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

3,512 papers, page 6 of 71

251. ICLR 2026Beyond Classification Accuracy: Neural-MedBench and the Need for Deeper Reasoning Benchmarks
252. ICLR 2026Beyond English-Centric Training: How Reinforcement Learning Improves Cross-Lingual Reasoning in LLMs
253. ICLR 2026Beyond Pass@ 1: Self-Play with Variational Problem Synthesis Sustains RLVR
254. ICLR 2026Beyond Speedup - Utilizing KV Cache for Sampling and Reasoning
255. ICLR 2026BeyondBench: Benchmark-Free Evaluation of Reasoning in Language Models
256. ICLR 2026Bongard-RWR+: Real-World Representations of Fine-Grained Concepts in Bongard Problems
257. ICLR 2026Boosting Multi-Domain Reasoning of LLMs via Curvature-Guided Policy Optimization
258. ICLR 2026Bottlenecked Transformers: Periodic KV Cache Consolidation for Generalised Reasoning
259. ICLR 2026Bound by semanticity: universal laws governing the generalization-identification tradeoff
260. ICLR 2026Bounds of Chain-of-Thought Robustness: Reasoning Steps, Embed Norms, and Beyond
261. ICLR 2026Branch and Bound Search for Exact MAP Inference in Credal Networks
262. ICLR 2026Buckingham $\pi$-Invariant Test‑Time Projection for Robust PDE Surrogate Modeling
263. ICLR 2026ByteFlow: Language Modeling through Adaptive Byte Compression without a Tokenizer
264. ICLR 2026C-Voting: Confidence-Based Test-Time Voting without Explicit Energy Functions
265. ICLR 2026Can Large Language Models Match the Conclusions of Systematic Reviews?
266. ICLR 2026Can Speech LLMs Think while Listening?
267. ICLR 2026Can Transformers Really Do It All? On the Compatibility of Inductive Biases Across Tasks
268. ICLR 2026CaTS: Calibrated Test-Time Scaling for Efficient LLM Reasoning
269. ICLR 2026Causally Robust Preference Learning with Reasons
270. ICLR 2026CDE: Curiosity-Driven Exploration for Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Large Language Models
271. ICLR 2026ChainGPT: Dual-Reasoning Model with Recurrent Depth and Multi-Rank State Updates
272. ICLR 2026Characterizing and Mitigating Reasoning Drift in Large Language Models
273. ICLR 2026Characterizing Pattern Matching and Its Limits on Compositional Task Structures
274. ICLR 2026Children's Intelligence Tests Pose Challenges for MLLMs? KidGym: A 2D Grid-Based Reasoning Benchmark for MLLMs
275. ICLR 2026CircuitSense: A Hierarchical Circuit System Benchmark Bridging Visual Comprehension and Symbolic Reasoning in Engineering Design Process
276. ICLR 2026CodeSense: a Real-World Benchmark and Dataset for Code Semantic Reasoning
277. ICLR 2026CogniLoad: A Synthetic Natural Language Reasoning Benchmark With Tunable Length, Intrinsic Difficulty, and Distractor Density
278. ICLR 2026Command-V: Training-Free Representation Finetuning Transfer
279. ICLR 2026Compose and Fuse: Revisiting the Foundational Bottlenecks in Multimodal Reasoning
280. ICLR 2026Composition-Grounded Instruction Synthesis for Visual Reasoning
281. ICLR 2026Compositional Generalization from Learned Skills via CoT Training: A Theoretical and Structural Analysis for Reasoning
282. ICLR 2026Compositional Generalization through Gradient Search in Nonparametric Latent Space
283. ICLR 2026Compositional-ARC: Assessing Systematic Generalization in Abstract Spatial Reasoning
284. ICLR 2026Conditional Advantage Estimation for Reinforcement Learning in Large Reasoning Models
285. ICLR 2026ContextPRM: Leveraging Contextual Coherence for multi-domain Test-Time Scaling
286. ICLR 2026Continuous Chain of Thought Enables Parallel Exploration and Reasoning
287. ICLR 2026Controllable Exploration in Hybrid-Policy RLVR for Multi-Modal Reasoning
288. ICLR 2026Controllable Logical Hypothesis Generation for Abductive Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs
289. ICLR 2026CoPRS: Learning Positional Prior from Chain-of-Thought for Reasoning Segmentation
290. ICLR 2026CORE: Concept-Oriented Reinforcement for Bridging the Definition–Application Gap in Mathematical Reasoning
291. ICLR 2026COSA: Context-aware Output-Space Adapter for Test-Time Adaptation in Time Series Forecasting
292. ICLR 2026Cost-of-Pass: An Economic Framework for Evaluating Language Models
293. ICLR 2026CoT Vectors: Transferring and Probing the Reasoning Mechanisms of LLMs
294. ICLR 2026CoT-Evo: Evolutionary Distillation of Chain-of-Thought for Scientific Reasoning
295. ICLR 2026CoT-RVS: Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Segmentation for Videos
296. ICLR 2026Count Counts: Motivating Exploration in LLM Reasoning with Count-based Intrinsic Rewards
297. ICLR 2026Counterfactual Reasoning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
298. ICLR 2026Critique-Coder: Enhancing Coder Models by Critique Reinforcement Learning
299. ICLR 2026Critique-RL: Training Critiquing Language Models Through Two-Stage RL for Improved Discrimination and Constructive Feedback
300. ICLR 2026CubeBench: Diagnosing Interactive, Long-Horizon Physical Intelligence under Partial Observations

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.