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 11 of 21

501. ICLR 2025MaestroMotif: Skill Design from Artificial Intelligence Feedback
502. ICLR 2025Mechanism and Emergence of Stacked Attention Heads in Multi-Layer Transformers
503. ICLR 2025Neural networks on Symmetric Spaces of Noncompact Type
504. ICLR 2025On Rollouts in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
505. ICLR 2025Optimality of Matrix Mechanism on $\ell_p^p$-metric
506. ICLR 2025ORSO: Accelerating Reward Design via Online Reward Selection and Policy Optimization
507. ICLR 2025OSDA Agent: Leveraging Large Language Models for De Novo Design of Organic Structure Directing Agents
508. ICLR 2025Policy Design in Long-run Welfare Dynamics
509. ICLR 2025Private Mechanism Design via Quantile Estimation
510. ICLR 2025Real-time design of architectural structures with differentiable mechanics and neural networks
511. ICLR 2025Reframing Structure-Based Drug Design Model Evaluation via Metrics Correlated to Practical Needs
512. ICLR 2025Regulatory DNA Sequence Design with Reinforcement Learning
513. ICLR 2025Revisiting a Design Choice in Gradient Temporal Difference Learning
514. ICLR 2025Scaling up the Banded Matrix Factorization Mechanism for Large Scale Differentially Private ML
515. ICLR 2025Self-Improvement in Language Models: The Sharpening Mechanism
516. ICLR 2025Sharpness-Aware Minimization Efficiently Selects Flatter Minima Late In Training
517. ICLR 2025Simple Guidance Mechanisms for Discrete Diffusion Models
518. ICLR 2025Steering Protein Family Design through Profile Bayesian Flow
519. ICLR 2025SynFlowNet: Design of Diverse and Novel Molecules with Synthesis Constraints
520. ICLR 2025Systematic Outliers in Large Language Models
521. ICLR 2025T2V-Turbo-v2: Enhancing Video Model Post-Training through Data, Reward, and Conditional Guidance Design
522. ICLR 2025Three Mechanisms of Feature Learning in a Linear Network
523. ICLR 2025Unify ML4TSP: Drawing Methodological Principles for TSP and Beyond from Streamlined Design Space of Learning and Search
524. ICLR 2025Universal Sharpness Dynamics in Neural Network Training: Fixed Point Analysis, Edge of Stability, and Route to Chaos
525. ICML 2025ADIOS: Antibody Development via Opponent Shaping
526. ICML 2025AI for Global Climate Cooperation: Modeling Global Climate Negotiations, Agreements, and Long-Term Cooperation in RICE-N
527. ICML 2025An Efficient Matrix Multiplication Algorithm for Accelerating Inference in Binary and Ternary Neural Networks
528. ICML 2025Backdoor Attacks in Token Selection of Attention Mechanism
529. ICML 2025BAnG: Bidirectional Anchored Generation for Conditional RNA Design
530. ICML 2025Benign Overfitting in Token Selection of Attention Mechanism
531. ICML 2025CaDA: Cross-Problem Routing Solver with Constraint-Aware Dual-Attention
532. ICML 2025Collaborative Mean Estimation Among Heterogeneous Strategic Agents: Individual Rationality, Fairness, and Truthful Contribution
533. ICML 2025Contract Design Under Approximate Best Responses
534. ICML 2025Counting in Small Transformers: The Delicate Interplay between Attention and Feed-Forward Layers
535. ICML 2025CSTrack: Enhancing RGB-X Tracking via Compact Spatiotemporal Features
536. ICML 2025Data-driven Design of Randomized Control Trials with Guaranteed Treatment Effects
537. ICML 2025Decomposition of Graphic Design with Unified Multimodal Model
538. ICML 2025DeepCrossAttention: Supercharging Transformer Residual Connections
539. ICML 2025Distributionally Robust Active Learning for Gaussian Process Regression
540. ICML 2025Diversity By Design: Leveraging Distribution Matching for Offline Model-Based Optimization
541. ICML 2025DMM: Distributed Matrix Mechanism for Differentially-Private Federated Learning Based on Constant-Overhead Linear Secret Resharing
542. ICML 2025Domain-Adapted Diffusion Model for PROTAC Linker Design Through the Lens of Density Ratio in Chemical Space
543. ICML 2025Efficient and Separate Authentication Image Steganography Network
544. ICML 2025Elucidating the Design Space of Multimodal Protein Language Models
545. ICML 2025Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning
546. ICML 2025Enhancing Certified Robustness via Block Reflector Orthogonal Layers and Logit Annealing Loss
547. ICML 2025Equivariant Polynomial Functional Networks
548. ICML 2025ESPFormer: Doubly-Stochastic Attention with Expected Sliced Transport Plans
549. ICML 2025Fraud-Proof Revenue Division on Subscription Platforms
550. ICML 2025Heads up! Large Language Models Can Perform Tasks Without Your Instruction via Selective Attention Head Masking

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.