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

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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. CVPR 2025A General Adaptive Dual-level Weighting Mechanism for Remote Sensing Pansharpening
60. CVPR 2025A Selective Re-learning Mechanism for Hyperspectral Fusion Imaging
61. CVPR 2025All Languages Matter: Evaluating LMMs on Culturally Diverse 100 Languages
62. CVPR 2025AniDoc: Animation Creation Made Easier
63. CVPR 2025BlueLM-V-3B: Algorithm and System Co-Design for Multimodal Large Language Models on Mobile Devices
64. CVPR 2025Breaking the Low-Rank Dilemma of Linear Attention
65. CVPR 2025CAD-Llama: Leveraging Large Language Models for Computer-Aided Design Parametric 3D Model Generation
66. CVPR 2025CADCrafter: Generating Computer-Aided Design Models from Unconstrained Images
67. CVPR 2025CASAGPT: Cuboid Arrangement and Scene Assembly for Interior Design
68. CVPR 2025Category-Agnostic Neural Object Rigging
69. CVPR 2025Classifier-Free Guidance Inside the Attraction Basin May Cause Memorization
70. CVPR 2025ComRoPE: Scalable and Robust Rotary Position Embedding Parameterized by Trainable Commuting Angle Matrices
71. CVPR 2025Decoder Gradient Shield: Provable and High-Fidelity Prevention of Gradient-Based Box-Free Watermark Removal
72. CVPR 2025Design2GarmentCode: Turning Design Concepts to Tangible Garments Through Program Synthesis
73. CVPR 2025DiC: Rethinking Conv3x3 Designs in Diffusion Models
74. CVPR 2025DiffFNO: Diffusion Fourier Neural Operator
75. CVPR 2025Diffusion Model is Effectively Its Own Teacher
76. CVPR 2025EASEMVC:Efficient Dual Selection Mechanism for Deep Multi-View Clustering
77. CVPR 2025Effective Cloud Removal for Remote Sensing Images by an Improved Mean-Reverting Denoising Model with Elucidated Design Space
78. CVPR 2025EmoDubber: Towards High Quality and Emotion Controllable Movie Dubbing
79. CVPR 2025EVOS: Efficient Implicit Neural Training via EVOlutionary Selector
80. CVPR 2025Frequency-Biased Synergistic Design for Image Compression and Compensation
81. CVPR 2025From Elements to Design: A Layered Approach for Automatic Graphic Design Composition
82. CVPR 2025GO-N3RDet: Geometry Optimized NeRF-enhanced 3D Object Detector
83. CVPR 2025LineArt: A Knowledge-guided Training-free High-quality Appearance Transfer for Design Drawing with Diffusion Model
84. CVPR 2025LSNet: See Large, Focus Small
85. CVPR 2025MambaIRv2: Attentive State Space Restoration
86. CVPR 2025MI-DETR: An Object Detection Model with Multi-time Inquiries Mechanism
87. CVPR 2025NADER: Neural Architecture Design via Multi-Agent Collaboration
88. CVPR 2025OverLoCK: An Overview-first-Look-Closely-next ConvNet with Context-Mixing Dynamic Kernels
89. CVPR 2025Quantization without Tears
90. CVPR 2025RC-AutoCalib: An End-to-End Radar-Camera Automatic Calibration Network
91. CVPR 2025Recurrent Feature Mining and Keypoint Mixup Padding for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
92. CVPR 2025Rethinking Decoder Design: Improving Biomarker Segmentation Using Depth-to-Space Restoration and Residual Linear Attention
93. CVPR 2025Rethinking Spiking Self-Attention Mechanism: Implementing a-XNOR Similarity Calculation in Spiking Transformers
94. CVPR 2025Seeing A 3D World in A Grain of Sand
95. CVPR 2025SpatialLLM: A Compound 3D-Informed Design towards Spatially-Intelligent Large Multimodal Models
96. CVPR 2025Spiking Transformer with Spatial-Temporal Attention
97. CVPR 2025Unveiling the Ignorance of MLLMs: Seeing Clearly, Answering Incorrectly
98. CVPR 2025VTON 360: High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On from Any Viewing Direction
99. CVPR 2024Adapters Strike Back
100. CVPR 2024Auto MC-Reward: Automated Dense Reward Design with Large Language Models for Minecraft

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.