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 12 of 21

551. ICML 2025Improved Off-policy Reinforcement Learning in Biological Sequence Design
552. ICML 2025In-Context Linear Regression Demystified: Training Dynamics and Mechanistic Interpretability of Multi-Head Softmax Attention
553. ICML 2025Integer Programming for Generalized Causal Bootstrap Designs
554. ICML 2025Learning to Generate Projections for Reducing Dimensionality of Heterogeneous Linear Programming Problems
555. ICML 2025LipsNet++: Unifying Filter and Controller into a Policy Network
556. ICML 2025LLM Enhancers for GNNs: An Analysis from the Perspective of Causal Mechanism Identification
557. ICML 2025LLM-Augmented Chemical Synthesis and Design Decision Programs
558. ICML 2025Mechanisms of Projective Composition of Diffusion Models
559. ICML 2025Mind the Gap: a Spectral Analysis of Rank Collapse and Signal Propagation in Attention Layers
560. ICML 2025Monte Carlo Tree Search for Comprehensive Exploration in LLM-Based Automatic Heuristic Design
561. ICML 2025MVA: Linear Attention with High-order Query-Keys Integration and Multi-level Vocabulary Decomposition
562. ICML 2025MxMoE: Mixed-precision Quantization for MoE with Accuracy and Performance Co-Design
563. ICML 2025Neural Interpretable PDEs: Harmonizing Fourier Insights with Attention for Scalable and Interpretable Physics Discovery
564. ICML 2025On the Emergence of Position Bias in Transformers
565. ICML 2025On the Statistical Mechanisms of Distributional Compositional Generalization
566. ICML 2025Optimal Auction Design in the Joint Advertising
567. ICML 2025Optimal Survey Design for Private Mean Estimation
568. ICML 2025Optimizing Social Network Interventions via Hypergradient-Based Recommender System Design
569. ICML 2025P(all-atom) Is Unlocking New Path For Protein Design
570. ICML 2025Peri-LN: Revisiting Normalization Layer in the Transformer Architecture
571. ICML 2025Piloting Structure-Based Drug Design via Modality-Specific Optimal Schedule
572. ICML 2025Policy Design for Two-sided Platforms with Participation Dynamics
573. ICML 2025PPDiff: Diffusing in Hybrid Sequence-Structure Space for Protein-Protein Complex Design
574. ICML 2025Prices, Bids, Values: One ML-Powered Combinatorial Auction to Rule Them All
575. ICML 2025Principal-Agent Bandit Games with Self-Interested and Exploratory Learning Agents
576. ICML 2025Probabilistic Factorial Experimental Design for Combinatorial Interventions
577. ICML 2025Procurement Auctions via Approximately Optimal Submodular Optimization
578. ICML 2025R*: Efficient Reward Design via Reward Structure Evolution and Parameter Alignment Optimization with Large Language Models
579. ICML 2025Reliable Algorithm Selection for Machine Learning-Guided Design
580. ICML 2025Robot-Gated Interactive Imitation Learning with Adaptive Intervention Mechanism
581. ICML 2025Safely Learning Optimal Auctions: A Testable Learning Framework for Mechanism Design
582. ICML 2025Simple Randomized Rounding for Max-Min Eigenvalue Augmentation
583. ICML 2025Simplifying DINO via Coding Rate Regularization
584. ICML 2025Step-DAD: Semi-Amortized Policy-Based Bayesian Experimental Design
585. ICML 2025Stronger Neyman Regret Guarantees for Adaptive Experimental Design
586. ICML 2025Understanding the Skill Gap in Recurrent Language Models: The Role of the Gather-and-Aggregate Mechanism
587. ICML 2025Unraveling the Interplay between Carryover Effects and Reward Autocorrelations in Switchback Experiments
588. ICML 2025When Bad Data Leads to Good Models
589. ICML 2025You Get What You Give: Reciprocally Fair Federated Learning
590. NeurIPS 2025A Closer Look at Graph Transformers: Cross-Aggregation and Beyond
591. NeurIPS 2025A Cramér–von Mises Approach to Incentivizing Truthful Data Sharing
592. NeurIPS 2025A Dataset for Distilling Knowledge Priors from Literature for Therapeutic Design
593. NeurIPS 2025ALINE: Joint Amortization for Bayesian Inference and Active Data Acquisition
594. NeurIPS 2025AlphaFold Database Debiasing for Robust Inverse Folding
595. NeurIPS 2025Ambient Proteins - Training Diffusion Models on Noisy Structures
596. NeurIPS 2025Attention Mechanism, Max-Affine Partition, and Universal Approximation
597. NeurIPS 2025Attention Sinks: A 'Catch, Tag, Release' Mechanism for Embeddings
598. NeurIPS 2025Bayes optimal learning of attention-indexed models
599. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Last-Click: An Optimal Mechanism for Ad Attribution
600. NeurIPS 2025BikeBench: A Bicycle Design Benchmark for Generative Models with Objectives and Constraints

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.