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 62 of 71

3051. CVPR 2023Dynamic Graph Learning With Content-Guided Spatial-Frequency Relation Reasoning for Deepfake Detection
3052. CVPR 2023ECON: Explicit Clothed Humans Optimized via Normal Integration
3053. CVPR 2023Feature Alignment and Uniformity for Test Time Adaptation
3054. CVPR 2023FFCV: Accelerating Training by Removing Data Bottlenecks
3055. CVPR 2023Improved Test-Time Adaptation for Domain Generalization
3056. CVPR 2023K-Planes: Explicit Radiance Fields in Space, Time, and Appearance
3057. CVPR 2023KERM: Knowledge Enhanced Reasoning for Vision-and-Language Navigation
3058. CVPR 2023MagicPony: Learning Articulated 3D Animals in the Wild
3059. CVPR 2023Neural Vector Fields: Implicit Representation by Explicit Learning
3060. CVPR 2023Neuro-Modulated Hebbian Learning for Fully Test-Time Adaptation
3061. CVPR 2023Passive Micron-Scale Time-of-Flight With Sunlight Interferometry
3062. CVPR 2023ReasonNet: End-to-End Driving With Temporal and Global Reasoning
3063. CVPR 2023Robust Dynamic Radiance Fields
3064. CVPR 2023Robust Mean Teacher for Continual and Gradual Test-Time Adaptation
3065. CVPR 2023Robust Test-Time Adaptation in Dynamic Scenarios
3066. CVPR 2023SfM-TTR: Using Structure From Motion for Test-Time Refinement of Single-View Depth Networks
3067. CVPR 2023Super-CLEVR: A Virtual Benchmark To Diagnose Domain Robustness in Visual Reasoning
3068. CVPR 2023TeSLA: Test-Time Self-Learning With Automatic Adversarial Augmentation
3069. CVPR 2023Test of Time: Instilling Video-Language Models With a Sense of Time
3070. CVPR 2023TIPI: Test Time Adaptation With Transformation Invariance
3071. CVPR 2023Train/Test-Time Adaptation With Retrieval
3072. CVPR 2023TTA-COPE: Test-Time Adaptation for Category-Level Object Pose Estimation
3073. CVPR 2023Unicode Analogies: An Anti-Objectivist Visual Reasoning Challenge
3074. CVPR 2023Video Test-Time Adaptation for Action Recognition
3075. CVPR 2023Visual Programming: Compositional Visual Reasoning Without Training
3076. ICLR 2023A Learning Based Hypothesis Test for Harmful Covariate Shift
3077. ICLR 2023A Minimalist Dataset for Systematic Generalization of Perception, Syntax, and Semantics
3078. ICLR 2023Automatic Chain of Thought Prompting in Large Language Models
3079. ICLR 2023Can Neural Networks Learn Implicit Logic from Physical Reasoning?
3080. ICLR 2023Can We Faithfully Represent Absence States to Compute Shapley Values on a DNN?
3081. ICLR 2023Causal Reasoning in the Presence of Latent Confounders via Neural ADMG Learning
3082. ICLR 2023Combinatorial-Probabilistic Trade-Off: P-Values of Community Properties Test in the Stochastic Block Models
3083. ICLR 2023Complexity-Based Prompting for Multi-step Reasoning
3084. ICLR 2023Decomposed Prompting: A Modular Approach for Solving Complex Tasks
3085. ICLR 2023DELTA: DEGRADATION-FREE FULLY TEST-TIME ADAPTATION
3086. ICLR 2023Dual Algorithmic Reasoning
3087. ICLR 2023Dynamic Prompt Learning via Policy Gradient for Semi-structured Mathematical Reasoning
3088. ICLR 2023Empowering Graph Representation Learning with Test-Time Graph Transformation
3089. ICLR 2023Feature selection and low test error in shallow low-rotation ReLU networks
3090. ICLR 2023GAMR: A Guided Attention Model for (visual) Reasoning
3091. ICLR 2023Language Models Are Greedy Reasoners: A Systematic Formal Analysis of Chain-of-Thought
3092. ICLR 2023Language models are multilingual chain-of-thought reasoners
3093. ICLR 2023Large Language Models are Human-Level Prompt Engineers
3094. ICLR 2023Learning Math Reasoning from Self-Sampled Correct and Partially-Correct Solutions
3095. ICLR 2023Learning to Extrapolate: A Transductive Approach
3096. ICLR 2023Learning to Solve Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Recurrent Transformer
3097. ICLR 2023Learning where and when to reason in neuro-symbolic inference
3098. ICLR 2023Least-to-Most Prompting Enables Complex Reasoning in Large Language Models
3099. ICLR 2023LogicDP: Creating Labels for Graph Data via Inductive Logic Programming
3100. ICLR 2023Lower Bounds on the Depth of Integral ReLU Neural Networks via Lattice Polytopes

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.