Theory · game theory papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Theory · game theory went from 34 papers in 2023 to 126 in 2026, roughly 3.7x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Theory · game theory work: 183 papers from 2023 to 2026, 48% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Mechanism Design: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 19 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Theory and Statistics, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Theory · learning theory, is up 5.6x versus 3.7x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Investigation of Theory of Mind in a Large Language Model
• ICML 2026(Doubly) Exponential Lower Bounds for Follow the Regularized Leader in Potential Games
• ICLR 2026Infinite Horizon Markov Economies
• CVPR 2026Tackling Model Bias via Game-theoretic Multi-agent Collaboration Framework for Hateful
• NeurIPS 2025AlphaBeta is not as good as you think: a simple random games model for a better analysis of deterministic game-solving algorithms
• ICML 2025A-PSRO: A Unified Strategy Learning Method with Advantage Metric for Normal-form Games
• ICLR 2025A Theory of Initialisation's Impact on Specialisation
• CVPR 2025Dynamic Stereotype Theory Induced Micro-expression Recognition with Oriented Deformation
• NeurIPS 2024Accelerated Regularized Learning in Finite N-Person Games
• ICML 2024A Statistical Theory of Regularization-Based Continual Learning
• ICLR 2024Generative Adversarial Equilibrium Solvers
• CVPR 2024GlitchBench: Can Large Multimodal Models Detect Video Game Glitches?
• NeurIPS 2023$\varepsilon$-fractional core stability in Hedonic Games.
• ICML 2023Auxiliary Learning as an Asymmetric Bargaining Game
• ICLR 2023Computational Language Acquisition with Theory of Mind
• CVPR 2023Improving Generalization With Domain Convex Game
• NeurIPS 2026Agentic AI Design Should be Mediated to Promote Social Welfare
• ICML 2026A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Attacks on Large Language Models via Compositional Skills
• ICLR 2026On Universality of Deep Equivariant Networks
• NeurIPS 2025Approximation theory for 1-Lipschitz ResNets

All Theory · game theory papers

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1. CVPR 2026Tackling Model Bias via Game-theoretic Multi-agent Collaboration Framework for Hateful
2. ICLR 2026Achieving Approximate Symmetry Is Exponentially Easier than Exact Symmetry
3. ICLR 2026Almost Bayesian: Dynamics of SGD Through Singular Learning Theory
4. ICLR 2026Characterizing the Discrete Geometry of ReLU Networks
5. ICLR 2026Differentially Private Equilibrium Finding in Polymatrix Games
6. ICLR 2026Diversified Multinomial Logit Contextual Bandits
7. ICLR 2026Expert Merging in Sparse Mixture of Experts with Nash Bargaining
8. ICLR 2026Group Representational Position Encoding
9. ICLR 2026Infinite Horizon Markov Economies
10. ICLR 2026Interactive Learning of Single-Index Models via Stochastic Gradient Descent
11. ICLR 2026Learning a Game by Paying the Agents
12. ICLR 2026Learning to Answer from Correct Demonstrations
13. ICLR 2026Learning to Play Multi-Follower Bayesian Stackelberg Games
14. ICLR 2026Learning to Recall with Transformers Beyond Orthogonal Embeddings
15. ICLR 2026Mean-Field Neural Differential Equations: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Sequence Prediction
16. ICLR 2026On Universality of Deep Equivariant Networks
17. ICLR 2026Pruning as a Cooperative Game: Surrogate-Assisted Layer Contribution Estimation for Large Language Models
18. ICLR 2026Quasi-Equivariant Metanetworks
19. ICLR 2026Solving Football by Exploiting Equilibrium Structure of 2p0s Differential Games with One-Sided Information
20. ICLR 2026The Imitation Game: Turing Machine Imitator is Length Generalizable Reasoner
21. ICLR 2026Tighter Performance Theory of FedExProx
22. ICML 2026(Doubly) Exponential Lower Bounds for Follow the Regularized Leader in Potential Games
23. ICML 2026A Direct Second-Order Method for Solving Two-Player Zero-Sum Games
24. ICML 2026A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Attacks on Large Language Models via Compositional Skills
25. ICML 2026A Game-Theoretic Framework for Measuring and Explaining Metric Compatibility in Fair Machine Learning
26. ICML 2026A Stronger Benchmark for Online Bilateral Trade: From Fixed Prices to Distributions
27. ICML 2026A Theoretical Framework for Modular Learning of Robust Generative Models
28. ICML 2026A Theory of Data Acquisition and Pricing at Scale
29. ICML 2026Achieving Logarithmic Regret in KL-Regularized Zero-Sum Markov Games
30. ICML 2026Adaptive Contracts for Cost-Effective AI Delegation
31. ICML 2026An analytic theory of convolutional neural network inverse problems solvers
32. ICML 2026Anytime Detection of Strategic Deviations in Multi-Agent Systems
33. ICML 2026Approximate Equivariance via Projection-Based Regularisation
34. ICML 2026Approximate Proportionality in Online Fair Division
35. ICML 2026Approximation Theory for Lipschitz Continuous Transformers
36. ICML 2026Asymptotic Universal Alignment: A New Alignment Framework via Test-Time Scaling
37. ICML 2026Asymptotically Fast Clebsch-Gordan Tensor Products with Vector Spherical Harmonics
38. ICML 2026Bandit Social Leaning Dynamics with Exploration Episodes
39. ICML 2026Budget-Feasible Mechanisms for Submodular Welfare Maximization in Procurement Auctions
40. ICML 2026Continuous Variable Hamiltonian Learning at Heisenberg Limit via Displacement-Random Unitary Transformation
41. ICML 2026Deep Incentive Design with Differentiable Equilibrium Blocks
42. ICML 2026Deep Networks Learn Deep Hierarchical Models
43. ICML 2026Deep Reinforcement Learning Finds Bayes-Nash Equilibrium in Competitive Newsvendor Problems
44. ICML 2026Delegation and Verification under AI
45. ICML 2026Emergent Alignment via Competition
46. ICML 2026Enhancing Affine Maximizer Auctions with Correlation-Aware Payment
47. ICML 2026Equilibrium Pricing in Oligopolistic Data Markets
48. ICML 2026Fair Transit Stop Placement: A Clustering Perspective and Beyond
49. ICML 2026From Welfare to Utility: Generalized Objectives in Budget-Feasible Procurement
50. ICML 2026How to Price Data: A Market Equilibrium Based Approach

FAQ

How many Theory · game theory papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

384 in total: 34 in 2023, 107 in 2024, 117 in 2025, 126 in 2026.

How many Theory · game theory papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 44 Theory · game theory papers, versus 49 the year before.

How many Theory · game theory papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 20 Theory · game theory papers, versus 19 the year before.

How many Theory · game theory papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 61 Theory · game theory papers, versus 47 the year before.

How many Theory · game theory papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 1 Theory · game theory papers, versus 2 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Theory · game theory papers?

NeurIPS, with 183 papers from 2023 to 2026.