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

311 papers, page 1 of 7

1. CVPR 2024A Versatile Framework for Continual Test-Time Domain Adaptation: Balancing Discriminability and Generalizability
2. CVPR 2024AETTA: Label-Free Accuracy Estimation for Test-Time Adaptation
3. CVPR 2024Backdoor Defense via Test-Time Detecting and Repairing
4. CVPR 2024Backpropagation-free Network for 3D Test-time Adaptation
5. CVPR 2024Benchmarking Implicit Neural Representation and Geometric Rendering in Real-Time RGB-D SLAM
6. CVPR 2024CoG-DQA: Chain-of-Guiding Learning with Large Language Models for Diagram Question Answering
7. CVPR 2024Compositional Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Large Multimodal Models
8. CVPR 2024Depth-aware Test-Time Training for Zero-shot Video Object Segmentation
9. CVPR 2024Domain-Specific Block Selection and Paired-View Pseudo-Labeling for Online Test-Time Adaptation
10. CVPR 2024EventPS: Real-Time Photometric Stereo Using an Event Camera
11. CVPR 2024ExACT: Language-guided Conceptual Reasoning and Uncertainty Estimation for Event-based Action Recognition and More
12. CVPR 2024Generate Subgoal Images before Act: Unlocking the Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts
13. CVPR 2024Genuine Knowledge from Practice: Diffusion Test-Time Adaptation for Video Adverse Weather Removal
14. CVPR 2024GRAM: Global Reasoning for Multi-Page VQA
15. CVPR 2024Higher-order Relational Reasoning for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
16. CVPR 2024Holoported Characters: Real-time Free-viewpoint Rendering of Humans from Sparse RGB Cameras
17. CVPR 2024HumanNeRF-SE: A Simple yet Effective Approach to Animate HumanNeRF with Diverse Poses
18. CVPR 2024iKUN: Speak to Trackers without Retraining
19. CVPR 2024IntrinsicAvatar: Physically Based Inverse Rendering of Dynamic Humans from Monocular Videos via Explicit Ray Tracing
20. CVPR 2024Language Model Guided Interpretable Video Action Reasoning
21. CVPR 2024LayoutLLM: Layout Instruction Tuning with Large Language Models for Document Understanding
22. CVPR 2024Let's Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation
23. CVPR 2024LISA: Reasoning Segmentation via Large Language Model
24. CVPR 2024LLM4SGG: Large Language Models for Weakly Supervised Scene Graph Generation
25. CVPR 2024MedBN: Robust Test-Time Adaptation against Malicious Test Samples
26. CVPR 2024Mind Artist: Creating Artistic Snapshots with Human Thought
27. CVPR 2024Modality-Collaborative Test-Time Adaptation for Action Recognition
28. CVPR 2024MoReVQA: Exploring Modular Reasoning Models for Video Question Answering
29. CVPR 2024NC-TTT: A Noise Constrastive Approach for Test-Time Training
30. CVPR 2024PromptCoT: Align Prompt Distribution via Adapted Chain-of-Thought
31. CVPR 2024Real-Time Simulated Avatar from Head-Mounted Sensors
32. CVPR 2024Robust Overfitting Does Matter: Test-Time Adversarial Purification With FGSM
33. CVPR 2024Situational Awareness Matters in 3D Vision Language Reasoning
34. CVPR 2024SpatialVLM: Endowing Vision-Language Models with Spatial Reasoning Capabilities
35. CVPR 2024Synthesize Step-by-Step: Tools Templates and LLMs as Data Generators for Reasoning-Based Chart VQA
36. CVPR 2024T4P: Test-Time Training of Trajectory Prediction via Masked Autoencoder and Actor-specific Token Memory
37. CVPR 2024TEA: Test-time Energy Adaptation
38. CVPR 2024Test-Time Adaptation for Depth Completion
39. CVPR 2024Test-Time Domain Generalization for Face Anti-Spoofing
40. CVPR 2024Test-Time Linear Out-of-Distribution Detection
41. CVPR 2024TTA-EVF: Test-Time Adaptation for Event-based Video Frame Interpolation via Reliable Pixel and Sample Estimation
42. CVPR 2024Unified Entropy Optimization for Open-Set Test-Time Adaptation
43. CVPR 2024What How and When Should Object Detectors Update in Continually Changing Test Domains?
44. ICLR 2024Abstractors and relational cross-attention: An inductive bias for explicit relational reasoning in Transformers
45. ICLR 2024Active Test-Time Adaptation: Theoretical Analyses and An Algorithm
46. ICLR 2024AgentBench: Evaluating LLMs as Agents
47. ICLR 2024Amortizing intractable inference in large language models
48. ICLR 2024Are Human-generated Demonstrations Necessary for In-context Learning?
49. ICLR 2024At Which Training Stage Does Code Data Help LLMs Reasoning?
50. ICLR 2024BadChain: Backdoor Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Large 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.