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

3,512 papers, page 61 of 71

3001. NeurIPS 2024MR-Ben: A Meta-Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating System-2 Thinking in LLMs
3002. NeurIPS 2024Multi-modal Situated Reasoning in 3D Scenes
3003. NeurIPS 2024MutaPLM: Protein Language Modeling for Mutation Explanation and Engineering
3004. NeurIPS 2024Natural Counterfactuals With Necessary Backtracking
3005. NeurIPS 2024NaturalBench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Natural Adversarial Samples
3006. NeurIPS 2024NeuralSolver: Learning Algorithms For Consistent and Efficient Extrapolation Across General Tasks
3007. NeurIPS 2024Neuro-Symbolic Data Generation for Math Reasoning
3008. NeurIPS 2024Observational Scaling Laws and the Predictability of Langauge Model Performance
3009. NeurIPS 2024OlympicArena: Benchmarking Multi-discipline Cognitive Reasoning for Superintelligent AI
3010. NeurIPS 2024On the Inductive Bias of Stacking Towards Improving Reasoning
3011. NeurIPS 2024On the Power of Decision Trees in Auto-Regressive Language Modeling
3012. NeurIPS 2024One Token to Seg Them All: Language Instructed Reasoning Segmentation in Videos
3013. NeurIPS 2024Open-Book Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
3014. NeurIPS 2024OpenMathInstruct-1: A 1.8 Million Math Instruction Tuning Dataset
3015. NeurIPS 2024PutnamBench: Evaluating Neural Theorem-Provers on the Putnam Mathematical Competition
3016. NeurIPS 2024PUZZLES: A Benchmark for Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
3017. NeurIPS 2024ReMI: A Dataset for Reasoning with Multiple Images
3018. NeurIPS 2024ReXTime: A Benchmark Suite for Reasoning-Across-Time in Videos
3019. NeurIPS 2024SciInstruct: a Self-Reflective Instruction Annotated Dataset for Training Scientific Language Models
3020. NeurIPS 2024SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
3021. NeurIPS 2024Self-playing Adversarial Language Game Enhances LLM Reasoning
3022. NeurIPS 2024SemCoder: Training Code Language Models with Comprehensive Semantics Reasoning
3023. NeurIPS 2024SG-Bench: Evaluating LLM Safety Generalization Across Diverse Tasks and Prompt Types
3024. NeurIPS 2024SG-Nav: Online 3D Scene Graph Prompting for LLM-based Zero-shot Object Navigation
3025. NeurIPS 2024SLED: Self Logits Evolution Decoding for Improving Factuality in Large Language Models
3026. NeurIPS 2024Slot State Space Models
3027. NeurIPS 2024SocialGPT: Prompting LLMs for Social Relation Reasoning via Greedy Segment Optimization
3028. NeurIPS 2024SpatialPIN: Enhancing Spatial Reasoning Capabilities of Vision-Language Models through Prompting and Interacting 3D Priors
3029. NeurIPS 2024SpatialRGPT: Grounded Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
3030. NeurIPS 2024SPIQA: A Dataset for Multimodal Question Answering on Scientific Papers
3031. NeurIPS 2024StrategyLLM: Large Language Models as Strategy Generators, Executors, Optimizers, and Evaluators for Problem Solving
3032. NeurIPS 2024TACT: Advancing Complex Aggregative Reasoning with Information Extraction Tools
3033. NeurIPS 2024TopoLogic: An Interpretable Pipeline for Lane Topology Reasoning on Driving Scenes
3034. NeurIPS 2024Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the 'Reversal Curse' via Training Dynamics
3035. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Limits of Vision Language Models Through the Lens of the Binding Problem
3036. NeurIPS 2024Understanding Transformer Reasoning Capabilities via Graph Algorithms
3037. NeurIPS 2024UniBench: Visual Reasoning Requires Rethinking Vision-Language Beyond Scaling
3038. NeurIPS 2024Unlocking the Capabilities of Thought: A Reasoning Boundary Framework to Quantify and Optimize Chain-of-Thought
3039. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models: Reality or Mirage?
3040. NeurIPS 2024Visual CoT: Advancing Multi-Modal Language Models with a Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmark for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
3041. NeurIPS 2024Visual Sketchpad: Sketching as a Visual Chain of Thought for Multimodal Language Models
3042. NeurIPS 2024VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images
3043. CVPR 2023A Probabilistic Framework for Lifelong Test-Time Adaptation
3044. CVPR 2023Abstract Visual Reasoning: An Algebraic Approach for Solving Raven's Progressive Matrices
3045. CVPR 2023ActMAD: Activation Matching To Align Distributions for Test-Time-Training
3046. CVPR 2023ANetQA: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Fine-Grained Compositional Reasoning Over Untrimmed Videos
3047. CVPR 2023ConStruct-VL: Data-Free Continual Structured VL Concepts Learning
3048. CVPR 2023Cross-Modal Implicit Relation Reasoning and Aligning for Text-to-Image Person Retrieval
3049. CVPR 2023Discovering the Real Association: Multimodal Causal Reasoning in Video Question Answering
3050. CVPR 2023Divide and Conquer: Answering Questions With Object Factorization and Compositional Reasoning

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.