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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251. CVPR 2025Reason-before-Retrieve: One-Stage Reflective Chain-of-Thoughts for Training-Free Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
252. CVPR 2025Reasoning in Visual Navigation of End-to-end Trained Agents: A Dynamical Systems Approach
253. CVPR 2025Reasoning Mamba: Hypergraph-Guided Region Relation Calculating for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
254. CVPR 2025ROD-MLLM: Towards More Reliable Object Detection in Multimodal Large Language Models
255. CVPR 2025Scaling Properties of Diffusion Models For Perceptual Tasks
256. CVPR 2025Scaling Vision Pre-Training to 4K Resolution
257. CVPR 2025SceneTAP: Scene-Coherent Typographic Adversarial Planner against Vision-Language Models in Real-World Environments
258. CVPR 2025Schedule On the Fly: Diffusion Time Prediction for Faster and Better Image Generation
259. CVPR 2025SOLVE: Synergy of Language-Vision and End-to-End Networks for Autonomous Driving
260. CVPR 2025Spatial457: A Diagnostic Benchmark for 6D Spatial Reasoning of Large Mutimodal Models
261. CVPR 2025STEP: Enhancing Video-LLMs' Compositional Reasoning by Spatio-Temporal Graph-guided Self-Training
262. CVPR 2025Style Evolving along Chain-of-Thought for Unknown-Domain Object Detection
263. CVPR 2025SURGEON: Memory-Adaptive Fully Test-Time Adaptation via Dynamic Activation Sparsity
264. CVPR 2025T2SG: Traffic Topology Scene Graph for Topology Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
265. CVPR 2025Test-time Augmentation Improves Efficiency in Conformal Prediction
266. CVPR 2025Test-Time Domain Generalization via Universe Learning: A Multi-Graph Matching Approach for Medical Image Segmentation
267. CVPR 2025Test-Time Visual In-Context Tuning
268. CVPR 2025The Devil is in Temporal Token: High Quality Video Reasoning Segmentation
269. CVPR 2025Thinking in Space: How Multimodal Large Language Models See, Remember, and Recall Spaces
270. CVPR 2025TIDE: Training Locally Interpretable Domain Generalization Models Enables Test-time Correction
271. CVPR 2025VELOCITI: Benchmarking Video-Language Compositional Reasoning with Strict Entailment
272. CVPR 2025VideoEspresso: A Large-Scale Chain-of-Thought Dataset for Fine-Grained Video Reasoning via Core Frame Selection
273. CVPR 2025VideoTree: Adaptive Tree-based Video Representation for LLM Reasoning on Long Videos
274. CVPR 2025VISCO: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Critique and Correction Towards Self-Improvement in Visual Reasoning
275. CVPR 2024A Versatile Framework for Continual Test-Time Domain Adaptation: Balancing Discriminability and Generalizability
276. CVPR 2024AETTA: Label-Free Accuracy Estimation for Test-Time Adaptation
277. CVPR 2024Backdoor Defense via Test-Time Detecting and Repairing
278. CVPR 2024Backpropagation-free Network for 3D Test-time Adaptation
279. CVPR 2024Benchmarking Implicit Neural Representation and Geometric Rendering in Real-Time RGB-D SLAM
280. CVPR 2024CoG-DQA: Chain-of-Guiding Learning with Large Language Models for Diagram Question Answering
281. CVPR 2024Compositional Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Large Multimodal Models
282. CVPR 2024Depth-aware Test-Time Training for Zero-shot Video Object Segmentation
283. CVPR 2024Domain-Specific Block Selection and Paired-View Pseudo-Labeling for Online Test-Time Adaptation
284. CVPR 2024EventPS: Real-Time Photometric Stereo Using an Event Camera
285. CVPR 2024ExACT: Language-guided Conceptual Reasoning and Uncertainty Estimation for Event-based Action Recognition and More
286. CVPR 2024Generate Subgoal Images before Act: Unlocking the Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts
287. CVPR 2024Genuine Knowledge from Practice: Diffusion Test-Time Adaptation for Video Adverse Weather Removal
288. CVPR 2024GRAM: Global Reasoning for Multi-Page VQA
289. CVPR 2024Higher-order Relational Reasoning for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
290. CVPR 2024Holoported Characters: Real-time Free-viewpoint Rendering of Humans from Sparse RGB Cameras
291. CVPR 2024HumanNeRF-SE: A Simple yet Effective Approach to Animate HumanNeRF with Diverse Poses
292. CVPR 2024iKUN: Speak to Trackers without Retraining
293. CVPR 2024IntrinsicAvatar: Physically Based Inverse Rendering of Dynamic Humans from Monocular Videos via Explicit Ray Tracing
294. CVPR 2024Language Model Guided Interpretable Video Action Reasoning
295. CVPR 2024LayoutLLM: Layout Instruction Tuning with Large Language Models for Document Understanding
296. CVPR 2024Let's Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation
297. CVPR 2024LISA: Reasoning Segmentation via Large Language Model
298. CVPR 2024LLM4SGG: Large Language Models for Weakly Supervised Scene Graph Generation
299. CVPR 2024MedBN: Robust Test-Time Adaptation against Malicious Test Samples
300. CVPR 2024Mind Artist: Creating Artistic Snapshots with Human Thought

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.