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

167 papers, page 4 of 4

151. CVPR 2023Harmonious Feature Learning for Interactive Hand-Object Pose Estimation
152. CVPR 2023Initialization Noise in Image Gradients and Saliency Maps
153. CVPR 2023Introducing Competition To Boost the Transferability of Targeted Adversarial Examples Through Clean Feature Mixup
154. CVPR 2023MetaFusion: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Meta-Feature Embedding From Object Detection
155. CVPR 2023Multi-Modal Gait Recognition via Effective Spatial-Temporal Feature Fusion
156. CVPR 2023Multi-Modal Learning With Missing Modality via Shared-Specific Feature Modelling
157. CVPR 2023NeRFLight: Fast and Light Neural Radiance Fields Using a Shared Feature Grid
158. CVPR 2023Panoptic Compositional Feature Field for Editable Scene Rendering With Network-Inferred Labels via Metric Learning
159. CVPR 2023PATS: Patch Area Transportation With Subdivision for Local Feature Matching
160. CVPR 2023Preserving Linear Separability in Continual Learning by Backward Feature Projection
161. CVPR 2023Progressive Open Space Expansion for Open-Set Model Attribution
162. CVPR 2023Rethinking Feature-Based Knowledge Distillation for Face Recognition
163. CVPR 2023Rethinking Gradient Projection Continual Learning: Stability / Plasticity Feature Space Decoupling
164. CVPR 2023SCConv: Spatial and Channel Reconstruction Convolution for Feature Redundancy
165. CVPR 2023SFD2: Semantic-Guided Feature Detection and Description
166. CVPR 2023Shape-Erased Feature Learning for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
167. CVPR 2023UTM: A Unified Multiple Object Tracking Model With Identity-Aware Feature Enhancement

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.