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

500 papers, page 7 of 10

301. NeurIPS 2025Point-RFT: Improving Multimodal Reasoning with Visually Grounded Reinforcement Finetuning
302. NeurIPS 2025PolyMath: Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning in Multilingual Contexts
303. NeurIPS 2025Praxis-VLM: Vision-Grounded Decision Making via Text-Driven Reinforcement Learning
304. NeurIPS 2025Prismatic Synthesis: Gradient-based Data Diversification Boosts Generalization in LLM Reasoning
305. NeurIPS 2025Privacy Reasoning in Ambiguous Contexts
306. NeurIPS 2025Probabilistic Reasoning with LLMs for Privacy Risk Estimation
307. NeurIPS 2025Prompting as Scientific Inquiry
308. NeurIPS 2025ProRL: Prolonged Reinforcement Learning Expands Reasoning Boundaries in Large Language Models
309. NeurIPS 2025ProtoPairNet: Interpretable Regression through Prototypical Pair Reasoning
310. NeurIPS 2025Provable Scaling Laws for the Test-Time Compute of Large Language Models
311. NeurIPS 2025PSI: A Benchmark for Human Interpretation and Response in Traffic Interactions
312. NeurIPS 2025PurpCode: Reasoning for Safer Code Generation
313. NeurIPS 2025QFFT, Question-Free Fine-Tuning for Adaptive Reasoning
314. NeurIPS 2025Quantifying Elicitation of Latent Capabilities in Language Models
315. NeurIPS 2025QuestBench: Can LLMs ask the right question to acquire information in reasoning tasks?
316. NeurIPS 2025R-KV: Redundancy-aware KV Cache Compression for Reasoning Models
317. NeurIPS 2025R1-ShareVL: Incentivizing Reasoning Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models via Share-GRPO
318. NeurIPS 2025R2R: Efficiently Navigating Divergent Reasoning Paths with Small-Large Model Token Routing
319. NeurIPS 2025RADAR: Benchmarking Language Models on Imperfect Tabular Data
320. NeurIPS 2025RAST: Reasoning Activation in LLMs via Small-model Transfer
321. NeurIPS 2025RBench-V: A Primary Assessment for Visual Reasoning Models with Multimodal Outputs
322. NeurIPS 2025RealMath: A Continuous Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models on Research-Level Mathematics
323. NeurIPS 2025Reason-RFT: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Visual Reasoning of Vision Language Models
324. NeurIPS 2025ReasonFlux-PRM: Trajectory-Aware PRMs for Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
325. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning as an Adaptive Defense for Safety
326. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning by Superposition: A Theoretical Perspective on Chain of Continuous Thought
327. NeurIPS 2025REASONING COMPILER: LLM-Guided Optimizations for Efficient Model Serving
328. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Gym: Reasoning Environments for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
329. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Is Not a Race: When Stopping Early Beats Going Deeper
330. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning is Periodicity? Improving Large Language Models Through Effective Periodicity Modeling
331. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Models Better Express Their Confidence
332. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Models Hallucinate More: Factuality-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models
333. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Models Sometimes Output Illegible Chains of Thought
334. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Path Compression: Compressing Generation Trajectories for Efficient LLM Reasoning
335. NeurIPS 2025Reasoning Planning for Language Models
336. NeurIPS 2025ReCAP: Recursive Context-Aware Reasoning and Planning for Large Language Model Agents
337. NeurIPS 2025Redundancy-Aware Test-Time Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection
338. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning in Large Language Models with One Training Example
339. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning Teachers of Test Time Scaling
340. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Interwoven Thinking and Visual Drawing
341. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcing the Diffusion Chain of Lateral Thought with Diffusion Language Models
342. NeurIPS 2025Representation Consistency for Accurate and Coherent LLM Answer Aggregation
343. NeurIPS 2025Representation-Level Counterfactual Calibration for Debiased Zero-Shot Recognition
344. NeurIPS 2025ReSearch: Learning to Reason with Search for LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
345. NeurIPS 2025ReservoirTTA: Prolonged Test-time Adaptation for Evolving and Recurring Domains
346. NeurIPS 2025Restricted Spectral Gap Decomposition for Simulated Tempering Targeting Mixture Distributions
347. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Fine-Tuning when Scaling Test-Time Compute: Limiting Confidence Improves Mathematical Reasoning
348. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Optimal Verification Granularity for Compute-Efficient Test-Time Scaling
349. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning from A Cross-Domain Perspective
350. NeurIPS 2025Reviving DSP for Advanced Theorem Proving in the Era of Reasoning Models

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.