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 2 of 21

51. CVPR 2026Task-Driven Implicit Representations for Automated Design of LiDAR Systems
52. CVPR 2026Towards Universal Computational Aberration Correction in Photographic Cameras A Comprehensive
53. CVPR 2026Tracking through Severe Occlusion via Event-Derived Transient Cues
54. CVPR 2026UIKA Fast Universal Head Avatar from Pose-Free Images
55. CVPR 2026Understanding Counting Mechanisms in Large Language and Vision-Language Models
56. CVPR 2026VGent Visual Grounding via Modular Design for Disentangling Reasoning and
57. CVPR 2026Virtual Full-stack Scanning of Brain MRI via Imputing Any Quantised
58. CVPR 2026Where What Why Toward Explainable 3D-GS Watermarking
59. ICLR 2026A Brain-Inspired Gating Mechanism Unlocks Robust Computation in Spiking Neural Networks
60. ICLR 2026A Joint Diffusion Model with Pre-Trained Priors for RNA Sequence–Structure Co-Design
61. ICLR 2026Accelerated co-design of robots through morphological pretraining
62. ICLR 2026Activation Function Design Sustains Plasticity in Continual Learning
63. ICLR 2026AFD-INSTRUCTION: A Comprehensive Antibody Instruction Dataset with Functional Annotations for LLM-Based Understanding and Design
64. ICLR 2026An Information-Theoretical Framework For Optimizing Experimental Design To Distinguish Probabilistic Neural Codes
65. ICLR 2026ASIDE: Architectural Separation of Instructions and Data in Language Models
66. ICLR 2026AutoEP: LLMs-Driven Automation of Hyperparameter Evolution for Metaheuristic Algorithms
67. ICLR 2026Bayesian Attention Mechanism: A Probabilistic Framework for Positional Encoding and Context Length Extrapolation
68. ICLR 2026BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design
69. ICLR 2026BioBO: Biology-informed Bayesian Optimization for Perturbation Design
70. ICLR 2026Breaking the Correlation Plateau: On the Optimization and Capacity Limits of Attention-Based Regressors
71. ICLR 2026CALM: Co-evolution of Algorithms and Language Model for Automatic Heuristic Design
72. ICLR 2026Can Vision–Language Models Assess Graphic Design Aesthetics? A Benchmark, Evaluation, and Dataset Perspective.
73. ICLR 2026Composer: A Search Framework for Hybrid Neural Architecture Design
74. ICLR 2026Constrained Diffusion for Protein Design with Hard Structural Constraints
75. ICLR 2026CreatiDesign: A Unified Multi-Conditional Diffusion Transformer for Creative Graphic Design
76. ICLR 2026Deep Latent Variable Model based Vertical Federated Learning with Flexible Alignment and Labeling Scenarios
77. ICLR 2026Deep-ICE: The first globally optimal algorithm for empirical risk minimization of two-layer maxout and ReLU networks
78. ICLR 2026Dimension-Free Minimax Rates for Learning Pairwise Interactions in Attention-Style Models
79. ICLR 2026DirMoE: Dirichlet-Routed Mixture of Experts
80. ICLR 2026Exploring the Design Space of Transition Matching
81. ICLR 2026Function Induction and Task Generalization: An Interpretability Study with Off-by-One Addition
82. ICLR 2026GmNet: Revisiting Gating Mechanisms From A Frequency View
83. ICLR 2026GoR: A Unified and Extensible Generative Framework for Ordinal Regression
84. ICLR 2026HiFo-Prompt: Prompting with Hindsight and Foresight for LLM-based Automatic Heuristic Design
85. ICLR 2026Householder-Diagonalized Linear Attention (HDLA): Utilizing Enhanced Decay Mechanism for Efficient Sequence Modeling
86. ICLR 2026How Muon’s Spectral Design Benefits Generalization: A Study on Imbalanced Data
87. ICLR 2026How Transformers Learn Causal Structures In-Context: Explainable Mechanism Meets Theoretical Guarantee
88. ICLR 2026Hyper-SET: Designing Transformers via Hyperspherical Energy Minimization
89. ICLR 2026Incentives in Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Agents
90. ICLR 2026Inference-Time Scaling of Discrete Diffusion Models via Importance Weighting and Optimal Proposal Design
91. ICLR 2026Learning AND–OR Templates for Compositional Representation in Art and Design
92. ICLR 2026Learning Self-Critiquing Mechanisms for Region-Guided Chest X-Ray Report Generation
93. ICLR 2026Leveraging Discrete Function Decomposability for Scientific Design
94. ICLR 2026Lipschitz Bandits with Stochastic Delayed Feedback
95. ICLR 2026LLMs are Single-threaded Reasoners: Demystifying the Working Mechanism of Soft Thinking
96. ICLR 2026Local Linear Attention: An Optimal Interpolation of Linear and Softmax Attention For Test-Time Regression
97. ICLR 2026MeanCache: From Instantaneous to Average Velocity for Accelerating Flow Matching Inference
98. ICLR 2026Mechanism of Task-oriented Information Removal in In-context Learning
99. ICLR 2026Mixing Mechanisms: How Language Models Retrieve Bound Entities In-Context
100. ICLR 2026Multi-Agent Design: Optimizing Agents with Better Prompts and Topologies

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.