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 1 of 6

1. ICML 2026$\texttt{ShaplEIG}$: Bayesian Experimental Design for Shapley Value Estimation
2. ICML 2026$A_2$DEPT: Large Language Model–Driven Automated Algorithm Design via Evolutionary Program Trees
3. ICML 2026A General Neural Backbone for Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization via Dual Attention
4. ICML 2026A Unified Sparse Attention via Multi-Granularity Compression
5. ICML 2026Activation with Intrinsic-Extrinsic Consensus
6. ICML 2026Adaptive Querying with AI Persona Priors
7. ICML 2026Affine-Scaled Attention: Towards Flexible and Stable Transformer Attention
8. ICML 2026AgentExpt: Automating AI Experiment Design with LLM-based Resource Retrieval Agent
9. ICML 2026Allocating Variance to Maximize Expectation
10. ICML 2026Anatomy of Massive Activations and Attention Sinks
11. ICML 2026Asymptotic Optimality of the High-Dimensional Gaussian Mechanism and Improved Low-Dimensional Mechanisms for Differential Privacy
12. ICML 2026Attention Sink Forges Native MoE in Attention Layers: Sink-Aware Training to Address Head Collapse
13. ICML 2026Autobidding Auctions with LLM-Powered Creatives
14. ICML 2026Axiomatic Atlas: A Prescriptive Framework for Neural Architecture Design
15. ICML 2026Balancing Fidelity and Diversity in Diffusion Models via Symmetric Attention Decomposition: Hopfield Perspective
16. ICML 2026Breaking the Echo Chamber: A Dynamic Ensemble Pruning Perspective on MoE
17. ICML 2026Brep2Shape: Boundary and Shape Representation Alignment via Self-supervised Transformers
18. ICML 2026Budget-Feasible Mechanisms for Submodular Welfare Maximization in Procurement Auctions
19. ICML 2026CAMP: Coherent Alignment of Multimodal Prototypes for Explainable Complementary Learning
20. ICML 2026Chain-of-Thought Gradient Descent
21. ICML 2026Co-Generative De Novo Functional Protein Design
22. ICML 2026Constrained Bayesian Experimental Design via Online Planning
23. ICML 2026Contrastive Geometric Learning Unlocks Unified Structure- and Ligand-Based Drug Design
24. ICML 2026Decoupling The "What" and "Where" With Polar Coordinate Positional Embedding
25. ICML 2026Deep Incentive Design with Differentiable Equilibrium Blocks
26. ICML 2026Demystifying Action Space Design for Robotic Manipulation Policies
27. ICML 2026Demystifying Multimodal Biomolecular Co-design With Intrinsic Geodesic Coupling
28. ICML 2026Design Linear Constrained Neural Layers with Implicit Convex Optimization
29. ICML 2026Design-Based Anytime-Valid Inference for Randomized Experiments with Delayed Outcomes and Staggered Entry
30. ICML 2026Designing Observation and Action Models for Efficient Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
31. ICML 2026Dissecting Causal Mechanism Shifts via FANS: Function And Noise Separation
32. ICML 2026Dissecting Multimodal In-Context Learning: Modality Asymmetries and Circuit Dynamics in modern Transformers
33. ICML 2026Diving into Kronecker Adapters: Component Design Matters
34. ICML 2026Dreaming in Code for Curriculum Learning in Open-Ended Worlds
35. ICML 2026Dual Mechanisms of Value Expression: Intrinsic vs. Prompted Values in Large Language Models
36. ICML 2026Dynamic Relational Priming Improves Transformer in Multivariate Time Series
37. ICML 2026ECo-MoE: Embodiment-Conditioned Mixture of Experts Increases the Evolvability of Robots
38. ICML 2026Enhancing Affine Maximizer Auctions with Correlation-Aware Payment
39. ICML 2026EpiCoCo: De Novo Epitope Generation via MHC-Context Co-Modeling and Contrastive Affinity Guidance
40. ICML 2026Equivalence of Context and Parameter Updates in Modern Transformer Blocks
41. ICML 2026EvoEGF-Mol: Evolving Exponential Geodesic Flow for Structure-based Drug Design
42. ICML 2026Evolution of Benchmark: Black-Box Optimization Benchmark Design through Large Language Model
43. ICML 2026Few-Shot Design Optimization by Exploiting Auxiliary Information
44. ICML 2026FiX: Introducing Fine-grained Forget Gate into Softmax Attention
45. ICML 2026FlashSketch: Sketch-Kernel Co-Design for Fast Sparse Sketching on GPUs
46. ICML 2026Flexibility-Aware Geometric Latent Diffusion for Full-Atom Peptide Design
47. ICML 2026Focus and Dilution: The Multi-stage Learning Process of Attention
48. ICML 2026From Evaluation to Design: Using Potential Energy Surface Smoothness Metrics to Guide ML Interatomic Potential Architectures
49. ICML 2026From Holo Pockets to Electron Density: GPT-style Drug Design with Density
50. ICML 2026From Lyapunov Analysis to Algorithm Design in two-sided PL Minimax Optimization

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.