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 20 of 21

951. ICLR 2023Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Design Spaces
952. ICLR 2023Protein Sequence and Structure Co-Design with Equivariant Translation
953. ICLR 2023Re-parameterizing Your Optimizers rather than Architectures
954. ICLR 2023Retrieval-based Controllable Molecule Generation
955. ICLR 2023Reward Design with Language Models
956. ICLR 2023SoftZoo: A Soft Robot Co-design Benchmark For Locomotion In Diverse Environments
957. ICLR 2023SP2 : A Second Order Stochastic Polyak Method
958. ICLR 2023Spatial Attention Kinetic Networks with E(n)-Equivariance
959. ICLR 2023Towards a Unified Theoretical Understanding of Non-contrastive Learning via Rank Differential Mechanism
960. ICLR 2023What shapes the loss landscape of self supervised learning?
961. ICML 2023"Why did the Model Fail?": Attributing Model Performance Changes to Distribution Shifts
962. ICML 2023AbODE: Ab initio antibody design using conjoined ODEs
963. ICML 2023Are labels informative in semi-supervised learning? Estimating and leveraging the missing-data mechanism.
964. ICML 2023Bayesian Design Principles for Frequentist Sequential Learning
965. ICML 2023CO-BED: Information-Theoretic Contextual Optimization via Bayesian Experimental Design
966. ICML 2023Conformalization of Sparse Generalized Linear Models
967. ICML 2023Coordinated Dynamic Bidding in Repeated Second-Price Auctions with Budgets
968. ICML 2023Differentiable Multi-Target Causal Bayesian Experimental Design
969. ICML 2023DiscoBAX - Discovery of optimal intervention sets in genomic experiment design
970. ICML 2023DRew: Dynamically Rewired Message Passing with Delay
971. ICML 2023End-to-End Full-Atom Antibody Design
972. ICML 2023Fed-CBS: A Heterogeneity-Aware Client Sampling Mechanism for Federated Learning via Class-Imbalance Reduction
973. ICML 2023Generalized Implicit Follow-The-Regularized-Leader
974. ICML 2023Great Models Think Alike: Improving Model Reliability via Inter-Model Latent Agreement
975. ICML 2023Hidden Symmetries of ReLU Networks
976. ICML 2023Importance Weighted Expectation-Maximization for Protein Sequence Design
977. ICML 2023Improving Expert Predictions with Conformal Prediction
978. ICML 2023IRNeXt: Rethinking Convolutional Network Design for Image Restoration
979. ICML 2023Last Switch Dependent Bandits with Monotone Payoff Functions
980. ICML 2023Learning Subpocket Prototypes for Generalizable Structure-based Drug Design
981. ICML 2023Learning to Bid in Repeated First-Price Auctions with Budgets
982. ICML 2023Model-Free Robust Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning
983. ICML 2023Multi-Epoch Matrix Factorization Mechanisms for Private Machine Learning
984. ICML 2023Online Mechanism Design for Information Acquisition
985. ICML 2023Pricing Experimental Design: Causal Effect, Expected Revenue and Tail Risk
986. ICML 2023Privacy-Aware Compression for Federated Learning Through Numerical Mechanism Design
987. ICML 2023Provable Reset-free Reinforcement Learning by No-Regret Reduction
988. ICML 2023SAAL: Sharpness-Aware Active Learning
989. ICML 2023Sequential Kernelized Independence Testing
990. ICML 2023Sequential Strategic Screening
991. ICML 2023Simplex Random Features
992. ICML 2023Symmetry-Aware Robot Design with Structured Subgroups
993. ICML 2023Task-specific experimental design for treatment effect estimation
994. ICML 2023Transformers Learn In-Context by Gradient Descent
995. ICML 2023Trapdoor Normalization with Irreversible Ownership Verification
996. NeurIPS 2023A Hierarchical Training Paradigm for Antibody Structure-sequence Co-design
997. NeurIPS 2023A Scalable Neural Network for DSIC Affine Maximizer Auction Design
998. NeurIPS 2023A Smooth Binary Mechanism for Efficient Private Continual Observation
999. NeurIPS 2023An Optimal and Scalable Matrix Mechanism for Noisy Marginals under Convex Loss Functions
1000. NeurIPS 2023Batch Bayesian Optimization For Replicable Experimental Design

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.