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 2024Adapters Strike Back
2. CVPR 2024Auto MC-Reward: Automated Dense Reward Design with Large Language Models for Minecraft
3. CVPR 2024Autoregressive Queries for Adaptive Tracking with Spatio-Temporal Transformers
4. CVPR 2024Behind the Veil: Enhanced Indoor 3D Scene Reconstruction with Occluded Surfaces Completion
5. CVPR 2024BoQ: A Place is Worth a Bag of Learnable Queries
6. CVPR 2024Byzantine-robust Decentralized Federated Learning via Dual-domain Clustering and Trust Bootstrapping
7. CVPR 2024CAMixerSR: Only Details Need More "Attention"
8. CVPR 2024Capturing Closely Interacted Two-Person Motions with Reaction Priors
9. CVPR 2024Circuit Design and Efficient Simulation of Quantum Inner Product and Empirical Studies of Its Effect on Near-Term Hybrid Quantum-Classic Machine Learning
10. CVPR 2024Comparing the Decision-Making Mechanisms by Transformers and CNNs via Explanation Methods
11. CVPR 2024Desigen: A Pipeline for Controllable Design Template Generation
12. CVPR 2024Dexterous Grasp Transformer
13. CVPR 2024Discontinuity-preserving Normal Integration with Auxiliary Edges
14. CVPR 2024Discriminative Pattern Calibration Mechanism for Source-Free Domain Adaptation
15. CVPR 2024Focus on Hiders: Exploring Hidden Threats for Enhancing Adversarial Training
16. CVPR 2024Generalized Event Cameras
17. CVPR 2024HumanNeRF-SE: A Simple yet Effective Approach to Animate HumanNeRF with Diverse Poses
18. CVPR 2024Improving Depth Completion via Depth Feature Upsampling
19. CVPR 2024InceptionNeXt: When Inception Meets ConvNeXt
20. CVPR 2024Language-guided Image Reflection Separation
21. CVPR 2024Low-Rank Rescaled Vision Transformer Fine-Tuning: A Residual Design Approach
22. CVPR 2024LPSNet: End-to-End Human Pose and Shape Estimation with Lensless Imaging
23. CVPR 2024MatchU: Matching Unseen Objects for 6D Pose Estimation from RGB-D Images
24. CVPR 2024MLP Can Be A Good Transformer Learner
25. CVPR 2024Monocular Identity-Conditioned Facial Reflectance Reconstruction
26. CVPR 2024NAPGuard: Towards Detecting Naturalistic Adversarial Patches
27. CVPR 2024NC-SDF: Enhancing Indoor Scene Reconstruction Using Neural SDFs with View-Dependent Normal Compensation
28. CVPR 2024PBWR: Parametric-Building-Wireframe Reconstruction from Aerial LiDAR Point Clouds
29. CVPR 2024Point Transformer V3: Simpler Faster Stronger
30. CVPR 2024ProMotion: Prototypes As Motion Learners
31. CVPR 2024Rethinking Generalizable Face Anti-spoofing via Hierarchical Prototype-guided Distribution Refinement in Hyperbolic Space
32. CVPR 2024Rewrite the Stars
33. CVPR 2024SAI3D: Segment Any Instance in 3D Scenes
34. CVPR 2024SAOR: Single-View Articulated Object Reconstruction
35. CVPR 2024SHViT: Single-Head Vision Transformer with Memory Efficient Macro Design
36. CVPR 2024StraightPCF: Straight Point Cloud Filtering
37. CVPR 2024SwitchLight: Co-design of Physics-driven Architecture and Pre-training Framework for Human Portrait Relighting
38. CVPR 2024Unsegment Anything by Simulating Deformation
39. CVPR 2024V?: Guided Visual Search as a Core Mechanism in Multimodal LLMs
40. ICLR 2024Adaptive deep spiking neural network with global-local learning via balanced excitatory and inhibitory mechanism
41. ICLR 2024Adaptive Instrument Design for Indirect Experiments
42. ICLR 2024Bandits Meet Mechanism Design to Combat Clickbait in Online Recommendation
43. ICLR 2024CircuitNet 2.0: An Advanced Dataset for Promoting Machine Learning Innovations in Realistic Chip Design Environment
44. ICLR 2024De novo Protein Design Using Geometric Vector Field Networks
45. ICLR 2024Debiasing Attention Mechanism in Transformer without Demographics
46. ICLR 2024Elucidating the design space of classifier-guided diffusion generation
47. ICLR 2024Graphical Multioutput Gaussian Process with Attention
48. ICLR 2024GTA: A Geometry-Aware Attention Mechanism for Multi-View Transformers
49. ICLR 2024Incentive-Aware Federated Learning with Training-Time Model Rewards
50. ICLR 2024Incentivized Truthful Communication for Federated Bandits

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.