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

125 papers, page 3 of 3

101. ICML 2025Self-Play $Q$-Learners Can Provably Collude in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
102. ICML 2025Settling the Maximin Share Fairness for Scheduling among Groups of Machines
103. ICML 2025Should Decision-Makers Reveal Classifiers in Online Strategic Classification?
104. ICML 2025Solving Zero-Sum Convex Markov Games
105. ICML 2025SPMC: Self-Purifying Federated Backdoor Defense via Margin Contribution
106. ICML 2025The Harder Path: Last Iterate Convergence for Uncoupled Learning in Zero-Sum Games with Bandit Feedback
107. ICML 2025The impact of uncertainty on regularized learning in games
108. ICML 2025Towards a Formal Theory of Representational Compositionality
109. ICML 2024A Statistical Theory of Regularization-Based Continual Learning
110. ICML 2024A Theory of Fault-Tolerant Learning
111. ICML 2024Explaining Probabilistic Models with Distributional Values
112. ICML 2024Language Agents with Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Play in the Werewolf Game
113. ICML 2024Minimum Norm Interpolation Meets The Local Theory of Banach Spaces
114. ICML 2024On Statistical Learning Theory for Distributional Inputs
115. ICML 2024Open Ad Hoc Teamwork with Cooperative Game Theory
116. ICML 2024Position: Categorical Deep Learning is an Algebraic Theory of All Architectures
117. ICML 2024Random matrix theory improved Fréchet mean of symmetric positive definite matrices
118. ICML 2024Relational Learning in Pre-Trained Models: A Theory from Hypergraph Recovery Perspective
119. ICML 2024Sequential Kernel Goodness-of-fit Testing
120. ICML 2024Solving Hierarchical Information-Sharing Dec-POMDPs: An Extensive-Form Game Approach
121. ICML 2024Transformers Get Stable: An End-to-End Signal Propagation Theory for Language Models
122. ICML 2023Adapting to game trees in zero-sum imperfect information games
123. ICML 2023Auxiliary Learning as an Asymmetric Bargaining Game
124. ICML 2023Explaining Reinforcement Learning with Shapley Values
125. ICML 2023Parallel Online Clustering of Bandits via Hedonic Game

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.