User Modeling papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• User Modeling went from 49 papers in 2023 to 142 in 2026, roughly 2.9x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most User Modeling work: 121 papers from 2023 to 2026, 36% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Alignment and Safety: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 26 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Education and HCI, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, UI Understanding, is up 1.8x versus 2.9x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026BehaviorBench: Modeling Real-World User Decisions from Behavioral Traces
• ICML 2026Eating for a Sustainable Planet: Personalized Sustainable Diet Recommendation via Constraint-Aware Decision-Making Modeling
• ICLR 2026A Scalable Inter-edge Correlation Modeling in CopulaGNN for Link Sign Prediction
• CVPR 2026D-Prism Differentiable Primitives for Structured Dynamic Modeling
• NeurIPS 2025Beyond Node-Centric Modeling: Sketching Signed Networks with Simplicial Complexes
• ICML 2025How Transformers Learn Structured Data: Insights From Hierarchical Filtering
• ICLR 2025Logic-Logit: A Logic-Based Approach to Choice Modeling
• CVPR 2025Bridging Gait Recognition and Large Language Models Sequence Modeling
• NeurIPS 20244DBInfer: A 4D Benchmarking Toolbox for Graph-Centric Predictive Modeling on RDBs
• ICML 2024An amortized approach to non-linear mixed-effects modeling based on neural posterior estimation
• ICLR 2024Be Aware of the Neighborhood Effect: Modeling Selection Bias under Interference
• CVPR 2024Steganographic Passport: An Owner and User Verifiable Credential for Deep Model IP Protection Without Retraining
• NeurIPS 2023FairLISA: Fair User Modeling with Limited Sensitive Attributes Information
• ICML 2023dugMatting: Decomposed-Uncertainty-Guided Matting
• ICLR 2023Augmentation Component Analysis: Modeling Similarity via the Augmentation Overlaps
• CVPR 2023BAAM: Monocular 3D Pose and Shape Reconstruction With Bi-Contextual Attention Module and Attention-Guided Modeling
• NeurIPS 2026Causally Structured Differential Network Modeling for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction
• ICML 2026HyperMLP: An Integrated Perspective for Sequence Modeling
• ICLR 2026Ads that Stick: Near-Optimal Ad Optimization through Psychological Behavior Models
• CVPR 2026Learning Personalized Photographic Style from Pairwise User Preferences

All User Modeling papers

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1. ICLR 2026A Scalable Inter-edge Correlation Modeling in CopulaGNN for Link Sign Prediction
2. ICLR 2026Ads that Stick: Near-Optimal Ad Optimization through Psychological Behavior Models
3. ICLR 2026Behavior Learning (BL)
4. ICLR 2026Beyond Binary Preferences: A Principled Framework for Reward Modeling with Ordinal Feedback
5. ICLR 2026Beyond Markovian Drifts: Action-Biased Geometric Walks with Memory for Personalized Summarization
6. ICLR 2026Beyond Pairwise: Empowering LLM Alignment With (Ranked) Choice Modeling
7. ICLR 2026Causally Robust Preference Learning with Reasons
8. ICLR 2026Chessformer: A Unified Architecture for Chess Modeling
9. ICLR 2026ChronoPlay: A Framework for Modeling Dual Dynamics and Authenticity in Game RAG Benchmarks
10. ICLR 2026Disentangling Length Bias in Preference Learning via Response-Conditioned Modeling
11. ICLR 2026DRIFT: Learning from Abundant User Dissatisfaction in Real-World Preference Learning
12. ICLR 2026DynaGuard: A Dynamic Guardian Model With User-Defined Policies
13. ICLR 2026Flipping the Dialogue: Training and Evaluating User Language Models
14. ICLR 2026From Conversation to Query Execution: Benchmarking User and Tool Interactions for EHR Database Agents
15. ICLR 2026iFusion: Integrating Dynamic Interest Streams via Diffusion Model for Click-Through Rate Prediction
16. ICLR 2026Lean Finder: Semantic Search for Mathlib That Understands User Intents
17. ICLR 2026Learned Meta-Tokens for Language Modeling
18. ICLR 2026Learning Human Habits with Rule-Guided Active Inference
19. ICLR 2026Learning to summarize user information for personalized reinforcement learning from human feedback
20. ICLR 2026Learning What Matters Now: Dynamic Preference Inference under Contextual Shifts
21. ICLR 2026Massive Memorization with Hundreds of Trillions of Parameters for Sequential Transducer Generative Recommenders
22. ICLR 2026MENLO: From Preferences to Proficiency – Evaluating and Modeling Native-like Quality Across 47 Languages
23. ICLR 2026MIMIC-Bench: Exploring the User-Like Thinking and Mimicking Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models
24. ICLR 2026Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior
25. ICLR 2026More Than What Was Chosen: LLM-based Explainable Recommendation Beyond Noisy User Preferences
26. ICLR 2026NextQuill: Causal Preference Modeling for Enhancing LLM Personalization
27. ICLR 2026Omni-Reward: Towards Generalist Omni-Modal Reward Modeling with Free-Form Preferences
28. ICLR 2026PGRF-Net: A Prototype-Guided Relational Fusion Network for Diagnostic Multivariate Time-Series Anomaly Detection
29. ICLR 2026Plan-R1: Safe and Feasible Trajectory Planning as Language Modeling
30. ICLR 2026ProPerSim: Developing Proactive and Personalized AI Assistants through User-Assistant Simulation
31. ICLR 2026REAL: Reading Out Transformer Activations for Precise Localization in Language Model Steering
32. ICLR 2026Robust Preference Alignment via Directional Neighborhood Consensus
33. ICLR 2026Routing, Cascades, and User Choice for LLMs
34. ICLR 2026Steerable Adversarial Scenario Generation through Test-Time Preference Alignment
35. ICLR 2026Swap-guided Preference Learning for Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
36. ICLR 2026Theoretical Modeling of Large Language Model Self-Improvement Training Dynamics Through Solver-Verifier Gap
37. ICLR 2026Towards Cognitively-Faithful Decision-Making Models to Improve AI Alignment
38. ICLR 2026Towards Persistent Noise-Tolerant Active Learning of Regular Languages with Class Query
39. ICLR 2026What's In My Human Feedback? Learning Interpretable Descriptions of Preference Data
40. ICLR 2026Your Language Model Secretly Contains Personality Subnetworks

FAQ

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

335 in total: 49 in 2023, 54 in 2024, 90 in 2025, 142 in 2026.

How many User Modeling papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 51 User Modeling papers, versus 42 the year before.

How many User Modeling papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 40 User Modeling papers, versus 17 the year before.

How many User Modeling papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 32 User Modeling papers, versus 20 the year before.

How many User Modeling papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 19 User Modeling papers, versus 11 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most User Modeling papers?

NeurIPS, with 121 papers from 2023 to 2026.