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
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- 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
27 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2026Bilinear Bandits with Partially Observable Features
- ICML 2026Budgeted Active Experimentation for Treatment Effect Estimation from Observational and Randomized Data
- ICML 2026Causal Effect Identifiability in the Presence of Latent Confounders Without Auxiliary Variables
- ICML 2026Causal-EPIG: Causally Aligned Active CATE Estimation
- ICML 2026Conditional Distributional Treatment Effects: Doubly Robust Estimation and Testing
- ICML 2026DeepBlip: Estimating Conditional Average Treatment Effects Over Time
- ICML 2026Doubly Robust Distributionally Robust Offline Contextual Pricing
- ICML 2026Estimating Continuous Treatment Effects with Two-Stage Kernel Ridge Regression
- ICML 2026Estimation of Treatment Effects Under Nonstationarity via the Truncated Policy Gradient Estimator
- ICML 2026Even Faster Kernel Matrix Linear Algebra via Density Estimation
- ICML 2026Feasible Fusion: Constrained Joint Estimation under Structural Non-Overlap
- ICML 2026Frequentist Consistency of Prior-Data Fitted Networks for Causal Inference
- ICML 2026Gaussian Mean Field Variational Inference can Overestimate Predictive Variance
- ICML 2026Gradient-Based Causal Tree Ensembles: A Backbone Architecture for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
- ICML 2026Improved Distribution Estimation in $\ell_\infty$
- ICML 2026Learning Treatment Allocations with Risk Control Under Partial Identifiability
- ICML 2026Learning Treatment Representations for Downstream Instrumental Variable Regression
- ICML 2026Local Covariate Selection for Average Causal Effect Estimation without Pretreatment and Causal Sufficiency Assumptions
- ICML 2026Modeling Covariate Transition for Efficient Estimation of Longitudinal Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments
- ICML 2026On the Effect of Misspecifying the Embedding Dimension in Low-rank Network Models
- ICML 2026Rank-Learner: Orthogonal Ranking of Treatment Effects
- ICML 2026Signal Strength Estimation in Logistic Regression Using Data Splitting
- ICML 2026Sinkhorn Treatment Effects: A Causal Optimal Transport Measure
- ICML 2026Smooth Multi-Policy Causal Effect Estimation in Longitudinal Settings
- ICML 2026Towards a Holistic Understanding of Selection Bias for Causal Effect Identification
- ICML 2026Treatment Responder Classification with Abstention
- ICML 2026Unveiling Prior-Data Fitted Networks on Causal Effect Estimation: Pre-Training or Fine-Tuning?
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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.