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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51. NeurIPS 2025Cooperative Bargaining Games Without Utilities: Mediated Solutions from Direction Oracles
52. NeurIPS 2025Cyclic Counterfactuals under Shift–Scale Interventions
53. NeurIPS 2025Disentangling Hyperedges through the Lens of Category Theory
54. NeurIPS 2025Do Neural Networks Need Gradient Descent to Generalize? A Theoretical Study
55. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Kernelized Learning in Polyhedral Games beyond Full Information: From Colonel Blotto to Congestion Games
56. NeurIPS 2025Evolutionary Prediction Games
57. NeurIPS 2025Explaining the Law of Supply and Demand via Online Learning
58. NeurIPS 2025GUARD: Constructing Realistic Two-Player Matrix and Security Games for Benchmarking Game-Theoretic Algorithms
59. NeurIPS 2025How Particle System Theory Enhances Hypergraph Message Passing
60. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Time-Aware Fairness in Data Sharing
61. NeurIPS 2025Last Iterate Convergence in Monotone Mean Field Games
62. NeurIPS 2025Last-Iterate Convergence of Smooth Regret Matching$^+$ Variants in Learning Nash Equilibria
63. NeurIPS 2025Learning in Stackelberg Mean Field Games: A Non-Asymptotic Analysis
64. NeurIPS 2025Learning-Augmented Facility Location Mechanisms for the Envy Ratio Objective
65. NeurIPS 2025LLM Strategic Reasoning: Agentic Study through Behavioral Game Theory
66. NeurIPS 2025Machine Unlearning under Overparameterization
67. NeurIPS 2025Marginal-Nonuniform PAC Learnability
68. NeurIPS 2025Modeling the Economic Impacts of AI Openness Regulation
69. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Learning under Uncertainty: Recurrence vs. Concentration
70. NeurIPS 2025Multiplayer Federated Learning: Reaching Equilibrium with Less Communication
71. NeurIPS 2025Non-Stationary Lipschitz Bandits
72. NeurIPS 2025On Universality Classes of Equivariant Networks
73. NeurIPS 2025Parsimonious Predictions for Strategyproof Scheduling
74. NeurIPS 2025Replicable Distribution Testing
75. NeurIPS 2025Robust Equilibria in Continuous Games: From Strategic to Dynamic Robustness
76. NeurIPS 2025Robustly Learning Monotone Single-Index Models
77. NeurIPS 2025SHAP Meets Tensor Networks: Provably Tractable Explanations with Parallelism
78. NeurIPS 2025Sharp Matrix Empirical Bernstein Inequalities
79. NeurIPS 2025Small Singular Values Matter: A Random Matrix Analysis of Transformer Models
80. NeurIPS 2025Smoothed Agnostic Learning of Halfspaces over the Hypercube
81. NeurIPS 2025Solving Neural Min-Max Games: The Role of Architecture, Initialization & Dynamics
82. NeurIPS 2025Stackelberg Learning with Outcome-based Payment
83. NeurIPS 2025Strategic Cost Selection in Participatory Budgeting
84. NeurIPS 2025Strategic Hypothesis Testing
85. NeurIPS 2025The Complexity of Correlated Equilibria in Generalized Games
86. NeurIPS 2025The Computational Complexity of Counting Linear Regions in ReLU Neural Networks
87. NeurIPS 2025The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Meta-Analysis of Watermarks, Transferable Attacks and Adversarial Defenses
88. NeurIPS 2025TRiCo: Triadic Game-Theoretic Co-Training for Robust Semi-Supervised Learning
89. NeurIPS 2025Two Heads are Better than One: Simulating Large Transformers with Small Ones
90. NeurIPS 2025Unbalanced Optimal Total Variation Transport: A Theoretical Approach to Spatial Resource Allocation Problems
91. NeurIPS 2025Uncoupled and Convergent Learning in Monotone Games under Bandit Feedback
92. NeurIPS 2025What Expressivity Theory Misses: Message Passing Complexity for GNNs
93. NeurIPS 2025When Does Curriculum Learning Help? A Theoretical Perspective
94. NeurIPS 2024Accelerated Regularized Learning in Finite N-Person Games
95. NeurIPS 2024Accelerating Nash Equilibrium Convergence in Monte Carlo Settings Through Counterfactual Value Based Fictitious Play
96. NeurIPS 2024Addressing Bias in Online Selection with Limited Budget of Comparisons
97. NeurIPS 2024Aggregating Quantitative Relative Judgments: From Social Choice to Ranking Prediction
98. NeurIPS 2024Autobidder's Dilemma: Why More Sophisticated Autobidders Lead to Worse Auction Efficiency
99. NeurIPS 2024Axioms for AI Alignment from Human Feedback
100. NeurIPS 2024Bandits with Preference Feedback: A Stackelberg Game Perspective

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.