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

913 papers, page 6 of 19

251. ICML 2026Large Language Models as Topological Thinkers: A Benchmark on Graph Persistent Homology
252. ICML 2026Large Language Models Explore by Latent Distilling
253. ICML 2026LaRI: Layered Ray Intersections for Single-view 3D Geometric Reasoning
254. ICML 2026LaST$_{0}$: Latent Spatio-Temporal Chain-of-Thought for Robotic Vision-Language-Action Model
255. ICML 2026Latent Reasoning in TRMs is Secretly a Policy Improvement Operator
256. ICML 2026Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models
257. ICML 2026Latent Thoughts Tuning: Bridging Context and Reasoning with Fused Information in Latent Tokens
258. ICML 2026LatentChem: From Textual CoT to Latent Thinking in Chemical Reasoning
259. ICML 2026Learnability-Informed Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Language Models
260. ICML 2026Learning Context-Conditioned Predicate Semantics via Prototype Feedback
261. ICML 2026Learning Rewrite-Invariant Reasoning with Targeted Alternation Training
262. ICML 2026Learning Self-Interpretation from Interpretability Artifacts: Training Lightweight Adapters on Vector-Label Pairs
263. ICML 2026Learning Structured Reasoning via Tractable Trajectory Control
264. ICML 2026Learning to Correct: Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Attempt Chain-of-Thought
265. ICML 2026Learning to Execute Graph Algorithms Exactly with Graph Neural Networks
266. ICML 2026Learning to Memorize with Attributive and Associative Memory for Online Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
267. ICML 2026Learning to Reason for Factuality
268. ICML 2026Learning to Theorize the World from Observation
269. ICML 2026Learning When to Act or Refuse: Guarding Agentic Reasoning Models for Safe Multi-Step Tool Use
270. ICML 2026Less Diverse, Less Safe: The Indirect But Pervasive Risk of Test-Time Scaling in Large Language Models
271. ICML 2026Less Is More: Fast and Accurate Reasoning with Cross-Head Unified Sparse Attention
272. ICML 2026Leveraging Evidence Priors for Robust Prompt Learning under Noisy Supervision in Vision-Language Models
273. ICML 2026Linearizing Vision Transformer with Test-Time Training
274. ICML 2026LiveOIBench: Can Large Language Models Outperform Human Contestants in Informatics Olympiads?
275. ICML 2026LLMInertia: Adaptive Counter-Inertial Reasoning to Improve Evidence Faithfulness in Large Language Models
276. ICML 2026LMM4-IC4K: A Large Multimodal Model Powered Integrated Circuit Footprint Geometry Understanding
277. ICML 2026LogicSAGE: Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning with Socratic-Guided Enhancement
278. ICML 2026Long Grounded Thoughts: Synthesizing Visual Problems and Reasoning Chains at Scale
279. ICML 2026LongCoT: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
280. ICML 2026Look on Demand: A Cognitive Scheduling Framework for Visual Evidence Acquisition in Multimodal Reasoning
281. ICML 2026Lost in Context: Adressing Context Anxiety in Large Language Models
282. ICML 2026Making Expert Reasoning Learnable with Self-Distillation
283. ICML 2026MALICE: Memory-aware Loop Invariants Generation on Symbolic Execution Traces
284. ICML 2026Many-Shot CoT-ICL: Making In-Context Learning Truly Learn
285. ICML 2026Marrying Generative Model of Healthcare Events with Digital Twin of Social Determinants of Health for Disease Reasoning
286. ICML 2026MathlibLemma: Folklore Lemma Generation and Benchmark for Formal Mathematics
287. ICML 2026Maximum Likelihood Reinforcement Learning
288. ICML 2026Measuring and Mitigating Post-Hoc Rationalization in Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation
289. ICML 2026MECAT: A Multi-Experts Constructed Benchmark for Fine-Grained Audio Understanding Tasks
290. ICML 2026MedMosaic: A Challenging Large Scale Benchmark of Diverse Medical Audio
291. ICML 2026MemCast: Memory-Driven Time Series Forecasting with Experience-Conditioned Reasoning
292. ICML 2026MentisOculi: Revealing the Limits of Reasoning with Mental Imagery
293. ICML 2026MET-Bench: Multimodal Entity Tracking for Evaluating the Limitations of Vision-Language and Reasoning Models
294. ICML 2026Mind the Gap: Catching Hallucinations via Evidence Drop on the Reasoning Manifold
295. ICML 2026MIND: Multi-rationale INtegrated Discriminative Reasoning Framework for Multi-modal Large Models
296. ICML 2026Mining Useful General Data for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation
297. ICML 2026Mitigating Label Shift in Tabular In-Context Learning via Test-Time Posterior Adjustment
298. ICML 2026Mitigating Premature Exploitation in Particle-based Monte Carlo for Inference-Time Scaling
299. ICML 2026Mitigating the Safety–Utility Trade-off in LLM Alignment via Adaptive Safe Context Learning
300. ICML 2026MixReasoning: Switching Modes to Think

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.