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
44 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2026Assessing the robustness of heterogeneous treatment effects in survival analysis under informative censoring
- NeurIPS 2026Automated Causal Effect Estimation through Self-Evolving AI
- NeurIPS 2026Bayesian Causal Experimental Design for CATE Estimation under Noncompliance
- NeurIPS 2026Bayesian Causal Stress Testing: Posterior Fragility of Treatment-Effect Conclusions
- NeurIPS 2026Causal Effect Identification with a Single Agnostic Proxy
- NeurIPS 2026Conditional Counterfactual Mean Embeddings: Doubly Robust Estimation and Learning Rates
- NeurIPS 2026Conservative Continuous-Time Treatment Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026Conservative neural posterior estimation via distributionally robust training
- NeurIPS 2026CUVET: A Partitioning Approach for Continuous Treatment Assignment At Scale
- NeurIPS 2026DARTS: Targeting Prognostic Covariates in Budget-Constrained Sequential Experiments
- NeurIPS 2026Data-Driven Covariate Selection for Nonparametric and Cycle-Agnostic Causal Effect Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026Decision-Aware Proximal Bridge Learning for Optimal Treatment Selection
- NeurIPS 2026Distribution-First Framework for Learning Risk-Sensitive Individualized Treatment Rules
- NeurIPS 2026Distributional Estimation of 3D Object Orientation
- NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Treatment on Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Effect-Level Validation for Causal Discovery in Interactive Telemetry
- NeurIPS 2026Explainability matters: The effect of liability rules on the healthcare sector
- NeurIPS 2026Fair Division of Work in Collaborative Mean Estimation via Bargaining
- NeurIPS 2026FMMI: Flow Matching Mutual Information Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026Focusable Monocular Depth Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026Free energy Estimation on Any State Space
- NeurIPS 2026From Persistence to Survival: Hypothesis Testing, Effect Sizes and Vectorisation for Topological Features
- NeurIPS 2026Global Importance Estimation for KV Cache Eviction
- NeurIPS 2026Impossibility of Distribution-Free Predictive Inference for Individual Treatment Effects
- NeurIPS 2026Inference and estimation with unidentifiable latent treatment effects
- NeurIPS 2026Integrating digital twins with randomized experiments
- NeurIPS 2026Joint Treatment Effect Estimation from Incomplete Healthcare Data: Temporal Causal Normalizing Flows with LLM-driven Evolutionary MNAR Imputation
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Modular Addition with Auxiliary Modulus
- NeurIPS 2026Metric Depth Estimation from Arbitrarily Degraded Low-Resolution Depth Prompts
- NeurIPS 2026Mitigating Data Heterogeneity Effect in Client-Reshuffling-Based Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2026MSConsensus: A Hundred-Million-Scale, Batch-Effect–Suppressed Dataset and Benchmark for Proteomics Machine Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training
- NeurIPS 2026On the Effect of Token Correlations on Semantic Transfer in Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026Phase Transitions in Heavy-Tailed Mean Estimation under $\ell_p$ Norms
- NeurIPS 2026Provably Accurate Shapley Value Estimation in High Dimensions via Sparse Leverage Sampling
- NeurIPS 2026Roll2Depth: Zero-Shot Metric Depth Estimation Exploiting Camera's Rolling Shutter Effect
- NeurIPS 2026Settling Pure Differentially Private Covariance Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Estimation with Deformed Decompression
- NeurIPS 2026The Butterfly Effect in Reasoning: Branch-Structured Distributional Memory for Stochastic Agents
- NeurIPS 2026The Deadline Effect: Identifying and Correcting Temporal Bias in Human Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026The Heavy Hitter Oracle: Enhancing Frequency Estimation in Skewed Data Streams
- NeurIPS 2026Total Variation Distance Estimation in Autoregressive Models
- NeurIPS 2026Unified High-Probability Analysis of Stochastic Variance-Reduced Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026What the Geometry of Good Models Tells Us
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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.