Feature Attribution papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Feature Attribution went from 118 papers in 2023 to 219 in 2026, roughly 1.9x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Feature Attribution work: 193 papers from 2023 to 2026, 28% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Theory · learning theory: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 14 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Interpretability, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Mechanistic Interpretability, is up 8.1x versus 1.9x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026ADAPT: Hybrid Prompt Optimization for LLM Feature Visualization
• ICML 2026Activation with Intrinsic-Extrinsic Consensus
• ICLR 2026AnyUp: Universal Feature Upsampling
• CVPR 2026A Training-Free Style-Personalization via SVD-Based Feature Decomposition
• NeurIPS 2025Alternating Gradient Flows: A Theory of Feature Learning in Two-layer Neural Networks
• ICML 2025BCE vs. CE in Deep Feature Learning
• ICLR 2025A Differentiable Rank-Based Objective for Better Feature Learning
• CVPR 2025A Simple Data Augmentation for Feature Distribution Skewed Federated Learning
• NeurIPS 2024$\texttt{dattri}$: A Library for Efficient Data Attribution
• ICML 2024Asymptotics of feature learning in two-layer networks after one gradient-step
• ICLR 2024An Intuitive Multi-Frequency Feature Representation for SO(3)-Equivariant Networks
• CVPR 2024DYSON: Dynamic Feature Space Self-Organization for Online Task-Free Class Incremental Learning
• NeurIPS 2023$\mathcal{M}^4$: A Unified XAI Benchmark for Faithfulness Evaluation of Feature Attribution Methods across Metrics, Modalities and Models
• ICML 2023Decoding Layer Saliency in Language Transformers
• ICLR 2023Can We Faithfully Represent Absence States to Compute Shapley Values on a DNN?
• CVPR 2023A Practical Upper Bound for the Worst-Case Attribution Deviations
• NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Feature Propagation for Attribute-Missing Graph Clustering
• ICML 2026Aggregate Models, Not Explanations: Improving Feature Importance Estimation
• ICLR 2026Attribution-Guided Decoding
• CVPR 2026FBTA Enabling Single-GPU End-to-End Gigapixel WSI Classification with Feature Bridging

All Feature Attribution papers

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51. ICLR 2025Diffusion Attribution Score: Evaluating Training Data Influence in Diffusion Models
52. ICLR 2025Explain Yourself, Briefly! Self-Explaining Neural Networks with Concise Sufficient Reasons
53. ICLR 2025Feature Averaging: An Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent Leading to Non-Robustness in Neural Networks
54. ICLR 2025Feature Responsiveness Scores: Model-Agnostic Explanations for Recourse
55. ICLR 2025Feature-Based Online Bilateral Trade
56. ICLR 2025For Better or For Worse? Learning Minimum Variance Features With Label Augmentation
57. ICLR 2025Formation of Representations in Neural Networks
58. ICLR 2025GNNs Getting ComFy: Community and Feature Similarity Guided Rewiring
59. ICLR 2025Graph Neural Ricci Flow: Evolving Feature from a Curvature Perspective
60. ICLR 2025How Feature Learning Can Improve Neural Scaling Laws
61. ICLR 2025Influence Functions for Scalable Data Attribution in Diffusion Models
62. ICLR 2025InstaSHAP: Interpretable Additive Models Explain Shapley Values Instantly
63. ICLR 2025Joint Graph Rewiring and Feature Denoising via Spectral Resonance
64. ICLR 2025Learning Hierarchical Polynomials of Multiple Nonlinear Features
65. ICLR 2025Local Loss Optimization in the Infinite Width: Stable Parameterization of Predictive Coding Networks and Target Propagation
66. ICLR 2025LoRanPAC: Low-rank Random Features and Pre-trained Models for Bridging Theory and Practice in Continual Learning
67. ICLR 2025Machine Unlearning via Simulated Oracle Matching
68. ICLR 2025Make Haste Slowly: A Theory of Emergent Structured Mixed Selectivity in Feature Learning ReLU Networks
69. ICLR 2025MaxCutPool: differentiable feature-aware Maxcut for pooling in graph neural networks
70. ICLR 2025On the Feature Learning in Diffusion Models
71. ICLR 2025Pursuing Feature Separation based on Neural Collapse for Out-of-Distribution Detection
72. ICLR 2025RankSHAP: Shapley Value Based Feature Attributions for Learning to Rank
73. ICLR 2025Rethinking Multiple-Instance Learning From Feature Space to Probability Space
74. ICLR 2025Rethinking Shapley Value for Negative Interactions in Non-convex Games
75. ICLR 2025Robust Feature Learning for Multi-Index Models in High Dimensions
76. ICLR 2025Salvage: Shapley-distribution Approximation Learning Via Attribution Guided Exploration for Explainable Image Classification
77. ICLR 2025Scalable Influence and Fact Tracing for Large Language Model Pretraining
78. ICLR 2025Small-to-Large Generalization: Training Data Influences Models Consistently Across Scale
79. ICLR 2025Three Mechanisms of Feature Learning in a Linear Network
80. ICLR 2025Tree-Wasserstein Distance for High Dimensional Data with a Latent Feature Hierarchy
81. ICLR 2025Unlearning-based Neural Interpretations
82. ICLR 2025When GNNs meet symmetry in ILPs: an orbit-based feature augmentation approach
83. ICML 2025A Versatile Influence Function for Data Attribution with Non-Decomposable Loss
84. ICML 2025Active feature acquisition via explainability-driven ranking
85. ICML 2025Adaptive kernel predictors from feature-learning infinite limits of neural networks
86. ICML 2025BCE vs. CE in Deep Feature Learning
87. ICML 2025Best Subset Selection: Optimal Pursuit for Feature Selection and Elimination
88. ICML 2025Can Diffusion Models Learn Hidden Inter-Feature Rules Behind Images?
89. ICML 2025Causal Attribution Analysis for Continuous Outcomes
90. ICML 2025Clustering Items through Bandit Feedback: Finding the Right Feature out of Many
91. ICML 2025Confounder-Free Continual Learning via Recursive Feature Normalization
92. ICML 2025Dual Feature Reduction for the Sparse-group Lasso and its Adaptive Variant
93. ICML 2025Emergence in non-neural models: grokking modular arithmetic via average gradient outer product
94. ICML 2025Exploiting Presentative Feature Distributions for Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning of Large Language Models
95. ICML 2025Feature Importance Metrics in the Presence of Missing Data
96. ICML 2025Feature Learning beyond the Lazy-Rich Dichotomy: Insights from Representational Geometry
97. ICML 2025Feature learning from non-Gaussian inputs: the case of Independent Component Analysis in high dimensions
98. ICML 2025Feature Shift Localization Network
99. ICML 2025Feature-Mapping Topology Optimization with Neural Heaviside Signed Distance Functions
100. ICML 2025Federated Learning for Feature Generalization with Convex Constraints

FAQ

How many Feature Attribution papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

695 in total: 118 in 2023, 168 in 2024, 190 in 2025, 219 in 2026.

How many Feature Attribution papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 61 Feature Attribution papers, versus 57 the year before.

How many Feature Attribution papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 53 Feature Attribution papers, versus 42 the year before.

How many Feature Attribution papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 56 Feature Attribution papers, versus 51 the year before.

How many Feature Attribution papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 49 Feature Attribution papers, versus 40 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Feature Attribution papers?

NeurIPS, with 193 papers from 2023 to 2026.