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

932 papers, page 9 of 19

401. ICML 2025STAIR: Improving Safety Alignment with Introspective Reasoning
402. ICML 2025STP: Self-play LLM Theorem Provers with Iterative Conjecturing and Proving
403. ICML 2025T1: Advancing Language Model Reasoning through Reinforcement Learning and Inference Scaling
404. ICML 2025Task Generalization with Autoregressive Compositional Structure: Can Learning from $D$ Tasks Generalize to $D^T$ Tasks?
405. ICML 2025Teaching Transformers Causal Reasoning through Axiomatic Training
406. ICML 2025Test-time Adaptation on Graphs via Adaptive Subgraph-based Selection and Regularized Prototypes
407. ICML 2025Test-Time Canonicalization by Foundation Models for Robust Perception
408. ICML 2025Test-time Correlation Alignment
409. ICML 2025Test-Time Learning for Large Language Models
410. ICML 2025Test-Time Selective Adaptation for Uni-Modal Distribution Shift in Multi-Modal Data
411. ICML 2025Test-Time Training Provably Improves Transformers as In-context Learners
412. ICML 2025The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Few-Shot Learning
413. ICML 2025Think Smarter not Harder: Adaptive Reasoning with Inference Aware Optimization
414. ICML 2025Token Assorted: Mixing Latent and Text Tokens for Improved Language Model Reasoning
415. ICML 2025Token Signature: Predicting Chain-of-Thought Gains with Token Decoding Feature in Large Language Models
416. ICML 2025TRACE Back from the Future: A Probabilistic Reasoning Approach to Controllable Language Generation
417. ICML 2025UGPhysics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Undergraduate Physics Reasoning with Large Language Models
418. ICML 2025Understanding Chain-of-Thought in LLMs through Information Theory
419. ICML 2025Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic
420. ICML 2025Universal Length Generalization with Turing Programs
421. ICML 2025unMORE: Unsupervised Multi-Object Segmentation via Center-Boundary Reasoning
422. ICML 2025Variational Counterfactual Intervention Planning to Achieve Target Outcomes
423. ICML 2025VersaPRM: Multi-Domain Process Reward Model via Synthetic Reasoning Data
424. ICML 2025video-SALMONN-o1: Reasoning-enhanced Audio-visual Large Language Model
425. ICML 2025Visual and Domain Knowledge for Professional-level Graph-of-Thought Medical Reasoning
426. ICML 2025Visual Graph Arena: Evaluating Visual Conceptualization of Vision and Multimodal Large Language Models
427. ICML 2025What Do Learning Dynamics Reveal About Generalization in LLM Mathematical Reasoning?
428. ICML 2025Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When? On Automated Failure Attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems
429. ICML 2025Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas
430. ICML 2025WOMD-Reasoning: A Large-Scale Dataset for Interaction Reasoning in Driving
431. ICML 2025World Model Implanting for Test-time Adaptation of Embodied Agents
432. ICML 2025ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning
433. NeurIPS 2025$\texttt{G1}$: Teaching LLMs to Reason on Graphs with Reinforcement Learning
434. NeurIPS 2025$Q\sharp$: Provably Optimal Distributional RL for LLM Post-Training
435. NeurIPS 2025A Closer Look at TabPFN v2: Understanding Its Strengths and Extending Its Capabilities
436. NeurIPS 2025A Difference-of-Convex Functions Approach to Energy-Based Iterative Reasoning
437. 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
438. NeurIPS 2025A learnability analysis on neuro-symbolic learning
439. NeurIPS 2025A Little Depth Goes a Long Way: The Expressive Power of Log-Depth Transformers
440. NeurIPS 2025A Theoretical Study on Bridging Internal Probability and Self-Consistency for LLM Reasoning
441. NeurIPS 2025A Unified Reasoning Framework for Holistic Zero-Shot Video Anomaly Analysis
442. NeurIPS 2025A*-Thought: Efficient Reasoning via Bidirectional Compression for Low-Resource Settings
443. NeurIPS 2025A2Seek: Towards Reasoning-Centric Benchmark for Aerial Anomaly Understanding
444. NeurIPS 2025Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data
445. NeurIPS 2025AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions
446. NeurIPS 2025Accelerated Sampling from Masked Diffusion Models via Entropy Bounded Unmasking
447. NeurIPS 2025Accelerating RL for LLM Reasoning with Optimal Advantage Regression
448. NeurIPS 2025AceReason-Nemotron: Advancing Math and Code Reasoning through Reinforcement Learning
449. NeurIPS 2025Actial: Activate Spatial Reasoning Ability of Multimodal Large Language Models
450. NeurIPS 2025Activation Control for Efficiently Eliciting Long Chain-of-thought Ability of Language Models

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.