Causal Discovery papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Causal Discovery went from 59 papers in 2023 to 139 in 2026, roughly 2.4x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Causal Discovery work: 150 papers from 2023 to 2026, 40% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning: papers tagged with both rose from 3 in 2023 to 10 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Causal and Fairness, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Bias Mitigation, is up 1.5x versus 2.4x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Characterization of Latent Variable Causal Models Consistent with Observational Data
• ICML 2026A Recursive Decomposition Framework for Causal Structure Learning in the Presence of Latent Variables
• ICLR 2026Bures Generalized Category Discovery
• CVPR 2026Learning by Analogy A Causal Framework for Compositional Generalization
• NeurIPS 2025Causal Differentiating Concepts: Interpreting LM Behavior via Causal Representation Learning
• ICML 2025Bayesian Active Learning for Bivariate Causal Discovery
• ICLR 2025A Conditional Independence Test in the Presence of Discretization
• CVPR 2025Hyperbolic Category Discovery
• NeurIPS 2024Causal Bandits for Linear Structural Equation Models
• ICML 2024Adaptive Online Experimental Design for Causal Discovery
• ICLR 2024A Versatile Causal Discovery Framework to Allow Causally-Related Hidden Variables
• CVPR 2024Contrastive Mean-Shift Learning for Generalized Category Discovery
• NeurIPS 2023A Scale-Invariant Sorting Criterion to Find a Causal Order in Additive Noise Models
• ICML 2023Active causal structure learning with advice
• ICLR 2023Boosting Causal Discovery via Adaptive Sample Reweighting
• CVPR 2023Intrinsic Physical Concepts Discovery With Object-Centric Predictive Models
• NeurIPS 2026Act, Validate, Adapt: Closing the Causal Discovery-Control Loop
• ICML 2026Causal Discovery for Irregularly Time Series with Consistency Guarantees
• ICLR 2026Causal Discovery in the Wild: A Voting-Theoretic Ensemble Approach
• CVPR 2026PlanaReLoc Camera Relocalization in 3D Planar Primitives via Region-Based Structure

All Causal Discovery papers

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1. CVPR 2026A Polynomial Chaos Framework for Causal Discovery in Nonlinear Uncertain
2. CVPR 2026CHAL Causal-guided Hierarchical Anomaly-aware Learning for Moving Infrared Small Target
3. CVPR 2026GeneVAR Causal MeanFlow for Autoregressive Gene-to-WSI Tile Synthesis
4. CVPR 2026Learning by Analogy A Causal Framework for Compositional Generalization
5. CVPR 2026PlanaReLoc Camera Relocalization in 3D Planar Primitives via Region-Based Structure
6. CVPR 2026Seeing Through the Shift Causality-Inspired Robust Generalized Category Discovery
7. CVPR 2026Stake the Points Structure-Faithful Instance Unlearning
8. CVPR 2025AnomalyNCD: Towards Novel Anomaly Class Discovery in Industrial Scenarios
9. CVPR 2025GliaNet: Adaptive Neural Network Structure Learning with Glia-Driven
10. CVPR 2025Hyperbolic Category Discovery
11. CVPR 2025Less Attention is More: Prompt Transformer for Generalized Category Discovery
12. CVPR 2025MeshArt: Generating Articulated Meshes with Structure-Guided Transformers
13. CVPR 2025Structure from Collision
14. CVPR 2025Structure-from-Motion with a Non-Parametric Camera Model
15. CVPR 2024Contrastive Mean-Shift Learning for Generalized Category Discovery
16. CVPR 2023Bootstrap Your Own Prior: Towards Distribution-Agnostic Novel Class Discovery
17. CVPR 2023Dynamic Conceptional Contrastive Learning for Generalized Category Discovery
18. CVPR 2023Intrinsic Physical Concepts Discovery With Object-Centric Predictive Models
19. CVPR 2023Level-S$^2$fM: Structure From Motion on Neural Level Set of Implicit Surfaces
20. CVPR 2023On-the-Fly Category Discovery
21. CVPR 2023PartMix: Regularization Strategy To Learn Part Discovery for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

FAQ

How many Causal Discovery papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

379 in total: 59 in 2023, 82 in 2024, 99 in 2025, 139 in 2026.

How many Causal Discovery papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 53 Causal Discovery papers, versus 34 the year before.

How many Causal Discovery papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 25 Causal Discovery papers, versus 27 the year before.

How many Causal Discovery papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 54 Causal Discovery papers, versus 31 the year before.

How many Causal Discovery papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 7 Causal Discovery papers, versus 7 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Causal Discovery papers?

NeurIPS, with 150 papers from 2023 to 2026.