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 5 of 21

201. ICML 2026Nonlinear Covariate Balance in Experimental Design
202. ICML 2026On Structured State-Space Duality
203. ICML 2026On the Coordination of Value-Maximizing Bidders
204. ICML 2026Online Bayesian Experimental Design for Partially Observed Dynamical Systems
205. ICML 2026Order Matters: Unveiling the Hidden Impact of Macro Placement Sequences via Proxy-Guided LLM Evolution
206. ICML 2026Overcoming the Incentive Collapse Paradox
207. ICML 2026PACE: Parameter Change for Unsupervised Environment Design
208. ICML 2026PathWise: Planning through World Model for Automated Heuristic Design via Self-Evolving LLMs
209. ICML 2026PDFBench: A Benchmark for De Novo Protein Design from Function
210. ICML 2026Practical Mechanism for Fault-Tolerant Spiking Neural Networks via Simple Input Control Based on Learnable Fragmentation
211. ICML 2026Principled SVD-based Delta Compression via Quantization Error Minimization
212. ICML 2026ProtDBench: A Unified Benchmark of Protein Binder Design and Evaluation
213. ICML 2026Prototype Transformer: Towards Language Model Architectures Interpretable by Design
214. ICML 2026Provably Data-driven Lagrangian Relaxation for Mixed Integer Linear Programming
215. ICML 2026Pruning at Initialisation through the lens of Graphon Limit: Convergence, Expressivity, and Generalisation
216. ICML 2026RAT+: Train Dense, Infer Sparse - Recurrence Augmented Attention for Dilated Inference
217. ICML 2026ReNF: Rethinking the Design of Neural Long-Term Time Series Forecasters
218. ICML 2026Resting Neurons, Active Insights: Robustifying Activation Sparsity in LLMs via Spontaneity
219. ICML 2026Rethinking Gating Mechanism in Sparse MoE: Handling Arbitrary Modality Inputs with Confidence-Guided Gate
220. ICML 2026Rethinking GNNs and Missing Features: Challenges, Evaluation and a Robust Solution
221. ICML 2026Revenue Guarantees of No-Swap-Regret Dynamics in First Price Auctions
222. ICML 2026Risk-Averse and Optimistic Advertiser Incentive Compatibility in Auto-bidding
223. ICML 2026Robust Sequential Experimental Design for A/B Testing
224. ICML 2026RTInfer: Real-Time Inference of Multiple DNNs on Edge GPUs
225. ICML 2026RulePlanner: All-in-One Reinforcement Learner for Unifying Design Rules in 3D Floorplanning
226. ICML 2026Selling Data as a Digital Good with Scaling Valuations
227. ICML 2026SiameseNorm: Breaking the Barrier to Reconciling Pre/Post-Norm
228. ICML 2026SlideSparse: Fast and Flexible (2N-2):2N Structured Sparsity
229. ICML 2026Softplus Attention with Re-weighting Boosts Length Extrapolation in Large Language Models
230. ICML 2026Sparser Block-Sparse Attention via Token Permutation
231. ICML 2026Spherical SO(3) Equivariant Local Attention
232. ICML 2026SpikeNet: Sparse Spike-Driven Mask Vector Transformer for Energy-Efficient and Stable Spiking Point Cloud Processing
233. ICML 2026Stability-Aware Feature Design for Robust Watermark Detection in Machine-Generated Text
234. ICML 2026Steering Large Language Models through the DMTA Cycle: Structure-Based Drug Design via Knowledge-Driven Bi-Level Thompson Sampling
235. ICML 2026Stop Training for the Worst: Progressive Unmasking Accelerates Masked Diffusion Training
236. ICML 2026SwitchCraft: A Programmatic Framework for Designing State-Switching Proteins
237. ICML 2026Test-Time Training with KV Binding Is Secretly Linear Attention
238. ICML 2026The Geometric Origin of Grokking: Accelerating Generalization via Active Structural Reorganization
239. ICML 2026The Role of Target Update Frequencies in Q-Learning
240. ICML 2026Towards Docking-oriented De Novo Ligand Design via Gradient Inversion
241. ICML 2026Towards Understanding Massive Activations in Attention Sink Mechanism
242. ICML 2026TRACE: Trajectory Recovery for Continuous Mechanism Evolution in Causal Representation Learning
243. ICML 2026Tractable Expected Information Gains for Exponential Family Posteriors
244. ICML 2026Transformers with RL or SFT Provably Learn Sparse Boolean Functions, But Differently
245. ICML 2026Tucker Attention: A generalization of approximate attention mechanisms
246. ICML 2026Universal Approximation with Softmax Attention
247. ICML 2026Universal Representation of Generalized Convex Functions and their Gradients
248. ICML 2026Unveiling the Role of Data Uncertainty in Tabular Deep Learning
249. ICML 2026Welfare-Optimal Classification with Accuracy Auctions
250. ICML 2026WildCat: Near-Linear Attention in Theory and Practice

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.