Feature Attribution papers, 2023–2026
Saliency and SHAP
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 695 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 25 | 29 | 21 | 43 | 118 |
| 2024 | 50 | 36 | 47 | 35 | 168 |
| 2025 | 57 | 42 | 51 | 40 | 190 |
| 2026 | 61 | 53 | 56 | 49 | 219 |
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
40 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2025A Simple Data Augmentation for Feature Distribution Skewed Federated Learning
- CVPR 2025ADD: Attribution-Driven Data Augmentation Framework for Boosting Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025BFANet: Revisiting 3D Semantic Segmentation with Boundary Feature Analysis
- CVPR 2025CADRef: Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection via Class-Aware Decoupled Relative Feature Leveraging
- CVPR 2025CocoER: Aligning Multi-Level Feature by Competition and Coordination for Emotion Recognition
- CVPR 2025CoMatcher: Multi-View Collaborative Feature Matching
- CVPR 2025Common3D: Self-Supervised Learning of 3D Morphable Models for Common Objects in Neural Feature Space
- CVPR 2025Comprehensive Information Bottleneck for Unveiling Universal Attribution to Interpret Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2025Descriptor-In-Pixel : Point-Feature Tracking For Pixel Processor Arrays
- CVPR 2025Deterministic-to-Stochastic Diverse Latent Feature Mapping for Human Motion Synthesis
- CVPR 2025DFM: Differentiable Feature Matching for Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2025DiffCAM: Data-Driven Saliency Maps by Capturing Feature Differences
- CVPR 2025EDM: Equirectangular Projection-Oriented Dense Kernelized Feature Matching
- CVPR 2025Efficient Decoupled Feature 3D Gaussian Splatting via Hierarchical Compression
- CVPR 2025Exploring Semantic Feature Discrimination for Perceptual Image Super-Resolution and Opinion-Unaware No-Reference Image Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2025Feature Selection for Latent Factor Models
- CVPR 2025Feature Spectrum Learning for Remote Sensing Change Detection
- CVPR 2025Feature-Preserving Mesh Decimation for Normal Integration
- CVPR 2025FFR: Frequency Feature Rectification for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025FG^2: Fine-Grained Cross-View Localization by Fine-Grained Feature Matching
- CVPR 2025FLAVC: Learned Video Compression with Feature Level Attention
- CVPR 2025From Poses to Identity: Training-Free Person Re-Identification via Feature Centralization
- CVPR 2025g3D-LF: Generalizable 3D-Language Feature Fields for Embodied Tasks
- CVPR 2025Improving Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Sliced-Wasserstein Feature Alignment and Uniformity
- CVPR 2025JamMa: Ultra-lightweight Local Feature Matching with Joint Mamba
- CVPR 2025Multi-Layer Visual Feature Fusion in Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Analysis, and Best Practices
- CVPR 2025One is Plenty: A Polymorphic Feature Interpreter for Immutable Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
- CVPR 2025Open Ad-hoc Categorization with Contextualized Feature Learning
- CVPR 2025PillarHist: A Quantization-aware Pillar Feature Encoder based on Height-aware Histogram
- CVPR 2025PRaDA: Projective Radial Distortion Averaging
- CVPR 2025Pseudo Visible Feature Fine-Grained Fusion for Thermal Object Detection
- CVPR 2025RDD: Robust Feature Detector and Descriptor using Deformable Transformer
- CVPR 2025Recurrent Feature Mining and Keypoint Mixup Padding for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2025Robust-MVTON: Learning Cross-Pose Feature Alignment and Fusion for Robust Multi-View Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2025SASep: Saliency-Aware Structured Separation of Geometry and Feature for Open Set Learning on Point Clouds
- CVPR 2025SLVR: Super-Light Visual Reconstruction via Blueprint Controllable Convolutions and Exploring Feature Diversity Representation
- CVPR 2025Stacking Brick by Brick: Aligned Feature Isolation for Incremental Face Forgery Detection
- CVPR 2025Task-Agnostic Guided Feature Expansion for Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2025Task-aware Cross-modal Feature Refinement Transformer with Large Language Models for Visual Grounding
- CVPR 2025UniNet: A Contrastive Learning-guided Unified Framework with Feature Selection for Anomaly Detection
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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.