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 14 of 21

651. NeurIPS 2025NeuroH-TGL: Neuro-Heterogeneity Guided Temporal Graph Learning Strategy for Brain Disease Diagnosis
652. NeurIPS 2025No-Regret Online Autobidding Algorithms in First-price Auctions
653. NeurIPS 2025Normalized Attention Guidance: Universal Negative Guidance for Diffusion Models
654. NeurIPS 2025On Vanishing Gradients, Over-Smoothing, and Over-Squashing in GNNs: Bridging Recurrent and Graph Learning
655. NeurIPS 2025Online Experimental Design With Estimation-Regret Trade-off Under Network Interference
656. NeurIPS 2025Parsimonious Predictions for Strategyproof Scheduling
657. NeurIPS 2025PaTH Attention: Position Encoding via Accumulating Householder Transformations
658. NeurIPS 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 4.1, Architecture Design and the Magic of Canon Layers
659. NeurIPS 2025Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track
660. NeurIPS 2025Prior-Guided Flow Matching for Target-Aware Molecule Design with Learnable Atom Number
661. NeurIPS 2025Procurement Auctions with Predictions: Improved Frugality for Facility Location
662. NeurIPS 2025ProSpero: Active Learning for Robust Protein Design Beyond Wild-Type Neighborhoods
663. NeurIPS 2025Protein Design with Dynamic Protein Vocabulary
664. NeurIPS 2025Protein Inverse Folding From Structure Feedback
665. NeurIPS 2025ProtInvTree: Deliberate Protein Inverse Folding with Reward-guided Tree Search
666. NeurIPS 2025PubSub-VFL: Towards Efficient Two-Party Split Learning in Heterogeneous Environments via Publisher/Subscriber Architecture
667. NeurIPS 2025Rationalized All-Atom Protein Design with Unified Multi-Modal Bayesian Flow
668. NeurIPS 2025Repurposing AlphaFold3-like Protein Folding Models for Antibody Sequence and Structure Co-design
669. NeurIPS 2025Reverse-Annealed Sequential Monte Carlo for Efficient Bayesian Optimal Experiment Design
670. NeurIPS 2025RiboFlow: Conditional De Novo RNA Co-Design via Synergistic Flow Matching
671. NeurIPS 2025Rope to Nope and Back Again: A New Hybrid Attention Strategy
672. NeurIPS 2025SafePTR: Token-Level Jailbreak Defense in Multimodal LLMs via Prune-then-Restore Mechanism
673. NeurIPS 2025Sample complexity of data-driven tuning of model hyperparameters in neural networks with structured parameter-dependent dual function
674. NeurIPS 2025Scalable Neural Incentive Design with Parameterized Mean-Field Approximation
675. NeurIPS 2025ScatterAD: Temporal-Topological Scattering Mechanism for Time Series Anomaly Detection
676. NeurIPS 2025Shapley-Coop: Credit Assignment for Emergent Cooperation in Self-Interested LLM Agents
677. NeurIPS 2025Smooth Quadratic Prediction Markets
678. NeurIPS 2025SMRS: advocating a unified reporting standard for surrogate models in the artificial intelligence era.
679. NeurIPS 2025Social World Model-Augmented Mechanism Design Policy Learning
680. NeurIPS 2025Spark Transformer: Reactivating Sparsity in Transformer FFN and Attention
681. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Analysis of Diffusion Models with Application to Schedule Design
682. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Conditioning of Attention Improves Transformer Performance
683. NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Principal-Agent Problems: Computing and Learning Optimal History-Dependent Policies
684. NeurIPS 2025Stochastically Dominant Peer Prediction
685. NeurIPS 2025Strassen Attention, Split VC Dimension and Compositionality in Transformers
686. NeurIPS 2025Strategyproof Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
687. NeurIPS 2025Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
688. NeurIPS 2025TF-MAS: Training-free Mamba2 Architecture Search
689. NeurIPS 2025ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs
690. NeurIPS 2025Towards a Golden Classifier-Free Guidance Path via Foresight Fixed Point Iterations
691. NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable and Holistic Visual In-Context Learning Prompt Selection
692. NeurIPS 2025Towards Understanding the Mechanisms of Classifier-Free Guidance
693. NeurIPS 2025Truthful Aggregation of LLMs with an Application to Online Advertising
694. NeurIPS 2025Unifying and Enhancing Graph Transformers via a Hierarchical Mask Framework
695. NeurIPS 2025VeriLoC: Line-of-Code Level Prediction of Hardware Design Quality from Verilog Code
696. NeurIPS 2025What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink
697. NeurIPS 2025Where and How to Perturb: On the Design of Perturbation Guidance in Diffusion and Flow Models
698. CVPR 2024Adapters Strike Back
699. CVPR 2024Auto MC-Reward: Automated Dense Reward Design with Large Language Models for Minecraft
700. CVPR 2024Autoregressive Queries for Adaptive Tracking with Spatio-Temporal Transformers

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.