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

49 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Prediction-Powered AutoEval with Reliability and Efficiency Guarantees
2. NeurIPS 2025AlphaBeta is not as good as you think: a simple random games model for a better analysis of deterministic game-solving algorithms
3. NeurIPS 2025Approximation theory for 1-Lipschitz ResNets
4. NeurIPS 2025Balancing Multimodal Training Through Game-Theoretic Regularization
5. NeurIPS 2025Benign Overfitting in Single-Head Attention
6. NeurIPS 2025Contextual Dynamic Pricing with Heterogeneous Buyers
7. NeurIPS 2025Cooperative Bargaining Games Without Utilities: Mediated Solutions from Direction Oracles
8. NeurIPS 2025Cyclic Counterfactuals under Shift–Scale Interventions
9. NeurIPS 2025Disentangling Hyperedges through the Lens of Category Theory
10. NeurIPS 2025Do Neural Networks Need Gradient Descent to Generalize? A Theoretical Study
11. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Kernelized Learning in Polyhedral Games beyond Full Information: From Colonel Blotto to Congestion Games
12. NeurIPS 2025Evolutionary Prediction Games
13. NeurIPS 2025Explaining the Law of Supply and Demand via Online Learning
14. NeurIPS 2025GUARD: Constructing Realistic Two-Player Matrix and Security Games for Benchmarking Game-Theoretic Algorithms
15. NeurIPS 2025How Particle System Theory Enhances Hypergraph Message Passing
16. NeurIPS 2025Incentivizing Time-Aware Fairness in Data Sharing
17. NeurIPS 2025Last Iterate Convergence in Monotone Mean Field Games
18. NeurIPS 2025Last-Iterate Convergence of Smooth Regret Matching$^+$ Variants in Learning Nash Equilibria
19. NeurIPS 2025Learning in Stackelberg Mean Field Games: A Non-Asymptotic Analysis
20. NeurIPS 2025Learning-Augmented Facility Location Mechanisms for the Envy Ratio Objective
21. NeurIPS 2025LLM Strategic Reasoning: Agentic Study through Behavioral Game Theory
22. NeurIPS 2025Machine Unlearning under Overparameterization
23. NeurIPS 2025Marginal-Nonuniform PAC Learnability
24. NeurIPS 2025Modeling the Economic Impacts of AI Openness Regulation
25. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Learning under Uncertainty: Recurrence vs. Concentration
26. NeurIPS 2025Multiplayer Federated Learning: Reaching Equilibrium with Less Communication
27. NeurIPS 2025Non-Stationary Lipschitz Bandits
28. NeurIPS 2025On Universality Classes of Equivariant Networks
29. NeurIPS 2025Parsimonious Predictions for Strategyproof Scheduling
30. NeurIPS 2025Replicable Distribution Testing
31. NeurIPS 2025Robust Equilibria in Continuous Games: From Strategic to Dynamic Robustness
32. NeurIPS 2025Robustly Learning Monotone Single-Index Models
33. NeurIPS 2025SHAP Meets Tensor Networks: Provably Tractable Explanations with Parallelism
34. NeurIPS 2025Sharp Matrix Empirical Bernstein Inequalities
35. NeurIPS 2025Small Singular Values Matter: A Random Matrix Analysis of Transformer Models
36. NeurIPS 2025Smoothed Agnostic Learning of Halfspaces over the Hypercube
37. NeurIPS 2025Solving Neural Min-Max Games: The Role of Architecture, Initialization & Dynamics
38. NeurIPS 2025Stackelberg Learning with Outcome-based Payment
39. NeurIPS 2025Strategic Cost Selection in Participatory Budgeting
40. NeurIPS 2025Strategic Hypothesis Testing
41. NeurIPS 2025The Complexity of Correlated Equilibria in Generalized Games
42. NeurIPS 2025The Computational Complexity of Counting Linear Regions in ReLU Neural Networks
43. NeurIPS 2025The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Meta-Analysis of Watermarks, Transferable Attacks and Adversarial Defenses
44. NeurIPS 2025TRiCo: Triadic Game-Theoretic Co-Training for Robust Semi-Supervised Learning
45. NeurIPS 2025Two Heads are Better than One: Simulating Large Transformers with Small Ones
46. NeurIPS 2025Unbalanced Optimal Total Variation Transport: A Theoretical Approach to Spatial Resource Allocation Problems
47. NeurIPS 2025Uncoupled and Convergent Learning in Monotone Games under Bandit Feedback
48. NeurIPS 2025What Expressivity Theory Misses: Message Passing Complexity for GNNs
49. NeurIPS 2025When Does Curriculum Learning Help? A Theoretical 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.