Causal Recommendation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Causal Recommendation went from 83 papers in 2023 to 190 in 2026, roughly 2.3x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Causal Recommendation work: 227 papers from 2023 to 2026, 41% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 21 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Recommenders and Ads, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Click-Through Prediction, is up 2.6x versus 2.3x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Characterization of Latent Variable Causal Models Consistent with Observational Data
• ICML 2026A Causal Decomposition Approach for Fair Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits
• ICLR 2026ActiveCQ: Active Estimation of Causal Quantities
• CVPR 2026Breaking Spurious Correlations Uncertainty-Driven Causal Transformers for AU Detection
• NeurIPS 2025CCL: Causal-aware In-context Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
• ICML 2025A Geometric Approach to Personalized Recommendation with Set-Theoretic Constraints Using Box Embeddings
• ICLR 2025Causal Concept Graph Models: Beyond Causal Opacity in Deep Learning
• CVPR 2025Image Quality Assessment: Investigating Causal Perceptual Effects with Abductive Counterfactual Inference
• NeurIPS 2024Causal Bandits for Linear Structural Equation Models
• ICML 2024A Sparsity Principle for Partially Observable Causal Representation Learning
• ICLR 2024Causal Inference with Conditional Front-Door Adjustment and Identifiable Variational Autoencoder
• CVPR 2024MuseChat: A Conversational Music Recommendation System for Videos
• NeurIPS 2023A Causal Framework for Decomposing Spurious Variations
• ICML 2023B-Learner: Quasi-Oracle Bounds on Heterogeneous Causal Effects Under Hidden Confounding
• ICLR 2023Calibration Matters: Tackling Maximization Bias in Large-scale Advertising Recommendation Systems
• CVPR 2023CafeBoost: Causal Feature Boost To Eliminate Task-Induced Bias for Class Incremental Learning
• NeurIPS 2026Bridging Image Restoration and Recognition via Causal Mediated Unrolling
• ICML 2026Causal Disentangled Anchor Learning for Scalable Fair Multi-view Clustering
• ICLR 2026Addressing divergent representations from causal interventions on neural networks
• CVPR 2026Bridge Basis-Driven Causal Inference Marries VFMs for Domain Generalization

All Causal Recommendation papers

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151. NeurIPS 2026Full-Sequence Masked Diffusion for Generative Recommendation
152. NeurIPS 2026Generalized Bayes for Causal Inference
153. NeurIPS 2026HARP: Training-Free Dual-Profile Agentic Communication for LLM-Based Recommendation
154. NeurIPS 2026Identifying Structural Biases from Causal Mechanism Shifts
155. NeurIPS 2026Improving Causal Explanations
156. NeurIPS 2026IntentLens: Grounding Underspecified Multimodal Queries for Recommendation via Tool-Augmented Reasoning
157. NeurIPS 2026Is Your LLM-as-a-Recommender Agent Trustable? LLMs' Recommendation is Easily Hacked by Biases (Preferences)
158. NeurIPS 2026Learning Contextual Causal Dynamics for Robust Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
159. NeurIPS 2026Learning Deployable Causal Action Geometry under Temporal Non-Stationarity
160. NeurIPS 2026LLM Routing Through the Lens of Recommendation: A Roadmap for Efficient AI Orchestration
161. NeurIPS 2026MARS: Multi-resolution Adaptive Routing for Sequential Recommendation
162. NeurIPS 2026MOCHA: Discovering Multi-Order Dynamic Causal Structure in Temporal Point Processes
163. NeurIPS 2026Multi-Objective Causal Bandits: Minimal Intervention Space and Policy-Level Learning
164. NeurIPS 2026Natural Jammers: When Non-Robust Features Become Antagonistic
165. NeurIPS 2026Neural Causal Models under Markov Equivalence
166. NeurIPS 2026Online Causal Configuration for Networked Systems via Doubly Robust Steady-State Learning
167. NeurIPS 2026Parasite Features: Causal Abstraction Through Spurious Pathways
168. NeurIPS 2026Position Without Positional Embeddings: A Directional Mechanism in NoPE Transformers
169. NeurIPS 2026PreDiff: Sequential Recommendation by Denoising Preference Distributions
170. NeurIPS 2026Proximal Difference-in-Differences for Long-Term Causal Learning under Confounding and Outcome Drift
171. NeurIPS 2026R-GRec: Relation-Guided Generative Recommendation via Collaborative Graph Supervision
172. NeurIPS 2026RecMem: Recurrent Memory Compression for Long-Sequence Recommendation
173. NeurIPS 2026Reconciling Causality and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics with Hamiltonian Causal Models
174. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Semantic ID Construction for Generative Recommendation: SimHash with Parallel Decoding and Semantic Alignment
175. NeurIPS 2026Revealing Epistemic Uncertainty in MLLMs via Causal-Invariant Masking
176. NeurIPS 2026Severity-Controlled Prediction Sets for Medication Recommendation
177. NeurIPS 2026Stable Partial Order Constraints for Temporal Causal Structure Learning
178. NeurIPS 2026Statistical Inference in Causal Partial Identification under Smooth Densities
179. NeurIPS 2026Structural Causal Bottleneck Models
180. NeurIPS 2026Towards a Universal Causal Reasoner
181. NeurIPS 2026TRACE: Tourism Recommendation with Accountable Citation Evidence
182. NeurIPS 2026TRACER: Token ReAssignment for Concept ERasure in Generative Recommendation
183. NeurIPS 2026Trie-Aware Transformers for Generative Recommendation
184. NeurIPS 2026Two-Clustering Regime of Token Dynamics in Causal Attention
185. NeurIPS 2026Validating Causal Abstraction Metrics on Simulated Complex Systems
186. NeurIPS 2026VAMIRec: Value-Aware Memory Intervention for Continual Recommendation
187. NeurIPS 2026What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Sign-aware Recommendation Needs Sign-aware Evaluation
188. NeurIPS 2026Who caused $Y$? Local identifiability for learning causal parents
189. NeurIPS 2026Why Are LLMs Confidently Wrong? Correcting Overconfident Errors via Causal Head Intervention
190. NeurIPS 2026xWhy: Causal Learning from Explanations

FAQ

How many Causal Recommendation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

548 in total: 83 in 2023, 123 in 2024, 152 in 2025, 190 in 2026.

How many Causal Recommendation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 75 Causal Recommendation papers, versus 69 the year before.

How many Causal Recommendation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 43 Causal Recommendation papers, versus 32 the year before.

How many Causal Recommendation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 56 Causal Recommendation papers, versus 49 the year before.

How many Causal Recommendation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 16 Causal Recommendation papers, versus 2 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Causal Recommendation papers?

NeurIPS, with 227 papers from 2023 to 2026.