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

582 papers, page 4 of 12

151. ICML 2026Effective Reasoning Chains Reduce Intrinsic Dimensionality
152. ICML 2026Efficient Multi-Agent Reasoning via Confidence-Guided Adaptive Debate
153. ICML 2026Efficient Parallel Samplers for Recurrent-Depth Models and Their Connection to Diffusion Language Models
154. ICML 2026Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking
155. ICML 2026Efficient Test-time Inference for Generative Planning Models with OCL Search
156. ICML 2026Efficient Test-Time Scaling via Hierarchical Search and Self-Verification for Discrete Diffusion Language Models
157. ICML 2026Ego3S: Select, Strengthen, and Synchronize for Efficient Egocentric Reasoning
158. ICML 2026Elastic Attention: Test-time Adaptive Sparsity Ratios for Efficient Transformers
159. ICML 2026ElicitR: Unlocking Latent Reasoning in Dense Retrievers via Generative Regularization
160. ICML 2026Emergent Analogical Reasoning in Transformers
161. ICML 2026Entropy-Aware On-Policy Distillation of Language Models
162. ICML 2026Equilibrium Reasoners: Learning Attractors Enables Scalable Reasoning
163. ICML 2026ERGeoBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Embodied Reasoning and Geo-localization in Multimodal Large Language Models
164. ICML 2026Escaping the Mode: Multi-Answer Reinforcement Learning in LMs
165. ICML 2026Escaping the Verifier: Learning to Reason via Demonstrations
166. ICML 2026Evaluating AI Grading on Real-World Handwritten College Mathematics: A Large-Scale Study Toward a Benchmark
167. ICML 2026Evaluating Contextual Illegality: AI Compliance in Corporate Law Scenarios
168. ICML 2026Evaluating LLM Uncertainty in Long-Form Generation Using Deterministic Ground Truth
169. ICML 2026Evaluating Relational Reasoning in LLMs with REL
170. ICML 2026Evaluating Robustness of Reasoning Models on Parameterized Logical Problems
171. ICML 2026Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale
172. ICML 2026Evolving Quantitative Reasoning through Self-Play in Digital Twin Markets
173. ICML 2026Expanding the Capabilities of Reinforcement Learning via Text Feedback
174. ICML 2026Extracting alignment data in open models
175. ICML 2026ExVerus: Verus Proof Repair via Counterexample Reasoning
176. ICML 2026Faithful Relational Reasoning with Region-based Embeddings: Expressivity of Convex Coordinate-wise Models
177. ICML 2026Fantastic Reasoning Behaviors and Where to Find Them: Unsupervised Discovery of the Reasoning Process
178. ICML 2026Feature Resemblance: Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Analogical Reasoning in Transformers
179. ICML 2026FedPAT: Federated Test-Time Adaptation via Prototype Affinity Topology
180. ICML 2026Finding the Minimal Parameter Budget for Implicit Reasoning: A Data Complexity Driven Scaling Law for Language Models
181. ICML 2026FIRE: Learning to Navigate and Act on Real-World Files via Stateful Reinforcement Learning
182. ICML 2026FloorplanQA: A Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning in LLMs using Structured Representations
183. ICML 2026ForesightKV: Optimizing KV Cache Eviction for Reasoning Models by Learning Long-Term Contribution
184. ICML 2026Forward-Chaining Temporal Point Process
185. ICML 2026FRISM: Fine-Grained Reasoning Injection via Subspace-Level Model Merging for Vision–Language Models
186. ICML 2026From Growing to Looping: A Unified View of Iterative Computation in LLMs
187. ICML 2026From Historical Patches to Repair Plans: Outcome-Conditioned Reasoning for Repository-Level Program Repair
188. ICML 2026From Perception to Planning: Evolving Ego-Centric Task-Oriented Spatiotemporal Reasoning via Curriculum Learning
189. ICML 2026From Prompts to Tokens: Internalizing Causal Supervision in Vision-Language Model for Multi-Image Causal Reasoning
190. ICML 2026From Reasoning Traces to Reusable Modules: Understanding Compositional Generalization in Language Model Reasoning
191. ICML 2026From Seeing to Thinking: Decoupling Perception and Reasoning Improves Post-Training of Vision-Language Models
192. ICML 2026Front-Loaded Robust Conformal Prediction: Heavy Calibration, Minimal Test-Time Cost
193. ICML 2026Frontier Models Can Take Actions at Low Probabilities
194. ICML 2026FrontierCS: Evolving Challenges for Evolving Intelligence
195. ICML 2026Future-Gain Guided Test-Time Learning for Large Language Models
196. ICML 2026G$^2$RPO: Geometric GRPO; Escaping LLM's Reasoning Rut to Break Accuracy--Entropy Trade-off
197. ICML 2026Gateways to Tractability for Satisfiability in Pearl’s Causal Hierarchy
198. ICML 2026GaussTrace: Provenance Analysis of 3D Gaussian Splatting Models with Evidence-based LLM Reasoning
199. ICML 2026GDPO: Group reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization for Multi-reward RL Optimization
200. ICML 2026General Synthetic-Powered Inference

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.