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. ICLR 2026Error Notebook-Guided, Training-Free Part Retrieval in 3D CAD Assemblies via Vision-Language Models
152. ICLR 2026Evaluating Language Models' Evaluations of Games
153. ICLR 2026EvolProver: Advancing Automated theorem proving by Evolving Formalized Problems via Symmetry and Difficulty
154. ICLR 2026ExGRPO: Learning to Reason from Prior Successes
155. ICLR 2026Expanding Reasoning Potential in Foundation Model by Learning Diverse Chains of Thought Patterns
156. ICLR 2026Explain in Your Own Words: Improving Reasoning via Token-Selective Dual Knowledge Distillation
157. ICLR 2026Explainable LLM Unlearning through Reasoning
158. ICLR 2026Exploration vs Exploitation: Rethinking RLVR through Clipping, Entropy, and Spurious Reward
159. ICLR 2026Explore-on-Graph: Incentivizing Autonomous Exploration of Large Language Models on Knowledge Graphs with Path-refined Reward Modeling
160. ICLR 2026Exploring the Limits of Sub-Billion Language Model Reasoners with Open Training Recipes
161. ICLR 2026ExPO-HM: Learning to Explain-then-Detect for Hateful Meme Detection
162. ICLR 2026Exposing Mixture and Annotating Confusion for Active Universal Test-Time Adaptation
163. ICLR 2026Exposing Weaknesses of Large Reasoning Models through Graph Algorithm Problems
164. ICLR 2026Factuality Matters: When Image Generation and Editing Meet Structured Visuals
165. ICLR 2026FaithCoT-Bench: Benchmarking Instance-Level Faithfulness of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
166. ICLR 2026Faithful Bi-Directional Model Steering via Distribution Matching and Distributed Interchange Interventions
167. ICLR 2026FAPO: Flawed-Aware Policy Optimization for Efficient and Reliable Reasoning
168. ICLR 2026FATE: A Formal Benchmark Series for Frontier Algebra of Multiple Difficulty Levels
169. ICLR 2026Fine-R1: Make Multi-modal LLMs Excel in Fine-Grained Visual Recognition by Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
170. ICLR 2026FinSearchComp: Towards a Realistic, Expert-Level Evaluation of Financial Search and Reasoning
171. ICLR 2026Fixing the Broken Compass: Diagnosing and Improving Inference-Time Reward Modeling
172. ICLR 2026Flash-Searcher: Fast and Effective Web Agents via DAG-Based Parallel Execution
173. ICLR 2026FlowGen: Synthesizing Diverse Flowcharts to Enhance and Benchmark MLLM Reasoning
174. ICLR 2026FlowRL: Matching Reward Distributions for LLM Reasoning
175. ICLR 2026FlowSearcher: Synthesizing Memory-Guided Agentic Workflows for Web Information Seeking
176. ICLR 2026FLUX-Reason-6M & PRISM-Bench: A Million-Scale Text-to-Image Reasoning Dataset and Comprehensive Benchmark
177. ICLR 2026Following the Navigation: Enhancing Small Language Models Contextual Reasoning with LLM Guidance
178. ICLR 2026FrameThinker: Learning to Think with Long Videos via Multi-Turn Frame Spotlighting
179. ICLR 2026FREAK: A Fine-grained Hallucination Evaluation Benchmark for Advanced MLLMs
180. ICLR 2026Frequency-Domain Better than Time-Domain for Causal Structure Recovery in Dynamical Systems on Networks
181. ICLR 2026FRIEDA: Benchmarking Multi-Step Cartographic Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
182. ICLR 2026From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics
183. ICLR 2026From Broad Exploration to Stable Synthesis: Entropy-Guided Optimization for Autoregressive Image Generation
184. ICLR 2026From f(x) and g(x) to f(g(x)): LLMs Learn New Skills in RL by Composing Old Ones
185. ICLR 2026From Five Dimensions to Many: Large Language Models as Precise and Interpretable Psychological Profilers
186. ICLR 2026From Large to Small: Transferring CUDA Optimization Expertise via Reasoning Graph
187. ICLR 2026From Narrow to Panoramic Vision: Attention-Guided Cold-Start Reshapes Multimodal Reasoning
188. ICLR 2026From Seeing to Doing: Bridging Reasoning and Decision for Robotic Manipulation
189. ICLR 2026Front-Loading Reasoning: The Synergy between Pretraining and Post-Training Data
190. ICLR 2026FROST: Filtering Reasoning Outliers with Attention for Efficient Reasoning
191. ICLR 2026FrugalRAG: Less is More in RL Finetuning for Multi-hop Question Answering
192. ICLR 2026Frustratingly Simple Retrieval Improves Challenging, Reasoning-Intensive Benchmarks
193. ICLR 2026Generalizable End-to-End Tool-Use RL with Synthetic CodeGym
194. ICLR 2026Generalization of RLVR Using Causal Reasoning as a Testbed
195. ICLR 2026Generalized Parallel Scaling with Interdependent Generations
196. ICLR 2026GeoBench: Rethinking Multimodal Geometric Problem-Solving via Hierarchical Evaluation
197. ICLR 2026GeoGramBench: Benchmarking the Geometric Program Reasoning in Modern LLMs
198. ICLR 2026Get RICH or Die Scaling: Profitably Trading Inference Compute for Robustness
199. ICLR 2026GHOST: Hallucination-Inducing Image Generation for Multimodal LLMs
200. ICLR 2026GIQ: Benchmarking 3D Geometric Reasoning of Vision Foundation Models with Simulated and Real Polyhedra

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.