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 3 of 26

101. NeurIPS 2026EndoSCOP-V: A Multi-Turn Video Understanding Evaluation Framework for Multimodal Models in Endoscopy Reporting and Clinical Reasoning
102. NeurIPS 2026Enhancing LLMs with Cognitive-Affective Personality Inference for Simulating Human Social-Psychological Behavior
103. NeurIPS 2026EntropyCache: Decoded Token Entropy Guided KV Caching for Diffusion Language Models
104. NeurIPS 2026Escaping Reasoning Basins: Basin-Aware Search for Inference-Time LLM Reasoning
105. NeurIPS 2026Escaping the Cognitive Well: Efficient Competition Math with Off-the-Shelf Models
106. NeurIPS 2026ESENSC: A Polynomial-Time Axiomatic Alternative to SHAP
107. NeurIPS 2026EVA-0: Test-Time Model Evolution with Only Two Forward Passes per Sample
108. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Test-Time Scaling of General LLM Agents
109. NeurIPS 2026Evaluating Whether LLMs Can Reliably Connect the DOTs?
110. NeurIPS 2026Evaluation Awareness in Language Models Has Limited Effect on Behaviour
111. NeurIPS 2026EventPrune: Cascaded Event-Assisted Token Pruning for Efficient First-Person Dynamic Spatial Reasoning
112. NeurIPS 2026Exact Flow Linear Attention: Exact Solution from Continuous-Time Dynamics
113. NeurIPS 2026ExpLang: Improved Exploration and Exploitation in LLM Reasoning with On-Policy Thinking Language Selection
114. NeurIPS 2026Explicit Geometric Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action in Autonomous Driving
115. NeurIPS 2026Extracting Search Trees from LLM Reasoning Traces Reveals Myopic Planning
116. NeurIPS 2026Facts Don't Speak Louder than Words: The Behavioral Essence of Long-CoT Distillation
117. NeurIPS 2026Failure Profiling and Reachable Trajectory Selection for Reasoning Distillation
118. NeurIPS 2026Fill the GAP: A Granular Alignment Paradigm for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
119. NeurIPS 2026Fixed Universal Transformers
120. NeurIPS 2026Fixed-Point Reasoning: Stable and Adaptive Deep Looped Models
121. NeurIPS 2026Forecasting Downstream Performance of LLMs With Proxy Metrics
122. NeurIPS 2026From Cortical Synchronous Rhythm to Brain Inspired Learning Mechanism: An Oscillatory Spiking Neural Network with Time-Delayed Coordination
123. NeurIPS 2026From Detection to Understanding — A Multi-Task Dataset for Traffic Anomaly Reasoning
124. NeurIPS 2026From Document Layout to Causal Topology: An End-to-End Architecture for Temporal Causal Reasoning
125. NeurIPS 2026From Outcome to Representation: Tracing Reasoning Mechanisms through Integrated Policy Gradient
126. NeurIPS 2026From Perception to Punchline: Empowering VLM with the Art of In-the-wild Memes
127. NeurIPS 2026From Solver Trajectories to Teaching Trajectories: Cognition-Aligned Reasoning Distillation
128. NeurIPS 2026GeLVR: Geometry-Consistent Latent Visual Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs
129. NeurIPS 2026Generalizing Test-time Compute-optimal Scaling as an Optimizable Graph
130. NeurIPS 2026Geometric Factual Recall in Transformers
131. NeurIPS 2026Geometric Latent Reasoning Induces Shorter Generations in LLMs
132. NeurIPS 2026Geometric Prompt-Trajectory Planning for Test-Time Scaling
133. NeurIPS 2026Geometric Signatures of Reasoning: A Spectral Perspective on Task Hardness
134. NeurIPS 2026GeoSym127K: Scalable Symbolically-verifiable Synthesis for Multimodal Geometric Reasoning
135. NeurIPS 2026Global Importance Estimation for KV Cache Eviction
136. NeurIPS 2026GOLD PANNING: Strategic Context Shuffling for Needle-in-Haystack Reasoning
137. NeurIPS 2026GPA: Generative Population Annealing for Test-Time Sequence Design with Pretrained Generative Models
138. NeurIPS 2026GridProbe: Posterior-Probing for Adaptive Test-Time Compute in Long-Video VLMs
139. NeurIPS 2026GUI-Libra: Data-Efficient Post-Training for Reliable Reasoning-and-Acting in Native GUI Agents
140. NeurIPS 2026Hawkeye: Hardware-Aware GPU Kernel Optimization with Minimal Supervision
141. NeurIPS 2026Hear, Localize, and Reason: Spatially Aware Scene Understanding for Audio-visual LLMs
142. NeurIPS 2026Hint Tuning: Less Data Makes Better Reasoners
143. NeurIPS 2026Hitting a Moving Target: Test-Time Adaptation for AI Text Detection under Continual Distribution Shift
144. NeurIPS 2026HopChain: Multi-Hop Data Synthesis for Generalizable Vision-Language Reasoning
145. NeurIPS 2026Hyperbolic Language Models: From Zipf to Compute-Optimal Scaling
146. NeurIPS 2026Improving Audit Realism with Inference-Time Compute and Deployment Scaffolds
147. NeurIPS 2026Improving General Role-Playing Agents via Psychology-Grounded Reasoning and Role-Aware Policy Optimization
148. NeurIPS 2026InfoSFT: Learn More and Forget Less with Information-Aware Token Weighting
149. NeurIPS 2026INFUSER: Influence-Guided Self-Evolution Improves Reasoning
150. NeurIPS 2026Intent Factored Generation: Unleashing the Diversity in Your Language Model

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.