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

34 papers, page 1 of 1

1. CVPR 2023Improving Generalization With Domain Convex Game
2. CVPR 2023Patch-Mix Transformer for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation: A Game Perspective
3. CVPR 2023Video-Text As Game Players: Hierarchical Banzhaf Interaction for Cross-Modal Representation Learning
4. ICLR 2023A Unified Approach to Reinforcement Learning, Quantal Response Equilibria, and Two-Player Zero-Sum Games
5. ICLR 2023Computational Language Acquisition with Theory of Mind
6. ICLR 2023Constructive TT-representation of the tensors given as index interaction functions with applications
7. ICLR 2023Disentanglement with Biological Constraints: A Theory of Functional Cell Types
8. ICLR 2023ESCHER: Eschewing Importance Sampling in Games by Computing a History Value Function to Estimate Regret
9. ICLR 2023Learning Rationalizable Equilibria in Multiplayer Games
10. ICLR 2023Meta-Learning in Games
11. ICLR 2023Nearly Minimax Optimal Offline Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation: Single-Agent MDP and Markov Game
12. ICLR 2023Neural Agents Struggle to Take Turns in Bidirectional Emergent Communication
13. ICLR 2023Provable Memorization Capacity of Transformers
14. ICLR 2023Stochastic No-regret Learning for General Games with Variance Reduction
15. ICLR 2023The Power of Regularization in Solving Extensive-Form Games
16. ICLR 2023Towards convergence to Nash equilibria in two-team zero-sum games
17. ICML 2023Adapting to game trees in zero-sum imperfect information games
18. ICML 2023Auxiliary Learning as an Asymmetric Bargaining Game
19. ICML 2023Explaining Reinforcement Learning with Shapley Values
20. ICML 2023Parallel Online Clustering of Bandits via Hedonic Game
21. NeurIPS 2023$\varepsilon$-fractional core stability in Hedonic Games.
22. NeurIPS 2023A normative theory of social conflict
23. NeurIPS 2023A Unifying Perspective on Multi-Calibration: Game Dynamics for Multi-Objective Learning
24. NeurIPS 2023Alternation makes the adversary weaker in two-player games
25. NeurIPS 2023Computing Optimal Nash Equilibria in Multiplayer Games
26. NeurIPS 2023Data Market Design through Deep Learning
27. NeurIPS 2023FedGame: A Game-Theoretic Defense against Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning
28. NeurIPS 2023Guarantees for Self-Play in Multiplayer Games via Polymatrix Decomposability
29. NeurIPS 2023Polynomial-Time Linear-Swap Regret Minimization in Imperfect-Information Sequential Games
30. NeurIPS 2023Randomized and Deterministic Maximin-share Approximations for Fractionally Subadditive Valuations
31. NeurIPS 2023Similarity-based cooperative equilibrium
32. NeurIPS 2023Strategic Data Sharing between Competitors
33. NeurIPS 2023Team-PSRO for Learning Approximate TMECor in Large Team Games via Cooperative Reinforcement Learning
34. NeurIPS 2023When are ensembles really effective?

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.