User Modeling papers, 2023–2026
Preference and behavior modeling
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 335 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 49 |
| 2024 | 18 | 12 | 20 | 4 | 54 |
| 2025 | 42 | 17 | 20 | 11 | 90 |
| 2026 | 51 | 40 | 32 | 19 | 142 |
Representative papers
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- 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
14 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2023Algorithms for bounding contribution for histogram estimation under user-level privacy
- ICML 2023dugMatting: Decomposed-Uncertainty-Guided Matting
- ICML 2023Federated Linear Contextual Bandits with User-level Differential Privacy
- ICML 2023Improved Analysis of Score-based Generative Modeling: User-Friendly Bounds under Minimal Smoothness Assumptions
- ICML 2023Learning to Suggest Breaks: Sustainable Optimization of Long-Term User Engagement
- ICML 2023Modeling Dynamic Environments with Scene Graph Memory
- ICML 2023On Excess Mass Behavior in Gaussian Mixture Models with Orlicz-Wasserstein Distances
- ICML 2023On User-Level Private Convex Optimization
- ICML 2023R-U-SURE? Uncertainty-Aware Code Suggestions By Maximizing Utility Across Random User Intents
- ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning with History Dependent Dynamic Contexts
- ICML 2023Robust Satisficing MDPs
- ICML 2023Strategic Classification with Unknown User Manipulations
- ICML 2023TRAK: Attributing Model Behavior at Scale
- ICML 2023User-level Private Stochastic Convex Optimization with Optimal Rates
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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.