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 13 of 21

601. NeurIPS 2025Can Large Multimodal Models Understand Agricultural Scenes? Benchmarking with AgroMind
602. NeurIPS 2025Communication-Efficient Diffusion Denoising Parallelization via Reuse-then-Predict Mechanism
603. NeurIPS 2025Comparing Uniform Price and Discriminatory Multi-Unit Auctions through Regret Minimization
604. NeurIPS 2025Compress Large Language Models via Collaboration Between Learning and Matrix Approximation
605. NeurIPS 2025Convergent Functions, Divergent Forms
606. NeurIPS 2025Convolution Goes Higher-Order: A Biologically Inspired Mechanism Empowers Image Classification
607. NeurIPS 2025CPSea: Large-scale cyclic peptide-protein complex dataset for machine learning in cyclic peptide design
608. NeurIPS 2025Ctrl-DNA: Controllable Cell-Type-Specific Regulatory DNA Design via Constrained RL
609. NeurIPS 2025DeepKD: A Deeply Decoupled and Denoised Knowledge Distillation Trainer
610. NeurIPS 2025Design-Based Bandits Under Network Interference: Trade-Off Between Regret and Statistical Inference
611. NeurIPS 2025DuSA: Fast and Accurate Dual-Stage Sparse Attention Mechanism Accelerating Both Training and Inference
612. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Masking and Auxiliary Hash Learning for Enhanced Cross-Modal Retrieval
613. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Bayesian Experiment Design with Equivariant Networks
614. NeurIPS 2025Emergence of Linear Truth Encodings in Language Models
615. NeurIPS 2025EngiBench: A Framework for Data-Driven Engineering Design Research
616. NeurIPS 2025Error Broadcast and Decorrelation as a Potential Artificial and Natural Learning Mechanism
617. NeurIPS 2025Error Forcing in Recurrent Neural Networks
618. NeurIPS 2025Exploring the Design Space of Diffusion Bridge Models
619. NeurIPS 2025Exploring the Translation Mechanism of Large Language Models
620. NeurIPS 2025Fast attention mechanisms: a tale of parallelism
621. NeurIPS 2025FPSAttention: Training-Aware FP8 and Sparsity Co-Design for Fast Video Diffusion
622. NeurIPS 2025From Self-Check to Consensus: Bayesian Strategic Decoding in Large Language Models
623. NeurIPS 2025Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free
624. NeurIPS 2025Generalization Bounds for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) and Enhanced KANs with Lower Lipschitz Complexity
625. NeurIPS 2025Geometric Algebra-Enhanced Bayesian Flow Network for RNA Inverse Design
626. NeurIPS 2025GLID$^2$E: A Gradient-Free Lightweight Fine-tune Approach for Discrete Biological Sequence Design
627. NeurIPS 2025Hadamax Encoding: Elevating Performance in Model-Free Atari
628. NeurIPS 2025Hardware-aligned Hierarchical Sparse Attention for Efficient Long-term Memory Access
629. NeurIPS 2025How Does Sequence Modeling Architecture Influence Base Capabilities of Pre-trained Language Models? Exploring Key Architecture Design Principles to Avoid Base Capabilities Degradation
630. NeurIPS 2025Impartial Selection with Predictions
631. NeurIPS 2025Improved Regret Bounds for Linear Bandits with Heavy-Tailed Rewards
632. NeurIPS 2025Incentive-Aware Dynamic Resource Allocation under Long-Term Cost Constraints
633. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Desirable Effort Profiles in Strategic Classification: The Role of Causality and Uncertainty
634. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Truthful Language Models via Peer Elicitation Games
635. NeurIPS 2025Inference with correlated priors using sisters cells
636. NeurIPS 2025Infinite-Width Limit of a Single Attention Layer: Analysis via Tensor Programs
637. NeurIPS 2025Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems
638. NeurIPS 2025Is Grokking a Computational Glass Relaxation?
639. NeurIPS 2025Joint Design of Protein Surface and Backbone Using a Diffusion Bridge Model
640. NeurIPS 2025Learning-Augmented Facility Location Mechanisms for the Envy Ratio Objective
641. NeurIPS 2025Limitations of Normalization in Attention
642. NeurIPS 2025Majority of the Bests: Improving Best-of-N via Bootstrapping
643. NeurIPS 2025Manipulating 3D Molecules in a Fixed-Dimensional E(3)-Equivariant Latent Space
644. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design for LLM Fine-tuning with Multiple Reward Models
645. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design via the Interim Relaxation
646. NeurIPS 2025MI-TRQR: Mutual Information-Based Temporal Redundancy Quantification and Reduction for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
647. NeurIPS 2025MIHC: Multi-View Interpretable Hypergraph Neural Networks with Information Bottleneck for Chip Congestion Prediction
648. NeurIPS 2025MODEM: A Morton-Order Degradation Estimation Mechanism for Adverse Weather Image Recovery
649. NeurIPS 2025NAVIX: Scaling MiniGrid Environments with JAX
650. NeurIPS 2025NegoCollab: A Common Representation Negotiation Approach for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception

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.