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
34 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Data-Borrowing for Improving Treatment Effect Estimation using External Controls
- NeurIPS 2025An Analysis of Causal Effect Estimation using Outcome Invariant Data Augmentation
- NeurIPS 2025Beyond the Average: Distributional Causal Inference under Imperfect Compliance
- NeurIPS 2025Born a Transformer -- Always a Transformer? On the Effect of Pretraining on Architectural Abilities
- NeurIPS 2025CausalPFN: Amortized Causal Effect Estimation via In-Context Learning
- NeurIPS 2025CMoB: Modality Valuation via Causal Effect for Balanced Multimodal Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Implicit Feedback Modeling
- NeurIPS 2025Coupling Generative Modeling and an Autoencoder with the Causal Bridge
- NeurIPS 2025Data-Adaptive Exposure Thresholds under Network Interference
- NeurIPS 2025Do-PFN: In-Context Learning for Causal Effect Estimation
- NeurIPS 2025DoseSurv: Predicting Personalized Survival Outcomes under Continuous-Valued Treatments
- NeurIPS 2025EAP-GP: Mitigating Saturation Effect in Gradient-based Automated Circuit Identification
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Adaptive Experimentation with Noncompliance
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Randomized Experiments Using Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2025Estimation of Stochastic Optimal Transport Maps
- NeurIPS 2025Estimation of Treatment Effects in Extreme and Unobserved Data
- NeurIPS 2025Evaluating and Learning Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes under Truncation by Death
- NeurIPS 2025From Likelihood to Fitness: Improving Variant Effect Prediction in Protein and Genome Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Improving the Generation and Evaluation of Synthetic Data for Downstream Medical Causal Inference
- NeurIPS 2025It’s Hard to Be Normal: The Impact of Noise on Structure-agnostic Estimation
- NeurIPS 2025LLM-Driven Treatment Effect Estimation Under Inference Time Text Confounding
- NeurIPS 2025Local Learning for Covariate Selection in Nonparametric Causal Effect Estimation with Latent Variables
- NeurIPS 2025Neural Mutual Information Estimation with Vector Copulas
- NeurIPS 2025On Minimax Estimation of Parameters in Softmax-Contaminated Mixture of Experts
- NeurIPS 2025Optimal Adjustment Sets for Nonparametric Estimation of Weighted Controlled Direct Effect
- NeurIPS 2025Orthogonal Survival Learners for Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects from Time-to-Event Data
- NeurIPS 2025Pool Me Wisely: On the Effect of Pooling in Transformer-Based Models
- NeurIPS 2025PUATE: Efficient ATE Estimation from Treated (Positive) and Unlabeled Units
- NeurIPS 2025Refinement Methods for Distributed Distribution Estimation under $\ell^p$-Losses
- NeurIPS 2025Relieving the Over-Aggregating Effect in Graph Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025SingRef6D: Monocular Novel Object Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Reference
- NeurIPS 2025The Hawthorne Effect in Reasoning Models: Evaluating and Steering Test Awareness
- NeurIPS 2025Transferring Causal Effects using Proxies
- NeurIPS 2025Treatment Effect Estimation for Optimal Decision-Making
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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.