Mechanism Design papers, 2023–2026
Auctions and mechanisms
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,037 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Mechanism Design went from 140 papers in 2023 to 426 in 2026, roughly 3.0x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Mechanism Design work: 394 papers from 2023 to 2026, 38% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 5 in 2023 to 42 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Games and Planning, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Classical Planning, is up 3.3x versus 3.0x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 42 | 34 | 35 | 29 | 140 |
| 2024 | 69 | 25 | 67 | 39 | 200 |
| 2025 | 108 | 58 | 65 | 40 | 271 |
| 2026 | 175 | 65 | 128 | 58 | 426 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026A Generalized Tikhonov Layer for Interpretable-by-design Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2026Affine-Scaled Attention: Towards Flexible and Stable Transformer Attention
- ICLR 2026Bayesian Attention Mechanism: A Probabilistic Framework for Positional Encoding and Context Length Extrapolation
- CVPR 2026FEAT Fashion Editing and Try-On from Any Design
- NeurIPS 2025A Closer Look at Graph Transformers: Cross-Aggregation and Beyond
- ICML 2025Benign Overfitting in Token Selection of Attention Mechanism
- ICLR 2025AdaManip: Adaptive Articulated Object Manipulation Environments and Policy Learning
- CVPR 2025A Selective Re-learning Mechanism for Hyperspectral Fusion Imaging
- NeurIPS 2024AFBench: A Large-scale Benchmark for Airfoil Design
- ICML 2024CarbonNovo: Joint Design of Protein Structure and Sequence Using a Unified Energy-based Model
- ICLR 2024Adaptive Instrument Design for Indirect Experiments
- CVPR 2024InceptionNeXt: When Inception Meets ConvNeXt
- NeurIPS 2023An Optimal and Scalable Matrix Mechanism for Noisy Marginals under Convex Loss Functions
- ICML 2023AbODE: Ab initio antibody design using conjoined ODEs
- ICLR 2023Conditional Antibody Design as 3D Equivariant Graph Translation
- CVPR 2023Exploring the Relationship Between Architectural Design and Adversarially Robust Generalization
- NeurIPS 2026A Unified Framework for Uniform-Price Resource Allocation Mechanisms
- ICML 2026Anatomy of Massive Activations and Attention Sinks
- ICLR 2026How Muon’s Spectral Design Benefits Generalization: A Study on Imbalanced Data
- CVPR 2026Parallax to Align Them All An OmniParallax Attention Mechanism for
All Mechanism Design papers
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- CVPR 2026A Combination of Noise and Bilateral Filters Achieve Supralinear and
- CVPR 2026A Temporal and Content Co-Awareness Latent Diffusion for Controllable Hand
- CVPR 2026Composing Concepts from Images and Videos via Concept-prompt Binding
- CVPR 2026CoWTracker Tracking by Warping instead of Correlation
- CVPR 2026Cross-Subject EEG-to-Video Reconstruction and Beyond
- CVPR 2026DDT Decoupled Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2026Design Your Ad Personalized Advertising Image and Text Generation with
- CVPR 2026Discover Segment and Select A Progressive Mechanism for Zero-shot Camouflaged
- CVPR 2026Dual-level Adapter Boosting Prompt-free Curvilinear Structure Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Elucidating the Design Space of Arbitrary-Noise-Based Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026EnergyAction Unimanual to Bimanual Composition with Energy-Based Models
- CVPR 2026Evidential Deep Partial Label Learning to Quantify Disambiguation Uncertainty
- CVPR 2026Fast SceneScript Fast and Accurate Language-Based 3D Scene Understanding via
- CVPR 2026FEAT Fashion Editing and Try-On from Any Design
- CVPR 2026Hi-Lo Prune Look at What Youll Lose before Pruning with
- CVPR 2026iLRM An Iterative Large 3D Reconstruction Model
- CVPR 2026Improved Mean Flows On the Challenges of Fastforward Generative Models
- CVPR 2026Inferring Compositional 4D Scenes without Ever Seeing One
- CVPR 2026JUMP-Hand Learning Joint-wise Uncertainty to Gate Mixture of View Experts
- CVPR 2026LangField4D Learning Identity-Adaptive and Spatio-Temporal Continuous 4D Language Fields for
- CVPR 2026LaSM Layer-wise Scaling Mechanism for Defending Pop-up Attack on GUI
- CVPR 2026Lens Component Deletion based on Differentiable Ray Tracing
- CVPR 2026Love Me Love My Label Rethinking the Role of Labels
- CVPR 2026Mechanisms of Object Localization in Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026MetroGS Efficient and Stable Reconstruction of Geometrically Accurate High-Fidelity Large-Scale
- CVPR 2026Mirror Illusion Art
- CVPR 2026MOFA-VTON More Fashion Possibilities with Fine-Grained Adaptations in Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2026Multigrain-aware Semantic Prototype Scanning and Tri-Token Prompt Learning Embraced High-Order
- CVPR 2026NeAR Coupled Neural Asset-Renderer Stack
- CVPR 2026OS-Fed One Snapshot Is All You Need
- CVPR 2026Parallax to Align Them All An OmniParallax Attention Mechanism for
- CVPR 2026PatchScene Patch-based Voxel Diffusion Model for Large-Scale Scene Completion
- CVPR 2026PhyGaP Physically-Grounded Gaussians with Polarization Cues
- CVPR 2026PointCNN Performant Convolution on Native Points
- CVPR 2026Polarization State Tracing for Reflection Removal and Color-Consistent Reconstruction
- CVPR 2026PosterIQ A Design Perspective Benchmark for Poster Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2026PosterReward Unlocking Accurate Evaluation for High-Quality Graphic Design Generation
- CVPR 2026Prototype-as-Prompt Multimodal Sentiment Prototypes Endowing Large Language Models the Capability
- CVPR 2026PSDesigner Automated Graphic Design with a Human-Like Creative Workflow
- CVPR 2026RaUF Learning the Spatial Uncertainty Field of Radar
- CVPR 2026ResDiT Evoking the Intrinsic Resolution Scalability in Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026Residual Primitive Fitting of 3D Shapes with SuperFrusta
- CVPR 2026Sculpt4D Generating 4D Shapes via Sparse-Attention Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026SegMo Co-Designing Content-Aware Sparsity and Locally-Cohesive Segment Parallelism for Efficient
- CVPR 2026SkyReels-Text Fine-Grained Font-Controllable Text Editing for Poster Design
- CVPR 2026SoliReward Mitigating Susceptibility to Reward Hacking and Annotation Noise in
- CVPR 2026Spe-BEVHead Rethinking the Detection Head Design for Birds-Eye-View Object Detection
- CVPR 2026SpotEdit Selective Region Editing in Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026Stable Mean Flow Lyapunov-Inspired One-Step Flow Matching
- CVPR 2026Stay in your Lane Role Specific Queries with Overlap Suppression
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FAQ
- How many Mechanism Design papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 1,037 in total: 140 in 2023, 200 in 2024, 271 in 2025, 426 in 2026.
- How many Mechanism Design papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 175 Mechanism Design papers, versus 108 the year before.
- How many Mechanism Design papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 65 Mechanism Design papers, versus 58 the year before.
- How many Mechanism Design papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 128 Mechanism Design papers, versus 65 the year before.
- How many Mechanism Design papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 58 Mechanism Design papers, versus 40 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Mechanism Design papers?
- NeurIPS, with 394 papers from 2023 to 2026.