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

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• 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

548 papers, page 8 of 11

351. ICLR 2024Analyzing Feed-Forward Blocks in Transformers through the Lens of Attention Maps
352. ICLR 2024Causal Fairness under Unobserved Confounding: A Neural Sensitivity Framework
353. ICLR 2024Causal Inference with Conditional Front-Door Adjustment and Identifiable Variational Autoencoder
354. ICLR 2024Causal Structure Recovery with Latent Variables under Milder Distributional and Graphical Assumptions
355. ICLR 2024Causal-StoNet: Causal Inference for High-Dimensional Complex Data
356. ICLR 2024Causally Aligned Curriculum Learning
357. ICLR 2024Conditional Instrumental Variable Regression with Representation Learning for Causal Inference
358. ICLR 2024Debiased Collaborative Filtering with Kernel-Based Causal Balancing
359. ICLR 2024Debiasing Algorithm through Model Adaptation
360. ICLR 2024Doubly Robust Proximal Causal Learning for Continuous Treatments
361. ICLR 2024Empirical Analysis of Model Selection for Heterogeneous Causal Effect Estimation
362. ICLR 2024Federated Recommendation with Additive Personalization
363. ICLR 2024Gene Regulatory Network Inference in the Presence of Dropouts: a Causal View
364. ICLR 2024Identifiable Latent Polynomial Causal Models through the Lens of Change
365. ICLR 2024Learning in reverse causal strategic environments with ramifications on two sided markets
366. ICLR 2024Multi-View Causal Representation Learning with Partial Observability
367. ICLR 2024SpaCE: The Spatial Confounding Environment
368. ICLR 2024Towards Characterizing Domain Counterfactuals for Invertible Latent Causal Models
369. ICLR 2024Treatment Effects Estimation By Uniform Transformer
370. ICML 2024A Sparsity Principle for Partially Observable Causal Representation Learning
371. ICML 2024Causal Action Influence Aware Counterfactual Data Augmentation
372. ICML 2024Causal Bandits: The Pareto Optimal Frontier of Adaptivity, a Reduction to Linear Bandits, and Limitations around Unknown Marginals
373. ICML 2024Causal Customer Churn Analysis with Low-rank Tensor Block Hazard Model
374. ICML 2024Causal Effect Identification in LiNGAM Models with Latent Confounders
375. ICML 2024Causal Inference from Competing Treatments
376. ICML 2024Causal Inference out of Control: Estimating Performativity without Treatment Randomization
377. ICML 2024Causal Representation Learning from Multiple Distributions: A General Setting
378. ICML 2024Causal Representation Learning Made Identifiable by Grouping of Observational Variables
379. ICML 2024Causal-IQA: Towards the Generalization of Image Quality Assessment Based on Causal Inference
380. ICML 2024Collaborative Heterogeneous Causal Inference Beyond Meta-analysis
381. ICML 2024Discovering Bias in Latent Space: An Unsupervised Debiasing Approach
382. ICML 2024Discovering Mixtures of Structural Causal Models from Time Series Data
383. ICML 2024Doubly Robust Causal Effect Estimation under Networked Interference via Targeted Learning
384. ICML 2024Feature Attribution with Necessity and Sufficiency via Dual-stage Perturbation Test for Causal Explanation
385. ICML 2024Fine-Grained Causal Dynamics Learning with Quantization for Improving Robustness in Reinforcement Learning
386. ICML 2024From Geometry to Causality- Ricci Curvature and the Reliability of Causal Inference on Networks
387. ICML 2024Generalization Bounds for Causal Regression: Insights, Guarantees and Sensitivity Analysis
388. ICML 2024How Transformers Learn Causal Structure with Gradient Descent
389. ICML 2024Inferring the Long-Term Causal Effects of Long-Term Treatments from Short-Term Experiments
390. ICML 2024Learning Causal Relations from Subsampled Time Series with Two Time-Slices
391. ICML 2024Learning-Efficient Yet Generalizable Collaborative Filtering for Item Recommendation
392. ICML 2024Local Causal Structure Learning in the Presence of Latent Variables
393. ICML 2024Modular Learning of Deep Causal Generative Models for High-dimensional Causal Inference
394. ICML 2024Multiply-Robust Causal Change Attribution
395. ICML 2024On Positivity Condition for Causal Inference
396. ICML 2024On the Embedding Collapse when Scaling up Recommendation Models
397. ICML 2024On the Recoverability of Causal Relations from Temporally Aggregated I.I.D. Data
398. ICML 2024On the Unexpected Effectiveness of Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Recommendation
399. ICML 2024Position: The Causal Revolution Needs Scientific Pragmatism
400. ICML 2024Prediction-powered Generalization of Causal Inferences

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.