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

932 papers, page 7 of 19

301. ICML 2025Demystifying Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
302. ICML 2025DiffusionVLA: Scaling Robot Foundation Models via Unified Diffusion and Autoregression
303. ICML 2025Discrete Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
304. ICML 2025Disentangling and Integrating Relational and Sensory Information in Transformer Architectures
305. ICML 2025Divide and Conquer: Grounding LLMs as Efficient Decision-Making Agents via Offline Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
306. ICML 2025Diving into Self-Evolving Training for Multimodal Reasoning
307. ICML 2025Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of Long Reasoning Models
308. ICML 2025DOLPHIN: A Programmable Framework for Scalable Neurosymbolic Learning
309. ICML 2025DPCore: Dynamic Prompt Coreset for Continual Test-Time Adaptation
310. ICML 2025DyCodeEval: Dynamic Benchmarking of Reasoning Capabilities in Code Large Language Models Under Data Contamination
311. ICML 2025EditLord: Learning Code Transformation Rules for Code Editing
312. ICML 2025Efficiently Vectorized MCMC on Modern Accelerators
313. ICML 2025Emergent Symbolic Mechanisms Support Abstract Reasoning in Large Language Models
314. ICML 2025Evaluating Judges as Evaluators: The JETTS Benchmark of LLM-as-Judges as Test-Time Scaling Evaluators
315. ICML 2025Flow of Reasoning: Training LLMs for Divergent Reasoning with Minimal Examples
316. ICML 2025Forest-of-Thought: Scaling Test-Time Compute for Enhancing LLM Reasoning
317. ICML 2025From Language Models over Tokens to Language Models over Characters
318. ICML 2025From Passive to Active Reasoning: Can Large Language Models Ask the Right Questions under Incomplete Information?
319. ICML 2025Fully Dynamic Euclidean Bi-Chromatic Matching in Sublinear Update Time
320. ICML 2025Generalizing from SIMPLE to HARD Visual Reasoning: Can We Mitigate Modality Imbalance in VLMs?
321. ICML 2025GIVE: Structured Reasoning of Large Language Models with Knowledge Graph Inspired Veracity Extrapolation
322. ICML 2025Grokking in the Wild: Data Augmentation for Real-World Multi-Hop Reasoning with Transformers
323. ICML 2025GSM-$\infty$: How Do your LLMs Behave over Infinitely Increasing Reasoning Complexity and Context Length?
324. ICML 2025GuardAgent: Safeguard LLM Agents via Knowledge-Enabled Reasoning
325. ICML 2025How Transformers Learn Regular Language Recognition: A Theoretical Study on Training Dynamics and Implicit Bias
326. ICML 2025HyperIV: Real-time Implied Volatility Smoothing
327. ICML 2025HyperTree Planning: Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Hierarchical Thinking
328. ICML 2025Hypo3D: Exploring Hypothetical Reasoning in 3D
329. ICML 2025Imagine While Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought
330. ICML 2025Implicit Language Models are RNNs: Balancing Parallelization and Expressivity
331. ICML 2025Improving Rationality in the Reasoning Process of Language Models through Self-playing Game
332. ICML 2025Interchangeable Token Embeddings for Extendable Vocabulary and Alpha-Equivalence
333. ICML 2025Is Complex Query Answering Really Complex?
334. ICML 2025IT$^3$: Idempotent Test-Time Training
335. ICML 2025KernelBench: Can LLMs Write Efficient GPU Kernels?
336. ICML 2025Large Language Models to Diffusion Finetuning
337. ICML 2025Latent Thought Models with Variational Bayes Inference-Time Computation
338. ICML 2025Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States
339. ICML 2025Learning to Plan & Reason for Evaluation with Thinking-LLM-as-a-Judge
340. ICML 2025LLMs Can Reason Faster Only If We Let Them
341. ICML 2025LLMs can see and hear without any training
342. ICML 2025LMAct: A Benchmark for In-Context Imitation Learning with Long Multimodal Demonstrations
343. ICML 2025Lower Bounds for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Hard-Attention Transformers
344. ICML 2025MA-LoT: Model-Collaboration Lean-based Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning enhances Formal Theorem Proving
345. ICML 2025Machine Learning meets Algebraic Combinatorics: A Suite of Datasets Capturing Research-level Conjecturing Ability in Pure Mathematics
346. ICML 2025Machines and Mathematical Mutations: Using GNNs to Characterize Quiver Mutation Classes
347. ICML 2025MapEval: A Map-Based Evaluation of Geo-Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models
348. ICML 2025MARGE: Improving Math Reasoning with Guided Exploration
349. ICML 2025MATH-Perturb: Benchmarking LLMs' Math Reasoning Abilities against Hard Perturbations
350. ICML 2025MathConstruct: Challenging LLM Reasoning with Constructive Proofs

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.