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 2025Image Quality Assessment: Investigating Causal Perceptual Effects with Abductive Counterfactual Inference
- ICLR 2025A Robust Method to Discover Causal or Anticausal Relation
- ICLR 2025Deriving Causal Order from Single-Variable Interventions: Guarantees & Algorithm
- ICLR 2025Doubly robust identification of treatment effects from multiple environments
- ICLR 2025Incremental Causal Effect for Time to Treatment Initialization
- ICLR 2025Robust Root Cause Diagnosis using In-Distribution Interventions
- ICLR 2025Standardizing Structural Causal Models
- ICML 2025A Recipe for Causal Graph Regression: Confounding Effects Revisited
- ICML 2025Causal Abstraction Inference under Lossy Representations
- ICML 2025Causal Abstraction Learning based on the Semantic Embedding Principle
- ICML 2025Causal Attribution Analysis for Continuous Outcomes
- ICML 2025Causal Effect Identification in lvLiNGAM from Higher-Order Cumulants
- ICML 2025Double Machine Learning for Causal Inference under Shared-State Interference
- ICML 2025Falsification of Unconfoundedness by Testing Independence of Causal Mechanisms
- ICML 2025Federated Causal Structure Learning with Non-identical Variable Sets
- ICML 2025Generalized Random Forests Using Fixed-Point Trees
- ICML 2025Integer Programming for Generalized Causal Bootstrap Designs
- ICML 2025Isolated Causal Effects of Natural Language
- ICML 2025Learning with Selectively Labeled Data from Multiple Decision-makers
- ICML 2025LLMScan: Causal Scan for LLM Misbehavior Detection
- ICML 2025Measuring Variable Importance in Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Confidence
- ICML 2025Position: Probabilistic Modelling is Sufficient for Causal Inference
- ICML 2025Reducing Confounding Bias without Data Splitting for Causal Inference via Optimal Transport
- ICML 2025Telling Peer Direct Effects from Indirect Effects in Observational Network Data
- ICML 2025Tightening Causal Bounds via Covariate-Aware Optimal Transport
- NeurIPS 2025A Cautionary Tale on Integrating Studies with Disparate Outcome Measures for Causal Inference
- NeurIPS 2025CCL: Causal-aware In-context Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
- NeurIPS 2025Data Fusion for Partial Identification of Causal Effects
- NeurIPS 2025Decoding Causal Structure: End-to-End Mediation Pathways Inference
- NeurIPS 2025Density Ratio-Free Doubly Robust Proxy Causal Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Do-PFN: In-Context Learning for Causal Effect Estimation
- NeurIPS 2025Prediction-Powered Causal Inferences
- NeurIPS 2025Relaxing partition admissibility in Cluster-DAGs: a causal calculus with arbitrary variable clustering
- NeurIPS 2025Structural Causal Bandits under Markov Equivalence
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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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