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 63 of 71

3101. ICLR 2023M-L2O: Towards Generalizable Learning-to-Optimize by Test-Time Fast Self-Adaptation
3102. ICLR 2023MECTA: Memory-Economic Continual Test-Time Model Adaptation
3103. ICLR 2023Mind's Eye: Grounded Language Model Reasoning through Simulation
3104. ICLR 2023Multimodal Analogical Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs
3105. ICLR 2023Neural Compositional Rule Learning for Knowledge Graph Reasoning
3106. ICLR 2023NTK-SAP: Improving neural network pruning by aligning training dynamics
3107. ICLR 2023On Achieving Optimal Adversarial Test Error
3108. ICLR 2023PINTO: Faithful Language Reasoning Using Prompt-Generated Rationales
3109. ICLR 2023ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
3110. ICLR 2023Relational Attention: Generalizing Transformers for Graph-Structured Tasks
3111. ICLR 2023Rethinking skip connection model as a learnable Markov chain
3112. ICLR 2023ROSCOE: A Suite of Metrics for Scoring Step-by-Step Reasoning
3113. ICLR 2023Selection-Inference: Exploiting Large Language Models for Interpretable Logical Reasoning
3114. ICLR 2023Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models
3115. ICLR 2023Socratic Models: Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language
3116. ICLR 2023SQA3D: Situated Question Answering in 3D Scenes
3117. ICLR 2023STREET: A MULTI-TASK STRUCTURED REASONING AND EXPLANATION BENCHMARK
3118. ICLR 2023TabPFN: A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second
3119. ICLR 2023Temporal Coherent Test Time Optimization for Robust Video Classification
3120. ICLR 2023Test-Time Adaptation via Self-Training with Nearest Neighbor Information
3121. ICLR 2023Test-Time Robust Personalization for Federated Learning
3122. ICLR 2023Towards Inferential Reproducibility of Machine Learning Research
3123. ICLR 2023Towards Stable Test-time Adaptation in Dynamic Wild World
3124. ICLR 2023Towards Understanding GD with Hard and Conjugate Pseudo-labels for Test-Time Adaptation
3125. ICLR 2023TrojText: Test-time Invisible Textual Trojan Insertion
3126. ICLR 2023TTN: A Domain-Shift Aware Batch Normalization in Test-Time Adaptation
3127. ICLR 2023UL2: Unifying Language Learning Paradigms
3128. ICLR 2023UniKGQA: Unified Retrieval and Reasoning for Solving Multi-hop Question Answering Over Knowledge Graph
3129. ICLR 2023Visual Recognition with Deep Nearest Centroids
3130. ICLR 2023Visually-Augmented Language Modeling
3131. ICLR 2023Weakly Supervised Explainable Phrasal Reasoning with Neural Fuzzy Logic
3132. ICLR 2023Weakly Supervised Knowledge Transfer with Probabilistic Logical Reasoning for Object Detection
3133. ICML 2023A Statistical Perspective on Retrieval-Based Models
3134. ICML 2023A Study of Global and Episodic Bonuses for Exploration in Contextual MDPs
3135. ICML 2023A Unified Optimization Framework of ANN-SNN Conversion: Towards Optimal Mapping from Activation Values to Firing Rates
3136. ICML 2023AdaNPC: Exploring Non-Parametric Classifier for Test-Time Adaptation
3137. ICML 2023Adaptive Computation with Elastic Input Sequence
3138. ICML 2023An Effective Meaningful Way to Evaluate Survival Models
3139. ICML 2023Bag of Tricks for Training Data Extraction from Language Models
3140. ICML 2023Bandits with Knapsacks: Advice on Time-Varying Demands
3141. ICML 2023Bayesian Reparameterization of Reward-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning with Energy-based Models
3142. ICML 2023Benign Overfitting in Deep Neural Networks under Lazy Training
3143. ICML 2023Benign Overfitting in Two-layer ReLU Convolutional Neural Networks
3144. ICML 2023Beyond the Edge of Stability via Two-step Gradient Updates
3145. ICML 2023Can We Scale Transformers to Predict Parameters of Diverse ImageNet Models?
3146. ICML 2023CLIPood: Generalizing CLIP to Out-of-Distributions
3147. ICML 2023Cold Analysis of Rao-Blackwellized Straight-Through Gumbel-Softmax Gradient Estimator
3148. ICML 2023Consistency Models
3149. ICML 2023Constraint Reasoning Embedded Structured Prediction
3150. ICML 2023Contextual Reliability: When Different Features Matter in Different Contexts

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.