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

384 papers, page 7 of 8

301. NeurIPS 2024Fast Last-Iterate Convergence of Learning in Games Requires Forgetful Algorithms
302. NeurIPS 2024GameTraversalBenchmark: Evaluating Planning Abilities Of Large Language Models Through Traversing 2D Game Maps
303. NeurIPS 2024GTBench: Uncovering the Strategic Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs via Game-Theoretic Evaluations
304. NeurIPS 2024Hardness of Learning Neural Networks under the Manifold Hypothesis
305. NeurIPS 2024Honor Among Bandits: No-Regret Learning for Online Fair Division
306. NeurIPS 2024How to Boost Any Loss Function
307. NeurIPS 2024Incentivizing Quality Text Generation via Statistical Contracts
308. NeurIPS 2024Intrinsic Robustness of Prophet Inequality to Strategic Reward Signaling
309. NeurIPS 2024Is Knowledge Power? On the (Im)possibility of Learning from Strategic Interactions
310. NeurIPS 2024Learning Equilibria in Adversarial Team Markov Games: A Nonconvex-Hidden-Concave Min-Max Optimization Problem
311. NeurIPS 2024Learning Noisy Halfspaces with a Margin: Massart is No Harder than Random
312. NeurIPS 2024Learning Optimal Tax Design in Nonatomic Congestion Games
313. NeurIPS 2024Learning Social Welfare Functions
314. NeurIPS 2024Learning the Expected Core of Strictly Convex Stochastic Cooperative Games
315. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Mitigate Externalities: the Coase Theorem with Hindsight Rationality
316. NeurIPS 2024Learning via Surrogate PAC-Bayes
317. NeurIPS 2024Local and Adaptive Mirror Descents in Extensive-Form Games
318. NeurIPS 2024Lookback Prophet Inequalities
319. NeurIPS 2024MAC Advice for facility location mechanism design
320. NeurIPS 2024Measuring Progress in Dictionary Learning for Language Model Interpretability with Board Game Models
321. NeurIPS 2024Mechanism design augmented with output advice
322. NeurIPS 2024Monoculture in Matching Markets
323. NeurIPS 2024Multi-Winner Reconfiguration
324. NeurIPS 2024No Free Lunch Theorem and Black-Box Complexity Analysis for Adversarial Optimisation
325. NeurIPS 2024No-regret Learning in Harmonic Games: Extrapolation in the Face of Conflicting Interests
326. NeurIPS 2024On the Impacts of the Random Initialization in the Neural Tangent Kernel Theory
327. NeurIPS 2024On Tractable $\Phi$-Equilibria in Non-Concave Games
328. NeurIPS 2024Online Bayesian Persuasion Without a Clue
329. NeurIPS 2024Online Control in Population Dynamics
330. NeurIPS 2024Optimal Parallelization of Boosting
331. NeurIPS 2024Paths to Equilibrium in Games
332. NeurIPS 2024Plant-and-Steal: Truthful Fair Allocations via Predictions
333. NeurIPS 2024Policy Aggregation
334. NeurIPS 2024Polynomial-Time Computation of Exact $\Phi$-Equilibria in Polyhedral Games
335. NeurIPS 2024Proportional Fairness in Clustering: A Social Choice Perspective
336. NeurIPS 2024Quantum algorithm for large-scale market equilibrium computation
337. NeurIPS 2024Randomized Strategic Facility Location with Predictions
338. NeurIPS 2024Randomized Truthful Auctions with Learning Agents
339. NeurIPS 2024Regret Minimization in Stackelberg Games with Side Information
340. NeurIPS 2024Replicable Uniformity Testing
341. NeurIPS 2024Safe Exploitative Play with Untrusted Type Beliefs
342. NeurIPS 2024Sample Complexity of Posted Pricing for a Single Item
343. NeurIPS 2024shapiq: Shapley Interactions for Machine Learning
344. NeurIPS 2024Team-Fictitious Play for Reaching Team-Nash Equilibrium in Multi-team Games
345. NeurIPS 2024Testably Learning Polynomial Threshold Functions
346. NeurIPS 2024Transcendence: Generative Models Can Outperform The Experts That Train Them
347. NeurIPS 2024Unravelling in Collaborative Learning
348. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling User Satisfaction and Creator Productivity Trade-Offs in Recommendation Platforms
349. NeurIPS 2024User-Creator Feature Polarization in Recommender Systems with Dual Influence
350. NeurIPS 2024Variance estimation in compound decision theory under boundedness

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.