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. ICML 2026A Regret Minimization Framework on Preference Learning in Large Language Models
2. ICML 2026Approximating Drift-Diffusion Models for User Decisions under Nudging and External Information
3. ICML 2026Asymmetric Multi-View Clustering with Hyperbolic Uncertainty Modeling
4. ICML 2026Beyond Single Embedding: Modeling User Preferences as Distribution in Federated Recommendation
5. ICML 2026CAMEL: Confidence-Gated Reflection for Reward Modeling
6. ICML 2026Can LLM Agents Stick to the Script? Modeling Commitment in Interactive Narratives
7. ICML 2026Characterizing the Predictive Impact of Modalities with Supervised Latent-Variable Modeling
8. ICML 2026Cross-Subject Modeling for Widefield Calcium Imaging via Atlas-Aligned Spatiotemporal Tokenization
9. ICML 2026Eating for a Sustainable Planet: Personalized Sustainable Diet Recommendation via Constraint-Aware Decision-Making Modeling
10. ICML 2026Federated Variational Preference Alignment with Gumbel-Softmax Prior for Personalized User Preferences
11. ICML 2026HyperMLP: An Integrated Perspective for Sequence Modeling
12. ICML 2026Machine Learning Hamiltonians are Accurate Energy-Force Predictors
13. ICML 2026MASH: Modeling Abstention via Selective Help-Seeking
14. ICML 2026MTNL: A Unified Modeling Perspective for Enhancing Tensor Network Learning
15. ICML 2026On the Sample Efficiency of Inverse Dynamics Models for Semi-Supervised Imitation Learning
16. ICML 2026Personalized Additive Modeling for Multi-level Federated Learning
17. ICML 2026Phase-Type Variational Autoencoders for Heavy-Tailed Data
18. ICML 2026Query Circuits: Explaining How Language Models Answer User Prompts
19. ICML 2026Rethinking Personalization in Large Language Models at the Token Level
20. ICML 2026Stochastic Neural Ray Tracing for Radio Frequency Channel Modeling
21. ICML 2026Strategy-Aware Optimization Modeling with Reasoning LLMs
22. ICML 2026The Sign Estimator: Preference Modeling for LLM Alignment under Heterogeneity
23. ICML 2026Thoughtbubbles: an Unsupervised Method for Parallel Thinking in Latent Space
24. ICML 2026TokSuite: Measuring the Impact of Tokenizer Choice on Language Model Behavior
25. ICML 2026TOM-SWE: User Mental Modeling For Software Engineering Agents
26. ICML 2026Transitivity Meets Cyclicity: Explicit Preference Decomposition for Dynamic Large Language Model Alignment
27. ICML 2026Understanding the Performance Gap in Preference Learning: A Dichotomy of RLHF and DPO
28. ICML 2026Unraveling Syntax: Language Modeling and the Substructure of Grammars
29. ICML 2026User-Aware Active Knowledge Acquisition for Emotional Support Dialogue
30. ICML 2026VenusBench-Mobile: A Challenging and User-Centric Benchmark for Mobile GUI Agents with Capability Diagnostics
31. ICML 2026What Does Preference Learning Recover from Pairwise Comparison Data?
32. ICML 2026When Does Predictive Inverse Dynamics Outperform Behavior Cloning?
33. ICML 2025Aligning LLMs by Predicting Preferences from User Writing Samples
34. ICML 2025Combinatorial Reinforcement Learning with Preference Feedback
35. ICML 2025Deep Reinforcement Learning from Hierarchical Preference Design
36. ICML 2025Designing Cyclic Peptides via Harmonic SDE with Atom-Bond Modeling
37. ICML 2025Discovering Symbolic Cognitive Models from Human and Animal Behavior
38. ICML 2025DriveGPT: Scaling Autoregressive Behavior Models for Driving
39. ICML 2025Dynamical Modeling of Behaviorally Relevant Spatiotemporal Patterns in Neural Imaging Data
40. ICML 2025How Transformers Learn Structured Data: Insights From Hierarchical Filtering
41. ICML 2025Improving Reward Model Generalization from Adversarial Process Enhanced Preferences
42. ICML 2025Invariant Deep Uplift Modeling for Incentive Assignment in Online Marketing via Probability of Necessity and Sufficiency
43. ICML 2025LASER: Attention with Exponential Transformation
44. ICML 2025Latent Preference Coding: Aligning Large Language Models via Discrete Latent Codes
45. ICML 2025Learning Parametric Distributions from Samples and Preferences
46. ICML 2025Leveraging Sparsity for Sample-Efficient Preference Learning: A Theoretical Perspective
47. ICML 2025On-Device Collaborative Language Modeling via a Mixture of Generalists and Specialists
48. ICML 2025Position: Explainable AI Cannot Advance Without Better User Studies
49. ICML 2025Preference-CFR: Beyond Nash Equilibrium for Better Game Strategies
50. ICML 2025Representation Surgery in Model Merging with Probabilistic Modeling

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.