Mechanism Design papers, 2023–2026
Auctions and mechanisms
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,037 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 42 | 34 | 35 | 29 | 140 |
| 2024 | 69 | 25 | 67 | 39 | 200 |
| 2025 | 108 | 58 | 65 | 40 | 271 |
| 2026 | 175 | 65 | 128 | 58 | 426 |
Representative papers
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- 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 6 of 6
- NeurIPS 2025Smooth Quadratic Prediction Markets
- NeurIPS 2025SMRS: advocating a unified reporting standard for surrogate models in the artificial intelligence era.
- NeurIPS 2025Social World Model-Augmented Mechanism Design Policy Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Spark Transformer: Reactivating Sparsity in Transformer FFN and Attention
- NeurIPS 2025Spectral Analysis of Diffusion Models with Application to Schedule Design
- NeurIPS 2025Spectral Conditioning of Attention Improves Transformer Performance
- NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Principal-Agent Problems: Computing and Learning Optimal History-Dependent Policies
- NeurIPS 2025Stochastically Dominant Peer Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025Strassen Attention, Split VC Dimension and Compositionality in Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025Strategyproof Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- NeurIPS 2025Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
- NeurIPS 2025TF-MAS: Training-free Mamba2 Architecture Search
- NeurIPS 2025ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs
- NeurIPS 2025Towards a Golden Classifier-Free Guidance Path via Foresight Fixed Point Iterations
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable and Holistic Visual In-Context Learning Prompt Selection
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Understanding the Mechanisms of Classifier-Free Guidance
- NeurIPS 2025Truthful Aggregation of LLMs with an Application to Online Advertising
- NeurIPS 2025Unifying and Enhancing Graph Transformers via a Hierarchical Mask Framework
- NeurIPS 2025VeriLoC: Line-of-Code Level Prediction of Hardware Design Quality from Verilog Code
- NeurIPS 2025What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink
- NeurIPS 2025Where and How to Perturb: On the Design of Perturbation Guidance in Diffusion and Flow Models
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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.