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

500 papers, page 4 of 10

151. NeurIPS 2025FALCON: An ML Framework for Fully Automated Layout-Constrained Analog Circuit Design
152. NeurIPS 2025Fast-Slow Thinking GRPO for Large Vision-Language Model Reasoning
153. NeurIPS 2025Feature-Based Instance Neighbor Discovery: Advanced Stable Test-Time Adaptation in Dynamic World
154. NeurIPS 2025FGBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Molecular Property Reasoning at Functional Group-Level in Large Language Models
155. NeurIPS 2025Finding and Reactivating Post-Trained LLMs' Hidden Safety Mechanisms
156. NeurIPS 2025Fine-Grained Preference Optimization Improves Spatial Reasoning in VLMs
157. NeurIPS 2025First SFT, Second RL, Third UPT: Continual Improving Multi-Modal LLM Reasoning via Unsupervised Post-Training
158. NeurIPS 2025Fixed-Point RNNs: Interpolating from Diagonal to Dense
159. NeurIPS 2025FlexAC: Towards Flexible Control of Associative Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
160. NeurIPS 2025Flexible Realignment of Language Models
161. NeurIPS 2025FlySearch: Exploring how vision-language models explore
162. NeurIPS 2025From Kolmogorov to Cauchy: Shallow XNet Surpasses KANs
163. NeurIPS 2025From Sequence to Structure: Uncovering Substructure Reasoning in Transformers
164. NeurIPS 2025FutureSightDrive: Thinking Visually with Spatio-Temporal CoT for Autonomous Driving
165. NeurIPS 2025General-Reasoner: Advancing LLM Reasoning Across All Domains
166. NeurIPS 2025Generalizable Reasoning through Compositional Energy Minimization
167. NeurIPS 2025Generalization or Hallucination? Understanding Out-of-Context Reasoning in Transformers
168. NeurIPS 2025Geometric Algorithms for Neural Combinatorial Optimization with Constraints
169. NeurIPS 2025Geometry of Decision Making in Language Models
170. NeurIPS 2025GoT: Unleashing Reasoning Capability of MLLM for Visual Generation and Editing
171. NeurIPS 2025GRE Suite: Geo-localization Inference via Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Enhanced Reasoning Chains
172. NeurIPS 2025GRIP: A Graph-Based Reasoning Instruction Producer
173. NeurIPS 2025GRIT: Teaching MLLMs to Think with Images
174. NeurIPS 2025Grounded Reinforcement Learning for Visual Reasoning
175. NeurIPS 2025GuardReasoner-VL: Safeguarding VLMs via Reinforced Reasoning
176. NeurIPS 2025GUI-G1: Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training for Visual Grounding in GUI Agents
177. NeurIPS 2025GUI-Rise: Structured Reasoning and History Summarization for GUI Navigation
178. NeurIPS 2025Guiding LLM Decision-Making with Fairness Reward Models
179. NeurIPS 2025GVPO: Group Variance Policy Optimization for Large Language Model Post-Training
180. NeurIPS 2025Heterogeneous Adversarial Play in Interactive Environments
181. NeurIPS 2025Hogwild! Inference: Parallel LLM Generation via Concurrent Attention
182. NeurIPS 2025HoloLLM: Multisensory Foundation Model for Language-Grounded Human Sensing and Reasoning
183. NeurIPS 2025How do Transformers Learn Implicit Reasoning?
184. NeurIPS 2025How Far Are We from Optimal Reasoning Efficiency?
185. NeurIPS 2025Hybrid Latent Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
186. NeurIPS 2025HypoBootstrap: A Bootstrapping Framework for Inductive Reasoning
187. NeurIPS 2025ICPC-Eval: Probing the Frontiers of LLM Reasoning with Competitive Programming Contests
188. NeurIPS 2025Improving Formal Reasoning of Transformer with State Stack
189. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Dual Process Thinking for Efficient Large Language Model Reasoning
190. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing LLMs to Self-Verify Their Answers
191. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Reasoning for Advanced Instruction-Following of Large Language Models
192. NeurIPS 2025Ineq-Comp: Benchmarking Human-Intuitive Compositional Reasoning in Automated Theorem Proving of Inequalities
193. NeurIPS 2025Inference-Time Hyper-Scaling with KV Cache Compression
194. NeurIPS 2025InstructHOI: Context-Aware Instruction for Multi-Modal Reasoning in Human-Object Interaction Detection
195. NeurIPS 2025Interpreting Arithmetic Reasoning in Large Language Models using Game-Theoretic Interactions
196. NeurIPS 2025Introducing FOReCAst: The Future Outcome Reasoning and Confidence Assessment Benchmark
197. NeurIPS 2025Is PRM Necessary? Problem-Solving RL Implicitly Induces PRM Capability in LLMs
198. NeurIPS 2025JarvisArt: Liberating Human Artistic Creativity via an Intelligent Photo Retouching Agent
199. NeurIPS 2025Jury-and-Judge Chain-of-Thought for Uncovering Toxic Data in 3D Visual Grounding
200. NeurIPS 2025K-DeCore: Facilitating Knowledge Transfer in Continual Structured Knowledge Reasoning via Knowledge Decoupling

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.