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. ICML 2026Design Linear Constrained Neural Layers with Implicit Convex Optimization
152. ICML 2026Design-Based Anytime-Valid Inference for Randomized Experiments with Delayed Outcomes and Staggered Entry
153. ICML 2026Designing Observation and Action Models for Efficient Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
154. ICML 2026Dissecting Causal Mechanism Shifts via FANS: Function And Noise Separation
155. ICML 2026Dissecting Multimodal In-Context Learning: Modality Asymmetries and Circuit Dynamics in modern Transformers
156. ICML 2026Diving into Kronecker Adapters: Component Design Matters
157. ICML 2026Dreaming in Code for Curriculum Learning in Open-Ended Worlds
158. ICML 2026Dual Mechanisms of Value Expression: Intrinsic vs. Prompted Values in Large Language Models
159. ICML 2026Dynamic Relational Priming Improves Transformer in Multivariate Time Series
160. ICML 2026ECo-MoE: Embodiment-Conditioned Mixture of Experts Increases the Evolvability of Robots
161. ICML 2026Enhancing Affine Maximizer Auctions with Correlation-Aware Payment
162. ICML 2026EpiCoCo: De Novo Epitope Generation via MHC-Context Co-Modeling and Contrastive Affinity Guidance
163. ICML 2026Equivalence of Context and Parameter Updates in Modern Transformer Blocks
164. ICML 2026EvoEGF-Mol: Evolving Exponential Geodesic Flow for Structure-based Drug Design
165. ICML 2026Evolution of Benchmark: Black-Box Optimization Benchmark Design through Large Language Model
166. ICML 2026Few-Shot Design Optimization by Exploiting Auxiliary Information
167. ICML 2026FiX: Introducing Fine-grained Forget Gate into Softmax Attention
168. ICML 2026FlashSketch: Sketch-Kernel Co-Design for Fast Sparse Sketching on GPUs
169. ICML 2026Flexibility-Aware Geometric Latent Diffusion for Full-Atom Peptide Design
170. ICML 2026Focus and Dilution: The Multi-stage Learning Process of Attention
171. ICML 2026From Evaluation to Design: Using Potential Energy Surface Smoothness Metrics to Guide ML Interatomic Potential Architectures
172. ICML 2026From Holo Pockets to Electron Density: GPT-style Drug Design with Density
173. ICML 2026From Lyapunov Analysis to Algorithm Design in two-sided PL Minimax Optimization
174. ICML 2026From Welfare to Utility: Generalized Objectives in Budget-Feasible Procurement
175. ICML 2026Generative Inverse Design with Abstention via Diagonal Flow Matching
176. ICML 2026GTPO and GRPO-S: Token and Sequence-Level Reward Shaping with Policy Entropy
177. ICML 2026GuidedBridge: Training-freely Improving Bridge Models with Prior Guidance
178. ICML 2026Head-in-Head in Linear Attention
179. ICML 2026Hierarchical Decision Making with Structured Policies: A Principled Design via Inverse Optimization
180. ICML 2026Hierarchical Representations for Cross-task Automated Heuristic Design using LLMs
181. ICML 2026How Transformers Represent Hierarchies: A Local-to-Global Mechanism
182. ICML 2026Ideal Attribution and Faithful Watermarks for Language Models
183. ICML 2026Incentivized Exploration with Stochastic Covariates: A Two-Stage Mechanism Design for Recommender System
184. ICML 2026Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
185. ICML 2026JADAI: Jointly Amortizing Adaptive Design and Bayesian Inference
186. ICML 2026Knowing Who, Not How Much: Learning-Augmented Mechanisms for Consumer Utility Maximization
187. ICML 2026Krause Synchronization Transformers
188. ICML 2026Leaderboard Incentives: Model Rankings under Strategic Post-Training
189. ICML 2026Learning Adaptive Topology with FiLM-Guided Distillation for Tertiary Structure-Based RNA Design
190. ICML 2026LIVEditor-14B: Lightning Unified Video Editing via In-Context Sparse Attention
191. ICML 2026Local Mechanisms of Compositional Generalization in Conditional Diffusion
192. ICML 2026MDN: Parallelizing Stepwise Momentum for Delta Linear Attention
193. ICML 2026Memory-Efficient LLM Pretraining via Minimalist Optimizer Design
194. ICML 2026Mind the Gap: Mixtures of Gaussians in Approximate Differential Privacy
195. ICML 2026Mitigating Plasticity Loss through Architectural Design in Continual Learning
196. ICML 2026Model Monotonicity in Autobidding Auctions: When Do Better Predictions Lead to Better Outcomes?
197. ICML 2026Multi-Level Strategic Classification: Incentivizing Improvement through Promotion and Relegation Dynamics
198. ICML 2026Natural Hypergradient Descent: Algorithm Design, Convergence Analysis, and Parallel Implementation
199. ICML 2026Neural Collapse by Design: Learning Class Prototypes on the Hypersphere
200. ICML 2026No More, No Less: Least-Privilege Language Models

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.