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
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- 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
21 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2023Decoding Layer Saliency in Language Transformers
- ICML 2023Defects of Convolutional Decoder Networks in Frequency Representation
- ICML 2023DRCFS: Doubly Robust Causal Feature Selection
- ICML 2023Faith-Shap: The Faithful Shapley Interaction Index
- ICML 2023Feature Expansion for Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2023Feature learning in deep classifiers through Intermediate Neural Collapse
- ICML 2023Feature Programming for Multivariate Time Series Prediction
- ICML 2023Global optimality of Elman-type RNNs in the mean-field regime
- ICML 2023GRAFENNE: Learning on Graphs with Heterogeneous and Dynamic Feature Sets
- ICML 2023Graph Positional Encoding via Random Feature Propagation
- ICML 2023Hybrid Energy Based Model in the Feature Space for Out-of-Distribution Detection
- ICML 2023Learning Perturbations to Explain Time Series Predictions
- ICML 2023Learning to Maximize Mutual Information for Dynamic Feature Selection
- ICML 2023LESS-VFL: Communication-Efficient Feature Selection for Vertical Federated Learning
- ICML 2023MetaModulation: Learning Variational Feature Hierarchies for Few-Shot Learning with Fewer Tasks
- ICML 2023Monge, Bregman and Occam: Interpretable Optimal Transport in High-Dimensions with Feature-Sparse Maps
- ICML 2023Simple and Fast Group Robustness by Automatic Feature Reweighting
- ICML 2023Sketched Ridgeless Linear Regression: The Role of Downsampling
- ICML 2023SRATTA: Sample Re-ATTribution Attack of Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning.
- ICML 2023The Benefits of Mixup for Feature Learning
- ICML 2023Towards credible visual model interpretation with path attribution
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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.