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

117 papers, page 1 of 3

1. CVPR 2025Dynamic Stereotype Theory Induced Micro-expression Recognition with Oriented Deformation
2. CVPR 2025Foundations of the Theory of Performance-Based Ranking
3. ICLR 2025A Theory of Initialisation's Impact on Specialisation
4. ICLR 2025BANGS: Game-theoretic Node Selection for Graph Self-Training
5. ICLR 2025Computational Explorations of Total Variation Distance
6. ICLR 2025Decoding Game: On Minimax Optimality of Heuristic Text Generation Strategies
7. ICLR 2025Divergence-Regularized Discounted Aggregation: Equilibrium Finding in Multiplayer Partially Observable Stochastic Games
8. ICLR 2025Efficient Online Pruning and Abstraction for Imperfect Information Extensive-Form Games
9. ICLR 2025Exact Computation of Any-Order Shapley Interactions for Graph Neural Networks
10. ICLR 2025Exploring The Loss Landscape Of Regularized Neural Networks Via Convex Duality
11. ICLR 2025Lasso Bandit with Compatibility Condition on Optimal Arm
12. ICLR 2025Last-Iterate Convergence Properties of Regret-Matching Algorithms in Games
13. ICLR 2025MAST: model-agnostic sparsified training
14. ICLR 2025On the Convergence of No-Regret Dynamics in Information Retrieval Games with Proportional Ranking Functions
15. ICLR 2025On the Expressiveness of Rational ReLU Neural Networks With Bounded Depth
16. ICLR 2025Quality over Quantity in Attention Layers: When Adding More Heads Hurts
17. ICLR 2025Re-evaluating Open-ended Evaluation of Large Language Models
18. ICLR 2025Separation Power of Equivariant Neural Networks
19. ICLR 2025Strategic Classification With Externalities
20. ICLR 2025The Complexity of Two-Team Polymatrix Games with Independent Adversaries
21. ICLR 2025When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings
22. ICML 2025A Market for Accuracy: Classification Under Competition
23. ICML 2025A-PSRO: A Unified Strategy Learning Method with Advantage Metric for Normal-form Games
24. ICML 2025ADIOS: Antibody Development via Opponent Shaping
25. ICML 2025An Instrumental Value for Data Production and its Application to Data Pricing
26. ICML 2025Anytime-Constrained Equilibria in Polynomial Time
27. ICML 2025Best of Both Worlds: Regret Minimization versus Minimax Play
28. ICML 2025Beyond Self-Interest: How Group Strategies Reshape Content Creation in Recommendation Platforms?
29. ICML 2025Collaborative Mean Estimation Among Heterogeneous Strategic Agents: Individual Rationality, Fairness, and Truthful Contribution
30. ICML 2025Computing Voting Rules with Improvement Feedback
31. ICML 2025Consensus Is All You Get: The Role of Attention in Transformers
32. ICML 2025Continuous-Time Analysis of Heavy Ball Momentum in Min-Max Games
33. ICML 2025Contract Design Under Approximate Best Responses
34. ICML 2025Convex Markov Games: A New Frontier for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
35. ICML 2025Decoding Rewards in Competitive Games: Inverse Game Theory with Entropy Regularization
36. ICML 2025Deep Sturm–Liouville: From Sample-Based to 1D Regularization with Learnable Orthogonal Basis Functions
37. ICML 2025Enhancing Adversarial Robustness with Conformal Prediction: A Framework for Guaranteed Model Reliability
38. ICML 2025Expected Variational Inequalities
39. ICML 2025Explicit Exploration for High-Welfare Equilibria in Game-Theoretic Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
40. ICML 2025Finite-Time Convergence Rates in Stochastic Stackelberg Games with Smooth Algorithmic Agents
41. ICML 2025Floating-Point Neural Networks Can Represent Almost All Floating-Point Functions
42. ICML 2025Fraud-Proof Revenue Division on Subscription Platforms
43. ICML 2025Generative Social Choice: The Next Generation
44. ICML 2025Heterogeneous Data Game: Characterizing the Model Competition Across Multiple Data Sources
45. ICML 2025Incorporating Arbitrary Matrix Group Equivariance into KANs
46. ICML 2025Learning to Steer Learners in Games
47. ICML 2025Maintaining Proportional Committees with Dynamic Candidate Sets
48. ICML 2025Modular Duality in Deep Learning
49. ICML 2025Observation Interference in Partially Observable Assistance Games
50. ICML 2025On the Importance of Gaussianizing Representations

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.