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 9 of 10

401. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Diffusion Autoencoder for Test-time Adapting Prediction of Complex Systems
402. NeurIPS 2025SpatialReasoner: Towards Explicit and Generalizable 3D Spatial Reasoning
403. NeurIPS 2025SPC: Evolving Self-Play Critic via Adversarial Games for LLM Reasoning
404. NeurIPS 2025SpecReason: Fast and Accurate Inference-Time Compute via Speculative Reasoning
405. NeurIPS 2025SPRINT: Enabling Interleaved Planning and Parallelized Execution in Reasoning Models
406. NeurIPS 2025SQL-R1: Training Natural Language to SQL Reasoning Model By Reinforcement Learning
407. NeurIPS 2025SRPO: Enhancing Multimodal LLM Reasoning via Reflection-Aware Reinforcement Learning
408. NeurIPS 2025Stop Summation: Min-Form Credit Assignment Is All Process Reward Model Needs for Reasoning
409. NeurIPS 2025StreamBP: Memory-Efficient Exact Backpropagation for Long Sequence Training of LLMs
410. NeurIPS 2025STRIDER: Navigation via Instruction-Aligned Structural Decision Space Optimization
411. NeurIPS 2025Struct2D: A Perception-Guided Framework for Spatial Reasoning in MLLMs
412. NeurIPS 2025Surprise3D: A Dataset for Spatial Understanding and Reasoning in Complex 3D Scenes
413. NeurIPS 2025SWE-RL: Advancing LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning on Open Software Evolution
414. NeurIPS 2025SWE-SQL: Illuminating LLM Pathways to Solve User SQL Issues in Real-World Applications
415. NeurIPS 2025SwS: Self-aware Weakness-driven Problem Synthesis in Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
416. NeurIPS 2025SynLogic: Synthesizing Verifiable Reasoning Data at Scale for Learning Logical Reasoning and Beyond
417. NeurIPS 2025System-1.5 Reasoning: Traversal in Language and Latent Spaces with Dynamic Shortcuts
418. NeurIPS 2025T2I-R1: Reinforcing Image Generation with Collaborative Semantic-level and Token-level CoT
419. NeurIPS 2025Table as a Modality for Large Language Models
420. NeurIPS 2025TCM-Ladder: A Benchmark for Multimodal Question Answering on Traditional Chinese Medicine
421. NeurIPS 2025Teaching Language Models to Reason with Tools
422. NeurIPS 2025TempSamp-R1: Effective Temporal Sampling with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Video LLMs
423. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Adaptation by Causal Trimming
424. NeurIPS 2025The Dual Nature of Plasticity Loss in Deep Continual Learning: Dissection and Mitigation
425. NeurIPS 2025The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language
426. NeurIPS 2025The First Few Tokens Are All You Need: An Efficient and Effective Unsupervised Prefix Fine-Tuning Method for Reasoning Models
427. NeurIPS 2025The Hawthorne Effect in Reasoning Models: Evaluating and Steering Test Awareness
428. NeurIPS 2025The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
429. NeurIPS 2025The Overthinker's DIET: Cutting Token Calories with DIfficulty-AwarE Training
430. NeurIPS 2025The Promise of RL for Autoregressive Image Editing
431. NeurIPS 2025The Surprising Effectiveness of Negative Reinforcement in LLM Reasoning
432. NeurIPS 2025Think Only When You Need with Large Hybrid-Reasoning Models
433. NeurIPS 2025Think or Not? Exploring Thinking Efficiency in Large Reasoning Models via an Information-Theoretic Lens
434. NeurIPS 2025Think Silently, Think Fast: Dynamic Latent Compression of LLM Reasoning Chains
435. NeurIPS 2025Think-RM: Enabling Long-Horizon Reasoning in Generative Reward Models
436. NeurIPS 2025ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
437. NeurIPS 2025ThinkBench: Dynamic Out-of-Distribution Evaluation for Robust LLM Reasoning
438. NeurIPS 2025Thinker: Learning to Think Fast and Slow
439. NeurIPS 2025Thinking in Character: Advancing Role-Playing Agents with Role-Aware Reasoning
440. NeurIPS 2025Thinking vs. Doing: Improving Agent Reasoning by Scaling Test-Time Interaction
441. NeurIPS 2025Thinkless: LLM Learns When to Think
442. NeurIPS 2025ThinkSound: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs for Audio Generation and Editing
443. NeurIPS 2025Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of Long Reasoning Models
444. NeurIPS 2025TimE: A Multi-level Benchmark for Temporal Reasoning of LLMs in Real-World Scenarios
445. NeurIPS 2025Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
446. NeurIPS 2025TokenSqueeze: Performance-Preserving Compression for Reasoning LLMs
447. NeurIPS 2025TOMCAT: Test-time Comprehensive Knowledge Accumulation for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
448. NeurIPS 2025Too Late to Recall: Explaining the Two-Hop Problem in Multimodal Knowledge Retrieval
449. NeurIPS 2025Tool-Augmented Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Streamlining Video Question Answering Task
450. NeurIPS 2025Topology of Reasoning: Understanding Large Reasoning Models through Reasoning Graph Properties

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.