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 2024EAI: Emotional Decision-Making of LLMs in Strategic Games and Ethical Dilemmas
52. NeurIPS 2024Efficiency of the First-Price Auction in the Autobidding World
53. NeurIPS 2024Efficient $\Phi$-Regret Minimization with Low-Degree Swap Deviations in Extensive-Form Games
54. NeurIPS 2024Error Analysis of Spherically Constrained Least Squares Reformulation in Solving the Stackelberg Prediction Game
55. NeurIPS 2024Extensive-Form Game Solving via Blackwell Approachability on Treeplexes
56. NeurIPS 2024Fair Allocation in Dynamic Mechanism Design
57. NeurIPS 2024Fairness and Efficiency in Online Class Matching
58. NeurIPS 2024Fast Last-Iterate Convergence of Learning in Games Requires Forgetful Algorithms
59. NeurIPS 2024GameTraversalBenchmark: Evaluating Planning Abilities Of Large Language Models Through Traversing 2D Game Maps
60. NeurIPS 2024GTBench: Uncovering the Strategic Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs via Game-Theoretic Evaluations
61. NeurIPS 2024Hardness of Learning Neural Networks under the Manifold Hypothesis
62. NeurIPS 2024Honor Among Bandits: No-Regret Learning for Online Fair Division
63. NeurIPS 2024How to Boost Any Loss Function
64. NeurIPS 2024Incentivizing Quality Text Generation via Statistical Contracts
65. NeurIPS 2024Intrinsic Robustness of Prophet Inequality to Strategic Reward Signaling
66. NeurIPS 2024Is Knowledge Power? On the (Im)possibility of Learning from Strategic Interactions
67. NeurIPS 2024Learning Equilibria in Adversarial Team Markov Games: A Nonconvex-Hidden-Concave Min-Max Optimization Problem
68. NeurIPS 2024Learning Noisy Halfspaces with a Margin: Massart is No Harder than Random
69. NeurIPS 2024Learning Optimal Tax Design in Nonatomic Congestion Games
70. NeurIPS 2024Learning Social Welfare Functions
71. NeurIPS 2024Learning the Expected Core of Strictly Convex Stochastic Cooperative Games
72. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Mitigate Externalities: the Coase Theorem with Hindsight Rationality
73. NeurIPS 2024Learning via Surrogate PAC-Bayes
74. NeurIPS 2024Local and Adaptive Mirror Descents in Extensive-Form Games
75. NeurIPS 2024Lookback Prophet Inequalities
76. NeurIPS 2024MAC Advice for facility location mechanism design
77. NeurIPS 2024Measuring Progress in Dictionary Learning for Language Model Interpretability with Board Game Models
78. NeurIPS 2024Mechanism design augmented with output advice
79. NeurIPS 2024Monoculture in Matching Markets
80. NeurIPS 2024Multi-Winner Reconfiguration
81. NeurIPS 2024No Free Lunch Theorem and Black-Box Complexity Analysis for Adversarial Optimisation
82. NeurIPS 2024No-regret Learning in Harmonic Games: Extrapolation in the Face of Conflicting Interests
83. NeurIPS 2024On the Impacts of the Random Initialization in the Neural Tangent Kernel Theory
84. NeurIPS 2024On Tractable $\Phi$-Equilibria in Non-Concave Games
85. NeurIPS 2024Online Bayesian Persuasion Without a Clue
86. NeurIPS 2024Online Control in Population Dynamics
87. NeurIPS 2024Optimal Parallelization of Boosting
88. NeurIPS 2024Paths to Equilibrium in Games
89. NeurIPS 2024Plant-and-Steal: Truthful Fair Allocations via Predictions
90. NeurIPS 2024Policy Aggregation
91. NeurIPS 2024Polynomial-Time Computation of Exact $\Phi$-Equilibria in Polyhedral Games
92. NeurIPS 2024Proportional Fairness in Clustering: A Social Choice Perspective
93. NeurIPS 2024Quantum algorithm for large-scale market equilibrium computation
94. NeurIPS 2024Randomized Strategic Facility Location with Predictions
95. NeurIPS 2024Randomized Truthful Auctions with Learning Agents
96. NeurIPS 2024Regret Minimization in Stackelberg Games with Side Information
97. NeurIPS 2024Replicable Uniformity Testing
98. NeurIPS 2024Safe Exploitative Play with Untrusted Type Beliefs
99. NeurIPS 2024Sample Complexity of Posted Pricing for a Single Item
100. NeurIPS 2024shapiq: Shapley Interactions for Machine Learning

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.