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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151. CVPR 2026RMIR A Benchmark Dataset for Reasoning-Intensive Multimodal Image Retrieval
152. CVPR 2026SAGE Training Smart Any-Horizon Agents for Long Video Reasoning with
153. CVPR 2026SATTC Structure-Aware Label-Free Test-Time Calibration for Cross-Subject EEG-to-Image Retrieval
154. CVPR 2026Scalable Object Relation Encoding for Better 3D Spatial Reasoning in
155. CVPR 2026Scaling Spatial Intelligence with Multimodal Foundation Models
156. CVPR 2026Score2Instruct Scaling Up Video Quality-Centric Instructions via Automated Dimension Scoring
157. CVPR 2026See It Say It Sorted An Iterative Training-Free Framework for
158. CVPR 2026See What We Cannot See A Geo-guided Reasoning Benchmark for
159. CVPR 2026SegCompass Exploring Interpretable Alignment with Sparse Autoencoders for Enhanced Reasoning
160. CVPR 2026SketchVL Policy Optimization via Fine-Grained Credit Assignment for Chart Understanding
161. CVPR 2026Skyra AI-Generated Video Detection via Grounded Artifact Reasoning
162. CVPR 2026SocialNav Training Human-Inspired Foundation Model for Socially-Aware Embodied Navigation
163. CVPR 2026SpatialReward Verifiable Spatial Reward Modeling for Fine-Grained Spatial Consistency in
164. CVPR 2026SPEGC Continual Test-Time Adaptation via Semantic-Prompt-Enhanced Graph Clustering for Medical
165. CVPR 2026StaR-KVQA Structured Reasoning Traces for Implicit-Knowledge Visual Question Answering
166. CVPR 2026SurgCoT Advancing Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Surgical Videos through a Chain-of-Thought
167. CVPR 2026TableMix Enhancing Multimodal Table Reasoning in MLLMs from a Data-Centric
168. CVPR 2026TALON Test-time Adaptive Learning for On-the-Fly Category Discovery
169. CVPR 2026Test-Time 3D Occupancy Prediction
170. CVPR 2026Test-Time Instance-Specific Parameter Composition A New Paradigm for Adaptive Generative
171. CVPR 2026Test-time Sparsity for Extreme Fast Action Diffusion
172. CVPR 2026Test-Time Training for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation under Corruption via Geometric
173. CVPR 2026The Golden Subspace Where Efficiency Meets Generalization in Continual Test-Time
174. CVPR 2026Think 360deg Beyond Depth Evaluating the Width-centric Reasoning Capability of
175. CVPR 2026Think Then Verify A Hypothesis-Verification Multi-Agent Framework for Long Video
176. CVPR 2026Think-as-You-See Streaming Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Large Vision-Language Models
177. CVPR 2026Think-Then-Generate Structural Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Consistent 3D Generation
178. CVPR 2026ThinkGen Generalized Thinking for Visual Generation
179. CVPR 2026Thinking Beyond Labels Vocabulary-Free Fine-Grained Recognition using Reasoning-Augmented LMMs
180. CVPR 2026Thinking Diffusion Penalize and Guide Visual-Grounded Reasoning in Diffusion Multimodal
181. CVPR 2026Thinking in Dynamics How Multimodal Large Language Models Perceive Track
182. CVPR 2026Thinking in Uncertainty Mitigating Hallucinations in MLRMs with Latent Entropy-Aware
183. CVPR 2026Thinking with Frames Generative Video Distortion Evaluation via Frame Reward
184. CVPR 2026Thinking With Videos Multimodal Tool-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Long Video
185. CVPR 2026TiViBench Benchmarking Think-in-Video Reasoning for Video Generation
186. CVPR 2026Towards Reasoning-Preserving Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models
187. CVPR 2026Towards Sparse Video Understanding and Reasoning
188. CVPR 2026TRCoRSurg Temporal-Relational Co-Reasoning for Surgical Video Triplet Recognition
189. CVPR 2026TRM-VLA Temporal-Aware Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Memorization for Vision-Language-Action Models
190. CVPR 2026U-Mind A Unified Framework for Real-Time Multimodal Interaction with Audiovisual
191. CVPR 2026Understanding and Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Models
192. CVPR 2026Understanding the Role of Hallucination in Reinforcement Post-Training of Multimodal
193. CVPR 2026Unifying Perception and Action A Hybrid-Modality Pipeline with Implicit Visual
194. CVPR 2026Video-CoE Reinforcing Video Event Prediction via Chain of Events
195. CVPR 2026VideoAuto-R1 Video Auto Reasoning via Thinking Once Answering Twice
196. CVPR 2026VideoCoF Unified Video Editing with Temporal Reasoner
197. CVPR 2026VideoRealBench A Chain-of-Thought Realism Evaluation Benchmark for Generated Human-Centric Videos
198. CVPR 2026VisRef Visual Refocusing while Thinking Improves Test-Time Scaling in Multi-Modal
199. CVPR 2026Visual-Aware CoT Achieving High-Fidelity Visual Consistency in Unified Models
200. CVPR 2026ViT3 Unlocking Test-Time Training in Vision

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.