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 5 of 12

201. ICML 2026GenShield: Unified Detection and Artifact Correction for AI-Generated Images
202. ICML 2026Geometry of Reason: Spectral Signatures of Valid Mathematical Reasoning
203. ICML 2026GeoSense: Internalizing Geometric Necessity Perception for Multimodal Reasoning
204. ICML 2026GIFT: Bootstrapping Image-to-CAD Program Synthesis via Geometric Feedback
205. ICML 2026Graph of States: Solving Abductive Tasks with Large Language Models
206. ICML 2026Graph-Link: Bridging the Semantic-Structural Gap in Text-to-SQL via Constrained Subgraph Induction
207. ICML 2026GRASP: Awakening Latent Spatial Reasoning in LVLMs via Training-free Geometric Rectification
208. ICML 2026Grounding Multi-Hop Reasoning in Structural Causal Models via Group Relative Policy Optimization
209. ICML 2026Group Distributionally Robust Optimization-Driven RL for LLM Reasoning
210. ICML 2026Hallucination Detection from Structural Reasoning Model
211. ICML 2026HALO: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
212. ICML 2026Harnessing Reasoning Trajectories for Hallucination Detection via Answer-agreement Representation Shaping
213. ICML 2026HEARTS: Benchmarking LLM Reasoning on Health Time Series
214. ICML 2026HERMES: Towards Efficient and Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
215. ICML 2026Hi-Time: Hierarchical Latent Prediction for Multivariate Time Series Classification
216. ICML 2026Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-Reward Search in Commutative Algebra
217. ICML 2026HInT: Hypergraph Infusion at the Structural Layers Improves Table Understanding
218. ICML 2026HiPhO: How Far Are (M)LLMs from Humans in the Latest High School Physics Olympiad Benchmark?
219. ICML 2026How do LLMs Compute Verbal Confidence?
220. ICML 2026How does Chain of Thought decompose complex tasks?
221. ICML 2026How does information access affect LLM monitors' ability to detect sabotage?
222. ICML 2026How Does Reasoning Flow? Tracing Attention-Induced Information Flow for Targeted RL in LLMs
223. ICML 2026How Far Ahead Do LLMs Plan? Uncovering the Latent Horizon in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
224. ICML 2026How Powerful are LLMs in Generating Formal Program Specifications?
225. ICML 2026How Reasoning Evolves from Post-Training Data: An Empirical Study Using Chess
226. ICML 2026How to Fine-Tune a Reasoning Model? A Teacher–Student Cooperation Framework to Synthesize Student-Consistent SFT Data
227. ICML 2026Hydra-Nav: Object Navigation via Adaptive Dual-Process Reasoning
228. ICML 2026HyPER: Bridging Exploration and Exploitation for Scalable LLM Reasoning with Hypothesis Path Expansion and Reduction
229. ICML 2026IAPO: Information-Aware Policy Optimization for Token-Efficient Reasoning
230. ICML 2026Imagination Helps Visual Reasoning, But Not Yet in Latent Space
231. ICML 2026ImgCoT: Compressing Long Chain of Thought into Compact Visual Tokens for Efficient Reasoning of Large Language Model
232. ICML 2026Implicit Intelligence - Evaluating Agents on What Users Don’t Say
233. ICML 2026ImpText: A Benchmark and Tool-Augmented Framework for Implicit Text Reasoning
234. ICML 2026Inducing Overthink: Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm-based DoS Attack on Black-Box Large Language Reasoning Models
235. ICML 2026INDUCTION: Finite-Structure Concept Synthesis in First-Order Logic
236. ICML 2026Inference Time Optimization with Confidence Dynamics
237. ICML 2026Inference-Time Conformal Reasoning with Valid Factuality Control for Large Language Models
238. ICML 2026InftyThink+: Effective and Efficient Infinite-Horizon Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
239. ICML 2026InstEmb: Instruction-Following Embeddings through Glimpses of the Future
240. ICML 2026InteractBench: Benchmarking LLMs on Competitive Programming under Unrevealed Information
241. ICML 2026Internalizing Safety Understanding in Large Reasoning Models via Verification
242. ICML 2026Intervene When It Doubts: Conjunction-Guided Interactive Reasoning
243. ICML 2026Intra-Modal Neighbors Never Lie: Rectifying Inter-Modal Noisy Correspondence via Graph-Based Intra-Modal Reasoning
244. ICML 2026Investigating Advanced Reasoning of Large Language Models via Black-Box Environment Interaction
245. ICML 2026Is Code Better Than Language for Algorithmic Reasoning?
246. ICML 2026iVGR: Internalizing Visually Grounded Reasoning for MLLMs with Reinforcement Learning
247. ICML 2026Judging What We Cannot Solve: A Consequence-Based Approach for Oracle-Free Evaluation of Research-Level Math
248. ICML 2026KernelCraft: Benchmarking for Agentic Close-to-Metal Kernel Generation on Emerging Hardware
249. ICML 2026Know Thyself, Know Thy User: Intrinsic Dual-Perspective Reasoning for Role-Playing LLMs
250. ICML 2026Knowing When to Quit: A Principled Framework for Dynamic Abstention in LLM Reasoning

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.