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

295 papers, page 6 of 6

251. ICML 2024Self-attention Networks Localize When QK-eigenspectrum Concentrates
252. ICML 2024Sliding Down the Stairs: How Correlated Latent Variables Accelerate Learning with Neural Networks
253. ICML 2024Sparser, Better, Deeper, Stronger: Improving Static Sparse Training with Exact Orthogonal Initialization
254. ICML 2024Stochastic Bandits with ReLU Neural Networks
255. ICML 2024Structure-based drug design by denoising voxel grids
256. ICML 2024Subgraphormer: Unifying Subgraph GNNs and Graph Transformers via Graph Products
257. ICML 2024SurfPro: Functional Protein Design Based on Continuous Surface
258. ICML 2024The Pitfalls of Next-Token Prediction
259. ICML 2024Unmasking Vulnerabilities: Cardinality Sketches under Adaptive Inputs
260. ICML 2024Unsupervised Representation Learning of Brain Activity via Bridging Voxel Activity and Functional Connectivity
261. ICML 2023"Why did the Model Fail?": Attributing Model Performance Changes to Distribution Shifts
262. ICML 2023AbODE: Ab initio antibody design using conjoined ODEs
263. ICML 2023Are labels informative in semi-supervised learning? Estimating and leveraging the missing-data mechanism.
264. ICML 2023Bayesian Design Principles for Frequentist Sequential Learning
265. ICML 2023CO-BED: Information-Theoretic Contextual Optimization via Bayesian Experimental Design
266. ICML 2023Conformalization of Sparse Generalized Linear Models
267. ICML 2023Coordinated Dynamic Bidding in Repeated Second-Price Auctions with Budgets
268. ICML 2023Differentiable Multi-Target Causal Bayesian Experimental Design
269. ICML 2023DiscoBAX - Discovery of optimal intervention sets in genomic experiment design
270. ICML 2023DRew: Dynamically Rewired Message Passing with Delay
271. ICML 2023End-to-End Full-Atom Antibody Design
272. ICML 2023Fed-CBS: A Heterogeneity-Aware Client Sampling Mechanism for Federated Learning via Class-Imbalance Reduction
273. ICML 2023Generalized Implicit Follow-The-Regularized-Leader
274. ICML 2023Great Models Think Alike: Improving Model Reliability via Inter-Model Latent Agreement
275. ICML 2023Hidden Symmetries of ReLU Networks
276. ICML 2023Importance Weighted Expectation-Maximization for Protein Sequence Design
277. ICML 2023Improving Expert Predictions with Conformal Prediction
278. ICML 2023IRNeXt: Rethinking Convolutional Network Design for Image Restoration
279. ICML 2023Last Switch Dependent Bandits with Monotone Payoff Functions
280. ICML 2023Learning Subpocket Prototypes for Generalizable Structure-based Drug Design
281. ICML 2023Learning to Bid in Repeated First-Price Auctions with Budgets
282. ICML 2023Model-Free Robust Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning
283. ICML 2023Multi-Epoch Matrix Factorization Mechanisms for Private Machine Learning
284. ICML 2023Online Mechanism Design for Information Acquisition
285. ICML 2023Pricing Experimental Design: Causal Effect, Expected Revenue and Tail Risk
286. ICML 2023Privacy-Aware Compression for Federated Learning Through Numerical Mechanism Design
287. ICML 2023Provable Reset-free Reinforcement Learning by No-Regret Reduction
288. ICML 2023SAAL: Sharpness-Aware Active Learning
289. ICML 2023Sequential Kernelized Independence Testing
290. ICML 2023Sequential Strategic Screening
291. ICML 2023Simplex Random Features
292. ICML 2023Symmetry-Aware Robot Design with Structured Subgroups
293. ICML 2023Task-specific experimental design for treatment effect estimation
294. ICML 2023Transformers Learn In-Context by Gradient Descent
295. ICML 2023Trapdoor Normalization with Irreversible Ownership Verification

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.