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

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1. CVPR 2023Achieving a Better Stability-Plasticity Trade-Off via Auxiliary Networks in Continual Learning
2. CVPR 2023BASiS: Batch Aligned Spectral Embedding Space
3. CVPR 2023Cascaded Local Implicit Transformer for Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution
4. CVPR 2023Coaching a Teachable Student
5. CVPR 2023DeepMAD: Mathematical Architecture Design for Deep Convolutional Neural Network
6. CVPR 2023DSVT: Dynamic Sparse Voxel Transformer With Rotated Sets
7. CVPR 2023DynaFed: Tackling Client Data Heterogeneity With Global Dynamics
8. CVPR 2023Exploring the Relationship Between Architectural Design and Adversarially Robust Generalization
9. CVPR 2023F2-NeRF: Fast Neural Radiance Field Training With Free Camera Trajectories
10. CVPR 2023Fine-Grained Classification With Noisy Labels
11. CVPR 2023Fine-Grained Face Swapping via Regional GAN Inversion
12. CVPR 2023Ham2Pose: Animating Sign Language Notation Into Pose Sequences
13. CVPR 2023Heterogeneous Continual Learning
14. CVPR 2023High-Frequency Stereo Matching Network
15. CVPR 2023Implicit Diffusion Models for Continuous Super-Resolution
16. CVPR 2023Improving Generalization of Meta-Learning With Inverted Regularization at Inner-Level
17. CVPR 2023Interactive Cartoonization With Controllable Perceptual Factors
18. CVPR 2023Learning Accurate 3D Shape Based on Stereo Polarimetric Imaging
19. CVPR 2023Learning To Dub Movies via Hierarchical Prosody Models
20. CVPR 2023Learning Transformation-Predictive Representations for Detection and Description of Local Features
21. CVPR 2023Lite-Mono: A Lightweight CNN and Transformer Architecture for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation
22. CVPR 2023Neighborhood Attention Transformer
23. CVPR 2023Probing Sentiment-Oriented Pre-Training Inspired by Human Sentiment Perception Mechanism
24. CVPR 2023Randomized Adversarial Training via Taylor Expansion
25. CVPR 2023Role of Transients in Two-Bounce Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging
26. CVPR 2023Super-Resolution Neural Operator
27. CVPR 2023TryOnDiffusion: A Tale of Two UNets
28. CVPR 2023Two-View Geometry Scoring Without Correspondences
29. CVPR 2023Visibility Constrained Wide-Band Illumination Spectrum Design for Seeing-in-the-Dark
30. ICLR 2023AANG : Automating Auxiliary Learning
31. ICLR 2023CktGNN: Circuit Graph Neural Network for Electronic Design Automation
32. ICLR 2023Conditional Antibody Design as 3D Equivariant Graph Translation
33. ICLR 2023Curriculum-based Co-design of Morphology and Control of Voxel-based Soft Robots
34. ICLR 2023DamoFD: Digging into Backbone Design on Face Detection
35. ICLR 2023Dilated convolution with learnable spacings
36. ICLR 2023Disentangling the Mechanisms Behind Implicit Regularization in SGD
37. ICLR 2023Don’t forget the nullspace! Nullspace occupancy as a mechanism for out of distribution failure
38. ICLR 2023DySR: Adaptive Super-Resolution via Algorithm and System Co-design
39. ICLR 2023Efficient Attention via Control Variates
40. ICLR 2023Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents
41. ICLR 2023Encoding Recurrence into Transformers
42. ICLR 2023Equivariant Shape-Conditioned Generation of 3D Molecules for Ligand-Based Drug Design
43. ICLR 2023HiViT: A Simpler and More Efficient Design of Hierarchical Vision Transformer
44. ICLR 2023How Sharpness-Aware Minimization Minimizes Sharpness?
45. ICLR 2023LAVA: Data Valuation without Pre-Specified Learning Algorithms
46. ICLR 2023LDMIC: Learning-based Distributed Multi-view Image Coding
47. ICLR 2023Learning Symbolic Models for Graph-structured Physical Mechanism
48. ICLR 2023Mega: Moving Average Equipped Gated Attention
49. ICLR 2023Neural Architecture Design and Robustness: A Dataset
50. ICLR 2023Neural Design for Genetic Perturbation Experiments

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.