Concept-Based Explanation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Concept-Based Explanation went from 91 papers in 2023 to 117 in 2026, roughly 1.3x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Concept-Based Explanation work: 134 papers from 2023 to 2026, 39% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 23 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Interpretability, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Mechanistic Interpretability, is up 8.1x versus 1.3x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026CENDRe: Concept Extraction with Natural Domain Representations
• ICML 2026Evidential Copula Concept Embedding Models
• ICLR 2026Decoupling the Class Label and the Target Concept in Machine Unlearning
• CVPR 2026Agile Deliberation Concept Deliberation for Subjective Visual Classification
• NeurIPS 2025An Analysis of Concept Bottleneck Models: Measuring, Understanding, and Mitigating the Impact of Noisy Annotations
• ICML 2025Concept-Centric Token Interpretation for Vector-Quantized Generative Models
• ICLR 2025Causal Concept Graph Models: Beyond Causal Opacity in Deep Learning
• CVPR 2025Discovering Fine-Grained Visual-Concept Relations by Disentangled Optimal Transport Concept Bottleneck Models
• NeurIPS 2024[Re] On the Reproducibility of Post-Hoc Concept Bottleneck Models
• ICML 2024ContPhy: Continuum Physical Concept Learning and Reasoning from Videos
• ICLR 2024AttEXplore: Attribution for Explanation with model parameters eXploration
• CVPR 2024Fine-Grained Bipartite Concept Factorization for Clustering
• NeurIPS 2023[Re] Hierarchical Shrinkage: Improving the Accuracy and Interpretability of Tree-Based Methods
• ICML 2023A Closer Look at the Intervention Procedure of Concept Bottleneck Models
• ICLR 2023Concept Gradient: Concept-based Interpretation Without Linear Assumption
• CVPR 2023CRAFT: Concept Recursive Activation FacTorization for Explainability
• NeurIPS 2026Concept frustration: Aligning human concepts and machine representations
• ICML 2026On the Variability of Concept Activation Vectors
• ICLR 2026Hierarchical Concept-based Interpretable Models
• CVPR 2026DCoAR Deep Concept Injection into Unified Autoregressive Models for Personalized

All Concept-Based Explanation papers

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51. CVPR 2024CLiC: Concept Learning in Context
52. CVPR 2024Comparing the Decision-Making Mechanisms by Transformers and CNNs via Explanation Methods
53. CVPR 2024ConCon-Chi: Concept-Context Chimera Benchmark for Personalized Vision-Language Tasks
54. CVPR 2024CosalPure: Learning Concept from Group Images for Robust Co-Saliency Detection
55. CVPR 2024Discovering and Mitigating Visual Biases through Keyword Explanation
56. CVPR 2024Fine-Grained Bipartite Concept Factorization for Clustering
57. CVPR 2024Incremental Residual Concept Bottleneck Models
58. CVPR 2024Label-Efficient Group Robustness via Out-of-Distribution Concept Curation
59. CVPR 2024MACE: Mass Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
60. CVPR 2024MCPNet: An Interpretable Classifier via Multi-Level Concept Prototypes
61. CVPR 2024Naturally Supervised 3D Visual Grounding with Language-Regularized Concept Learners
62. CVPR 2024Neural Redshift: Random Networks are not Random Functions
63. CVPR 20233D Concept Learning and Reasoning From Multi-View Images
64. CVPR 2023CRAFT: Concept Recursive Activation FacTorization for Explainability
65. CVPR 2023Grounding Counterfactual Explanation of Image Classifiers to Textual Concept Space
66. CVPR 2023IDGI: A Framework To Eliminate Explanation Noise From Integrated Gradients
67. CVPR 2023Overlooked Factors in Concept-Based Explanations: Dataset Choice, Concept Learnability, and Human Capability
68. CVPR 2023S3C: Semi-Supervised VQA Natural Language Explanation via Self-Critical Learning
69. CVPR 2023Spatial-Temporal Concept Based Explanation of 3D ConvNets

FAQ

How many Concept-Based Explanation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

342 in total: 91 in 2023, 63 in 2024, 71 in 2025, 117 in 2026.

How many Concept-Based Explanation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 40 Concept-Based Explanation papers, versus 25 the year before.

How many Concept-Based Explanation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 24 Concept-Based Explanation papers, versus 19 the year before.

How many Concept-Based Explanation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 20 Concept-Based Explanation papers, versus 11 the year before.

How many Concept-Based Explanation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 33 Concept-Based Explanation papers, versus 16 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Concept-Based Explanation papers?

NeurIPS, with 134 papers from 2023 to 2026.