vocabulary Vulnerabilities In LLM Planners

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.