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

25 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2024Adaptive deep spiking neural network with global-local learning via balanced excitatory and inhibitory mechanism
2. ICLR 2024Adaptive Instrument Design for Indirect Experiments
3. ICLR 2024Bandits Meet Mechanism Design to Combat Clickbait in Online Recommendation
4. ICLR 2024CircuitNet 2.0: An Advanced Dataset for Promoting Machine Learning Innovations in Realistic Chip Design Environment
5. ICLR 2024De novo Protein Design Using Geometric Vector Field Networks
6. ICLR 2024Debiasing Attention Mechanism in Transformer without Demographics
7. ICLR 2024Elucidating the design space of classifier-guided diffusion generation
8. ICLR 2024Graphical Multioutput Gaussian Process with Attention
9. ICLR 2024GTA: A Geometry-Aware Attention Mechanism for Multi-View Transformers
10. ICLR 2024Incentive-Aware Federated Learning with Training-Time Model Rewards
11. ICLR 2024Incentivized Truthful Communication for Federated Bandits
12. ICLR 2024Independent-Set Design of Experiments for Estimating Treatment and Spillover Effects under Network Interference
13. ICLR 2024Intriguing Properties of Data Attribution on Diffusion Models
14. ICLR 2024KW-Design: Pushing the Limit of Protein Design via Knowledge Refinement
15. ICLR 2024Learning to design protein-protein interactions with enhanced generalization
16. ICLR 2024Leveraging Hyperbolic Embeddings for Coarse-to-Fine Robot Design
17. ICLR 2024Local Search GFlowNets
18. ICLR 2024Online Information Acquisition: Hiring Multiple Agents
19. ICLR 2024Privacy Amplification for Matrix Mechanisms
20. ICLR 2024Quantifying Language Models' Sensitivity to Spurious Features in Prompt Design or: How I learned to start worrying about prompt formatting
21. ICLR 2024RDesign: Hierarchical Data-efficient Representation Learning for Tertiary Structure-based RNA Design
22. ICLR 2024RobustTSF: Towards Theory and Design of Robust Time Series Forecasting with Anomalies
23. ICLR 2024Scalable Neural Network Kernels
24. ICLR 2024Stochastic Modified Equations and Dynamics of Dropout Algorithm
25. ICLR 2024Unraveling the Key Components of OOD Generalization via Diversification

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.