Mechanism Design papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

1,037 papers, page 10 of 21

451. CVPR 2025LineArt: A Knowledge-guided Training-free High-quality Appearance Transfer for Design Drawing with Diffusion Model
452. CVPR 2025LSNet: See Large, Focus Small
453. CVPR 2025MambaIRv2: Attentive State Space Restoration
454. CVPR 2025MI-DETR: An Object Detection Model with Multi-time Inquiries Mechanism
455. CVPR 2025NADER: Neural Architecture Design via Multi-Agent Collaboration
456. CVPR 2025OverLoCK: An Overview-first-Look-Closely-next ConvNet with Context-Mixing Dynamic Kernels
457. CVPR 2025Quantization without Tears
458. CVPR 2025RC-AutoCalib: An End-to-End Radar-Camera Automatic Calibration Network
459. CVPR 2025Recurrent Feature Mining and Keypoint Mixup Padding for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
460. CVPR 2025Rethinking Decoder Design: Improving Biomarker Segmentation Using Depth-to-Space Restoration and Residual Linear Attention
461. CVPR 2025Rethinking Spiking Self-Attention Mechanism: Implementing a-XNOR Similarity Calculation in Spiking Transformers
462. CVPR 2025Seeing A 3D World in A Grain of Sand
463. CVPR 2025SpatialLLM: A Compound 3D-Informed Design towards Spatially-Intelligent Large Multimodal Models
464. CVPR 2025Spiking Transformer with Spatial-Temporal Attention
465. CVPR 2025Unveiling the Ignorance of MLLMs: Seeing Clearly, Answering Incorrectly
466. CVPR 2025VTON 360: High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On from Any Viewing Direction
467. ICLR 2025A Training-Free Sub-quadratic Cost Transformer Model Serving Framework with Hierarchically Pruned Attention
468. ICLR 2025AdaManip: Adaptive Articulated Object Manipulation Environments and Policy Learning
469. ICLR 2025Agree to Disagree: Demystifying Homogeneous Deep Ensembles through Distributional Equivalence
470. ICLR 2025Asynchronous Federated Reinforcement Learning with Policy Gradient Updates: Algorithm Design and Convergence Analysis
471. ICLR 2025Automated Design of Agentic Systems
472. ICLR 2025Bayesian Experimental Design Via Contrastive Diffusions
473. ICLR 2025Beyond Squared Error: Exploring Loss Design for Enhanced Training of Generative Flow Networks
474. ICLR 2025BodyGen: Advancing Towards Efficient Embodiment Co-Design
475. ICLR 2025Charting the Design Space of Neural Graph Representations for Subgraph Matching
476. ICLR 2025Clique Number Estimation via Differentiable Functions of Adjacency Matrix Permutations
477. ICLR 2025Concept Bottleneck Language Models For Protein Design
478. ICLR 2025Data Distillation for extrapolative protein design through exact preference optimization
479. ICLR 2025DeepGate4: Efficient and Effective Representation Learning for Circuit Design at Scale
480. ICLR 2025DICE: Data Influence Cascade in Decentralized Learning
481. ICLR 2025Do Stochastic, Feel Noiseless: Stable Stochastic Optimization via a Double Momentum Mechanism
482. ICLR 2025Eagle: Exploring The Design Space for Multimodal LLMs with Mixture of Encoders
483. ICLR 2025Efficient Biological Data Acquisition through Inference Set Design
484. ICLR 2025EVA: Geometric Inverse Design for Fast Protein Motif-Scaffolding with Coupled Flow
485. ICLR 2025Exploring channel distinguishability in local neighborhoods of the model space in quantum neural networks
486. ICLR 2025Fast Uncovering of Protein Sequence Diversity from Structure
487. ICLR 2025Flow-based Variational Mutual Information: Fast and Flexible Approximations
488. ICLR 2025Fragment and Geometry Aware Tokenization of Molecules for Structure-Based Drug Design Using Language Models
489. ICLR 2025FreeCG: Free the Design Space of Clebsch-Gordan Transform for Machine Learning Force Fields
490. ICLR 2025Graph Neural Networks Are More Than Filters: Revisiting and Benchmarking from A Spectral Perspective
491. ICLR 2025Greener GRASS: Enhancing GNNs with Encoding, Rewiring, and Attention
492. ICLR 2025gRNAde: Geometric Deep Learning for 3D RNA inverse design
493. ICLR 2025Hierarchically Encapsulated Representation for Protocol Design in Self-Driving Labs
494. ICLR 2025Identifiable Exchangeable Mechanisms for Causal Structure and Representation Learning
495. ICLR 2025IgGM: A Generative Model for Functional Antibody and Nanobody Design
496. ICLR 2025Interactive Speculative Planning: Enhance Agent Efficiency through Co-design of System and User Interface
497. ICLR 2025Interference Among First-Price Pacing Equilibria: A Bias and Variance Analysis
498. ICLR 2025LASeR: Towards Diversified and Generalizable Robot Design with Large Language Models
499. ICLR 2025Learning to engineer protein flexibility
500. ICLR 2025Look Before You Leap: Universal Emergent Mechanism for Retrieval in Language Models

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.