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. ICML 2024Algorithm of Thoughts: Enhancing Exploration of Ideas in Large Language Models
2. ICML 2024Analysis for Abductive Learning and Neural-Symbolic Reasoning Shortcuts
3. ICML 2024Auto-Regressive Next-Token Predictors are Universal Learners
4. ICML 2024BAT: Learning to Reason about Spatial Sounds with Large Language Models
5. ICML 2024Chain of Code: Reasoning with a Language Model-Augmented Code Emulator
6. ICML 2024Chain-of-Thought Predictive Control
7. ICML 2024CogBench: a large language model walks into a psychology lab
8. ICML 2024Compositional Capabilities of Autoregressive Transformers: A Study on Synthetic, Interpretable Tasks
9. ICML 2024Compute Better Spent: Replacing Dense Layers with Structured Matrices
10. ICML 2024Conformal Predictions under Markovian Data
11. ICML 2024ContPhy: Continuum Physical Concept Learning and Reasoning from Videos
12. ICML 2024Convex Relaxations of ReLU Neural Networks Approximate Global Optima in Polynomial Time
13. ICML 2024Counterfactual Reasoning for Multi-Label Image Classification via Patching-Based Training
14. ICML 2024CRUXEval: A Benchmark for Code Reasoning, Understanding and Execution
15. ICML 2024Density-Softmax: Efficient Test-time Model for Uncertainty Estimation and Robustness under Distribution Shifts
16. ICML 2024Do Efficient Transformers Really Save Computation?
17. ICML 2024Dynamic Correlation Clustering in Sublinear Update Time
18. ICML 2024Evaluation of Test-Time Adaptation Under Computational Time Constraints
19. ICML 2024Extending Test-Time Augmentation with Metamorphic Relations for Combinatorial Problems
20. ICML 2024Fast-Slow Test-Time Adaptation for Online Vision-and-Language Navigation
21. ICML 2024Fully-Dynamic Approximate Decision Trees With Worst-Case Update Time Guarantees
22. ICML 2024Generating Chain-of-Thoughts with a Pairwise-Comparison Approach to Searching for the Most Promising Intermediate Thought
23. ICML 2024GLoRe: When, Where, and How to Improve LLM Reasoning via Global and Local Refinements
24. ICML 2024Graph-enhanced Large Language Models in Asynchronous Plan Reasoning
25. ICML 2024How do Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts between Honesty and Helpfulness?
26. ICML 2024How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball
27. ICML 2024Implicit Compressibility of Overparametrized Neural Networks Trained with Heavy-Tailed SGD
28. ICML 2024Improving Factuality and Reasoning in Language Models through Multiagent Debate
29. ICML 2024In-Context Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Hierarchical Chain-of-Thought
30. ICML 2024InfoNet: Neural Estimation of Mutual Information without Test-Time Optimization
31. ICML 2024InstructSpeech: Following Speech Editing Instructions via Large Language Models
32. ICML 2024Keypoint-based Progressive Chain-of-Thought Distillation for LLMs
33. ICML 2024KnowFormer: Revisiting Transformers for Knowledge Graph Reasoning
34. ICML 2024Language Agent Tree Search Unifies Reasoning, Acting, and Planning in Language Models
35. ICML 2024Language Models with Conformal Factuality Guarantees
36. ICML 2024Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs
37. ICML 2024MathScale: Scaling Instruction Tuning for Mathematical Reasoning
38. ICML 2024Matroid Semi-Bandits in Sublinear Time
39. ICML 2024NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution
40. ICML 2024On the Independence Assumption in Neurosymbolic Learning
41. ICML 2024Online Learning and Information Exponents: The Importance of Batch size & Time/Complexity Tradeoffs
42. ICML 2024Premise Order Matters in Reasoning with Large Language Models
43. ICML 2024Profile Reconstruction from Private Sketches
44. ICML 2024Prompt Sketching for Large Language Models
45. ICML 2024Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement via Prompt Evolution
46. ICML 2024Reprompting: Automated Chain-of-Thought Prompt Inference Through Gibbs Sampling
47. ICML 2024Slot Abstractors: Toward Scalable Abstract Visual Reasoning
48. ICML 2024Sparsest Models Elude Pruning: An Exposé of Pruning’s Current Capabilities
49. ICML 2024StackSight: Unveiling WebAssembly through Large Language Models and Neurosymbolic Chain-of-Thought Decompilation
50. ICML 2024Stationary Latent Weight Inference for Unreliable Observations from Online Test-Time Adaptation

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.