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

996 papers, page 6 of 20

251. ICLR 2026Language Identification in the Limit with Computational Trace
252. ICLR 2026LaSeR: Reinforcement Learning with Last-Token Self-Rewarding
253. ICLR 2026Latent Thinking Optimization: Your Latent Reasoning Language Model Secretly Encodes Reward Signals in its Latent Thoughts
254. ICLR 2026Latent Veracity Inference for Identifying Errors in Stepwise Reasoning
255. ICLR 2026Latent Visual Reasoning
256. ICLR 2026Latent-Guided Reasoning: Empowering Small LLMs with Large-Model Thinking
257. ICLR 2026LaTo: Landmark-tokenized Diffusion Transformer for Fine-grained Human Face Editing
258. ICLR 2026LeanForPhysics: Comprehensive Reasoning Framework for University-level Physics in Lean4
259. ICLR 2026Learn More with Less: Uncertainty Consistency Guided Query Selection for RLVR
260. ICLR 2026Learn to Reason Efficiently with Adaptive Length-based Reward Shaping
261. ICLR 2026Learning from Synthetic Data Improves Multi-hop Reasoning
262. ICLR 2026Learning Global Hypothesis Space for Enhancing Synergistic Reasoning Chain
263. ICLR 2026Learning Physics-Grounded 4D Dynamics with Neural Gaussian Force Fields
264. ICLR 2026Learning to Orchestrate Agents in Natural Language with the Conductor
265. ICLR 2026Learning to Reason Efficiently with Discounted Reinforcement Learning
266. ICLR 2026Learning to Reason for Hallucination Span Detection
267. ICLR 2026Learning to Reason in Structured In-context Environments with Reinforcement Learning
268. ICLR 2026Learning to Reason over Continuous Tokens with Reinforcement Learning
269. ICLR 2026Learning to Reason via Mixture-of-Thought for Logical Reasoning
270. ICLR 2026Learning to Reason without External Rewards
271. ICLR 2026Learning What Reinforcement Learning Can't: Interleaved Online Fine-Tuning for Hardest Questions
272. ICLR 2026LENS: Multi-level Evaluation of Multimodal Reasoning with Large Language Models
273. ICLR 2026Let's (not) just put things in Context: Test-time Training for Long-context LLMs
274. ICLR 2026Let's Think in Two Steps: Mitigating Agreement Bias in MLLMs with Self-Grounded Verification
275. ICLR 2026LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams
276. ICLR 2026Lifelong Embodied Navigation Learning
277. ICLR 2026Linear Mechanisms for Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models
278. ICLR 2026LINGOLY-TOO: Disentangling Reasoning from Knowledge with Templatised Orthographic Obfuscation
279. ICLR 2026Linking Process to Outcome: Conditional Reward Modeling for LLM Reasoning
280. ICLR 2026LLM2Fx-Tools: Tool Calling for Music Post-Production
281. ICLR 2026LLMs are Greedy Agents: Effects of RL Fine-tuning on Decision-Making Abilities
282. ICLR 2026LLMs are Single-threaded Reasoners: Demystifying the Working Mechanism of Soft Thinking
283. ICLR 2026LLMs as Rules Oracles: Exploring Real-World Multimodal Reasoning in Tabletop Strategy Game Environments
284. ICLR 2026LLMs Must Think Thrice to Solve Executable Counterfactuals
285. ICLR 2026LLMs Struggle to Balance Reasoning and World Knowledge in Causal Narrative Understanding
286. ICLR 2026Local Linear Attention: An Optimal Interpolation of Linear and Softmax Attention For Test-Time Regression
287. ICLR 2026Log-Augmented Generation: Scaling Test-Time Reasoning with Reusable Computation
288. ICLR 2026LogiConBench: Benchmarking Logical Consistencies of LLMs
289. ICLR 2026LogicReward: Incentivizing LLM Reasoning via Step-Wise Logical Supervision
290. ICLR 2026Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Across Languages
291. ICLR 2026Long-Document QA with Chain-of-Structured-Thought and Fine-Tuned SLMs
292. ICLR 2026Lookahead Tree-Based Rollouts for Enhanced Trajectory-Level Exploration in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
293. ICLR 2026LoongRL: Reinforcement Learning for Advanced Reasoning over Long Contexts
294. ICLR 2026LoopFormer: Elastic-Depth Looped Transformers for Latent Reasoning via Shortcut Modulation
295. ICLR 2026LouisKV: Efficient KV Cache Retrieval for Long Input-Output Sequences
296. ICLR 2026M3CoTBench: Benchmark Chain-of-Thought of MLLMs in Medical Image Understanding
297. ICLR 2026MAGO: Beyond Fixed Hyperparameters with Multi-Objective Pareto Optimization for Hybrid LLM Reasoning
298. ICLR 2026Making Slow Thinking Faster: Compressing LLM Chain-of-Thought via Step Entropy
299. ICLR 2026Making, Not Taking, the Best of N
300. ICLR 2026Mamba-3: Improved Sequence Modeling using State Space Principles

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.