Counterfactual Fairness papers, 2023–2026

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.

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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1. NeurIPS 2024ABCFair: an Adaptable Benchmark approach for Comparing Fairness Methods
2. NeurIPS 2024Counterfactual Fairness by Combining Factual and Counterfactual Predictions
3. NeurIPS 2024Do Counterfactually Fair Image Classifiers Satisfy Group Fairness? -- A Theoretical and Empirical Study
4. NeurIPS 2024OxonFair: A Flexible Toolkit for Algorithmic Fairness
5. NeurIPS 2024Proportional Fairness in Non-Centroid Clustering
6. NeurIPS 2024Regression under demographic parity constraints via unlabeled post-processing
7. NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility Study: Equal Improvability: A New Fairness Notion Considering the Long-Term Impact
8. NeurIPS 2024Statistical Inference for Fairness Auditing
9. NeurIPS 2024The Fairness-Quality Tradeoff in Clustering
10. NeurIPS 2024The Fragility of Fairness: Causal Sensitivity Analysis for Fair Machine Learning
11. NeurIPS 2024Towards Harmless Rawlsian Fairness Regardless of Demographic Prior
12. NeurIPS 2024When is Multicalibration Post-Processing Necessary?

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.