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

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201. NeurIPS 2024Calibrating Reasoning in Language Models with Internal Consistency
202. NeurIPS 2024Can Language Models Learn to Skip Steps?
203. NeurIPS 2024Can Language Models Perform Robust Reasoning in Chain-of-thought Prompting with Noisy Rationales?
204. NeurIPS 2024Can Large Language Models Analyze Graphs like Professionals? A Benchmark, Datasets and Models
205. NeurIPS 2024Can large language models explore in-context?
206. NeurIPS 2024Causal language modeling can elicit search and reasoning capabilities on logic puzzles
207. NeurIPS 2024CausalChaos! Dataset for Comprehensive Causal Action Question Answering Over Longer Causal Chains Grounded in Dynamic Visual Scenes
208. NeurIPS 2024Chain of Preference Optimization: Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
209. NeurIPS 2024Chain of Thoughtlessness? An Analysis of CoT in Planning
210. NeurIPS 2024Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting
211. NeurIPS 2024Chain-of-Thought Unfaithfulness as Disguised Accuracy
212. NeurIPS 2024Co-occurrence is not Factual Association in Language Models
213. NeurIPS 2024COLD: Causal reasOning in cLosed Daily activities
214. NeurIPS 2024ConMe: Rethinking Evaluation of Compositional Reasoning for Modern VLMs
215. NeurIPS 2024Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Disparate Training Data
216. NeurIPS 2024Cracking the Code of Juxtaposition: Can AI Models Understand the Humorous Contradictions
217. NeurIPS 2024DART-Math: Difficulty-Aware Rejection Tuning for Mathematical Problem-Solving
218. NeurIPS 2024Decision-Making Behavior Evaluation Framework for LLMs under Uncertain Context
219. NeurIPS 2024Decompose, Analyze and Rethink: Solving Intricate Problems with Human-like Reasoning Cycle
220. NeurIPS 2024Deep Equilibrium Algorithmic Reasoning
221. NeurIPS 2024DeiSAM: Segment Anything with Deictic Prompting
222. NeurIPS 2024Detecting Bugs with Substantial Monetary Consequences by LLM and Rule-based Reasoning
223. NeurIPS 2024Diffusion of Thought: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models
224. NeurIPS 2024DiReCT: Diagnostic Reasoning for Clinical Notes via Large Language Models
225. NeurIPS 2024Divide-and-Conquer Meets Consensus: Unleashing the Power of Functions in Code Generation
226. NeurIPS 2024Does Reasoning Emerge? Examining the Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models
227. NeurIPS 2024Embedding Trajectory for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Mathematical Reasoning
228. NeurIPS 2024Emotion-LLaMA: Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning with Instruction Tuning
229. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Vision-Augmented Prompting
230. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs via Principled Synthetic Logic Corpus
231. NeurIPS 2024Entity Alignment with Noisy Annotations from Large Language Models
232. NeurIPS 2024Evaluating Numerical Reasoning in Text-to-Image Models
233. NeurIPS 2024Found in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts Better via Plug-and-Play Positional Encoding
234. NeurIPS 2024GameTraversalBenchmark: Evaluating Planning Abilities Of Large Language Models Through Traversing 2D Game Maps
235. NeurIPS 2024GITA: Graph to Visual and Textual Integration for Vision-Language Graph Reasoning
236. NeurIPS 2024Global Lyapunov functions: a long-standing open problem in mathematics, with symbolic transformers
237. NeurIPS 2024Grokking of Implicit Reasoning in Transformers: A Mechanistic Journey to the Edge of Generalization
238. NeurIPS 2024GTBench: Uncovering the Strategic Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs via Game-Theoretic Evaluations
239. NeurIPS 2024How Far Can Transformers Reason? The Globality Barrier and Inductive Scratchpad
240. NeurIPS 2024Information Re-Organization Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models
241. NeurIPS 2024Initialization is Critical to Whether Transformers Fit Composite Functions by Reasoning or Memorizing
242. NeurIPS 2024Instance-adaptive Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought Prompting
243. NeurIPS 2024Interpret Your Decision: Logical Reasoning Regularization for Generalization in Visual Classification
244. NeurIPS 2024Interpretable Image Classification with Adaptive Prototype-based Vision Transformers
245. NeurIPS 2024Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Words? Delving Into Spatial Reasoning for Vision Language Models
246. NeurIPS 2024Iteration Head: A Mechanistic Study of Chain-of-Thought
247. NeurIPS 2024Iterative Reasoning Preference Optimization
248. NeurIPS 2024JiuZhang3.0: Efficiently Improving Mathematical Reasoning by Training Small Data Synthesis Models
249. NeurIPS 2024KptLLM: Unveiling the Power of Large Language Model for Keypoint Comprehension
250. NeurIPS 2024Large Language Models-guided Dynamic Adaptation for Temporal Knowledge Graph 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.