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

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1. ICLR 2026$\nabla$-Reasoner: LLM Reasoning via Test-Time Gradient Descent in Textual Space
2. ICLR 2026$\textbf{Re}^{2}$: Unlocking LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning with Re-solving
3. ICLR 2026$AutoDrive\text{-}P^3$: Unified Chain of Perception–Prediction–Planning Thought via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
4. ICLR 20263D Aware Region Prompted Vision Language Model
5. ICLR 2026A Balanced Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Commonsense Abductive Logic
6. ICLR 2026A Fano-Style Accuracy Upper Bound for LLM Single-Pass Reasoning in Multi-Hop QA
7. ICLR 2026A Simple "Motivation" Can Enhance Reinforcement Finetuning of Large Reasoning Models
8. ICLR 2026A State-Transition Framework for Efficient LLM Reasoning
9. ICLR 2026A$^2$FM: An Adaptive Agent Foundation Model for Tool-Aware Hybrid Reasoning
10. ICLR 2026ACADREASON: Exploring the Limits of Reasoning Models with Academic Research Problems
11. ICLR 2026AceReason-Nemotron 1.1: Advancing Math and Code Reasoning through SFT and RL Synergy
12. ICLR 2026ACPBench Hard: Unrestrained Reasoning about Action, Change, and Planning
13. ICLR 2026Actions as Language: Fine-Tuning VLMs into VLAs Without Catastrophic Forgetting
14. ICLR 2026Actions Speak Louder than Prompts: A Large-Scale Study of LLMs for Graph Inference
15. ICLR 2026ActivationReasoning: Logical Reasoning in Latent Activation Spaces
16. ICLR 2026Adaptive Social Learning via Mode Policy Optimization for Language Agents
17. ICLR 2026Adaptive Thinking: Large Language Models Know When to Think in Latent Space
18. ICLR 2026AdvChain: Adversarial Chain-of-Thought Tuning for Robust Safety Alignment of Large Reasoning Models
19. ICLR 2026AetherCode: Evaluating LLMs’ Ability to Win In Premier Programming Competitions
20. ICLR 2026Agent-X: Evaluating Deep Multimodal Reasoning in Vision-Centric Agentic Tasks
21. ICLR 2026Agentic Reinforced Policy Optimization
22. ICLR 2026AgentMath: Empowering Mathematical Reasoning for Large Language Models via Tool-Augmented Agent
23. ICLR 2026Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation
24. ICLR 2026Aligning Deep Implicit Preferences by Learning to Reason Defensively
25. ICLR 2026Alignment-Weighted DPO: A principled reasoning approach to improve alignment
26. ICLR 2026All Code, No Thought: Language Models Struggle to Reason in Ciphered Language
27. ICLR 2026ALM-MTA: Front-Door Causal Multi-Touch Attribution Method for Creator-Ecosystem Optimization
28. ICLR 2026AlphaAgentEvo: Evolution-Oriented Alpha Mining via Self-Evolving Agentic Reinforcement Learning
29. ICLR 2026AlphaAlign: Incentivizing Safety Alignment with Extremely Simplified Reinforcement Learning
30. ICLR 2026Analytica: Soft Propositional Reasoning for Robust and Scalable LLM-Driven Analysis
31. ICLR 2026Architecture-Agnostic Test-Time Adaptation via Backprop-Free Embedding Alignment
32. ICLR 2026Are Reasoning LLMs Robust to Interventions on their Chain-of-Thought?
33. ICLR 2026ARES: Multimodal Adaptive Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware Token-Level Entropy Shaping
34. ICLR 2026ARMOR: Aligning Secure and Safe Large Language Models via Meticulous Reasoning
35. ICLR 2026Asymmetric Proximal Policy Optimization: mini-critics boost LLM reasoning
36. ICLR 2026Attention as a Compass: Efficient Exploration for Process-Supervised RL in Reasoning Models
37. ICLR 2026ATTS: Asynchronous Test-Time Scaling via Conformal Prediction
38. ICLR 2026AUHead: Realistic Emotional Talking Head Generation via Action Units Control
39. ICLR 2026AutoDrive-R²: Incentivizing Reasoning and Self-Reflection Capacity for VLA Model in Autonomous Driving
40. ICLR 2026AutoGPS: Automated Geometry Problem Solving via Multimodal Formalization and Deductive Reasoning
41. ICLR 2026AVERE: Improving Audiovisual Emotion Reasoning with Preference Optimization
42. ICLR 2026BARREL: Boundary-Aware Reasoning for Factual and Reliable LRMs
43. ICLR 2026Bee: A High-Quality Corpus and Full-Stack Suite to Unlock Advanced Fully Open MLLMs
44. ICLR 2026Benefits and Limitations of Communication in Multi-Agent Reasoning
45. ICLR 2026Best-of-Infinity: Asymptotic Performance of Test-Time Compute
46. ICLR 2026Beyond Binary Rewards: Training LMs to Reason About Their Uncertainty
47. ICLR 2026Beyond Classification Accuracy: Neural-MedBench and the Need for Deeper Reasoning Benchmarks
48. ICLR 2026Beyond English-Centric Training: How Reinforcement Learning Improves Cross-Lingual Reasoning in LLMs
49. ICLR 2026Beyond Pass@ 1: Self-Play with Variational Problem Synthesis Sustains RLVR
50. ICLR 2026Beyond Speedup - Utilizing KV Cache for Sampling and 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.