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

203 papers, page 4 of 5

151. ICLR 2025SegLLM: Multi-round Reasoning Segmentation with Large Language Models
152. ICLR 2025Selective Label Enhancement Learning for Test-Time Adaptation
153. ICLR 2025Seq-VCR: Preventing Collapse in Intermediate Transformer Representations for Enhanced Reasoning
154. ICLR 2025Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling
155. ICLR 2025SPORTU: A Comprehensive Sports Understanding Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
156. ICLR 2025Stabilized Neural Prediction of Potential Outcomes in Continuous Time
157. ICLR 2025Steering Large Language Models between Code Execution and Textual Reasoning
158. ICLR 2025Step-by-Step Reasoning for Math Problems via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo
159. ICLR 2025Storybooth: Training-Free Multi-Subject Consistency for Improved Visual Storytelling
160. ICLR 2025SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-Correction
161. ICLR 2025SWE-Search: Enhancing Software Agents with Monte Carlo Tree Search and Iterative Refinement
162. ICLR 2025Systematic Relational Reasoning With Epistemic Graph Neural Networks
163. ICLR 2025Systems with Switching Causal Relations: A Meta-Causal Perspective
164. ICLR 2025Tell me about yourself: LLMs are aware of their learned behaviors
165. ICLR 2025Temporal Reasoning Transfer from Text to Video
166. ICLR 2025Test of Time: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Temporal Reasoning
167. ICLR 2025Test-Time Adaptation for Combating Missing Modalities in Egocentric Videos
168. ICLR 2025Test-time Adaptation for Cross-modal Retrieval with Query Shift
169. ICLR 2025Test-time Adaptation for Image Compression with Distribution Regularization
170. ICLR 2025Test-time Adaptation for Regression by Subspace Alignment
171. ICLR 2025Test-Time Ensemble via Linear Mode Connectivity: A Path to Better Adaptation
172. ICLR 2025The Belief State Transformer
173. ICLR 2025The Labyrinth of Links: Navigating the Associative Maze of Multi-modal LLMs
174. ICLR 2025Think Thrice Before You Act: Progressive Thought Refinement in Large Language Models
175. ICLR 2025Think-on-Graph 2.0: Deep and Faithful Large Language Model Reasoning with Knowledge-guided Retrieval Augmented Generation
176. ICLR 2025ThinkBot: Embodied Instruction Following with Thought Chain Reasoning
177. ICLR 2025Time After Time: Deep-Q Effect Estimation for Interventions on When and What to do
178. ICLR 2025To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning
179. ICLR 2025To Trust or Not to Trust? Enhancing Large Language Models' Situated Faithfulness to External Contexts
180. ICLR 2025Token-Supervised Value Models for Enhancing Mathematical Problem-Solving Capabilities of Large Language Models
181. ICLR 2025TOMATO: Assessing Visual Temporal Reasoning Capabilities in Multimodal Foundation Models
182. ICLR 2025ToolGen: Unified Tool Retrieval and Calling via Generation
183. ICLR 2025Training Language Models on Synthetic Edit Sequences Improves Code Synthesis
184. ICLR 2025Training Nonlinear Transformers for Chain-of-Thought Inference: A Theoretical Generalization Analysis
185. ICLR 2025Training on the Test Task Confounds Evaluation and Emergence
186. ICLR 2025Transformer Encoder Satisfiability: Complexity and Impact on Formal Reasoning
187. ICLR 2025Transformers Learn to Implement Multi-step Gradient Descent with Chain of Thought
188. ICLR 2025Transformers Provably Solve Parity Efficiently with Chain of Thought
189. ICLR 2025Transformers Struggle to Learn to Search
190. ICLR 2025TTVD: Towards a Geometric Framework for Test-Time Adaptation Based on Voronoi Diagram
191. ICLR 2025TypedThinker: Diversify Large Language Model Reasoning with Typed Thinking
192. ICLR 2025UGMathBench: A Diverse and Dynamic Benchmark for Undergraduate-Level Mathematical Reasoning with Large Language Models
193. ICLR 2025UniCoTT: A Unified Framework for Structural Chain-of-Thought Distillation
194. ICLR 2025Unveiling the Magic of Code Reasoning through Hypothesis Decomposition and Amendment
195. ICLR 2025Varying Shades of Wrong: Aligning LLMs with Wrong Answers Only
196. ICLR 2025Video-STaR: Self-Training Enables Video Instruction Tuning with Any Supervision
197. ICLR 2025Visual Description Grounding Reduces Hallucinations and Boosts Reasoning in LVLMs
198. ICLR 2025Visual-O1: Understanding Ambiguous Instructions via Multi-modal Multi-turn Chain-of-thoughts Reasoning
199. ICLR 2025VOILA: Evaluation of MLLMs For Perceptual Understanding and Analogical Reasoning
200. ICLR 2025Walk the Talk? Measuring the Faithfulness of Large Language Model Explanations

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.