Deep learning · causal inference papers, 2023–2026
Deep learning area: causal_inference
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 316 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Deep learning · causal inference fell from 108 papers in 2023 to 66 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Deep learning · causal inference work: 196 papers from 2023 to 2026, 62% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Causal Recommendation: papers tagged with both rose from 27 in 2023 to 55 in 2026.
- Among the 11 topics under Deep Learning, it ranks #10 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Diffusion Models, is up 4.1x versus 0.6x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 75 | 6 | 25 | 2 | 108 |
| 2024 | 84 | 6 | 17 | 1 | 108 |
| 2025 | 9 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 34 |
| 2026 | 28 | 8 | 26 | 4 | 66 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026From Groups to Rings: Causal Evidence for Algebraic Decomposition in Grokked Transformers
- ICML 2026Towards a Holistic Understanding of Selection Bias for Causal Effect Identification
- ICLR 2026Causal-Steer: Disentangled Continuous Style Control without Parallel Corpora
- CVPR 2026Breaking Spurious Correlations Uncertainty-Driven Causal Transformers for AU Detection
- NeurIPS 2025CCL: Causal-aware In-context Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
- ICML 2025Position: Probabilistic Modelling is Sufficient for Causal Inference
- ICLR 2025Robust Root Cause Diagnosis using In-Distribution Interventions
- CVPR 2025Image Quality Assessment: Investigating Causal Perceptual Effects with Abductive Counterfactual Inference
- NeurIPS 2024A Non-parametric Direct Learning Approach to Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation under Unmeasured Confounding
- ICML 2024Collaborative Heterogeneous Causal Inference Beyond Meta-analysis
- ICLR 2024Causal-StoNet: Causal Inference for High-Dimensional Complex Data
- CVPR 2024Bi-Causal: Group Activity Recognition via Bidirectional Causality
- NeurIPS 2023A Cross-Moment Approach for Causal Effect Estimation
- ICML 2023Proximal Causal Learning of Conditional Average Treatment Effects
- ICLR 2023GEASS: Neural causal feature selection for high-dimensional biological data
- CVPR 2023CafeBoost: Causal Feature Boost To Eliminate Task-Induced Bias for Class Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2026A Characterization of Latent Variable Causal Models Consistent with Observational Data
- ICML 2026Caracal: Causal Architecture via Spectral Mixing
- ICLR 2026Counterfactual Structural Causal Bandits
- CVPR 2026Bridge Basis-Driven Causal Inference Marries VFMs for Domain Generalization
All Deep learning · causal inference papers
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- CVPR 2023CafeBoost: Causal Feature Boost To Eliminate Task-Induced Bias for Class Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2023Meta-Causal Learning for Single Domain Generalization
- ICLR 2023Causal Balancing for Domain Generalization
- ICLR 2023Combinatorial Pure Exploration of Causal Bandits
- ICLR 2023Estimating individual treatment effects under unobserved confounding using binary instruments
- ICLR 2023GEASS: Neural causal feature selection for high-dimensional biological data
- ICLR 2023GRACE-C: Generalized Rate Agnostic Causal Estimation via Constraints
- ICLR 2023Learning to Induce Causal Structure
- ICML 2023Active causal structure learning with advice
- ICML 2023Active Learning based Structural Inference
- ICML 2023Approximate Causal Effect Identification under Weak Confounding
- ICML 2023B-Learner: Quasi-Oracle Bounds on Heterogeneous Causal Effects Under Hidden Confounding
- ICML 2023Causal Bounds in Quasi-Markovian Graphs
- ICML 2023Causal Isotonic Calibration for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
- ICML 2023Causal Strategic Classification: A Tale of Two Shifts
- ICML 2023Causal Structure Learning for Latent Intervened Non-stationary Data
- ICML 2023Coin Sampling: Gradient-Based Bayesian Inference without Learning Rates
- ICML 2023Collaborative Causal Inference with Fair Incentives
- ICML 2023Conditions and Assumptions for Constraint-based Causal Structure Learning
- ICML 2023Conformal Inference is (almost) Free for Neural Networks Trained with Early Stopping
- ICML 2023ContraBAR: Contrastive Bayes-Adaptive Deep RL
- ICML 2023Covariate balancing using the integral probability metric for causal inference
- ICML 2023Estimating Causal Effects using a Multi-task Deep Ensemble
- ICML 2023Estimating Possible Causal Effects with Latent Variables via Adjustment
- ICML 2023Forward-Backward Gaussian Variational Inference via JKO in the Bures-Wasserstein Space
- ICML 2023Linear Causal Disentanglement via Interventions
- ICML 2023Neural Algorithmic Reasoning with Causal Regularisation
- ICML 2023On Data Manifolds Entailed by Structural Causal Models
- ICML 2023On the Relationship Between Explanation and Prediction: A Causal View
- ICML 2023Proximal Causal Learning of Conditional Average Treatment Effects
- ICML 2023Returning The Favour: When Regression Benefits From Probabilistic Causal Knowledge
- ICML 2023Towards Trustworthy Explanation: On Causal Rationalization
- ICML 2023Which Invariance Should We Transfer? A Causal Minimax Learning Approach
- NeurIPS 2023A Causal Framework for Decomposing Spurious Variations
- NeurIPS 2023A Cross-Moment Approach for Causal Effect Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023A Measure-Theoretic Axiomatisation of Causality
- NeurIPS 2023A Unified Detection Framework for Inference-Stage Backdoor Defenses
- NeurIPS 2023A-NeSI: A Scalable Approximate Method for Probabilistic Neurosymbolic Inference
- NeurIPS 2023An Efficient Doubly-Robust Test for the Kernel Treatment Effect
- NeurIPS 2023Analysis of Variance of Multiple Causal Networks
- NeurIPS 2023Approximate Allocation Matching for Structural Causal Bandits with Unobserved Confounders
- NeurIPS 2023ARTree: A Deep Autoregressive Model for Phylogenetic Inference
- NeurIPS 2023Assumption violations in causal discovery and the robustness of score matching
- NeurIPS 2023Attention as Implicit Structural Inference
- NeurIPS 2023Balancing Risk and Reward: A Batched-Bandit Strategy for Automated Phased Release
- NeurIPS 2023Brain-like Flexible Visual Inference by Harnessing Feedback Feedforward Alignment
- NeurIPS 2023C-Disentanglement: Discovering Causally-Independent Generative Factors under an Inductive Bias of Confounder
- NeurIPS 2023Causal Component Analysis
- NeurIPS 2023Causal de Finetti: On the Identification of Invariant Causal Structure in Exchangeable Data
- NeurIPS 2023Causal discovery from observational and interventional data across multiple environments
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FAQ
- How many Deep learning · causal inference papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 316 in total: 108 in 2023, 108 in 2024, 34 in 2025, 66 in 2026.
- How many Deep learning · causal inference papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 28 Deep learning · causal inference papers, versus 9 the year before.
- How many Deep learning · causal inference papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 8 Deep learning · causal inference papers, versus 6 the year before.
- How many Deep learning · causal inference papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 26 Deep learning · causal inference papers, versus 18 the year before.
- How many Deep learning · causal inference papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 4 Deep learning · causal inference papers, versus 1 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Deep learning · causal inference papers?
- NeurIPS, with 196 papers from 2023 to 2026.
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