Treatment Effect papers, 2023–2026
ATE and CATE estimation
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 385 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Treatment Effect went from 75 papers in 2023 to 106 in 2026, roughly 1.4x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Treatment Effect work: 131 papers from 2023 to 2026, 34% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning: papers tagged with both rose from 3 in 2023 to 10 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Causal and Fairness, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Causal Discovery, is up 2.4x versus 1.4x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 21 | 9 | 33 | 12 | 75 |
| 2024 | 32 | 16 | 40 | 18 | 106 |
| 2025 | 34 | 16 | 31 | 17 | 98 |
| 2026 | 44 | 18 | 27 | 17 | 106 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Assessing the robustness of heterogeneous treatment effects in survival analysis under informative censoring
- ICML 2026Causal Effect Identifiability in the Presence of Latent Confounders Without Auxiliary Variables
- ICLR 2026ActiveCQ: Active Estimation of Causal Quantities
- CVPR 2026Event Stream Filtering via Probability Flux Estimation
- NeurIPS 2025Born a Transformer -- Always a Transformer? On the Effect of Pretraining on Architectural Abilities
- ICML 2025A Meta-learner for Heterogeneous Effects in Difference-in-Differences
- ICLR 2025Causal Effect Estimation with Mixed Latent Confounders and Post-treatment Variables
- CVPR 2025Any6D: Model-free 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects
- NeurIPS 2024Benchmarking Estimators for Natural Experiments: A Novel Dataset and a Doubly Robust Algorithm
- ICML 2024A Generative Approach for Treatment Effect Estimation under Collider Bias: From an Out-of-Distribution Perspective
- ICLR 2024A Variational Framework for Estimating Continuous Treatment Effects with Measurement Error
- CVPR 2024LightOctree: Lightweight 3D Spatially-Coherent Indoor Lighting Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023An Efficient Doubly-Robust Test for the Kernel Treatment Effect
- ICML 2023A Three-regime Model of Network Pruning
- ICLR 2023Causal Estimation for Text Data with (Apparent) Overlap Violations
- CVPR 2023HRDFuse: Monocular 360deg Depth Estimation by Collaboratively Learning Holistic-With-Regional Depth Distributions
- NeurIPS 2026Automated Causal Effect Estimation through Self-Evolving AI
- ICML 2026Causal-EPIG: Causally Aligned Active CATE Estimation
- ICLR 2026Foundation Models for Causal Inference via Prior-Data Fitted Networks
- CVPR 2026The Invisible Gorilla Effect in Out-of-distribution Detection
All Treatment Effect papers
59 papers, page 1 of 2
- ICLR 2026A Relative Error-Based Evaluation Framework of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimators
- ICLR 2026ActiveCQ: Active Estimation of Causal Quantities
- ICLR 2026Direct Doubly Robust Estimation of Conditional Quantile Contrasts
- ICLR 2026Foundation Models for Causal Inference via Prior-Data Fitted Networks
- ICLR 2026Good allocations from bad estimates
- ICLR 2026Heterogeneous Front-Door Effects: Debiased Estimation with Quasi-Oracle Guarantees
- ICLR 2026IGC-Net for conditional average potential outcome estimation over time
- ICLR 2026Matching without Group Barrier for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation
- ICLR 2026Modeling Interference for Treatment Effect Estimation in Network Dynamic Environment
- ICLR 2026NIMO: a Nonlinear Interpretable MOdel
- ICLR 2026On the Interpolation Effect of Score Smoothing in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026Overlap-Adaptive Regularization for Conditional Average Treatment Effect Estimation
- ICLR 2026Overlap-weighted orthogonal meta-learner for treatment effect estimation over time
- ICLR 2026RESA: Bringing Back What Sparse Attention Ignores with Residual Estimation
- ICLR 2026Revenue Maximization Under Sequential Price Competition Via The Estimation Of $s$-Concave Demand Functions
- ICLR 2026SurvHTE-Bench: A Benchmark for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation in Survival Analysis
- ICLR 2026The Effect of Attention Head Count on Transformer Approximation
- ICLR 2026The Matthew Effect of AI Programming Assistants: A Hidden Bias in Software Evolution
- ICLR 2025Bayesian Treatment of the Spectrum of the Empirical Kernel in (Sub)Linear-Width Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Causal Effect Estimation with Mixed Latent Confounders and Post-treatment Variables
- ICLR 2025Causal Graph Transformer for Treatment Effect Estimation Under Unknown Interference
- ICLR 2025Comparing Targeting Strategies for Maximizing Social Welfare with Limited Resources
- ICLR 2025Constructing Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects from Multiple Datasets
- ICLR 2025Differentially private learners for heterogeneous treatment effects
- ICLR 2025Doubly robust identification of treatment effects from multiple environments
- ICLR 2025Effective and Efficient Time-Varying Counterfactual Prediction with State-Space Models
- ICLR 2025Estimation of single-cell and tissue perturbation effect in spatial transcriptomics via Spatial Causal Disentanglement
- ICLR 2025Gaussian Mixture Counterfactual Generator
- ICLR 2025Incremental Causal Effect for Time to Treatment Initialization
- ICLR 2025Mini-Monkey: Alleviating the Semantic Sawtooth Effect for Lightweight MLLMs via Complementary Image Pyramid
- ICLR 2025Model-agnostic meta-learners for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects over time
- ICLR 2025Rapid Selection and Ordering of In-Context Demonstrations via Prompt Embedding Clustering
- ICLR 2025Time After Time: Deep-Q Effect Estimation for Interventions on When and What to do
- ICLR 2025Universal Sharpness Dynamics in Neural Network Training: Fixed Point Analysis, Edge of Stability, and Route to Chaos
- ICLR 2024A Linear Algebraic Framework for Counterfactual Generation
- ICLR 2024A Neural Framework for Generalized Causal Sensitivity Analysis
- ICLR 2024A Variational Framework for Estimating Continuous Treatment Effects with Measurement Error
- ICLR 2024Bayesian Neural Controlled Differential Equations for Treatment Effect Estimation
- ICLR 2024Be Aware of the Neighborhood Effect: Modeling Selection Bias under Interference
- ICLR 2024Bounds on Representation-Induced Confounding Bias for Treatment Effect Estimation
- ICLR 2024Defining Expertise: Applications to Treatment Effect Estimation
- ICLR 2024Doubly Robust Proximal Causal Learning for Continuous Treatments
- ICLR 2024Dropout-Based Rashomon Set Exploration for Efficient Predictive Multiplicity Estimation
- ICLR 2024Empirical Analysis of Model Selection for Heterogeneous Causal Effect Estimation
- ICLR 2024Independent-Set Design of Experiments for Estimating Treatment and Spillover Effects under Network Interference
- ICLR 2024ODICE: Revealing the Mystery of Distribution Correction Estimation via Orthogonal-gradient Update
- ICLR 2024On the Effect of Batch Size in Byzantine-Robust Distributed Learning
- ICLR 2024Outliers with Opposing Signals Have an Outsized Effect on Neural Network Optimization
- ICLR 2024The Joint Effect of Task Similarity and Overparameterization on Catastrophic Forgetting — An Analytical Model
- ICLR 2024Treatment Effects Estimation By Uniform Transformer
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FAQ
- How many Treatment Effect papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 385 in total: 75 in 2023, 106 in 2024, 98 in 2025, 106 in 2026.
- How many Treatment Effect papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 44 Treatment Effect papers, versus 34 the year before.
- How many Treatment Effect papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 18 Treatment Effect papers, versus 16 the year before.
- How many Treatment Effect papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 27 Treatment Effect papers, versus 31 the year before.
- How many Treatment Effect papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 17 Treatment Effect papers, versus 17 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Treatment Effect papers?
- NeurIPS, with 131 papers from 2023 to 2026.