% Key papers for Chain-of-thought training and analysis (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages.

@inproceedings{iclr2023_automatic_32047,
  title = {{Automatic Chain of Thought Prompting in Large Language Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/poster/11360},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2023_language_68726,
  title = {{Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/71118},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2024_kam_6367,
  title = {{KAM-CoT: Knowledge Augmented Multimodal Chain-of-Thoughts Reasoning}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29844},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2024_t_7463,
  title = {{T-SciQ: Teaching Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Large Language Model Signals for Science Question Answering}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29884},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_chain_70453,
  title = {{Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96654},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2023_towards_69557,
  title = {{Towards Revealing the Mystery behind Chain of Thought: A Theoretical Perspective}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/70369},
}

@inproceedings{cvpr2024_let_23997,
  title = {{Let's Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation}},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2024/poster/29990},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2023_ddcot_69272,
  title = {{DDCoT: Duty-Distinct Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Multimodal Reasoning in Language Models}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/70625},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_chain_70286,
  title = {{Chain of Preference Optimization: Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96804},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2025_enhancing_8951,
  title = {{Enhancing Chain of Thought Prompting in Large Language Models via Reasoning Patterns}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34793},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2024_large_33832,
  title = {{Large Language Models as Analogical Reasoners}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/19243},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_instance_70316,
  title = {{Instance-adaptive Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought Prompting}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96779},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_to_83951,
  title = {{To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/27873},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2025_c3ot_8325,
  title = {{C3oT: Generating Shorter Chain-of-Thought Without Compromising Effectiveness}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34608},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2025_cot4rec_8439,
  title = {{CoT4Rec: Revealing User Preferences Through Chain of Thought for Recommender Systems}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/33434},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2023_evaluating_67942,
  title = {{Evaluating and Improving Tool-Augmented Computation-Intensive Math Reasoning}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/73611},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_chain_73588,
  title = {{Chain of Thoughtlessness? An Analysis of CoT in Planning}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93898},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2024_badchain_34769,
  title = {{BadChain: Backdoor Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Large Language Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18305},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_unlocking_73937,
  title = {{Unlocking the Capabilities of Thought: A Reasoning Boundary Framework to Quantify and Optimize Chain-of-Thought}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93575},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_mind_46863,
  title = {{Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45714},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_latent_74743,
  title = {{Latent Chain-of-Thought for Visual Reasoning}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=0i8ClSr3kQ},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2026_when_84769,
  title = {{When More is Less: Understanding Chain-of-Thought Length in LLMs}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=6QDFsYxtI1},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_unified_77266,
  title = {{Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reward Model through Reinforcement Fine-Tuning}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=S43003uMGq},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2024_get_6138,
  title = {{Get an A in Math: Progressive Rectification Prompting}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29898},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_demystifying_47138,
  title = {{Demystifying Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45449},
}