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

652 papers, page 7 of 14

301. ICLR 2026Mapping Post-Training Forgetting in Language Models at Scale
302. ICLR 2026Markovian Transformers for Informative Language Modeling
303. ICLR 2026MARTI: A Framework for Multi-Agent LLM Systems Reinforced Training and Inference
304. ICLR 2026Math Blind: Failures in Diagram Understanding Undermine Reasoning in MLLMs
305. ICLR 2026MathFimer: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning by Expanding Reasoning Steps through Fill-in-the-Middle Task
306. ICLR 2026MathNet: A Global Multimodal Benchmark for Mathematical Reasoning and Retrieval
307. ICLR 2026Measuring Audio's Impact on Correctness: Audio-Contribution-Aware Post-Training of Large Audio Language Models
308. ICLR 2026Mechanistic Detection and Mitigation of Hallucination in Large Reasoning Models
309. ICLR 2026Medical thinking with multiple images
310. ICLR 2026MemGen: Weaving Generative Latent Memory for Self-Evolving Agents
311. ICLR 2026Memory-T1: Reinforcement Learning for Temporal Reasoning in Multi-session Agents
312. ICLR 2026MergePRAG: Orthogonal Merging of Passage-experts for Multi-hop Parametric RAG
313. ICLR 2026MesaNet: Sequence Modeling by Locally Optimal Test-Time Training
314. ICLR 2026MetaSpatial: Reinforcing 3D Spatial Reasoning in VLMs for the Metaverse
315. ICLR 2026MIDAS: Multi-Image Dispersion and Semantic Reconstruction for Jailbreaking MLLMs
316. ICLR 2026MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning
317. ICLR 2026Mirage or Method? How Model–Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions
318. ICLR 2026Mixture-of-Visual-Thoughts: Exploring Context-Adaptive Reasoning Mode Selection for General Visual Reasoning
319. ICLR 2026MM-HELIX: Boosting Multimodal Long-Chain Reflective Reasoning with Holistic Platform and Adaptive Hybrid Policy Optimization
320. ICLR 2026MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models
321. ICLR 2026MMR-Life: Piecing Together Real-life Scenes for Multimodal Multi-image Reasoning
322. ICLR 2026MMR-V: What's Left Unsaid? A Benchmark for Multimodal Deep Reasoning in Videos
323. ICLR 2026MMReD: a Cross-Modal Benchmark for Dense Context Reasoning
324. ICLR 2026MMSI-Bench: A Benchmark for Multi-Image Spatial Intelligence
325. ICLR 2026Mode-conditioning unlocks superior test-time compute scaling
326. ICLR 2026MoDr: Mixture-of-Depth-Recurrent Transformers for Test-Time Reasoning
327. ICLR 2026MoL: Adaptive Mixture-of-Length Reasoning for Efficient Question Answering with Context
328. ICLR 2026MolecularIQ: Characterizing Chemical Reasoning Capabilities Through Symbolic Verification on Molecular Graphs
329. ICLR 2026More Thought, Less Accuracy? On the Dual Nature of Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
330. ICLR 2026MoReBench: Evaluating Procedural and Pluralistic Moral Reasoning in Language Models, More than Outcomes
331. ICLR 2026Motion-R1: Enhancing Motion Generation with Decomposed Chain-of-Thought and RL Binding
332. ICLR 2026mR3: Multilingual Rubric-Agnostic Reward Reasoning Models
333. ICLR 2026MRMR: A Realistic and Expert-Level Multidisciplinary Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Multimodal Retrieval
334. ICLR 2026MSCR: Exploring the Vulnerability of LLMs’ Mathematical Reasoning Abilities Using Multi-Source Candidate Replacement
335. ICLR 2026Multiple Token Divergence: Measuring and Steering In-Context Computation Density
336. ICLR 2026Multiverse Mechanica: A Testbed for Learning Game Mechanics via Counterfactual Worlds
337. ICLR 2026Music Flamingo: Scaling Music Understanding in Audio Language Models
338. ICLR 2026Native Reasoning Models: Training Language Models to Reason on Unverifiable Data
339. ICLR 2026Nemotron-CC-Math: A 133 Billion-Token-Scale High Quality Math Pretraining Dataset
340. ICLR 2026Nemotron-Research-Tool-N1: Exploring Tool-Using Language Models with Reinforced Reasoning
341. ICLR 2026NEO — No-Optimization Test-Time Adaptation through Latent Re-Centering
342. ICLR 2026NePTune: A Neuro-Pythonic Framework for Tunable Compositional Reasoning on Vision-Language
343. ICLR 2026Neural Force Field: Few-shot Learning of Generalized Physical Reasoning
344. ICLR 2026No Labels, No Problem: Training Visual Reasoners with Multimodal Verifiers
345. ICLR 2026No Prompt Left Behind: Exploiting Zero-Variance Prompts in LLM Reinforcement Learning via Entropy-Guided Advantage Shaping
346. ICLR 2026Not All Bits Are Equal: How Model Scale Changes Memory-Optimal Reasoning
347. ICLR 2026Not Search, But Scan: Benchmarking MLLMs on Scan-Oriented Academic Paper Reasoning
348. ICLR 2026Nudging the Boundaries of LLM Reasoning
349. ICLR 2026OCR-Reasoning Benchmark: Unveiling the True Capabilities of MLLMs in Complex Text-Rich Image Reasoning
350. ICLR 2026ODI-Bench: Can MLLMs Understand Immersive Omnidirectional Environments?

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.