Causal Recommendation papers, 2023–2026
Debiasing and uplift
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 548 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 26 | 19 | 31 | 7 | 83 |
| 2024 | 57 | 21 | 39 | 6 | 123 |
| 2025 | 69 | 32 | 49 | 2 | 152 |
| 2026 | 75 | 43 | 56 | 16 | 190 |
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
31 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2026AdapTok Learning Adaptive and Temporally Causal Video Tokenization in a
- CVPR 2026Beyond Perceptual Shortcuts Causal-Inspired Debiasing Optimization for Generalizable Video Reasoning
- CVPR 2026BiomedCCPL Causal Conditional Prompt Learning for Biomedical Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026Breaking Spurious Correlations Uncertainty-Driven Causal Transformers for AU Detection
- CVPR 2026Bridge Basis-Driven Causal Inference Marries VFMs for Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2026CaTok Taming Mean Flows for One-Dimensional Causal Image Tokenization
- CVPR 2026CausalLens Sensitivity-Guided Multi-Head Causal Intervention for Hallucination Mitigation in Large
- CVPR 2026CGU-Bayes Causal Graph Uncertainty-Guided Bayesian Inference for Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2026CHAL Causal-guided Hierarchical Anomaly-aware Learning for Moving Infrared Small Target
- CVPR 2026CIGPose Causal Intervention Graph Neural Network for Whole-Body Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2026Diagnosing and Repairing Unsafe Channels in Vision-Language Models via Causal
- CVPR 2026GeneVAR Causal MeanFlow for Autoregressive Gene-to-WSI Tile Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Learning by Analogy A Causal Framework for Compositional Generalization
- CVPR 2026Progressive Cross-Modal Causal Intervention for Long-Term Action Recognition
- CVPR 2026Prototype-based Causal Intervention for Multi-Label Image Classification
- CVPR 2026Streaming Video Crime Anticipation with Spatio-Temporal Causal Reasoning
- CVPR 2025Image Quality Assessment: Investigating Causal Perceptual Effects with Abductive Counterfactual Inference
- CVPR 2025Seeing Far and Clearly: Mitigating Hallucinations in MLLMs with Attention Causal Decoding
- CVPR 2024Bi-Causal: Group Activity Recognition via Bidirectional Causality
- CVPR 2024CaDeT: a Causal Disentanglement Approach for Robust Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2024Causal Mode Multiplexer: A Novel Framework for Unbiased Multispectral Pedestrian Detection
- CVPR 2024CausalPC: Improving the Robustness of Point Cloud Classification by Causal Effect Identification
- CVPR 2024MuseChat: A Conversational Music Recommendation System for Videos
- CVPR 2024ProMark: Proactive Diffusion Watermarking for Causal Attribution
- CVPR 2023CafeBoost: Causal Feature Boost To Eliminate Task-Induced Bias for Class Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2023Demystifying Causal Features on Adversarial Examples and Causal Inoculation for Robust Network by Adversarial Instrumental Variable Regression
- CVPR 2023Good Is Bad: Causality Inspired Cloth-Debiasing for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification
- CVPR 2023Guided Recommendation for Model Fine-Tuning
- CVPR 2023Layout-Based Causal Inference for Object Navigation
- CVPR 2023Meta-Causal Learning for Single Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2023Multi-View Adversarial Discriminator: Mine the Non-Causal Factors for Object Detection in Unseen Domains
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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.