% Key papers for Feature attribution methods (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{neurips2020_understanding_61037, title = {{Understanding Global Feature Contributions With Additive Importance Measures}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/19000}, } @inproceedings{aaai2020_sanity_102202, title = {{Sanity Checks for Saliency Metrics}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/6064}, } @inproceedings{aaai2022_do_1996, title = {{Do Feature Attribution Methods Correctly Attribute Features?}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/09623-do-feature-attribution-methods-correctly-attribute-features/}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_craft_20554, title = {{CRAFT: Concept Recursive Activation FacTorization for Explainability}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/22071}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2020_scout_16153, title = {{SCOUT: Self-Aware Discriminant Counterfactual Explanations}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2020}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_how_60022, title = {{How does This Interaction Affect Me? Interpretable Attribution for Feature Interactions}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17142}, } @inproceedings{aaai2019_granger_101697, title = {{Granger-Causal Attentive Mixtures of Experts: Learning Important Features with Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/4412}, } @inproceedings{icml2022_a_40142, title = {{A Consistent and Efficient Evaluation Strategy for Attribution Methods}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2022/poster/17561}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_the_62097, title = {{The effectiveness of feature attribution methods and its correlation with automatic evaluation scores}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/28492}, } @inproceedings{neurips2019_disentangling_58150, title = {{Disentangling Influence: Using disentangled representations to audit model predictions}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2019/poster/13603}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_weightedshap_64846, title = {{WeightedSHAP: analyzing and improving Shapley based feature attributions}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/54027}, } @inproceedings{iclr2021_saliency_30464, title = {{Saliency is a Possible Red Herring When Diagnosing Poor Generalization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2021/poster/3280}, } @inproceedings{aaai2021_accurate_73, title = {{Accurate and Robust Feature Importance Estimation under Distribution Shifts}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/07891-accurate-and-robust-feature-importance-estimation-under-distribution-shifts/}, } @inproceedings{icml2021_marginal_39591, title = {{Marginal Contribution Feature Importance - an Axiomatic Approach for Explaining Data}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2021/poster/10695}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_icam_60034, title = {{ICAM: Interpretable Classification via Disentangled Representations and Feature Attribution Mapping}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17093}, } @inproceedings{aaai2023_local_4084, title = {{Local Path Integration for Attribution}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/25422}, } @inproceedings{icml2019_discovering_37294, title = {{Discovering Conditionally Salient Features with Statistical Guarantees}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2019/poster/4238}, } @inproceedings{aaai2019_understanding_101615, title = {{Understanding Learned Models by Identifying Important Features at the Right Resolution}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/4318}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_learning_60159, title = {{Learning Deep Attribution Priors Based On Prior Knowledge}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17496}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_what_64513, title = {{What You See is What You Classify: Black Box Attributions}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/54821}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_shapbpt_107347, title = {{ShapBPT: Image Feature Attributions Using Data-Aware Binary Partition Trees}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/39699}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_less_35046, title = {{Less is More: Fewer Interpretable Region via Submodular Subset Selection}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18028}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_feature_44054, title = {{Feature Attribution with Necessity and Sufficiency via Dual-stage Perturbation Test for Causal Explanation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34398}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_benchmarking_72635, title = {{Benchmarking the Attribution Quality of Vision Models}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/97644}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_interpretable_74173, title = {{Interpretable Generalized Additive Models for Datasets with Missing Values}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93372}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_provably_43391, title = {{Provably Better Explanations with Optimized Aggregation of Feature Attributions}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/35061}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_local_44229, title = {{Local Feature Selection without Label or Feature Leakage for Interpretable Machine Learning Predictions}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34223}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_prospector_44339, title = {{Prospector Heads: Generalized Feature Attribution for Large Models \& Data}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34113}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_on_44670, title = {{On Gradient-like Explanation under a Black-box Setting: When Black-box Explanations Become as Good as White-box}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33782}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_one_48521, title = {{One Wave To Explain Them All: A Unifying Perspective On Feature Attribution}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44099}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_data_73529, title = {{Data-faithful Feature Attribution: Mitigating Unobservable Confounders via Instrumental Variables}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93948}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_regional_79956, title = {{Regional Explanations: Bridging Local and Global Variable Importance}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=ubrecCeZrc}, } @inproceedings{iclr2026_missingness_85000, title = {{Missingness Bias Calibration in Feature Attribution Explanations}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=9AbJO130G8}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2026_h_98127, title = {{H-Sets: Hessian-Guided Discovery of Set-Level Feature Interactions in Image Classifiers}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/html/Mehrotra_H-Sets_Hessian-Guided_Discovery_of_Set-Level_Feature_Interactions_in_Image_Classifiers_CVPR_2026_paper.html}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_distribution_107138, title = {{Distribution-Based Feature Attribution for Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/39490}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_benchmarking_44438, title = {{Benchmarking Deletion Metrics with the Principled Explanations}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34014}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_feature_46852, title = {{Feature Importance Metrics in the Presence of Missing Data}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45724}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_hidden_50541, title = {{Hidden in Plain Sight -- Class Competition Focuses Attribution Maps}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=DSZ36ji3Y6}, } @inproceedings{iclr2026_flow_85566, title = {{Flow-Disentangled Feature Importance}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Fx8AtzGlTS}, } @inproceedings{neurips2026_in_95011, title = {{In search of a definition of importance: Do attributions capture it?}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2026/poster/151550}, }