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 8 of 10

351. NeurIPS 2025Reward Reasoning Models
352. NeurIPS 2025RHYTHM: Reasoning with Hierarchical Temporal Tokenization for Human Mobility
353. NeurIPS 2025Right for the Right Reasons: Avoiding Reasoning Shortcuts via Prototypical Neurosymbolic AI
354. NeurIPS 2025Right Question is Already Half the Answer: Fully Unsupervised LLM Reasoning Incentivization
355. NeurIPS 2025RL Tango: Reinforcing Generator and Verifier Together for Language Reasoning
356. NeurIPS 2025RoboRefer: Towards Spatial Referring with Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Robotics
357. NeurIPS 2025Robot-R1: Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Embodied Reasoning in Robotics
358. NeurIPS 2025Rollout Roulette: A Probabilistic Inference Approach to Inference-Time Scaling of LLMs using Particle-Based Monte Carlo Methods
359. NeurIPS 2025ROVER: Recursive Reasoning Over Videos with Vision-Language Models for Embodied Tasks
360. NeurIPS 2025RrED: Black-box Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via Rectifying-reasoning Errors of Diffusion
361. NeurIPS 2025rStar-Coder: Scaling Competitive Code Reasoning with a Large-Scale Verified Dataset
362. NeurIPS 2025RTV-Bench: Benchmarking MLLM Continuous Perception, Understanding and Reasoning through Real-Time Video
363. NeurIPS 2025S-GRPO: Early Exit via Reinforcement Learning in Reasoning Models
364. NeurIPS 2025SAFEPATH: Preventing Harmful Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought via Early Alignment
365. NeurIPS 2025SAM-R1: Leveraging SAM for Reward Feedback in Multimodal Segmentation via Reinforcement Learning
366. NeurIPS 2025Sampling-Efficient Test-Time Scaling: Self-Estimating the Best-of-N Sampling in Early Decoding
367. NeurIPS 2025SATURN: SAT-based Reinforcement Learning to Unleash LLMs Reasoning
368. NeurIPS 2025Scalable Best-of-N Selection for Large Language Models via Self-Certainty
369. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Code-Assisted Chain-of-Thoughts and Instructions for Model Reasoning
370. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Physical Reasoning with the PHYSICS Dataset
371. NeurIPS 2025Scaling RL to Long Videos
372. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Speculative Decoding with Lookahead Reasoning
373. NeurIPS 2025Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
374. NeurIPS 2025SCAN: Self-Denoising Monte Carlo Annotation for Robust Process Reward Learning
375. NeurIPS 2025Scent of Knowledge: Optimizing Search-Enhanced Reasoning with Information Foraging
376. NeurIPS 2025SCOUT: Teaching Pre-trained Language Models to Enhance Reasoning via Flow Chain-of-Thought
377. NeurIPS 2025scPilot: Large Language Model Reasoning Toward Automated Single-Cell Analysis and Discovery
378. NeurIPS 2025SD-VLM: Spatial Measuring and Understanding with Depth-Encoded Vision-Language Models
379. NeurIPS 2025SE-Agent: Self-Evolution Trajectory Optimization in Multi-Step Reasoning with LLM-Based Agents
380. NeurIPS 2025Search and Refine During Think: Facilitating Knowledge Refinement for Improved Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
381. NeurIPS 2025Searching Latent Program Spaces
382. NeurIPS 2025SeePhys: Does Seeing Help Thinking? – Benchmarking Vision-Based Physics Reasoning
383. NeurIPS 2025Segment Policy Optimization: Effective Segment-Level Credit Assignment in RL for Large Language Models
384. NeurIPS 2025Self-Verifying Reflection Helps Transformers with CoT Reasoning
385. NeurIPS 2025SemCoT: Accelerating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Semantically-Aligned Implicit Tokens
386. NeurIPS 2025Semi-off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Slow-Thinking Reasoning
387. NeurIPS 2025Sherlock: Self-Correcting Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
388. NeurIPS 2025ShorterBetter: Guiding Reasoning Models to Find Optimal Inference Length for Efficient Reasoning
389. NeurIPS 2025SIGMA: Refining Large Language Model Reasoning via Sibling-Guided Monte Carlo Augmentation
390. NeurIPS 2025Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought
391. NeurIPS 2025Simulating Viva Voce Examinations to Evaluate Clinical Reasoning in Large Language Models
392. NeurIPS 2025SiriuS: Self-improving Multi-agent Systems via Bootstrapped Reasoning
393. NeurIPS 2025Sloth: scaling laws for LLM skills to predict multi-benchmark performance across families
394. NeurIPS 2025SoFar: Language-Grounded Orientation Bridges Spatial Reasoning and Object Manipulation
395. NeurIPS 2025Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space
396. NeurIPS 2025SolidGeo: Measuring Multimodal Spatial Math Reasoning in Solid Geometry
397. NeurIPS 2025SolverLLM: Leveraging Test-Time Scaling for Optimization Problem via LLM-Guided Search
398. NeurIPS 2025Solving Inequality Proofs with Large Language Models
399. NeurIPS 2025SoTA with Less: MCTS-Guided Sample Selection for Data-Efficient Visual Reasoning Self-Improvement
400. NeurIPS 2025SPACE: SPike-Aware Consistency Enhancement for Test-Time Adaptation in Spiking Neural Networks

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.