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

108 papers, page 2 of 3

51. NeurIPS 2025Learning-Augmented Facility Location Mechanisms for the Envy Ratio Objective
52. NeurIPS 2025Limitations of Normalization in Attention
53. NeurIPS 2025Majority of the Bests: Improving Best-of-N via Bootstrapping
54. NeurIPS 2025Manipulating 3D Molecules in a Fixed-Dimensional E(3)-Equivariant Latent Space
55. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design for LLM Fine-tuning with Multiple Reward Models
56. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design via the Interim Relaxation
57. NeurIPS 2025MI-TRQR: Mutual Information-Based Temporal Redundancy Quantification and Reduction for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
58. NeurIPS 2025MIHC: Multi-View Interpretable Hypergraph Neural Networks with Information Bottleneck for Chip Congestion Prediction
59. NeurIPS 2025MODEM: A Morton-Order Degradation Estimation Mechanism for Adverse Weather Image Recovery
60. NeurIPS 2025NAVIX: Scaling MiniGrid Environments with JAX
61. NeurIPS 2025NegoCollab: A Common Representation Negotiation Approach for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
62. NeurIPS 2025NeuroH-TGL: Neuro-Heterogeneity Guided Temporal Graph Learning Strategy for Brain Disease Diagnosis
63. NeurIPS 2025No-Regret Online Autobidding Algorithms in First-price Auctions
64. NeurIPS 2025Normalized Attention Guidance: Universal Negative Guidance for Diffusion Models
65. NeurIPS 2025On Vanishing Gradients, Over-Smoothing, and Over-Squashing in GNNs: Bridging Recurrent and Graph Learning
66. NeurIPS 2025Online Experimental Design With Estimation-Regret Trade-off Under Network Interference
67. NeurIPS 2025Parsimonious Predictions for Strategyproof Scheduling
68. NeurIPS 2025PaTH Attention: Position Encoding via Accumulating Householder Transformations
69. NeurIPS 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 4.1, Architecture Design and the Magic of Canon Layers
70. NeurIPS 2025Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track
71. NeurIPS 2025Prior-Guided Flow Matching for Target-Aware Molecule Design with Learnable Atom Number
72. NeurIPS 2025Procurement Auctions with Predictions: Improved Frugality for Facility Location
73. NeurIPS 2025ProSpero: Active Learning for Robust Protein Design Beyond Wild-Type Neighborhoods
74. NeurIPS 2025Protein Design with Dynamic Protein Vocabulary
75. NeurIPS 2025Protein Inverse Folding From Structure Feedback
76. NeurIPS 2025ProtInvTree: Deliberate Protein Inverse Folding with Reward-guided Tree Search
77. NeurIPS 2025PubSub-VFL: Towards Efficient Two-Party Split Learning in Heterogeneous Environments via Publisher/Subscriber Architecture
78. NeurIPS 2025Rationalized All-Atom Protein Design with Unified Multi-Modal Bayesian Flow
79. NeurIPS 2025Repurposing AlphaFold3-like Protein Folding Models for Antibody Sequence and Structure Co-design
80. NeurIPS 2025Reverse-Annealed Sequential Monte Carlo for Efficient Bayesian Optimal Experiment Design
81. NeurIPS 2025RiboFlow: Conditional De Novo RNA Co-Design via Synergistic Flow Matching
82. NeurIPS 2025Rope to Nope and Back Again: A New Hybrid Attention Strategy
83. NeurIPS 2025SafePTR: Token-Level Jailbreak Defense in Multimodal LLMs via Prune-then-Restore Mechanism
84. NeurIPS 2025Sample complexity of data-driven tuning of model hyperparameters in neural networks with structured parameter-dependent dual function
85. NeurIPS 2025Scalable Neural Incentive Design with Parameterized Mean-Field Approximation
86. NeurIPS 2025ScatterAD: Temporal-Topological Scattering Mechanism for Time Series Anomaly Detection
87. NeurIPS 2025Shapley-Coop: Credit Assignment for Emergent Cooperation in Self-Interested LLM Agents
88. NeurIPS 2025Smooth Quadratic Prediction Markets
89. NeurIPS 2025SMRS: advocating a unified reporting standard for surrogate models in the artificial intelligence era.
90. NeurIPS 2025Social World Model-Augmented Mechanism Design Policy Learning
91. NeurIPS 2025Spark Transformer: Reactivating Sparsity in Transformer FFN and Attention
92. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Analysis of Diffusion Models with Application to Schedule Design
93. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Conditioning of Attention Improves Transformer Performance
94. NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Principal-Agent Problems: Computing and Learning Optimal History-Dependent Policies
95. NeurIPS 2025Stochastically Dominant Peer Prediction
96. NeurIPS 2025Strassen Attention, Split VC Dimension and Compositionality in Transformers
97. NeurIPS 2025Strategyproof Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
98. NeurIPS 2025Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
99. NeurIPS 2025TF-MAS: Training-free Mamba2 Architecture Search
100. NeurIPS 2025ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs

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.