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

26 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2023A Causal Framework for Decomposing Spurious Variations
2. NeurIPS 2023A Measure-Theoretic Axiomatisation of Causality
3. NeurIPS 2023A Multi-modal Global Instance Tracking Benchmark (MGIT): Better Locating Target in Complex Spatio-temporal and Causal Relationship
4. NeurIPS 2023A Scale-Invariant Sorting Criterion to Find a Causal Order in Additive Noise Models
5. NeurIPS 2023Cascading Bandits: Optimizing Recommendation Frequency in Delayed Feedback Environments
6. NeurIPS 2023Causal de Finetti: On the Identification of Invariant Causal Structure in Exchangeable Data
7. NeurIPS 2023Causal Effect Identification in Uncertain Causal Networks
8. NeurIPS 2023D-Separation for Causal Self-Explanation
9. NeurIPS 2023Do Not Marginalize Mechanisms, Rather Consolidate!
10. NeurIPS 2023Estimating Propensity for Causality-based Recommendation without Exposure Data
11. NeurIPS 2023Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion
12. NeurIPS 2023Generator Identification for Linear SDEs with Additive and Multiplicative Noise
13. NeurIPS 2023Identifiability Guarantees for Causal Disentanglement from Soft Interventions
14. NeurIPS 2023Interpretable Reward Redistribution in Reinforcement Learning: A Causal Approach
15. NeurIPS 2023Joint Learning of Label and Environment Causal Independence for Graph Out-of-Distribution Generalization
16. NeurIPS 2023K-Nearest-Neighbor Local Sampling Based Conditional Independence Testing
17. NeurIPS 2023Learning Causal Models under Independent Changes
18. NeurIPS 2023Learning Linear Causal Representations from Interventions under General Nonlinear Mixing
19. NeurIPS 2023Moral Responsibility for AI Systems
20. NeurIPS 2023On Learning Necessary and Sufficient Causal Graphs
21. NeurIPS 2023On the Relationship Between Relevance and Conflict in Online Social Link Recommendations
22. NeurIPS 2023Optimal Treatment Regimes for Proximal Causal Learning
23. NeurIPS 2023REASONER: An Explainable Recommendation Dataset with Comprehensive Labeling Ground Truths
24. NeurIPS 2023Temporal Causal Mediation through a Point Process: Direct and Indirect Effects of Healthcare Interventions
25. NeurIPS 2023Theoretically Guaranteed Bidirectional Data Rectification for Robust Sequential Recommendation
26. NeurIPS 2023Unpaired Multi-Domain Causal Representation Learning

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.