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 21 of 21

1001. NeurIPS 2023Bicriteria Multidimensional Mechanism Design with Side Information
1002. NeurIPS 2023Bootstrapped Training of Score-Conditioned Generator for Offline Design of Biological Sequences
1003. NeurIPS 2023CLIP-OGD: An Experimental Design for Adaptive Neyman Allocation in Sequential Experiments
1004. NeurIPS 2023Computing Optimal Equilibria and Mechanisms via Learning in Zero-Sum Extensive-Form Games
1005. NeurIPS 2023Data Market Design through Deep Learning
1006. NeurIPS 2023Datasets and Benchmarks for Nanophotonic Structure and Parametric Design Simulations
1007. NeurIPS 2023Deep Contract Design via Discontinuous Networks
1008. NeurIPS 2023Design from Policies: Conservative Test-Time Adaptation for Offline Policy Optimization
1009. NeurIPS 2023Double Auctions with Two-sided Bandit Feedback
1010. NeurIPS 2023Emergent Communication in Interactive Sketch Question Answering
1011. NeurIPS 2023Experimental Designs for Heteroskedastic Variance
1012. NeurIPS 2023Gold-YOLO: Efficient Object Detector via Gather-and-Distribute Mechanism
1013. NeurIPS 2023Incentives in Federated Learning: Equilibria, Dynamics, and Mechanisms for Welfare Maximization
1014. NeurIPS 2023Learning to Group Auxiliary Datasets for Molecule
1015. NeurIPS 2023LinkerNet: Fragment Poses and Linker Co-Design with 3D Equivariant Diffusion
1016. NeurIPS 2023MathNAS: If Blocks Have a Role in Mathematical Architecture Design
1017. NeurIPS 2023Max-Margin Token Selection in Attention Mechanism
1018. NeurIPS 2023Mechanism Design for Collaborative Normal Mean Estimation
1019. NeurIPS 2023MIMONets: Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output Neural Networks Exploiting Computation in Superposition
1020. NeurIPS 2023Minimax Risks and Optimal Procedures for Estimation under Functional Local Differential Privacy
1021. NeurIPS 2023Mode Connectivity in Auction Design
1022. NeurIPS 2023On the Robustness of Mechanism Design under Total Variation Distance
1023. NeurIPS 2023Optimized Covariance Design for AB Test on Social Network under Interference
1024. NeurIPS 2023Optimizing over trained GNNs via symmetry breaking
1025. NeurIPS 2023Particle-based Variational Inference with Generalized Wasserstein Gradient Flow
1026. NeurIPS 2023Protein Design with Guided Discrete Diffusion
1027. NeurIPS 2023ProteinNPT: Improving Protein Property Prediction and Design with Non-Parametric Transformers
1028. NeurIPS 2023Refined Mechanism Design for Approximately Structured Priors via Active Regression
1029. NeurIPS 2023Residual Alignment: Uncovering the Mechanisms of Residual Networks
1030. NeurIPS 2023Rethinking Incentives in Recommender Systems: Are Monotone Rewards Always Beneficial?
1031. NeurIPS 2023Reusable Slotwise Mechanisms
1032. NeurIPS 2023Robust Data Valuation with Weighted Banzhaf Values
1033. NeurIPS 2023Sparse Modular Activation for Efficient Sequence Modeling
1034. NeurIPS 2023Tartarus: A Benchmarking Platform for Realistic And Practical Inverse Molecular Design
1035. NeurIPS 2023Triple Eagle: Simple, Fast and Practical Budget-Feasible Mechanisms
1036. NeurIPS 2023TriRE: A Multi-Mechanism Learning Paradigm for Continual Knowledge Retention and Promotion
1037. NeurIPS 2023Utilitarian Algorithm Configuration

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.