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

913 papers, page 9 of 19

401. ICML 2026ReJump: A Tree-Jump Representation for Analyzing and Improving LLM Reasoning
402. ICML 2026Reliable Thinking with Images
403. ICML 2026rePIRL: Learn PRM with Inverse RL for LLM Reasoning
404. ICML 2026ReQAT: Achieving Full-Precision Reasoning Accuracy with 4-bit Floating-Point Quantization-Aware Training
405. ICML 2026ReSeek: A Self-Correcting Framework for Search Agents with Instructive Rewards
406. ICML 2026Restoring Exploration after Post-Training: Latent Exploration Decoding for Large Reasoning Models
407. ICML 2026Rethinking Instruction Drift as a Sampling Error: SNR-Aware Power Distributions for Long-Horizon Robotic Planning
408. ICML 2026Revealing Behavioral Plasticity in Large Language Models: A Token-Conditional Perspective
409. ICML 2026RL with Learnable Textual Feedback: A Bilevel Approach
410. ICML 2026RLVE: Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Language Models with Adaptive Verifiable Environments
411. ICML 2026Routing and Reasoned Evaluation with Large Language Models
412. ICML 2026SafeCompass: Dynamic Chain-of-Thought Steering via Inference-Time Safety Signals
413. ICML 2026Safety Recovery in Reasoning Models Is Only a Few Early Steering Steps Away
414. ICML 2026SaTeen: Learning Structural Alignment for Continual Test-Time Adaptation
415. ICML 2026Scaling Generative Verifiers For Natural Language Mathematical Proof Verification And Selection
416. ICML 2026Scaling Inference-Time Computation via Opponent Simulation: Enabling Online Strategic Adaptation in Repeated Negotiation
417. ICML 2026Scaling the Scaling Logic: Agentic Meta-Synthesis of Logic Reasoning
418. ICML 2026Scaling up Multi-Turn Off-Policy RL and Multi-Agent Tree Search for LLM Step-Provers
419. ICML 2026Scaling-Aware Adapter for Structure-Grounded LLM Reasoning
420. ICML 2026Scene Graph Thinking: Reinforcing Structured Visual Reasoning for Multimodal Large Language Models
421. ICML 2026Scheduling Thoughts: Learning the Order of Thought in Diffusion Language Models
422. ICML 2026Scientific logicality enriched methodology for LLM reasoning: A practice in physics
423. ICML 2026Search for Truth from Reasoning: A Dynamic Representation Editing Framework for Steering LLM Trajectories
424. ICML 2026Seeing is Solving: Unlocking Efficient Multimodal RL via View Alignment
425. ICML 2026Seeing Without Understanding: Disentangling Perception, Reasoning, and Simulation in VLM Gameplay
426. ICML 2026Seg-ReSearch: Segmentation with Interleaved Reasoning and External Search
427. ICML 2026Segment-Aligned Policy Optimization for Multi-Modal Reasoning
428. ICML 2026Select to Think: Unlocking SLM Potential with Local Sufficiency
429. ICML 2026Self-correcting for Debiasing Large Language Models
430. ICML 2026Self-CriTeach: LLM Self-Teaching and Self-Critiquing for Improving Robotic Planning via Automated Domain Generation
431. ICML 2026Semantic Integrity Matters: Benchmarking and Preserving High-Density Reasoning in KV Cache Compression
432. ICML 2026Semantic-Enriched Latent Visual Reasoning
433. ICML 2026Semi-knockoffs: a model-agnostic conditional independence testing method with finite-sample guarantees
434. ICML 2026SemRep : Generative Code Representation Learning with Code Transformations
435. ICML 2026Sentinel-VLA: A Metacognitive VLA Model with Active Status Monitoring for Dynamic Reasoning and Error Recovery
436. ICML 2026Shape of Thought: Progressive Object Assembly via Visual Chain-of-Thought
437. ICML 2026Short Chains, Deep Thoughts: Balancing Reasoning Efficiency and Intra-Segment Capability via Split-Merge Optimization
438. ICML 2026Show, Don't Tell: Morphing Latent Reasoning into Image Generation
439. ICML 2026Shrinking the Variance: Shrinkage Baselines for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
440. ICML 2026Simple Policy Gradients for Reasoning with Diffusion Language Models
441. ICML 2026SL-VC: A Benchmark and Automated Framework for Separation Logic Verification Condition Proving
442. ICML 2026SLASH the Sink: Sharpening Structural Attention Inside LLMs
443. ICML 2026SLAT: Segment-Level Adaptive Trimming for Efficient CoT Reasoning
444. ICML 2026SLQ: Bridging Modalities via Shared Latent Queries for Retrieval with Frozen MLLMs
445. ICML 2026Small Generalizable Prompt Predictive Models Can Steer Efficient RL Post-Training of Large Reasoning Models
446. ICML 2026SmartThinker: Progressive Chain-of-Thought Length Calibration for Efficient Large Language Model Reasoning
447. ICML 2026SpaceVista: All-Scale Visual Spatial Reasoning from mm to km
448. ICML 2026SPARC: Separating Perception And Reasoning Circuits for Test-time Scaling of VLMs
449. ICML 2026Sparks of Cooperative Reasoning: LLMs as Strategic Hanabi Agents
450. ICML 2026SpecExit: Accelerating Large Reasoning Model via Speculative Exit

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.