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

582 papers, page 7 of 12

301. ICML 2026MLLM-4D: Towards Visual-based Spatial-Temporal Intelligence
302. ICML 2026MME-Reasoning: A Broad-Spectrum Benchmark for Evaluating Logical Reasoning in MLLMs
303. ICML 2026Modeling Hierarchical Thinking in Large Reasoning Models
304. ICML 2026Models Under SCOPE: Scalable and Controllable Routing via Pre-hoc Reasoning
305. ICML 2026Monitorability as a Free Gift: How RLVR Spontaneously Aligns Reasoning
306. ICML 2026Monitoring Monitorability
307. ICML 2026More Sail than Ballast: Addressing Harmful Knowledge Leakage in the Expansive Reasoning Space of LRMs
308. ICML 2026Multi-Integration of Labels Across Categories for Component Identification in Multi-trial Time Series
309. ICML 2026Multi-Objective Protein Design via Memory-Aware Test-Time Scaling in Diffusion Models
310. ICML 2026Multimodal Fact-Level Attribution for Verifiable Reasoning
311. ICML 2026Multimodal Function Vectors for Visual Relations
312. ICML 2026MultiPriv: Benchmarking Individual-Level Privacy Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
313. ICML 2026Neuro-Fuzzy Concept Learning for Interpretable Large Multimodal Models
314. ICML 2026Noise-corrected GRPO: From Noisy Rewards to Unbiased Gradients
315. ICML 2026Not All Invariants Are Equal: Curating Training Data to Accelerate Program Verification with SLMs
316. ICML 2026Omni-Perception Policy Optimization for Multimodal Emotion Reasoning
317. ICML 2026OmniVideo-R1: Reinforcing Audio-visual Reasoning with Query Intention and Modality Attention
318. ICML 2026On Robustness and Chain-of-Thought Consistency of RL-Finetuned VLMs
319. ICML 2026On the "Induction Bias" in Sequence Models
320. ICML 2026On the Emergence of Implicit Curriculum in RLVR Learning Dynamics
321. ICML 2026On the Generalization Gap in Self-Evolving Language Model Reasoning
322. ICML 2026On the Interplay of Pre-Training, Mid-Training, and RL on Reasoning Language Models
323. ICML 2026On the Intrinsic Limits of Transformer Image Embeddings in Non-Solvable Spatial Reasoning
324. ICML 2026On the Limits of Test-Time Compute: Sequential Reward Filtering for Better Inference
325. ICML 2026One Step Forward and K Steps Back: Better Reasoning with Denoising Recursion Models
326. ICML 2026One-shot Entropy Minimization for Language Model Reasoning
327. ICML 2026One-Way Policy Optimization for Self-Evolving LLMs
328. ICML 2026Op-CAD: Benchmarking and Investigating Operation-oriented CAD Generation
329. ICML 2026Open-o3-Video: Grounded Video Reasoning with Explicit Spatio-Temporal Evidence
330. ICML 2026Open-World LLM Logical Reasoning
331. ICML 2026OpenDeception: Learning Deception and Trust in Human–AI Interaction via Multi-Agent Simulation
332. ICML 2026OpenHA: A Series of Open-Source Hierarchical Agentic Models in Minecraft
333. ICML 2026OpenTSLM: Time-Series Language Models for Reasoning over Multivariate Medical Text- and Time-Series Data
334. ICML 2026OPT-Engine: Benchmarking the Limits of LLMs in Optimization Modeling via Complexity Scaling
335. ICML 2026Opt-Miner: Empowering Information-Seeking Agent with Tree-Guided Data Synthesis for Optimization Modeling
336. ICML 2026Optimal Self-Consistency for Efficient Reasoning with Large Language Models
337. ICML 2026Optimizing Inference-Time Compute for Medical Reasoning via Uncertainty Quantification
338. ICML 2026Orchestrating Spatial Semantics via a Zone-Graph Paradigm for Intricate Indoor Scene Generation
339. ICML 2026Out-of-Distribution Evaluation of Rule-Based and Strategic Reasoning in Chess Transformers
340. ICML 2026Outcome Rewards Do Not Guarantee Verifiable or Causally Important Reasoning
341. ICML 2026Overthinking: Amplifying Reasoning Weights to Extract Learned Secrets
342. ICML 2026Panini: Continual Learning in Token Space via Structured Memory
343. ICML 2026Parallel-Probe: Towards Efficient Parallel Thinking via 2D Probing
344. ICML 2026PATRA: Pattern-Aware Alignment and Balanced Reasoning for Time Series Question Answering
345. ICML 2026Persona2Web: Benchmarking Personalized Web Agents for Contextual Reasoning with User History
346. ICML 2026PESD-TSF: A Period-Aware and Explicit Structured Decomposition Framework for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
347. ICML 2026Pessimistic Verification for Open-Ended Math Questions
348. ICML 2026PETS: A Principled Framework Towards Optimal Trajectory Allocation for Efficient Test-Time Self-Consistency
349. ICML 2026Plan Then Action: High-Level Planning Guidance Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
350. ICML 2026PLANTAIN: Plan-Answer Interleaved 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.