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

271 papers, page 5 of 6

201. NeurIPS 2023Robust Model Reasoning and Fitting via Dual Sparsity Pursuit
202. NeurIPS 2023SA-Solver: Stochastic Adams Solver for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models
203. NeurIPS 2023Sampling from Structured Log-Concave Distributions via a Soft-Threshold Dikin Walk
204. NeurIPS 2023SatLM: Satisfiability-Aided Language Models Using Declarative Prompting
205. NeurIPS 2023Scissorhands: Exploiting the Persistence of Importance Hypothesis for LLM KV Cache Compression at Test Time
206. NeurIPS 2023Self-Consistent Velocity Matching of Probability Flows
207. NeurIPS 2023Self-Evaluation Guided Beam Search for Reasoning
208. NeurIPS 2023SHAP-IQ: Unified Approximation of any-order Shapley Interactions
209. NeurIPS 2023Sharp Recovery Thresholds of Tensor PCA Spectral Algorithms
210. NeurIPS 2023Similarity, Compression and Local Steps: Three Pillars of Efficient Communications for Distributed Variational Inequalities
211. NeurIPS 2023Simultaneous embedding of multiple attractor manifolds in a recurrent neural network using constrained gradient optimization
212. NeurIPS 2023SituatedGen: Incorporating Geographical and Temporal Contexts into Generative Commonsense Reasoning
213. NeurIPS 2023Small Transformers Compute Universal Metric Embeddings
214. NeurIPS 2023SODA: Robust Training of Test-Time Data Adaptors
215. NeurIPS 2023SpecTr: Fast Speculative Decoding via Optimal Transport
216. NeurIPS 2023SPRING: Studying Papers and Reasoning to play Games
217. NeurIPS 2023Spuriosity Didn’t Kill the Classifier: Using Invariant Predictions to Harness Spurious Features
218. NeurIPS 2023Squared Neural Families: A New Class of Tractable Density Models
219. NeurIPS 2023Stable Vectorization of Multiparameter Persistent Homology using Signed Barcodes as Measures
220. NeurIPS 2023State-space models with layer-wise nonlinearity are universal approximators with exponential decaying memory
221. NeurIPS 2023Statistical Insights into HSIC in High Dimensions
222. NeurIPS 2023Strategic Distribution Shift of Interacting Agents via Coupled Gradient Flows
223. NeurIPS 2023Strong and Precise Modulation of Human Percepts via Robustified ANNs
224. NeurIPS 2023Structure of universal formulas
225. NeurIPS 2023Structured Semidefinite Programming for Recovering Structured Preconditioners
226. NeurIPS 2023Survival Permanental Processes for Survival Analysis with Time-Varying Covariates
227. NeurIPS 2023SwapPrompt: Test-Time Prompt Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
228. NeurIPS 2023SwiftSage: A Generative Agent with Fast and Slow Thinking for Complex Interactive Tasks
229. NeurIPS 2023Switching Autoregressive Low-rank Tensor Models
230. NeurIPS 2023Symbol-LLM: Leverage Language Models for Symbolic System in Visual Human Activity Reasoning
231. NeurIPS 2023Systematic Visual Reasoning through Object-Centric Relational Abstraction
232. NeurIPS 2023Tanh Works Better with Asymmetry
233. NeurIPS 2023Temporal Conditioning Spiking Latent Variable Models of the Neural Response to Natural Visual Scenes
234. NeurIPS 2023Test-Time Amendment with a Coarse Classifier for Fine-Grained Classification
235. NeurIPS 2023Test-Time Distribution Normalization for Contrastively Learned Visual-language Models
236. NeurIPS 2023Test-time Training for Matching-based Video Object Segmentation
237. NeurIPS 2023Testing the General Deductive Reasoning Capacity of Large Language Models Using OOD Examples
238. NeurIPS 2023TFLEX: Temporal Feature-Logic Embedding Framework for Complex Reasoning over Temporal Knowledge Graph
239. NeurIPS 2023The Distortion of Binomial Voting Defies Expectation
240. NeurIPS 2023The emergence of clusters in self-attention dynamics
241. NeurIPS 2023The Emergence of Essential Sparsity in Large Pre-trained Models: The Weights that Matter
242. NeurIPS 2023The geometry of hidden representations of large transformer models
243. NeurIPS 2023The Impact of Positional Encoding on Length Generalization in Transformers
244. NeurIPS 2023This Looks Like Those: Illuminating Prototypical Concepts Using Multiple Visualizations
245. NeurIPS 2023Three Iterations of (d − 1)-WL Test Distinguish Non Isometric Clouds of d-dimensional Points
246. NeurIPS 2023Timewarp: Transferable Acceleration of Molecular Dynamics by Learning Time-Coarsened Dynamics
247. NeurIPS 2023TOA: Task-oriented Active VQA
248. NeurIPS 2023Towards Efficient Image Compression Without Autoregressive Models
249. NeurIPS 2023Towards Revealing the Mystery behind Chain of Thought: A Theoretical Perspective
250. NeurIPS 2023Towards Test-Time Refusals via Concept Negation

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.