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

65 papers, page 1 of 2

1. ICML 2025ADIOS: Antibody Development via Opponent Shaping
2. ICML 2025AI for Global Climate Cooperation: Modeling Global Climate Negotiations, Agreements, and Long-Term Cooperation in RICE-N
3. ICML 2025An Efficient Matrix Multiplication Algorithm for Accelerating Inference in Binary and Ternary Neural Networks
4. ICML 2025Backdoor Attacks in Token Selection of Attention Mechanism
5. ICML 2025BAnG: Bidirectional Anchored Generation for Conditional RNA Design
6. ICML 2025Benign Overfitting in Token Selection of Attention Mechanism
7. ICML 2025CaDA: Cross-Problem Routing Solver with Constraint-Aware Dual-Attention
8. ICML 2025Collaborative Mean Estimation Among Heterogeneous Strategic Agents: Individual Rationality, Fairness, and Truthful Contribution
9. ICML 2025Contract Design Under Approximate Best Responses
10. ICML 2025Counting in Small Transformers: The Delicate Interplay between Attention and Feed-Forward Layers
11. ICML 2025CSTrack: Enhancing RGB-X Tracking via Compact Spatiotemporal Features
12. ICML 2025Data-driven Design of Randomized Control Trials with Guaranteed Treatment Effects
13. ICML 2025Decomposition of Graphic Design with Unified Multimodal Model
14. ICML 2025DeepCrossAttention: Supercharging Transformer Residual Connections
15. ICML 2025Distributionally Robust Active Learning for Gaussian Process Regression
16. ICML 2025Diversity By Design: Leveraging Distribution Matching for Offline Model-Based Optimization
17. ICML 2025DMM: Distributed Matrix Mechanism for Differentially-Private Federated Learning Based on Constant-Overhead Linear Secret Resharing
18. ICML 2025Domain-Adapted Diffusion Model for PROTAC Linker Design Through the Lens of Density Ratio in Chemical Space
19. ICML 2025Efficient and Separate Authentication Image Steganography Network
20. ICML 2025Elucidating the Design Space of Multimodal Protein Language Models
21. ICML 2025Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning
22. ICML 2025Enhancing Certified Robustness via Block Reflector Orthogonal Layers and Logit Annealing Loss
23. ICML 2025Equivariant Polynomial Functional Networks
24. ICML 2025ESPFormer: Doubly-Stochastic Attention with Expected Sliced Transport Plans
25. ICML 2025Fraud-Proof Revenue Division on Subscription Platforms
26. ICML 2025Heads up! Large Language Models Can Perform Tasks Without Your Instruction via Selective Attention Head Masking
27. ICML 2025Improved Off-policy Reinforcement Learning in Biological Sequence Design
28. ICML 2025In-Context Linear Regression Demystified: Training Dynamics and Mechanistic Interpretability of Multi-Head Softmax Attention
29. ICML 2025Integer Programming for Generalized Causal Bootstrap Designs
30. ICML 2025Learning to Generate Projections for Reducing Dimensionality of Heterogeneous Linear Programming Problems
31. ICML 2025LipsNet++: Unifying Filter and Controller into a Policy Network
32. ICML 2025LLM Enhancers for GNNs: An Analysis from the Perspective of Causal Mechanism Identification
33. ICML 2025LLM-Augmented Chemical Synthesis and Design Decision Programs
34. ICML 2025Mechanisms of Projective Composition of Diffusion Models
35. ICML 2025Mind the Gap: a Spectral Analysis of Rank Collapse and Signal Propagation in Attention Layers
36. ICML 2025Monte Carlo Tree Search for Comprehensive Exploration in LLM-Based Automatic Heuristic Design
37. ICML 2025MVA: Linear Attention with High-order Query-Keys Integration and Multi-level Vocabulary Decomposition
38. ICML 2025MxMoE: Mixed-precision Quantization for MoE with Accuracy and Performance Co-Design
39. ICML 2025Neural Interpretable PDEs: Harmonizing Fourier Insights with Attention for Scalable and Interpretable Physics Discovery
40. ICML 2025On the Emergence of Position Bias in Transformers
41. ICML 2025On the Statistical Mechanisms of Distributional Compositional Generalization
42. ICML 2025Optimal Auction Design in the Joint Advertising
43. ICML 2025Optimal Survey Design for Private Mean Estimation
44. ICML 2025Optimizing Social Network Interventions via Hypergradient-Based Recommender System Design
45. ICML 2025P(all-atom) Is Unlocking New Path For Protein Design
46. ICML 2025Peri-LN: Revisiting Normalization Layer in the Transformer Architecture
47. ICML 2025Piloting Structure-Based Drug Design via Modality-Specific Optimal Schedule
48. ICML 2025Policy Design for Two-sided Platforms with Participation Dynamics
49. ICML 2025PPDiff: Diffusing in Hybrid Sequence-Structure Space for Protein-Protein Complex Design
50. ICML 2025Prices, Bids, Values: One ML-Powered Combinatorial Auction to Rule Them All

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.