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

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101. ICLR 2025CHASE-SQL: Multi-Path Reasoning and Preference Optimized Candidate Selection in Text-to-SQL
102. ICLR 2025ChemAgent: Self-updating Memories in Large Language Models Improves Chemical Reasoning
103. ICLR 2025CodeMMLU: A Multi-Task Benchmark for Assessing Code Understanding & Reasoning Capabilities of CodeLLMs
104. ICLR 2025CodePlan: Unlocking Reasoning Potential in Large Language Models by Scaling Code-form Planning
105. ICLR 2025CogCoM: A Visual Language Model with Chain-of-Manipulations Reasoning
106. ICLR 2025Combining Induction and Transduction for Abstract Reasoning
107. ICLR 2025COME: Test-time Adaption by Conservatively Minimizing Entropy
108. ICLR 2025Competing Large Language Models in Multi-Agent Gaming Environments
109. ICLR 2025Conformal Language Model Reasoning with Coherent Factuality
110. ICLR 2025Correlation and Navigation in the Vocabulary Key Representation Space of Language Models
111. ICLR 2025CoTFormer: A Chain of Thought Driven Architecture with Budget-Adaptive Computation Cost at Inference
112. ICLR 2025Counterfactual Realizability
113. ICLR 2025CREMA: Generalizable and Efficient Video-Language Reasoning via Multimodal Modular Fusion
114. ICLR 2025DeLLMa: Decision Making Under Uncertainty with Large Language Models
115. ICLR 2025DexTrack: Towards Generalizable Neural Tracking Control for Dexterous Manipulation from Human References
116. ICLR 2025Distributional Associations vs In-Context Reasoning: A Study of Feed-forward and Attention Layers
117. ICLR 2025Divide and Translate: Compositional First-Order Logic Translation and Verification for Complex Logical Reasoning
118. ICLR 2025Do Large Language Models Truly Understand Geometric Structures?
119. ICLR 2025Do Vision-Language Models Represent Space and How? Evaluating Spatial Frame of Reference under Ambiguities
120. ICLR 2025Don't Take Things Out of Context: Attention Intervention for Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models
121. ICLR 2025DOTS: Learning to Reason Dynamically in LLMs via Optimal Reasoning Trajectories Search
122. ICLR 2025Dualformer: Controllable Fast and Slow Thinking by Learning with Randomized Reasoning Traces
123. ICLR 2025DyCAST: Learning Dynamic Causal Structure from Time Series
124. ICLR 2025Efficiently Learning at Test-Time: Active Fine-Tuning of LLMs
125. ICLR 2025Emergence of a High-Dimensional Abstraction Phase in Language Transformers
126. ICLR 2025Enhancing Cognition and Explainability of Multimodal Foundation Models with Self-Synthesized Data
127. ICLR 2025Enhancing Graph Of Thought: Enhancing Prompts with LLM Rationales and Dynamic Temperature Control
128. ICLR 2025Enhancing Language Model Agents using Diversity of Thoughts
129. ICLR 2025Episodic Memories Generation and Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models
130. ICLR 2025Explore Theory of Mind: program-guided adversarial data generation for theory of mind reasoning
131. ICLR 2025From Isolated Conversations to Hierarchical Schemas: Dynamic Tree Memory Representation for LLMs
132. ICLR 2025From Models to Microtheories: Distilling a Model's Topical Knowledge for Grounded Question-Answering
133. ICLR 2025From Probability to Counterfactuals: the Increasing Complexity of Satisfiability in Pearl's Causal Hierarchy
134. ICLR 2025From Sparse Dependence to Sparse Attention: Unveiling How Chain-of-Thought Enhances Transformer Sample Efficiency
135. ICLR 2025G-LLaVA: Solving Geometric Problem with Multi-Modal Large Language Model
136. ICLR 2025GameArena: Evaluating LLM Reasoning through Live Computer Games
137. ICLR 2025Generalization, Expressivity, and Universality of Graph Neural Networks on Attributed Graphs
138. ICLR 2025Generalizing Reasoning Problems to Longer Lengths
139. ICLR 2025Generative Verifiers: Reward Modeling as Next-Token Prediction
140. ICLR 2025GenVP: Generating Visual Puzzles with Contrastive Hierarchical VAEs
141. ICLR 2025GeoX: Geometric Problem Solving Through Unified Formalized Vision-Language Pre-training
142. ICLR 2025GraphArena: Evaluating and Exploring Large Language Models on Graph Computation
143. ICLR 2025GReaTer: Gradients Over Reasoning Makes Smaller Language Models Strong Prompt Optimizers
144. ICLR 2025GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
145. ICLR 2025HARDMath: A Benchmark Dataset for Challenging Problems in Applied Mathematics
146. ICLR 2025Holistic Reasoning with Long-Context LMs: A Benchmark for Database Operations on Massive Textual Data
147. ICLR 2025Holistically Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Creating Language Models
148. ICLR 2025Improved Sampling Of Diffusion Models In Fluid Dynamics With Tweedie's Formula
149. ICLR 2025ImProver: Agent-Based Automated Proof Optimization
150. ICLR 2025Improving Complex Reasoning with Dynamic Prompt Corruption: A Soft Prompt Optimization Approach

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.