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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151. ICLR 2023Conditional Antibody Design as 3D Equivariant Graph Translation
152. ICLR 2023Curriculum-based Co-design of Morphology and Control of Voxel-based Soft Robots
153. ICLR 2023DamoFD: Digging into Backbone Design on Face Detection
154. ICLR 2023Dilated convolution with learnable spacings
155. ICLR 2023Disentangling the Mechanisms Behind Implicit Regularization in SGD
156. ICLR 2023Don’t forget the nullspace! Nullspace occupancy as a mechanism for out of distribution failure
157. ICLR 2023DySR: Adaptive Super-Resolution via Algorithm and System Co-design
158. ICLR 2023Efficient Attention via Control Variates
159. ICLR 2023Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents
160. ICLR 2023Encoding Recurrence into Transformers
161. ICLR 2023Equivariant Shape-Conditioned Generation of 3D Molecules for Ligand-Based Drug Design
162. ICLR 2023HiViT: A Simpler and More Efficient Design of Hierarchical Vision Transformer
163. ICLR 2023How Sharpness-Aware Minimization Minimizes Sharpness?
164. ICLR 2023LAVA: Data Valuation without Pre-Specified Learning Algorithms
165. ICLR 2023LDMIC: Learning-based Distributed Multi-view Image Coding
166. ICLR 2023Learning Symbolic Models for Graph-structured Physical Mechanism
167. ICLR 2023Mega: Moving Average Equipped Gated Attention
168. ICLR 2023Neural Architecture Design and Robustness: A Dataset
169. ICLR 2023Neural Design for Genetic Perturbation Experiments
170. ICLR 2023Neuromechanical Autoencoders: Learning to Couple Elastic and Neural Network Nonlinearity
171. ICLR 2023Nonlinear Reconstruction for Operator Learning of PDEs with Discontinuities
172. ICLR 2023Ordered GNN: Ordering Message Passing to Deal with Heterophily and Over-smoothing
173. ICLR 2023Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Design Spaces
174. ICLR 2023Protein Sequence and Structure Co-Design with Equivariant Translation
175. ICLR 2023Re-parameterizing Your Optimizers rather than Architectures
176. ICLR 2023Retrieval-based Controllable Molecule Generation
177. ICLR 2023Reward Design with Language Models
178. ICLR 2023SoftZoo: A Soft Robot Co-design Benchmark For Locomotion In Diverse Environments
179. ICLR 2023SP2 : A Second Order Stochastic Polyak Method
180. ICLR 2023Spatial Attention Kinetic Networks with E(n)-Equivariance
181. ICLR 2023Towards a Unified Theoretical Understanding of Non-contrastive Learning via Rank Differential Mechanism
182. ICLR 2023What shapes the loss landscape of self supervised learning?

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.