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 2025A Causal World Model Underlying Next Token Prediction: Exploring GPT in a Controlled Environment
2. ICML 2025A Reasoning-Based Approach to Cryptic Crossword Clue Solving
3. ICML 2025A Sample Efficient Conditional Independence Test in the Presence of Discretization
4. ICML 2025Accelerating Large Language Model Reasoning via Speculative Search
5. ICML 2025AdaDecode: Accelerating LLM Decoding with Adaptive Layer Parallelism
6. ICML 2025AdaptiveStep: Automatically Dividing Reasoning Step through Model Confidence
7. ICML 2025Adversarial Reasoning at Jailbreaking Time
8. ICML 2025An Analysis for Reasoning Bias of Language Models with Small Initialization
9. ICML 2025An Architecture Search Framework for Inference-Time Techniques
10. ICML 2025Audio Flamingo 2: An Audio-Language Model with Long-Audio Understanding and Expert Reasoning Abilities
11. ICML 2025Bayesian Weight Enhancement with Steady-State Adaptation for Test-time Adaptation in Dynamic Environments
12. ICML 2025Benchmarking Abstract and Reasoning Abilities Through A Theoretical Perspective
13. ICML 2025BEST-Route: Adaptive LLM Routing with Test-Time Optimal Compute
14. ICML 2025Beyond Task-Specific Reasoning: A Unified Conditional Generative Framework for Abstract Visual Reasoning
15. ICML 2025Blink of an eye: a simple theory for feature localization in generative models
16. ICML 2025Bongard in Wonderland: Visual Puzzles that Still Make AI Go Mad?
17. ICML 2025BRiTE: Bootstrapping Reinforced Thinking Process to Enhance Language Model Reasoning
18. ICML 2025Can MLLMs Reason in Multimodality? EMMA: An Enhanced MultiModal ReAsoning Benchmark
19. ICML 2025Can Transformers Reason Logically? A Study in SAT Solving
20. ICML 2025Causal-PIK: Causality-based Physical Reasoning with a Physics-Informed Kernel
21. ICML 2025CodeIO: Condensing Reasoning Patterns via Code Input-Output Prediction
22. ICML 2025Compositional Causal Reasoning Evaluation in Language Models
23. ICML 2025Cost-efficient Collaboration between On-device and Cloud Language Models
24. ICML 2025CRANE: Reasoning with constrained LLM generation
25. ICML 2025Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM’s Reasoning Capability
26. ICML 2025Deliberation in Latent Space via Differentiable Cache Augmentation
27. ICML 2025Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning via Reinforcement Learning
28. ICML 2025Demystifying Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
29. ICML 2025DiffusionVLA: Scaling Robot Foundation Models via Unified Diffusion and Autoregression
30. ICML 2025Discrete Neural Algorithmic Reasoning
31. ICML 2025Disentangling and Integrating Relational and Sensory Information in Transformer Architectures
32. ICML 2025Divide and Conquer: Grounding LLMs as Efficient Decision-Making Agents via Offline Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
33. ICML 2025Diving into Self-Evolving Training for Multimodal Reasoning
34. ICML 2025Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of Long Reasoning Models
35. ICML 2025DOLPHIN: A Programmable Framework for Scalable Neurosymbolic Learning
36. ICML 2025DPCore: Dynamic Prompt Coreset for Continual Test-Time Adaptation
37. ICML 2025DyCodeEval: Dynamic Benchmarking of Reasoning Capabilities in Code Large Language Models Under Data Contamination
38. ICML 2025EditLord: Learning Code Transformation Rules for Code Editing
39. ICML 2025Efficiently Vectorized MCMC on Modern Accelerators
40. ICML 2025Emergent Symbolic Mechanisms Support Abstract Reasoning in Large Language Models
41. ICML 2025Evaluating Judges as Evaluators: The JETTS Benchmark of LLM-as-Judges as Test-Time Scaling Evaluators
42. ICML 2025Flow of Reasoning: Training LLMs for Divergent Reasoning with Minimal Examples
43. ICML 2025Forest-of-Thought: Scaling Test-Time Compute for Enhancing LLM Reasoning
44. ICML 2025From Language Models over Tokens to Language Models over Characters
45. ICML 2025From Passive to Active Reasoning: Can Large Language Models Ask the Right Questions under Incomplete Information?
46. ICML 2025Fully Dynamic Euclidean Bi-Chromatic Matching in Sublinear Update Time
47. ICML 2025Generalizing from SIMPLE to HARD Visual Reasoning: Can We Mitigate Modality Imbalance in VLMs?
48. ICML 2025GIVE: Structured Reasoning of Large Language Models with Knowledge Graph Inspired Veracity Extrapolation
49. ICML 2025Grokking in the Wild: Data Augmentation for Real-World Multi-Hop Reasoning with Transformers
50. ICML 2025GSM-$\infty$: How Do your LLMs Behave over Infinitely Increasing Reasoning Complexity and Context Length?

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.