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

350 papers, page 7 of 7

301. CVPR 2024Modality-Collaborative Test-Time Adaptation for Action Recognition
302. CVPR 2024MoReVQA: Exploring Modular Reasoning Models for Video Question Answering
303. CVPR 2024NC-TTT: A Noise Constrastive Approach for Test-Time Training
304. CVPR 2024PromptCoT: Align Prompt Distribution via Adapted Chain-of-Thought
305. CVPR 2024Real-Time Simulated Avatar from Head-Mounted Sensors
306. CVPR 2024Robust Overfitting Does Matter: Test-Time Adversarial Purification With FGSM
307. CVPR 2024Situational Awareness Matters in 3D Vision Language Reasoning
308. CVPR 2024SpatialVLM: Endowing Vision-Language Models with Spatial Reasoning Capabilities
309. CVPR 2024Synthesize Step-by-Step: Tools Templates and LLMs as Data Generators for Reasoning-Based Chart VQA
310. CVPR 2024T4P: Test-Time Training of Trajectory Prediction via Masked Autoencoder and Actor-specific Token Memory
311. CVPR 2024TEA: Test-time Energy Adaptation
312. CVPR 2024Test-Time Adaptation for Depth Completion
313. CVPR 2024Test-Time Domain Generalization for Face Anti-Spoofing
314. CVPR 2024Test-Time Linear Out-of-Distribution Detection
315. CVPR 2024TTA-EVF: Test-Time Adaptation for Event-based Video Frame Interpolation via Reliable Pixel and Sample Estimation
316. CVPR 2024Unified Entropy Optimization for Open-Set Test-Time Adaptation
317. CVPR 2024What How and When Should Object Detectors Update in Continually Changing Test Domains?
318. CVPR 2023A Probabilistic Framework for Lifelong Test-Time Adaptation
319. CVPR 2023Abstract Visual Reasoning: An Algebraic Approach for Solving Raven's Progressive Matrices
320. CVPR 2023ActMAD: Activation Matching To Align Distributions for Test-Time-Training
321. CVPR 2023ANetQA: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Fine-Grained Compositional Reasoning Over Untrimmed Videos
322. CVPR 2023ConStruct-VL: Data-Free Continual Structured VL Concepts Learning
323. CVPR 2023Cross-Modal Implicit Relation Reasoning and Aligning for Text-to-Image Person Retrieval
324. CVPR 2023Discovering the Real Association: Multimodal Causal Reasoning in Video Question Answering
325. CVPR 2023Divide and Conquer: Answering Questions With Object Factorization and Compositional Reasoning
326. CVPR 2023Dynamic Graph Learning With Content-Guided Spatial-Frequency Relation Reasoning for Deepfake Detection
327. CVPR 2023ECON: Explicit Clothed Humans Optimized via Normal Integration
328. CVPR 2023Feature Alignment and Uniformity for Test Time Adaptation
329. CVPR 2023FFCV: Accelerating Training by Removing Data Bottlenecks
330. CVPR 2023Improved Test-Time Adaptation for Domain Generalization
331. CVPR 2023K-Planes: Explicit Radiance Fields in Space, Time, and Appearance
332. CVPR 2023KERM: Knowledge Enhanced Reasoning for Vision-and-Language Navigation
333. CVPR 2023MagicPony: Learning Articulated 3D Animals in the Wild
334. CVPR 2023Neural Vector Fields: Implicit Representation by Explicit Learning
335. CVPR 2023Neuro-Modulated Hebbian Learning for Fully Test-Time Adaptation
336. CVPR 2023Passive Micron-Scale Time-of-Flight With Sunlight Interferometry
337. CVPR 2023ReasonNet: End-to-End Driving With Temporal and Global Reasoning
338. CVPR 2023Robust Dynamic Radiance Fields
339. CVPR 2023Robust Mean Teacher for Continual and Gradual Test-Time Adaptation
340. CVPR 2023Robust Test-Time Adaptation in Dynamic Scenarios
341. CVPR 2023SfM-TTR: Using Structure From Motion for Test-Time Refinement of Single-View Depth Networks
342. CVPR 2023Super-CLEVR: A Virtual Benchmark To Diagnose Domain Robustness in Visual Reasoning
343. CVPR 2023TeSLA: Test-Time Self-Learning With Automatic Adversarial Augmentation
344. CVPR 2023Test of Time: Instilling Video-Language Models With a Sense of Time
345. CVPR 2023TIPI: Test Time Adaptation With Transformation Invariance
346. CVPR 2023Train/Test-Time Adaptation With Retrieval
347. CVPR 2023TTA-COPE: Test-Time Adaptation for Category-Level Object Pose Estimation
348. CVPR 2023Unicode Analogies: An Anti-Objectivist Visual Reasoning Challenge
349. CVPR 2023Video Test-Time Adaptation for Action Recognition
350. CVPR 2023Visual Programming: Compositional Visual Reasoning Without Training

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.