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. NeurIPS 2024Learning Formal Mathematics From Intrinsic Motivation
252. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Reason Iteratively and Parallelly for Complex Visual Reasoning Scenarios
253. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Reason via Program Generation, Emulation, and Search
254. NeurIPS 2024Leveraging Environment Interaction for Automated PDDL Translation and Planning with Large Language Models
255. NeurIPS 2024LINGOLY: A Benchmark of Olympiad-Level Linguistic Reasoning Puzzles in Low Resource and Extinct Languages
256. NeurIPS 2024LLMDFA: Analyzing Dataflow in Code with Large Language Models
257. NeurIPS 2024LogiCity: Advancing Neuro-Symbolic AI with Abstract Urban Simulation
258. NeurIPS 2024MAmmoTH2: Scaling Instructions from the Web
259. NeurIPS 2024Many-Shot In-Context Learning
260. NeurIPS 2024Mars: Situated Inductive Reasoning in an Open-World Environment
261. NeurIPS 2024MARVEL: Multidimensional Abstraction and Reasoning through Visual Evaluation and Learning
262. NeurIPS 2024MathPile: A Billion-Token-Scale Pretraining Corpus for Math
263. NeurIPS 2024Meaningful Learning: Enhancing Abstract Reasoning in Large Language Models via Generic Fact Guidance
264. NeurIPS 2024Measuring Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning with MATH-Vision Dataset
265. NeurIPS 2024MediQ: Question-Asking LLMs and a Benchmark for Reliable Interactive Clinical Reasoning
266. NeurIPS 2024MEQA: A Benchmark for Multi-hop Event-centric Question Answering with Explanations
267. NeurIPS 2024Metacognitive Capabilities of LLMs: An Exploration in Mathematical Problem Solving
268. NeurIPS 2024Mind's Eye of LLMs: Visualization-of-Thought Elicits Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models
269. NeurIPS 2024MindMerger: Efficiently Boosting LLM Reasoning in non-English Languages
270. NeurIPS 2024MR-Ben: A Meta-Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating System-2 Thinking in LLMs
271. NeurIPS 2024Multi-modal Situated Reasoning in 3D Scenes
272. NeurIPS 2024MutaPLM: Protein Language Modeling for Mutation Explanation and Engineering
273. NeurIPS 2024Natural Counterfactuals With Necessary Backtracking
274. NeurIPS 2024NaturalBench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Natural Adversarial Samples
275. NeurIPS 2024NeuralSolver: Learning Algorithms For Consistent and Efficient Extrapolation Across General Tasks
276. NeurIPS 2024Neuro-Symbolic Data Generation for Math Reasoning
277. NeurIPS 2024Observational Scaling Laws and the Predictability of Langauge Model Performance
278. NeurIPS 2024OlympicArena: Benchmarking Multi-discipline Cognitive Reasoning for Superintelligent AI
279. NeurIPS 2024On the Inductive Bias of Stacking Towards Improving Reasoning
280. NeurIPS 2024On the Power of Decision Trees in Auto-Regressive Language Modeling
281. NeurIPS 2024One Token to Seg Them All: Language Instructed Reasoning Segmentation in Videos
282. NeurIPS 2024Open-Book Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
283. NeurIPS 2024OpenMathInstruct-1: A 1.8 Million Math Instruction Tuning Dataset
284. NeurIPS 2024PutnamBench: Evaluating Neural Theorem-Provers on the Putnam Mathematical Competition
285. NeurIPS 2024PUZZLES: A Benchmark for Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
286. NeurIPS 2024ReMI: A Dataset for Reasoning with Multiple Images
287. NeurIPS 2024ReXTime: A Benchmark Suite for Reasoning-Across-Time in Videos
288. NeurIPS 2024SciInstruct: a Self-Reflective Instruction Annotated Dataset for Training Scientific Language Models
289. NeurIPS 2024SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
290. NeurIPS 2024Self-playing Adversarial Language Game Enhances LLM Reasoning
291. NeurIPS 2024SemCoder: Training Code Language Models with Comprehensive Semantics Reasoning
292. NeurIPS 2024SG-Bench: Evaluating LLM Safety Generalization Across Diverse Tasks and Prompt Types
293. NeurIPS 2024SG-Nav: Online 3D Scene Graph Prompting for LLM-based Zero-shot Object Navigation
294. NeurIPS 2024SLED: Self Logits Evolution Decoding for Improving Factuality in Large Language Models
295. NeurIPS 2024Slot State Space Models
296. NeurIPS 2024SocialGPT: Prompting LLMs for Social Relation Reasoning via Greedy Segment Optimization
297. NeurIPS 2024SpatialPIN: Enhancing Spatial Reasoning Capabilities of Vision-Language Models through Prompting and Interacting 3D Priors
298. NeurIPS 2024SpatialRGPT: Grounded Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
299. NeurIPS 2024SPIQA: A Dataset for Multimodal Question Answering on Scientific Papers
300. NeurIPS 2024StrategyLLM: Large Language Models as Strategy Generators, Executors, Optimizers, and Evaluators for Problem Solving

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.