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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201. NeurIPS 2025EngiBench: A Framework for Data-Driven Engineering Design Research
202. NeurIPS 2025Error Broadcast and Decorrelation as a Potential Artificial and Natural Learning Mechanism
203. NeurIPS 2025Error Forcing in Recurrent Neural Networks
204. NeurIPS 2025Exploring the Design Space of Diffusion Bridge Models
205. NeurIPS 2025Exploring the Translation Mechanism of Large Language Models
206. NeurIPS 2025Fast attention mechanisms: a tale of parallelism
207. NeurIPS 2025FPSAttention: Training-Aware FP8 and Sparsity Co-Design for Fast Video Diffusion
208. NeurIPS 2025From Self-Check to Consensus: Bayesian Strategic Decoding in Large Language Models
209. NeurIPS 2025Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free
210. NeurIPS 2025Generalization Bounds for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) and Enhanced KANs with Lower Lipschitz Complexity
211. NeurIPS 2025Geometric Algebra-Enhanced Bayesian Flow Network for RNA Inverse Design
212. NeurIPS 2025GLID$^2$E: A Gradient-Free Lightweight Fine-tune Approach for Discrete Biological Sequence Design
213. NeurIPS 2025Hadamax Encoding: Elevating Performance in Model-Free Atari
214. NeurIPS 2025Hardware-aligned Hierarchical Sparse Attention for Efficient Long-term Memory Access
215. NeurIPS 2025How Does Sequence Modeling Architecture Influence Base Capabilities of Pre-trained Language Models? Exploring Key Architecture Design Principles to Avoid Base Capabilities Degradation
216. NeurIPS 2025Impartial Selection with Predictions
217. NeurIPS 2025Improved Regret Bounds for Linear Bandits with Heavy-Tailed Rewards
218. NeurIPS 2025Incentive-Aware Dynamic Resource Allocation under Long-Term Cost Constraints
219. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Desirable Effort Profiles in Strategic Classification: The Role of Causality and Uncertainty
220. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Truthful Language Models via Peer Elicitation Games
221. NeurIPS 2025Inference with correlated priors using sisters cells
222. NeurIPS 2025Infinite-Width Limit of a Single Attention Layer: Analysis via Tensor Programs
223. NeurIPS 2025Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems
224. NeurIPS 2025Is Grokking a Computational Glass Relaxation?
225. NeurIPS 2025Joint Design of Protein Surface and Backbone Using a Diffusion Bridge Model
226. NeurIPS 2025Learning-Augmented Facility Location Mechanisms for the Envy Ratio Objective
227. NeurIPS 2025Limitations of Normalization in Attention
228. NeurIPS 2025Majority of the Bests: Improving Best-of-N via Bootstrapping
229. NeurIPS 2025Manipulating 3D Molecules in a Fixed-Dimensional E(3)-Equivariant Latent Space
230. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design for LLM Fine-tuning with Multiple Reward Models
231. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design via the Interim Relaxation
232. NeurIPS 2025MI-TRQR: Mutual Information-Based Temporal Redundancy Quantification and Reduction for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
233. NeurIPS 2025MIHC: Multi-View Interpretable Hypergraph Neural Networks with Information Bottleneck for Chip Congestion Prediction
234. NeurIPS 2025MODEM: A Morton-Order Degradation Estimation Mechanism for Adverse Weather Image Recovery
235. NeurIPS 2025NAVIX: Scaling MiniGrid Environments with JAX
236. NeurIPS 2025NegoCollab: A Common Representation Negotiation Approach for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
237. NeurIPS 2025NeuroH-TGL: Neuro-Heterogeneity Guided Temporal Graph Learning Strategy for Brain Disease Diagnosis
238. NeurIPS 2025No-Regret Online Autobidding Algorithms in First-price Auctions
239. NeurIPS 2025Normalized Attention Guidance: Universal Negative Guidance for Diffusion Models
240. NeurIPS 2025On Vanishing Gradients, Over-Smoothing, and Over-Squashing in GNNs: Bridging Recurrent and Graph Learning
241. NeurIPS 2025Online Experimental Design With Estimation-Regret Trade-off Under Network Interference
242. NeurIPS 2025Parsimonious Predictions for Strategyproof Scheduling
243. NeurIPS 2025PaTH Attention: Position Encoding via Accumulating Householder Transformations
244. NeurIPS 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 4.1, Architecture Design and the Magic of Canon Layers
245. NeurIPS 2025Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track
246. NeurIPS 2025Prior-Guided Flow Matching for Target-Aware Molecule Design with Learnable Atom Number
247. NeurIPS 2025Procurement Auctions with Predictions: Improved Frugality for Facility Location
248. NeurIPS 2025ProSpero: Active Learning for Robust Protein Design Beyond Wild-Type Neighborhoods
249. NeurIPS 2025Protein Design with Dynamic Protein Vocabulary
250. NeurIPS 2025Protein Inverse Folding From Structure Feedback

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.