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

271 papers, page 4 of 6

151. ICML 2025Procurement Auctions via Approximately Optimal Submodular Optimization
152. ICML 2025R*: Efficient Reward Design via Reward Structure Evolution and Parameter Alignment Optimization with Large Language Models
153. ICML 2025Reliable Algorithm Selection for Machine Learning-Guided Design
154. ICML 2025Robot-Gated Interactive Imitation Learning with Adaptive Intervention Mechanism
155. ICML 2025Safely Learning Optimal Auctions: A Testable Learning Framework for Mechanism Design
156. ICML 2025Simple Randomized Rounding for Max-Min Eigenvalue Augmentation
157. ICML 2025Simplifying DINO via Coding Rate Regularization
158. ICML 2025Step-DAD: Semi-Amortized Policy-Based Bayesian Experimental Design
159. ICML 2025Stronger Neyman Regret Guarantees for Adaptive Experimental Design
160. ICML 2025Understanding the Skill Gap in Recurrent Language Models: The Role of the Gather-and-Aggregate Mechanism
161. ICML 2025Unraveling the Interplay between Carryover Effects and Reward Autocorrelations in Switchback Experiments
162. ICML 2025When Bad Data Leads to Good Models
163. ICML 2025You Get What You Give: Reciprocally Fair Federated Learning
164. NeurIPS 2025A Closer Look at Graph Transformers: Cross-Aggregation and Beyond
165. NeurIPS 2025A Cramér–von Mises Approach to Incentivizing Truthful Data Sharing
166. NeurIPS 2025A Dataset for Distilling Knowledge Priors from Literature for Therapeutic Design
167. NeurIPS 2025ALINE: Joint Amortization for Bayesian Inference and Active Data Acquisition
168. NeurIPS 2025AlphaFold Database Debiasing for Robust Inverse Folding
169. NeurIPS 2025Ambient Proteins - Training Diffusion Models on Noisy Structures
170. NeurIPS 2025Attention Mechanism, Max-Affine Partition, and Universal Approximation
171. NeurIPS 2025Attention Sinks: A 'Catch, Tag, Release' Mechanism for Embeddings
172. NeurIPS 2025Bayes optimal learning of attention-indexed models
173. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Last-Click: An Optimal Mechanism for Ad Attribution
174. NeurIPS 2025BikeBench: A Bicycle Design Benchmark for Generative Models with Objectives and Constraints
175. NeurIPS 2025Can Large Multimodal Models Understand Agricultural Scenes? Benchmarking with AgroMind
176. NeurIPS 2025Communication-Efficient Diffusion Denoising Parallelization via Reuse-then-Predict Mechanism
177. NeurIPS 2025Comparing Uniform Price and Discriminatory Multi-Unit Auctions through Regret Minimization
178. NeurIPS 2025Compress Large Language Models via Collaboration Between Learning and Matrix Approximation
179. NeurIPS 2025Convergent Functions, Divergent Forms
180. NeurIPS 2025Convolution Goes Higher-Order: A Biologically Inspired Mechanism Empowers Image Classification
181. NeurIPS 2025CPSea: Large-scale cyclic peptide-protein complex dataset for machine learning in cyclic peptide design
182. NeurIPS 2025Ctrl-DNA: Controllable Cell-Type-Specific Regulatory DNA Design via Constrained RL
183. NeurIPS 2025DeepKD: A Deeply Decoupled and Denoised Knowledge Distillation Trainer
184. NeurIPS 2025Design-Based Bandits Under Network Interference: Trade-Off Between Regret and Statistical Inference
185. NeurIPS 2025DuSA: Fast and Accurate Dual-Stage Sparse Attention Mechanism Accelerating Both Training and Inference
186. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Masking and Auxiliary Hash Learning for Enhanced Cross-Modal Retrieval
187. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Bayesian Experiment Design with Equivariant Networks
188. NeurIPS 2025Emergence of Linear Truth Encodings in Language Models
189. NeurIPS 2025EngiBench: A Framework for Data-Driven Engineering Design Research
190. NeurIPS 2025Error Broadcast and Decorrelation as a Potential Artificial and Natural Learning Mechanism
191. NeurIPS 2025Error Forcing in Recurrent Neural Networks
192. NeurIPS 2025Exploring the Design Space of Diffusion Bridge Models
193. NeurIPS 2025Exploring the Translation Mechanism of Large Language Models
194. NeurIPS 2025Fast attention mechanisms: a tale of parallelism
195. NeurIPS 2025FPSAttention: Training-Aware FP8 and Sparsity Co-Design for Fast Video Diffusion
196. NeurIPS 2025From Self-Check to Consensus: Bayesian Strategic Decoding in Large Language Models
197. NeurIPS 2025Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free
198. NeurIPS 2025Generalization Bounds for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) and Enhanced KANs with Lower Lipschitz Complexity
199. NeurIPS 2025Geometric Algebra-Enhanced Bayesian Flow Network for RNA Inverse Design
200. NeurIPS 2025GLID$^2$E: A Gradient-Free Lightweight Fine-tune Approach for Discrete Biological Sequence 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.