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 5 of 19

201. ICLR 2025Planning in Natural Language Improves LLM Search for Code Generation
202. ICLR 2025Preference Optimization for Reasoning with Pseudo Feedback
203. ICLR 2025Preserving Diversity in Supervised Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
204. ICLR 2025Probing the Latent Hierarchical Structure of Data via Diffusion Models
205. ICLR 2025Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models
206. ICLR 2025Process Reward Model with Q-value Rankings
207. ICLR 2025Reasoning Elicitation in Language Models via Counterfactual Feedback
208. ICLR 2025Reasoning of Large Language Models over Knowledge Graphs with Super-Relations
209. ICLR 2025Reasoning with Latent Thoughts: On the Power of Looped Transformers
210. ICLR 2025RefactorBench: Evaluating Stateful Reasoning in Language Agents Through Code
211. ICLR 2025ReGenesis: LLMs can Grow into Reasoning Generalists via Self-Improvement
212. ICLR 2025Retrieval Head Mechanistically Explains Long-Context Factuality
213. ICLR 2025Revisiting Random Walks for Learning on Graphs
214. ICLR 2025Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning
215. ICLR 2025RNNs are not Transformers (Yet): The Key Bottleneck on In-Context Retrieval
216. ICLR 2025RocketEval: Efficient automated LLM evaluation via grading checklist
217. ICLR 2025SBSC: Step-by-Step Coding for Improving Mathematical Olympiad Performance
218. ICLR 2025Scaling Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Collaboration
219. ICLR 2025Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally Can be More Effective than Scaling Parameters for Reasoning
220. ICLR 2025Searching for Optimal Solutions with LLMs via Bayesian Optimization
221. ICLR 2025SegLLM: Multi-round Reasoning Segmentation with Large Language Models
222. ICLR 2025Selective Label Enhancement Learning for Test-Time Adaptation
223. ICLR 2025Seq-VCR: Preventing Collapse in Intermediate Transformer Representations for Enhanced Reasoning
224. ICLR 2025Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling
225. ICLR 2025SPORTU: A Comprehensive Sports Understanding Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
226. ICLR 2025Stabilized Neural Prediction of Potential Outcomes in Continuous Time
227. ICLR 2025Steering Large Language Models between Code Execution and Textual Reasoning
228. ICLR 2025Step-by-Step Reasoning for Math Problems via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo
229. ICLR 2025Storybooth: Training-Free Multi-Subject Consistency for Improved Visual Storytelling
230. ICLR 2025SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-Correction
231. ICLR 2025SWE-Search: Enhancing Software Agents with Monte Carlo Tree Search and Iterative Refinement
232. ICLR 2025Systematic Relational Reasoning With Epistemic Graph Neural Networks
233. ICLR 2025Systems with Switching Causal Relations: A Meta-Causal Perspective
234. ICLR 2025Tell me about yourself: LLMs are aware of their learned behaviors
235. ICLR 2025Temporal Reasoning Transfer from Text to Video
236. ICLR 2025Test of Time: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Temporal Reasoning
237. ICLR 2025Test-Time Adaptation for Combating Missing Modalities in Egocentric Videos
238. ICLR 2025Test-time Adaptation for Cross-modal Retrieval with Query Shift
239. ICLR 2025Test-time Adaptation for Image Compression with Distribution Regularization
240. ICLR 2025Test-time Adaptation for Regression by Subspace Alignment
241. ICLR 2025Test-Time Ensemble via Linear Mode Connectivity: A Path to Better Adaptation
242. ICLR 2025The Belief State Transformer
243. ICLR 2025The Labyrinth of Links: Navigating the Associative Maze of Multi-modal LLMs
244. ICLR 2025Think Thrice Before You Act: Progressive Thought Refinement in Large Language Models
245. ICLR 2025Think-on-Graph 2.0: Deep and Faithful Large Language Model Reasoning with Knowledge-guided Retrieval Augmented Generation
246. ICLR 2025ThinkBot: Embodied Instruction Following with Thought Chain Reasoning
247. ICLR 2025Time After Time: Deep-Q Effect Estimation for Interventions on When and What to do
248. ICLR 2025To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning
249. ICLR 2025To Trust or Not to Trust? Enhancing Large Language Models' Situated Faithfulness to External Contexts
250. ICLR 2025Token-Supervised Value Models for Enhancing Mathematical Problem-Solving Capabilities of Large Language Models

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.