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

183 papers, page 1 of 4

1. NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Investigation of Theory of Mind in a Large Language Model
2. NeurIPS 2026Agentic AI Design Should be Mediated to Promote Social Welfare
3. NeurIPS 2026Algorithms for Linear Equations with Min and Max Operators Under (Absolutely) Halting Condition
4. NeurIPS 2026Approximate Envy-Free Allocations up to any k Goods
5. NeurIPS 2026Avoiding Obfuscation with Prover-Estimator Debate
6. NeurIPS 2026CEO-Bench: Can Agents Play the Long Game?
7. NeurIPS 2026Chess-World-Model: A 10M-Game Benchmark for Exact State Tracking from Chess Move Sequences
8. NeurIPS 2026DeepVoting: Learning and Improving Voting Rules with Fine-Tuning
9. NeurIPS 2026Estimating Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning
10. NeurIPS 2026Extending Myerson's Optimal Auctions to Correlated Bidders via Neural Network Interpolation
11. NeurIPS 2026Generating in the Limit with Infinitely Many Hallucinations
12. NeurIPS 2026GoT: A Game-Theoretic Approach to the Game of Twenty Questions
13. NeurIPS 2026GT-HarmBench: Benchmarking AI Safety Risks Through the Lens of Game Theory
14. NeurIPS 2026High dimensional theory of two-phase optimizers
15. NeurIPS 2026How to Have a Sensitive Debate
16. NeurIPS 2026Learning Acceptable Lotteries via Queries: Minimizing Aggregated Violation Distances
17. NeurIPS 2026Learning Lotteries with Minimal Violations from Membership Queries
18. NeurIPS 2026Learning to Price with Persuasion
19. NeurIPS 2026Learning-Augmented Mechanism Design for Facility Location under $L_p$-Norm Social Costs
20. NeurIPS 2026Linear Contextual Bandits with Quasi-Optimism
21. NeurIPS 2026Mechanism Design for AI Overviews: Creator Incentives and Long-Term Profit
22. NeurIPS 2026Network Intervention by Polling Strategic Agents
23. NeurIPS 2026Non-Linear Pricing Restores Tractability for a Data Seller
24. NeurIPS 2026On Nash Equilibria in Participatory Budgeting with Donations and Beyond
25. NeurIPS 2026Online Learning in Stabilized Linear Dynamical Games with Adversarial Disturbances
26. NeurIPS 2026Phase Transitions in Attention: A Bayesian Theory of Copy Head Emergence
27. NeurIPS 2026Prediction Under Imperfect Compression: A Theory of Approximate MDL
28. NeurIPS 2026Provably Efficient Regularized Online RLHF with Generalized Bilinear Preferences
29. NeurIPS 2026Random Matrix Theory of Early-Stopped Gradient Flow: A Transient BBP Scenario
30. NeurIPS 2026RuleSmith: Multi-Agent LLMs for Automated Game Balancing
31. NeurIPS 2026Second-Order Complexity Theory for Neural Networks
32. NeurIPS 2026Selling Information While Being an Interested Party
33. NeurIPS 2026Simultaneous Gradient Learning in First-Price Auctions
34. NeurIPS 2026The End Justifies the Mean: Linear Ranking Rules for Proportional Sequential Decisions
35. NeurIPS 2026The Long-Run Distribution of Regularized Learning in Non-Concave Games: A Large Deviations Approach
36. NeurIPS 2026The Panel Complexity of Sortition: Is 12 Angry Men Enough?
37. NeurIPS 2026The Power of Menus in Dynamic Pricing: Near Optimal Regret and Equivalence Results
38. NeurIPS 2026The Symmetries of Three-Layer ReLU Networks
39. NeurIPS 2026Toward a theory of Evaluability
40. NeurIPS 2026Toward Optimal Regret in Robust Pricing: Decoupling Corruption and Time
41. NeurIPS 2026Training-free Spatially Grounded Geometric Shape Encoding
42. NeurIPS 2026When and Why is Optimistic Multiplicative Weights Slow? The Geometry of Energy Dissipation
43. NeurIPS 2026When Symbol Names Should Not Matter: A Logistic Theory of Fresh-Symbol Classification
44. NeurIPS 2026Where Should Society Draw the Line? A Social Choice Approach to Collective Consent
45. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Prediction-Powered AutoEval with Reliability and Efficiency Guarantees
46. NeurIPS 2025AlphaBeta is not as good as you think: a simple random games model for a better analysis of deterministic game-solving algorithms
47. NeurIPS 2025Approximation theory for 1-Lipschitz ResNets
48. NeurIPS 2025Balancing Multimodal Training Through Game-Theoretic Regularization
49. NeurIPS 2025Benign Overfitting in Single-Head Attention
50. NeurIPS 2025Contextual Dynamic Pricing with Heterogeneous Buyers

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.