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. ICLR 2025TOMATO: Assessing Visual Temporal Reasoning Capabilities in Multimodal Foundation Models
252. ICLR 2025ToolGen: Unified Tool Retrieval and Calling via Generation
253. ICLR 2025Training Language Models on Synthetic Edit Sequences Improves Code Synthesis
254. ICLR 2025Training Nonlinear Transformers for Chain-of-Thought Inference: A Theoretical Generalization Analysis
255. ICLR 2025Training on the Test Task Confounds Evaluation and Emergence
256. ICLR 2025Transformer Encoder Satisfiability: Complexity and Impact on Formal Reasoning
257. ICLR 2025Transformers Learn to Implement Multi-step Gradient Descent with Chain of Thought
258. ICLR 2025Transformers Provably Solve Parity Efficiently with Chain of Thought
259. ICLR 2025Transformers Struggle to Learn to Search
260. ICLR 2025TTVD: Towards a Geometric Framework for Test-Time Adaptation Based on Voronoi Diagram
261. ICLR 2025TypedThinker: Diversify Large Language Model Reasoning with Typed Thinking
262. ICLR 2025UGMathBench: A Diverse and Dynamic Benchmark for Undergraduate-Level Mathematical Reasoning with Large Language Models
263. ICLR 2025UniCoTT: A Unified Framework for Structural Chain-of-Thought Distillation
264. ICLR 2025Unveiling the Magic of Code Reasoning through Hypothesis Decomposition and Amendment
265. ICLR 2025Varying Shades of Wrong: Aligning LLMs with Wrong Answers Only
266. ICLR 2025Video-STaR: Self-Training Enables Video Instruction Tuning with Any Supervision
267. ICLR 2025Visual Description Grounding Reduces Hallucinations and Boosts Reasoning in LVLMs
268. ICLR 2025Visual-O1: Understanding Ambiguous Instructions via Multi-modal Multi-turn Chain-of-thoughts Reasoning
269. ICLR 2025VOILA: Evaluation of MLLMs For Perceptual Understanding and Analogical Reasoning
270. ICLR 2025Walk the Talk? Measuring the Faithfulness of Large Language Model Explanations
271. ICLR 2025What Makes a Maze Look Like a Maze?
272. ICLR 2025What Makes Large Language Models Reason in (Multi-Turn) Code Generation?
273. ICLR 2025When does compositional structure yield compositional generalization? A kernel theory.
274. ICML 2025A Causal World Model Underlying Next Token Prediction: Exploring GPT in a Controlled Environment
275. ICML 2025A Reasoning-Based Approach to Cryptic Crossword Clue Solving
276. ICML 2025A Sample Efficient Conditional Independence Test in the Presence of Discretization
277. ICML 2025Accelerating Large Language Model Reasoning via Speculative Search
278. ICML 2025AdaDecode: Accelerating LLM Decoding with Adaptive Layer Parallelism
279. ICML 2025AdaptiveStep: Automatically Dividing Reasoning Step through Model Confidence
280. ICML 2025Adversarial Reasoning at Jailbreaking Time
281. ICML 2025An Analysis for Reasoning Bias of Language Models with Small Initialization
282. ICML 2025An Architecture Search Framework for Inference-Time Techniques
283. ICML 2025Audio Flamingo 2: An Audio-Language Model with Long-Audio Understanding and Expert Reasoning Abilities
284. ICML 2025Bayesian Weight Enhancement with Steady-State Adaptation for Test-time Adaptation in Dynamic Environments
285. ICML 2025Benchmarking Abstract and Reasoning Abilities Through A Theoretical Perspective
286. ICML 2025BEST-Route: Adaptive LLM Routing with Test-Time Optimal Compute
287. ICML 2025Beyond Task-Specific Reasoning: A Unified Conditional Generative Framework for Abstract Visual Reasoning
288. ICML 2025Blink of an eye: a simple theory for feature localization in generative models
289. ICML 2025Bongard in Wonderland: Visual Puzzles that Still Make AI Go Mad?
290. ICML 2025BRiTE: Bootstrapping Reinforced Thinking Process to Enhance Language Model Reasoning
291. ICML 2025Can MLLMs Reason in Multimodality? EMMA: An Enhanced MultiModal ReAsoning Benchmark
292. ICML 2025Can Transformers Reason Logically? A Study in SAT Solving
293. ICML 2025Causal-PIK: Causality-based Physical Reasoning with a Physics-Informed Kernel
294. ICML 2025CodeIO: Condensing Reasoning Patterns via Code Input-Output Prediction
295. ICML 2025Compositional Causal Reasoning Evaluation in Language Models
296. ICML 2025Cost-efficient Collaboration between On-device and Cloud Language Models
297. ICML 2025CRANE: Reasoning with constrained LLM generation
298. ICML 2025Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM’s Reasoning Capability
299. ICML 2025Deliberation in Latent Space via Differentiable Cache Augmentation
300. ICML 2025Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning via Reinforcement Learning

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.