Counterfactual Fairness papers, 2023–2026
Counterfactual fairness constraints
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 102 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Counterfactual Fairness fell from 31 papers in 2023 to 21 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Counterfactual Fairness work: 39 papers from 2023 to 2026, 38% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Counterfactual Explanation: papers tagged with both rose from 8 in 2023 to 10 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Causal and Fairness, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Causal Discovery, is up 2.4x versus 0.7x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 31 |
| 2024 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 31 |
| 2025 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 19 |
| 2026 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 21 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026CounterFlowNet: From Minimal Changes to Meaningful Counterfactual Explanations
- ICML 2026Density-Guided Robust Counterfactual Explanations on Tabular Data under Model Multiplicity
- ICLR 2026Counterfactual Explanations on Robust Perceptual Geodesics
- NeurIPS 2025Statistical Parity with Exponential Weights
- ICML 2025Causal Logistic Bandits with Counterfactual Fairness Constraints
- ICLR 2025Certifying Counterfactual Bias in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility Study: Equal Improvability: A New Fairness Notion Considering the Long-Term Impact
- ICML 2024CF-OPT: Counterfactual Explanations for Structured Prediction
- ICLR 2024Counterfactual Density Estimation using Kernel Stein Discrepancies
- CVPR 2024FADES: Fair Disentanglement with Sensitive Relevance
- NeurIPS 2023[Re] Fairness Guarantees under Demographic Shift
- ICML 2023Counterfactual Analysis in Dynamic Latent State Models
- ICLR 2023FairGBM: Gradient Boosting with Fairness Constraints
- CVPR 2023Improving Fairness in Facial Albedo Estimation via Visual-Textual Cues
- NeurIPS 2026Offloading Score: Measuring AI Reliance through Counterfactual Workflows
- ICML 2026The Fairness Hierarchy: A viewpoint from causal inference
- ICLR 2026Counterfactual LLM-based Framework for Measuring Rhetorical Style
- NeurIPS 2025On Hierarchies of Fairness Notions in Cake Cutting: From Proportionality to Super Envy-Freeness
- ICML 2025Counterfactual Graphical Models: Constraints and Inference
- ICLR 2025Towards counterfactual fairness through auxiliary variables
All Counterfactual Fairness papers
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FAQ
- How many Counterfactual Fairness papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 102 in total: 31 in 2023, 31 in 2024, 19 in 2025, 21 in 2026.
- How many Counterfactual Fairness papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 10 Counterfactual Fairness papers, versus 5 the year before.
- How many Counterfactual Fairness papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 4 Counterfactual Fairness papers, versus 6 the year before.
- How many Counterfactual Fairness papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 7 Counterfactual Fairness papers, versus 8 the year before.
- How many Counterfactual Fairness papers are at CVPR 2024?
- CVPR 2024 has 3 Counterfactual Fairness papers, versus 2 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Counterfactual Fairness papers?
- NeurIPS, with 39 papers from 2023 to 2026.