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

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• 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. ICLR 2026Bures Generalized Category Discovery
2. ICLR 2026CARL: Preserving Causal Structure in Representation Learning
3. ICLR 2026Causal Discovery in the Wild: A Voting-Theoretic Ensemble Approach
4. ICLR 2026Causal Discovery via Quantile Partial Effect
5. ICLR 2026Causal Structure Learning in Hawkes Processes with Complex Latent Confounder Networks
6. ICLR 2026Characterization and Learning of Causal Graphs with Latent Confounders and Post-treatment Selection from Interventional Data
7. ICLR 2026Coarse-to-Fine Learning of Dynamic Causal Structures
8. ICLR 2026Conditional Independent Component Analysis For Estimating Causal Structure with Latent Variables
9. ICLR 2026Distributional Equivalence in Linear Non-Gaussian Latent-Variable Cyclic Causal Models: Characterization and Learning
10. ICLR 2026Efficient Ensemble Conditional Independence Test Framework for Causal Discovery
11. ICLR 2026Embracing Discrete Search: A Reasonable Approach to Causal Structure Learning
12. ICLR 2026Frequency-Domain Better than Time-Domain for Causal Structure Recovery in Dynamical Systems on Networks
13. ICLR 2026How Transformers Learn Causal Structures In-Context: Explainable Mechanism Meets Theoretical Guarantee
14. ICLR 2026Influence without Confounding: Causal Discovery from Temporal Data with Long-term Carry-over Effects
15. ICLR 2026Learning Dynamic Causal Graphs Under Parametric Uncertainty via Polynomial Chaos Expansions
16. ICLR 2026On Measuring Influence in Avoiding Undesired Future
17. ICLR 2026On the identifiability of causal graphs with multiple environments
18. ICLR 2026Query-Specific Causal Graph Pruning Under Tiered Knowledge
19. ICLR 2026Robust Equation Structure learning with Adaptive Refinement
20. ICLR 2026Score-based Greedy Search for Structure Identification of Partially Observed Linear Causal Models
21. ICLR 2026Some Neural Networks Inherently Preserve Subspace Clustering Structure
22. ICLR 2026Structure Learning from Time-Series Data with Lag-Agnostic Structural Prior
23. ICLR 2026TCD-Arena: Assessing Robustness of Time Series Causal Discovery Methods Against Assumption Violations
24. ICLR 2026Theoretical Guarantees for Causal Discovery on Large Random Graphs
25. ICLR 2026Topological Causal Effects
26. ICLR 2025A Conditional Independence Test in the Presence of Discretization
27. ICLR 2025A Meta-Learning Approach to Bayesian Causal Discovery
28. ICLR 2025A Robust Method to Discover Causal or Anticausal Relation
29. ICLR 2025A Skewness-Based Criterion for Addressing Heteroscedastic Noise in Causal Discovery
30. ICLR 2025Analytic DAG Constraints for Differentiable DAG Learning
31. ICLR 2025Beyond Surface Structure: A Causal Assessment of LLMs' Comprehension ability
32. ICLR 2025Causal Discovery via Bayesian Optimization
33. ICLR 2025Causal Order: The Key to Leveraging Imperfect Experts in Causal Inference
34. ICLR 2025CausalRivers - Scaling up benchmarking of causal discovery for real-world time-series
35. ICLR 2025Deriving Causal Order from Single-Variable Interventions: Guarantees & Algorithm
36. ICLR 2025Differentiable Causal Discovery for Latent Hierarchical Causal Models
37. ICLR 2025DyCAST: Learning Dynamic Causal Structure from Time Series
38. ICLR 2025Efficient and Trustworthy Causal Discovery with Latent Variables and Complex Relations
39. ICLR 2025Extendable and Iterative Structure Learning Strategy for Bayesian Networks
40. ICLR 2025Identifiable Exchangeable Mechanisms for Causal Structure and Representation Learning
41. ICLR 2025Linear SCM Identification in the Presence of Confounders and Gaussian Noise
42. ICLR 2025Recovery of Causal Graph Involving Latent Variables via Homologous Surrogates
43. ICLR 2025Robust Root Cause Diagnosis using In-Distribution Interventions
44. ICLR 2025Root Cause Analysis of Anomalies in Multivariate Time Series through Granger Causal Discovery
45. ICLR 2025Selective Induction Heads: How Transformers Select Causal Structures in Context
46. ICLR 2025Signature Kernel Conditional Independence Tests in Causal Discovery for Stochastic Processes
47. ICLR 2025Standardizing Structural Causal Models
48. ICLR 2025THE ROBUSTNESS OF DIFFERENTIABLE CAUSAL DISCOVERY IN MISSPECIFIED SCENARIOS
49. ICLR 2025Towards Empowerment Gain through Causal Structure Learning in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
50. ICLR 2025Unifying Causal Representation Learning with the Invariance Principle

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.