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

932 papers, page 4 of 19

151. ICLR 2025Improving Reasoning Performance in Large Language Models via Representation Engineering
152. ICLR 2025Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation
153. ICLR 2025Inference Scaling Laws: An Empirical Analysis of Compute-Optimal Inference for LLM Problem-Solving
154. ICLR 2025Interpreting Emergent Planning in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
155. ICLR 2025Is Your Model Really A Good Math Reasoner? Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning with Checklist
156. ICLR 2025KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models
157. ICLR 2025KOR-Bench: Benchmarking Language Models on Knowledge-Orthogonal Reasoning Tasks
158. ICLR 2025Language-Image Models with 3D Understanding
159. ICLR 2025Large Language Models Meet Symbolic Provers for Logical Reasoning Evaluation
160. ICLR 2025Latent Space Chain-of-Embedding Enables Output-free LLM Self-Evaluation
161. ICLR 2025Layer Swapping for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer in Large Language Models
162. ICLR 2025Lean-STaR: Learning to Interleave Thinking and Proving
163. ICLR 2025Learning How Hard to Think: Input-Adaptive Allocation of LM Computation
164. ICLR 2025Learning the Optimal Stopping for Early Classification within Finite Horizons via Sequential Probability Ratio Test
165. ICLR 2025Limits of Deep Learning: Sequence Modeling through the Lens of Complexity Theory
166. ICLR 2025Lines of Thought in Large Language Models
167. ICLR 2025LLM-based Typed Hyperresolution for Commonsense Reasoning with Knowledge Bases
168. ICLR 2025Logically Consistent Language Models via Neuro-Symbolic Integration
169. ICLR 2025Logicbreaks: A Framework for Understanding Subversion of Rule-based Inference
170. ICLR 2025MAPS: Advancing Multi-Modal Reasoning in Expert-Level Physical Science
171. ICLR 2025Matcha: Mitigating Graph Structure Shifts with Test-Time Adaptation
172. ICLR 2025MathCoder2: Better Math Reasoning from Continued Pretraining on Model-translated Mathematical Code
173. ICLR 2025MathGAP: Out-of-Distribution Evaluation on Problems with Arbitrarily Complex Proofs
174. ICLR 2025MAVIS: Mathematical Visual Instruction Tuning with an Automatic Data Engine
175. ICLR 2025Mechanism and Emergence of Stacked Attention Heads in Multi-Layer Transformers
176. ICLR 2025metabench - A Sparse Benchmark of Reasoning and Knowledge in Large Language Models
177. ICLR 2025Mind the Gap: Examining the Self-Improvement Capabilities of Large Language Models
178. ICLR 2025Mind the GAP: Glimpse-based Active Perception improves generalization and sample efficiency of visual reasoning
179. ICLR 2025MIND: Math Informed syNthetic Dialogues for Pretraining LLMs
180. ICLR 2025MIRAGE: Evaluating and Explaining Inductive Reasoning Process in Language Models
181. ICLR 2025Mitigating Modality Prior-Induced Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models via Deciphering Attention Causality
182. ICLR 2025Mixture of Parrots: Experts improve memorization more than reasoning
183. ICLR 2025MLPs Learn In-Context on Regression and Classification Tasks
184. ICLR 2025MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark
185. ICLR 2025MMR: A Large-scale Benchmark Dataset for Multi-target and Multi-granularity Reasoning Segmentation
186. ICLR 2025Mutual Reasoning Makes Smaller LLMs Stronger Problem-Solver
187. ICLR 2025NL-Eye: Abductive NLI For Images
188. ICLR 2025Node-Time Conditional Prompt Learning in Dynamic Graphs
189. ICLR 2025Non-myopic Generation of Language Models for Reasoning and Planning
190. ICLR 2025Not All Heads Matter: A Head-Level KV Cache Compression Method with Integrated Retrieval and Reasoning
191. ICLR 2025Number Cookbook: Number Understanding of Language Models and How to Improve It
192. ICLR 2025NutriBench: A Dataset for Evaluating Large Language Models in Nutrition Estimation from Meal Descriptions
193. ICLR 2025OCEAN: Offline Chain-of-thought Evaluation and Alignment in Large Language Models
194. ICLR 2025OmnixR: Evaluating Omni-modality Language Models on Reasoning across Modalities
195. ICLR 2025On the Adversarial Risk of Test Time Adaptation: An Investigation into Realistic Test-Time Data Poisoning
196. ICLR 2025On the Adversarial Vulnerability of Label-Free Test-Time Adaptation
197. ICLR 2025On the self-verification limitations of large language models on reasoning and planning tasks
198. ICLR 2025OSCAR: Operating System Control via State-Aware Reasoning and Re-Planning
199. ICLR 2025Personality Alignment of Large Language Models
200. ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 2.1, Grade-School Math and the Hidden Reasoning Process

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.