Bias Mitigation papers, 2023–2026
Debiasing algorithms
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 284 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Bias Mitigation went from 50 papers in 2023 to 76 in 2026, roughly 1.5x in three years.
- ICLR publishes the most Bias Mitigation work: 85 papers from 2023 to 2026, 30% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 15 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Causal and Fairness, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Causal Discovery, is up 2.4x versus 1.5x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | 26 | 8 | 9 | 50 |
| 2024 | 25 | 12 | 23 | 13 | 73 |
| 2025 | 38 | 23 | 17 | 7 | 85 |
| 2026 | 14 | 24 | 24 | 14 | 76 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026Controlling for Omitted Variable Bias in Deep Neural Networks
- ICML 2026BESplit: Bias-Compensated Split Federated Learning with Evidential Aggregation
- ICLR 2026Bi-directional Bias Attribution: Debiasing Large Language Models without Modifying Prompts
- CVPR 2026BAMI Training-Free Bias Mitigation in GUI Grounding
- NeurIPS 2025Any Large Language Model Can Be a Reliable Judge: Debiasing with a Reasoning-based Bias Detector
- ICML 2025Clipped SGD Algorithms for Performative Prediction: Tight Bounds for Stochastic Bias and Remedies
- ICLR 2025ALBAR: Adversarial Learning approach to mitigate Biases in Action Recognition
- CVPR 2025Data Distributional Properties As Inductive Bias for Systematic Generalization
- NeurIPS 2024Bayesian Identification of the Hamiltonian Inductive Bias in Dynamical Systems
- ICML 2024Bias of Stochastic Gradient Descent or the Architecture: Disentangling the Effects of Overparameterization of Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024A 2-Dimensional State Space Layer for Spatial Inductive Bias
- CVPR 2024Diffeomorphic Template Registration for Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation
- NeurIPS 2023Fast Model DeBias with Machine Unlearning
- ICML 2023FedBR: Improving Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Data via Local Learning Bias Reduction
- ICLR 2023Bias Propagation in Federated Learning
- CVPR 2023Bias Mimicking: A Simple Sampling Approach for Bias Mitigation
- NeurIPS 2026Empirical Bayes Rebiasing
- ICML 2026DISCO: Mitigating Bias in Deep Learning with Conditional Distance Correlation
- ICLR 2026BiasFreeBench: a Benchmark for Mitigating Bias in Large Language Model Responses
- CVPR 2026Bias at the End of the Score
All Bias Mitigation papers
283 papers, page 5 of 6
- ICML 2024Learning Shadow Variable Representation for Treatment Effect Estimation under Collider Bias
- ICML 2024On the Implicit Bias of Adam
- ICML 2024On the Minimal Degree Bias in Generalization on the Unseen for non-Boolean Functions
- ICML 2024Simplicity Bias of Two-Layer Networks beyond Linearly Separable Data
- ICML 2024Simplicity Bias via Global Convergence of Sharpness Minimization
- ICML 2024Statistical Inference Under Constrained Selection Bias
- ICML 2024The Role of Learning Algorithms in Collective Action
- ICML 2024Whispering Experts: Neural Interventions for Toxicity Mitigation in Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024A distributional simplicity bias in the learning dynamics of transformers
- NeurIPS 2024Addressing Bias in Online Selection with Limited Budget of Comparisons
- NeurIPS 2024Asymptotics of Alpha-Divergence Variational Inference Algorithms with Exponential Families
- NeurIPS 2024Bayesian Identification of the Hamiltonian Inductive Bias in Dynamical Systems
- NeurIPS 2024Bias Detection via Signaling
- NeurIPS 2024Bias in Motion: Theoretical Insights into the Dynamics of Bias in SGD Training
- NeurIPS 2024Changing the Training Data Distribution to Reduce Simplicity Bias Improves In-distribution Generalization
- NeurIPS 2024Computing the Bias of Constant-step Stochastic Approximation with Markovian Noise
- NeurIPS 2024Cross-Care: Assessing the Healthcare Implications of Pre-training Data on Language Model Bias
- NeurIPS 2024CultureLLM: Incorporating Cultural Differences into Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024DeNetDM: Debiasing by Network Depth Modulation
- NeurIPS 2024Diffusion Model with Cross Attention as an Inductive Bias for Disentanglement
- NeurIPS 2024FairQueue: Rethinking Prompt Learning for Fair Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024How JEPA Avoids Noisy Features: The Implicit Bias of Deep Linear Self Distillation Networks
- NeurIPS 2024Implicit Bias of Mirror Flow on Separable Data
- NeurIPS 2024Improved Algorithms for Contextual Dynamic Pricing
- NeurIPS 2024IWBVT: Instance Weighting-based Bias-Variance Trade-off for Crowdsourcing
- NeurIPS 2024Neural collapse vs. low-rank bias: Is deep neural collapse really optimal?
- NeurIPS 2024Rethinking Deep Thinking: Stable Learning of Algorithms using Lipschitz Constraints
- NeurIPS 2024Rethinking Parity Check Enhanced Symmetry-Preserving Ansatz
- NeurIPS 2024Temporally Consistent Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation with Neural Representations
- NeurIPS 2024The Implicit Bias of Adam on Separable Data
- NeurIPS 2024The Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent on Separable Multiclass Data
- NeurIPS 2024Training Dynamics of Transformers to Recognize Word Co-occurrence via Gradient Flow Analysis
- NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Bias Impact on Symmetric Moral Consistency of Large Language Models
- CVPR 2023Bias Mimicking: A Simple Sampling Approach for Bias Mitigation
- CVPR 2023Bias-Eliminating Augmentation Learning for Debiased Federated Learning
- CVPR 2023BiasAdv: Bias-Adversarial Augmentation for Model Debiasing
- CVPR 2023BiasBed - Rigorous Texture Bias Evaluation
- CVPR 2023Generative Bias for Robust Visual Question Answering
- CVPR 2023Good Is Bad: Causality Inspired Cloth-Debiasing for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification
- CVPR 2023Probabilistic Debiasing of Scene Graphs
- CVPR 2023Reducing the Label Bias for Timestamp Supervised Temporal Action Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Training Debiased Subnetworks With Contrastive Weight Pruning
- ICLR 2023Benign Overfitting in Classification: Provably Counter Label Noise with Larger Models
- ICLR 2023Bias Propagation in Federated Learning
- ICLR 2023Calibration Matters: Tackling Maximization Bias in Large-scale Advertising Recommendation Systems
- ICLR 2023Delving into Semantic Scale Imbalance
- ICLR 2023Everybody Needs Good Neighbours: An Unsupervised Locality-based Method for Bias Mitigation
- ICLR 2023Feature Reconstruction From Outputs Can Mitigate Simplicity Bias in Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023FLIP: A Provable Defense Framework for Backdoor Mitigation in Federated Learning
- ICLR 2023How gradient estimator variance and bias impact learning in neural networks
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FAQ
- How many Bias Mitigation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 284 in total: 50 in 2023, 73 in 2024, 85 in 2025, 76 in 2026.
- How many Bias Mitigation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 14 Bias Mitigation papers, versus 38 the year before.
- How many Bias Mitigation papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 24 Bias Mitigation papers, versus 23 the year before.
- How many Bias Mitigation papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 24 Bias Mitigation papers, versus 17 the year before.
- How many Bias Mitigation papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 14 Bias Mitigation papers, versus 7 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Bias Mitigation papers?
- ICLR, with 85 papers from 2023 to 2026.