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. CVPR 20253D-Mem: 3D Scene Memory for Embodied Exploration and Reasoning
2. CVPR 2025Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
3. CVPR 2025Associative Transformer
4. CVPR 2025Bridging Viewpoint Gaps: Geometric Reasoning Boosts Semantic Correspondence
5. CVPR 2025CLIP is Strong Enough to Fight Back: Test-time Counterattacks towards Zero-shot Adversarial Robustness of CLIP
6. CVPR 2025Coarse Correspondences Boost Spatial-Temporal Reasoning in Multimodal Language Model
7. CVPR 2025CoE: Chain-of-Explanation via Automatic Visual Concept Circuit Description and Polysemanticity Quantification
8. CVPR 2025Commonsense Video Question Answering through Video-Grounded Entailment Tree Reasoning
9. CVPR 2025CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models
10. CVPR 2025CRISP: Object Pose and Shape Estimation with Test-Time Adaptation
11. CVPR 2025D^3CTTA: Domain-Dependent Decorrelation for Continual Test-Time Adaption of 3D LiDAR Segmentation
12. CVPR 2025DocLayLLM: An Efficient Multi-modal Extension of Large Language Models for Text-rich Document Understanding
13. CVPR 2025DrVideo: Document Retrieval Based Long Video Understanding
14. CVPR 2025Efficient Test-time Adaptive Object Detection via Sensitivity-Guided Pruning
15. CVPR 2025Effortless Active Labeling for Long-Term Test-Time Adaptation
16. CVPR 2025F-LMM: Grounding Frozen Large Multimodal Models
17. CVPR 2025FirePlace: Geometric Refinements of LLM Common Sense Reasoning for 3D Object Placement
18. CVPR 2025FlexiDiT: Your Diffusion Transformer Can Easily Generate High-Quality Samples with Less Compute
19. CVPR 2025Functionality Understanding and Segmentation in 3D Scenes
20. CVPR 2025GFlowVLM: Enhancing Multi-step Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Generative Flow Networks
21. CVPR 2025GLUS: Global-Local Reasoning Unified into A Single Large Language Model for Video Segmentation
22. CVPR 2025Ground-V: Teaching VLMs to Ground Complex Instructions in Pixels
23. CVPR 2025How to Merge Your Multimodal Models Over Time?
24. CVPR 2025ImagineFSL: Self-Supervised Pretraining Matters on Imagined Base Set for VLM-based Few-shot Learning
25. CVPR 2025Insight-V: Exploring Long-Chain Visual Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
26. CVPR 2025Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought
27. CVPR 2025Jailbreaking the Non-Transferable Barrier via Test-Time Data Disguising
28. CVPR 2025Let's Verify and Reinforce Image Generation Step by Step
29. CVPR 2025Maintaining Consistent Inter-Class Topology in Continual Test-Time Adaptation
30. CVPR 2025MicroVQA: A Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark for Microscopy-Based Scientific Research
31. CVPR 2025MLLM-as-a-Judge for Image Safety without Human Labeling
32. CVPR 2025Motion-Grounded Video Reasoning: Understanding and Perceiving Motion at Pixel Level
33. CVPR 2025MV-MATH: Evaluating Multimodal Math Reasoning in Multi-Visual Contexts
34. CVPR 2025Notes-guided MLLM Reasoning: Enhancing MLLM with Knowledge and Visual Notes for Visual Question Answering
35. CVPR 2025OffsetOPT: Explicit Surface Reconstruction without Normals
36. CVPR 2025OmniGen: Unified Image Generation
37. CVPR 2025OmniStereo: Real-time Omnidireactional Depth Estimation with Multiview Fisheye Cameras
38. CVPR 2025OODD: Test-time Out-of-Distribution Detection with Dynamic Dictionary
39. CVPR 2025Open Set Label Shift with Test Time Out-of-Distribution Reference
40. CVPR 2025Opportunistic Single-Photon Time of Flight
41. CVPR 2025Perception Tokens Enhance Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
42. CVPR 2025PhyT2V: LLM-Guided Iterative Self-Refinement for Physics-Grounded Text-to-Video Generation
43. CVPR 2025POPEN: Preference-Based Optimization and Ensemble for LVLM-Based Reasoning Segmentation
44. CVPR 2025PURA: Parameter Update-Recovery Test-Time Adaption for RGB-T Tracking
45. CVPR 2025Q-PART: Quasi-Periodic Adaptive Regression with Test-time Training for Pediatric Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Regression
46. CVPR 2025R2C: Mapping Room to Chessboard to Unlock LLM As Low-Level Action Planner
47. CVPR 2025Reason-before-Retrieve: One-Stage Reflective Chain-of-Thoughts for Training-Free Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
48. CVPR 2025Reasoning in Visual Navigation of End-to-end Trained Agents: A Dynamical Systems Approach
49. CVPR 2025Reasoning Mamba: Hypergraph-Guided Region Relation Calculating for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
50. CVPR 2025ROD-MLLM: Towards More Reliable Object Detection in Multimodal 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.