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 8 of 12

351. ICML 2026POLIA: Policy Optimization with Visual-Object-Level Intrinsic Advantage for Multimodal Reasoning
352. ICML 2026PonderLM-2: Pretraining LLM with Latent Thoughts in Continuous Space
353. ICML 2026Practical and Scalable Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Without the Metropolis Test
354. ICML 2026Predicting Large Model Test Losses with a Noisy Quadratic System
355. ICML 2026Prioritize the Process, Not Just the Outcome: Rewarding Latent Thought Trajectories Improves Reasoning in Looped Language Models
356. ICML 2026Private and Stable Test-time Adaptation with Differential Privacy
357. ICML 2026Privileged Information Distillation for Language Models
358. ICML 2026ProbeLLM: Automating Principled Diagnosis of LLM Failures
359. ICML 2026Probing How Scalable Table Data Enhances General Long-Context Reasoning
360. ICML 2026Procedural Pretraining: Warming Up Language Models with Abstract Data
361. ICML 2026Process Reward Agents for Steering Knowledge-Intensive Reasoning
362. ICML 2026PromptDyG: Test-Time Prompt Adaptation on Dynamic Graphs
363. ICML 2026Provable Benefits of RLVR over SFT for Reasoning Models: Learning to Backtrack Efficiently
364. ICML 2026Provable Sample Efficiency of Curriculum Post-Training for Transformer Reasoning
365. ICML 2026PRPO: Paragraph-level Policy Optimization for Vision-Language Deepfake Detection
366. ICML 2026Pushing the Boundaries of Natural Reasoning: Interleaved Bonus from Formal-Logic Verification
367. ICML 2026QEDBench: Quantifying the Alignment Gap in Automated Evaluation of University-Level Mathematical Proofs
368. ICML 2026R-Diverse: Mitigating Diversity Illusion in Self-Play LLM Training
369. ICML 2026R$^3$L: Reasoning 3D Layouts from Relative Spatial Relations
370. ICML 2026R2-Router: A New Paradigm for LLM Routing with Reasoning
371. ICML 2026Rational Transductors
372. ICML 2026Re-FORC: Adaptive Reward Prediction for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
373. ICML 2026RE-TRAC: REcursive TRAjectory Compression for Deep Search Agents
374. ICML 2026ReaForest: Fostering Generative Video Reasoning for Spatial Planning
375. ICML 2026Real-Time Monitoring and Calibration of Chain-of-Thought Sycophancy in Large Reasoning Models
376. ICML 2026Real-Time Visual Attribution Streaming in Thinking Model
377. ICML 2026REALISTA: Realistic Latent Adversarial Attacks that Elicit LLM Hallucinations
378. ICML 2026REAR: Test-time Preference Realignment through Reward Decomposition
379. ICML 2026Reason with Thumbnails, Answer with Focus: An Efficient and Effective Paradigm for Multimodal Grounded Visual Reasoning
380. ICML 2026Reason, Then Re-reason: Cross-view Revisiting Improves Spatial Reasoning
381. ICML 2026ReasonEdit: Editing Vision--Language Models using Human Reasoning
382. ICML 2026Reasoning about Reasoning: BAPO Bounds on Chain-of-Thought Token Complexity in LLMs
383. ICML 2026Reasoning as an Attack Surface: Adaptive Evolutionary CoT Jailbreaks for LLMs
384. ICML 2026Reasoning Cache: Continual Improvement Over Long Horizons via Short-Horizon RL
385. ICML 2026Reasoning Can Be Restored by Correcting a Few Decision Tokens
386. ICML 2026Reasoning Compartmentalization: Bridging the Concretization Gap via Abstraction-based Routing
387. ICML 2026Reasoning LLM Improves Speaker Recognition in Long-form TV Dramas
388. ICML 2026Reasoning Models Are Test Exploiters: Rethinking Multiple Choice
389. ICML 2026Reasoning Models Struggle to Control their Chains of Thought
390. ICML 2026Reasoning on the Manifold: Bidirectional Consistency for Self-Verification in Diffusion Language Models
391. ICML 2026Reasoning over Boundaries: Enhancing Specification Alignment via Test-time Deliberation
392. ICML 2026Reasoning Quality Emerges Early: Data Curation for Reasoning Models
393. ICML 2026Reasoning Structure of Large Language Models
394. ICML 2026Reasoning Theater: Disentangling Model Beliefs from Chain-of-Thought
395. ICML 2026Reasoning-VLA: An Efficient and Spatial-Guided General Vision-Language-Action Reasoning Model for Autonomous Driving
396. ICML 2026Recursive Binding on a Budget: Subspace Carving in Order-$p$ Tensor Memories
397. ICML 2026RedVisor: Reasoning-Aware Prompt Injection Defense via Zero-Copy KV Cache Reuse
398. ICML 2026Reflector: Internalizing Step-wise Reflection against Indirect Jailbreaks
399. ICML 2026Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Naturally Mitigates Forgetting in Continual Post-Training
400. ICML 2026Reinforcement-aware Knowledge Distillation for LLM 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.