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  1. Network Intervention by Polling Strategic Agents

    Oct 6, 2026Chenyu Zhang, Rohit Parasnis, Saurabh AminMechanism DesignGame Theory

    MIT · IIT Bombay

  2. Lego-Like Stiffness Configuration of Planar Compliant Modules for Task-Specific Flexible Interfaces

    Oct 5, 2026Siyue Yao, Xiaochi Xie, Shixuan Zhao +4Mechanism DesignModular Robotics

    State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Systems and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robotics; META Robotics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China +1

  3. ShowerFlex: Achieving Pseudo-Static Balancing in a Continuum Shower Hose

    Oct 1, 2026Zhiyu Ren, Girish KrishnanMechanism DesignAssistive Robotics

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois 61801

  4. Inference Auctions

    Sep 30, 2026Keegan Harris, Siddharth Prasad, Asher Trockman +2Mechanism DesignAutomated Bidding

    University of California, Berkeley · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago · Google Research +1

  5. Multi-Dimensional Matching

    Sep 24, 2026Irene AldridgeMechanism DesignFair Resource Allocation

  6. Learning Principal-Agent Contracts for Equitable Smallholder Carbon Farming under Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection

    Sep 17, 2026Rishi Bharadwaj, Yadati NarahariMechanism Design

    Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  7. Minimax-Optimal Online Contract Design with Unrestricted Bounded Contracts

    Sep 17, 2026Rui Ai, David Simchi-Levi, Han ZhongMechanism DesignMinimax Regret

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  8. Geometric Shortcuts for Complex Trunk Postures: Dual-Helicity Coupling Enables Low-Dimensional Control

    Sep 16, 2026Huishi Huang, Danlu Chen, Matteo Lo Preti +3Mechanism DesignContinuum Robot Control

    Advanced Robotics Centre (ARC) and with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), 117608, Singapore. · Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 138632, Singapore.

  9. Flexible-body Modeling, Kinematic Identification, and Assembly Accuracy of Overconstrained Spatial Linkages

    Sep 15, 2026Daniel Huczala, Michael Pieber, Johannes Gerstmayr +6Mechanism DesignMultibody Dynamics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50 UNIST-gil, Eonyang-eup, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, 44919, South Korea · Department of Machine Parts and Mechanisms, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, Ostrava, 70800, Czech Republic · Department of Mechatronics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 13, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria +2

  10. A Game-Theoretic Framework for Incentive-Compatible AI training Under Renewable-Energy Constraints

    Sep 14, 2026Konstantinos Varsos, Ramin Khalili, Adamantia Stamou +2Mechanism DesignEnergy-Efficient ML

    Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece · Independent researcher, Munich Germany

  11. Deriving the Pure Price of Anarchy for Networked Resource Allocation Games

    Sep 14, 2026Vartika Singh, Philip N. BrownMechanism DesignGame Theory

    University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, 80918 USA · Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  12. Lie-Algebraic Bell Recurrences for Arbitrary-Order Twist Jets and Parallel-Mechanism Closure

    Sep 11, 2026Daniel ConduracheMechanism DesignRobotics

    Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania

  13. Mechanism Design for Alignment and Control

    Sep 1, 2026Dirk Bergemann, Andrew Koh, Stephen MorrisMechanism DesignAI Alignment

    Yale · Columbia · MIT +1

  14. Mechanism Design for Generative Engines: From Exploitation toward Win-Win Outcomes

    Aug 11, 2026Chen Xu, Zitian Guo, Chenyan XiongGenerative Engine OptimizationMechanism Design

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of California, San Diego

  15. On the Importance of Geometric Nonlinearity and Temperature-Dependent Properties in Multi-Material Thermo-Mechanical Topology Optimization

    Aug 11, 2026Shirin Hosseinmardi, Xiangyu Sun, Ramin BostanabadTopology OptimizationMechanism Design

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine

  16. Competitive mediator games and urban CAV routing markets

    Aug 10, 2026Grzegorz JamrózMechanism DesignGame Theory

    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

  17. Indirect Geoeconomic Influence: A Switching Dynamical Systems Framework for Mechanism Design

    Aug 8, 2026Nikolos Gurney, Boxi Fu, Soham Hans +1Mechanism DesignRegime-Switching Dynamical Systems

    Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California

  18. Optimal Liability Design for Medical AI

    Aug 4, 2026Rui Mao, Tingliang Huang, Houcai ShenMechanism DesignAI Accountability

    School of Management & Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China · Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA

  19. Reputation-driven Cooperation in Lattice-based Decentralized Federated Learning through Evolutionary Game Theory

    Aug 2, 2026Phuc Hoang Truong Huynh, Dung Tran Vinh, Khoa Duc Anh Lam +9Mechanism DesignEvolutionary Game Theory

    Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. · School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom +1

  20. Co-evolution of social reward and punishment under institutional interventions

    Aug 2, 2026Van An Nguyen, Vuong Khang Huynh, Hoai Thuong Nguyen +14Social DilemmasMechanism Design

    Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam · Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Vietnam · School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University,2026 United Kingdom +1

  21. LLM-OSDA: An Optimal-Stopping Dynamic Auction for Native Advertising in Multi-Turn LLM Conversations

    Jul 31, 2026Yan Fang, Jialin Chen, Chun Gan +5Mechanism DesignOnline Advertising

    1JD.com, Inc. · 2Shanghai University of Finance and Economics · University of Sydney +1

  22. Beyond Byzantine: An Organizational Consensus Algorithm for Self-Interested Agents Under Information Asymmetry

    Jul 31, 2026Jiawei Zhang, Jianbo LiuMulti-Agent CoordinationMechanism Design

    Department of Agricultural Economics Purdue University West Lafayette, USA · Basic Technology Group, Intelligent Terminal Business Dept. JD Logistics, JD.com Beijing, China

  23. Evaluating and Pricing Advertisements in AI-Generated Responses

    Jul 30, 2026John L. Turner-Smith, Zimeng Huang, Yuhan Fu +2Mechanism DesignOnline Advertising

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · College of AI, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  24. Tripody: An Overconstrained 3-SPR-like Parallel Robot for High-Reach Construction Tasks

    Jul 28, 2026Julien Kindle, Jakub Raczy, Riccardo Balbi +3Robotic ConstructionMechanism Design

    Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · Hilti AG, Schaan, Liechtenstein

  25. The User Asks, Platforms Compete: How Agentic Recommendation Markets Take Shape

    Jul 28, 2026Deyao Hong, Kehan Zheng, Qian Li +3Mechanism DesignRecommender Systems

    Tsinghua University · Tencent Inc.

  26. Attribution Markets: A Fisher-Market Formulation for Fractional Credit Assignment Between Planned Tasks and Performed Actions

    Jul 22, 2026Salavat IshbulatovMechanism DesignFine-Grained Credit Assignment

    Independent researcher

  27. MESHA: Mechanism-Enforced Sequential Halving for Strategic Linear Bandits

    Jul 16, 2026Xin Li, Zixin ZhongMulti-Armed BanditsMechanism Design

    Data Science and Analytics Thrust, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  28. When Is Delegated Play Truthful? Within-Range Regret and the Trilemma of Aligned Delegation

    Jul 15, 2026Taksch DubeMechanism DesignLLM Alignment

    Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

  29. Formal Mechanisms for Market Stability in Self-Interested Agent Societies: A Marketplace Simulation Study

    Jul 9, 2026Eugene Ng Yi Sheng, Bingquan ShenSocial DilemmasMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    DSO National Laboratories · National University of Singapore

  30. Contextual Procurement Auctions with Bandit Learning

    Jul 7, 2026Yiling Chen, Shi Feng, Sadie ZhaoMechanism DesignRegret Minimization

    Harvard University