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

3,512 papers, page 70 of 71

3451. NeurIPS 2023Similarity, Compression and Local Steps: Three Pillars of Efficient Communications for Distributed Variational Inequalities
3452. NeurIPS 2023Simultaneous embedding of multiple attractor manifolds in a recurrent neural network using constrained gradient optimization
3453. NeurIPS 2023SituatedGen: Incorporating Geographical and Temporal Contexts into Generative Commonsense Reasoning
3454. NeurIPS 2023Small Transformers Compute Universal Metric Embeddings
3455. NeurIPS 2023SODA: Robust Training of Test-Time Data Adaptors
3456. NeurIPS 2023SpecTr: Fast Speculative Decoding via Optimal Transport
3457. NeurIPS 2023SPRING: Studying Papers and Reasoning to play Games
3458. NeurIPS 2023Spuriosity Didn’t Kill the Classifier: Using Invariant Predictions to Harness Spurious Features
3459. NeurIPS 2023Squared Neural Families: A New Class of Tractable Density Models
3460. NeurIPS 2023Stable Vectorization of Multiparameter Persistent Homology using Signed Barcodes as Measures
3461. NeurIPS 2023State-space models with layer-wise nonlinearity are universal approximators with exponential decaying memory
3462. NeurIPS 2023Statistical Insights into HSIC in High Dimensions
3463. NeurIPS 2023Strategic Distribution Shift of Interacting Agents via Coupled Gradient Flows
3464. NeurIPS 2023Strong and Precise Modulation of Human Percepts via Robustified ANNs
3465. NeurIPS 2023Structure of universal formulas
3466. NeurIPS 2023Structured Semidefinite Programming for Recovering Structured Preconditioners
3467. NeurIPS 2023Survival Permanental Processes for Survival Analysis with Time-Varying Covariates
3468. NeurIPS 2023SwapPrompt: Test-Time Prompt Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
3469. NeurIPS 2023SwiftSage: A Generative Agent with Fast and Slow Thinking for Complex Interactive Tasks
3470. NeurIPS 2023Switching Autoregressive Low-rank Tensor Models
3471. NeurIPS 2023Symbol-LLM: Leverage Language Models for Symbolic System in Visual Human Activity Reasoning
3472. NeurIPS 2023Systematic Visual Reasoning through Object-Centric Relational Abstraction
3473. NeurIPS 2023Tanh Works Better with Asymmetry
3474. NeurIPS 2023Temporal Conditioning Spiking Latent Variable Models of the Neural Response to Natural Visual Scenes
3475. NeurIPS 2023Test-Time Amendment with a Coarse Classifier for Fine-Grained Classification
3476. NeurIPS 2023Test-Time Distribution Normalization for Contrastively Learned Visual-language Models
3477. NeurIPS 2023Test-time Training for Matching-based Video Object Segmentation
3478. NeurIPS 2023Testing the General Deductive Reasoning Capacity of Large Language Models Using OOD Examples
3479. NeurIPS 2023TFLEX: Temporal Feature-Logic Embedding Framework for Complex Reasoning over Temporal Knowledge Graph
3480. NeurIPS 2023The Distortion of Binomial Voting Defies Expectation
3481. NeurIPS 2023The emergence of clusters in self-attention dynamics
3482. NeurIPS 2023The Emergence of Essential Sparsity in Large Pre-trained Models: The Weights that Matter
3483. NeurIPS 2023The geometry of hidden representations of large transformer models
3484. NeurIPS 2023The Impact of Positional Encoding on Length Generalization in Transformers
3485. NeurIPS 2023This Looks Like Those: Illuminating Prototypical Concepts Using Multiple Visualizations
3486. NeurIPS 2023Three Iterations of (d − 1)-WL Test Distinguish Non Isometric Clouds of d-dimensional Points
3487. NeurIPS 2023Timewarp: Transferable Acceleration of Molecular Dynamics by Learning Time-Coarsened Dynamics
3488. NeurIPS 2023TOA: Task-oriented Active VQA
3489. NeurIPS 2023Towards Efficient Image Compression Without Autoregressive Models
3490. NeurIPS 2023Towards Revealing the Mystery behind Chain of Thought: A Theoretical Perspective
3491. NeurIPS 2023Towards Test-Time Refusals via Concept Negation
3492. NeurIPS 2023Train 'n Trade: Foundations of Parameter Markets
3493. NeurIPS 2023Training Chain-of-Thought via Latent-Variable Inference
3494. NeurIPS 2023Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
3495. NeurIPS 2023Two Sides of The Same Coin: Bridging Deep Equilibrium Models and Neural ODEs via Homotopy Continuation
3496. NeurIPS 2023UE4-NeRF:Neural Radiance Field for Real-Time Rendering of Large-Scale Scene
3497. NeurIPS 2023Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models with Language Models
3498. NeurIPS 2023Understanding the Latent Space of Diffusion Models through the Lens of Riemannian Geometry
3499. NeurIPS 2023Understanding the Limitations of Deep Models for Molecular property prediction: Insights and Solutions
3500. NeurIPS 2023Unifying Predictions of Deterministic and Stochastic Physics in Mesh-reduced Space with Sequential Flow Generative Model

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.