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 9 of 21

401. NeurIPS 2026Sponsored Questions and How to Auction Them
402. NeurIPS 2026Stabilizing Extrapolation in Looped Transformers via Learned Stochastic Stopping
403. NeurIPS 2026Subliminal Learning as Trait-Direction Drift: A Mechanism and Targeted Control under SFT Distillation
404. NeurIPS 2026Support Before Frequency in Discrete Diffusion
405. NeurIPS 2026Swimba: Switch Mamba Model Scales State Space Models
406. NeurIPS 2026Take It or Leave It: Intent-Controlled Partial Optimal Transport
407. NeurIPS 2026TANGO: RNA Topology and Geometry Co-Design
408. NeurIPS 2026Task-Driven Bayesian Experimental Design Yields Singly Intractable Objectives for Joint Policy Training
409. NeurIPS 2026Temporal Alignment Guidance: On-manifold Sampling in Diffusion Models
410. NeurIPS 2026The Alternation Depth Principle for Neural Operator Design
411. NeurIPS 2026The Design Space of Tri-Modal Masked Diffusion Models
412. NeurIPS 2026The Dormant Spiking Neuron: A State-Driven Mechanism for Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
413. NeurIPS 2026The Key to Going Linear: Analysis-Driven Transformer Linearization
414. NeurIPS 2026The Path Not Taken: RLVR Learns Off the Principals
415. NeurIPS 2026The Power of Menus in Dynamic Pricing: Near Optimal Regret and Equivalence Results
416. NeurIPS 2026The Quantization Benefits of Residual-Free Transformers
417. NeurIPS 2026The SuperActivator Mechanism: Transformers Concentrate Reliable Concept Signals in the Tail
418. NeurIPS 2026Treat Domain-Specific Languages as Design Variables in LLM Agents
419. NeurIPS 2026Two is better than one: designing heterogeneous scales in binary rating systems
420. NeurIPS 2026Two Stages of Folding: Convergent Mechanisms in AI Protein Folding Trunks
421. NeurIPS 2026Variable-Length Generative Protein Design via Generalized Poisson Flow
422. NeurIPS 2026VEHBench: A Stage-Local Diagnostic Benchmark for LLM-Assisted Vibration Energy Harvester Design
423. NeurIPS 2026Verifier Choice is a Benchmark Design Variable: Auditing Structural Counting Evaluation in Text-to-Image Models
424. NeurIPS 2026Virtual Head Attention
425. NeurIPS 2026When Does Knowing the State Help? Diagnosing Process vs. Outcome Reward Design
426. NeurIPS 2026μLM: Rethinking Sub-100M Language Models through Memory-First Design
427. CVPR 2025A General Adaptive Dual-level Weighting Mechanism for Remote Sensing Pansharpening
428. CVPR 2025A Selective Re-learning Mechanism for Hyperspectral Fusion Imaging
429. CVPR 2025All Languages Matter: Evaluating LMMs on Culturally Diverse 100 Languages
430. CVPR 2025AniDoc: Animation Creation Made Easier
431. CVPR 2025BlueLM-V-3B: Algorithm and System Co-Design for Multimodal Large Language Models on Mobile Devices
432. CVPR 2025Breaking the Low-Rank Dilemma of Linear Attention
433. CVPR 2025CAD-Llama: Leveraging Large Language Models for Computer-Aided Design Parametric 3D Model Generation
434. CVPR 2025CADCrafter: Generating Computer-Aided Design Models from Unconstrained Images
435. CVPR 2025CASAGPT: Cuboid Arrangement and Scene Assembly for Interior Design
436. CVPR 2025Category-Agnostic Neural Object Rigging
437. CVPR 2025Classifier-Free Guidance Inside the Attraction Basin May Cause Memorization
438. CVPR 2025ComRoPE: Scalable and Robust Rotary Position Embedding Parameterized by Trainable Commuting Angle Matrices
439. CVPR 2025Decoder Gradient Shield: Provable and High-Fidelity Prevention of Gradient-Based Box-Free Watermark Removal
440. CVPR 2025Design2GarmentCode: Turning Design Concepts to Tangible Garments Through Program Synthesis
441. CVPR 2025DiC: Rethinking Conv3x3 Designs in Diffusion Models
442. CVPR 2025DiffFNO: Diffusion Fourier Neural Operator
443. CVPR 2025Diffusion Model is Effectively Its Own Teacher
444. CVPR 2025EASEMVC:Efficient Dual Selection Mechanism for Deep Multi-View Clustering
445. CVPR 2025Effective Cloud Removal for Remote Sensing Images by an Improved Mean-Reverting Denoising Model with Elucidated Design Space
446. CVPR 2025EmoDubber: Towards High Quality and Emotion Controllable Movie Dubbing
447. CVPR 2025EVOS: Efficient Implicit Neural Training via EVOlutionary Selector
448. CVPR 2025Frequency-Biased Synergistic Design for Image Compression and Compensation
449. CVPR 2025From Elements to Design: A Layered Approach for Automatic Graphic Design Composition
450. CVPR 2025GO-N3RDet: Geometry Optimized NeRF-enhanced 3D Object Detector

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.