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. NeurIPS 2026AMPS: Adaptive Modality Preference Steering via Functional Entropy
2. NeurIPS 2026APM: Evaluating Style Personalization in LLMs with Arbitrary Preference Mappings
3. NeurIPS 2026Atomic Trajectory Modeling with State Space Models for Biomolecular Dynamics
4. NeurIPS 2026BehaviorBench: Modeling Real-World User Decisions from Behavioral Traces
5. NeurIPS 2026Borda-Based Fair Multi-User Dueling Bandit in Tabular and Generalized Linear Settings
6. NeurIPS 2026Bridging Textual Profiles and Latent User Embeddings for Personalization
7. NeurIPS 2026Causally Structured Differential Network Modeling for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction
8. NeurIPS 2026Class-Domain Incremental Learning with Extensible Multi-Center Modeling
9. NeurIPS 2026Compute Allocation Under Model-Provider Competition
10. NeurIPS 2026Controllable User Simulation
11. NeurIPS 2026DeFlow: Decoupling Behavior-Prior Modeling and Value Maximization for Offline Policy Extraction
12. NeurIPS 2026Discrete Neural Interlingua for Ontology-Agnostic EHR Modeling
13. NeurIPS 2026Drift-Aware Multimodal User Representation Learning via Multi-Scale Temporal Modeling and Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
14. NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Context Modeling for Longitudinal Mental Health Monitoring under Distribution Shift
15. NeurIPS 2026Express Language Modeling
16. NeurIPS 2026Focusable Monocular Depth Estimation
17. NeurIPS 2026Geometrically Disentangling Concept Learning from the Language Modeling Loss
18. NeurIPS 2026How Does Personalized Memory Shape LLM Behavior? Benchmarking Rational Preference Utilization in Personalized Assistants
19. NeurIPS 2026How to Interpret Agent Behavior
20. NeurIPS 2026JARVIS-Bench: Benchmarking Personal Intelligence Agents on Long-Horizon Real-User Daily Traces
21. NeurIPS 2026Leaderboard Hacking: Preference-Based Model Evaluations are Vulnerable to Manipulation
22. NeurIPS 2026Learning Reusable Motor Motifs for Continuous Animal Behavior Modeling
23. NeurIPS 2026Learning What Evaluators Value: A Reliable Approach to Modeling Evaluator Preferences
24. NeurIPS 2026Leveraging Psychophysical Attentional Distribution for Gaze-Augmented Reward Modeling
25. NeurIPS 2026LIME: Link-based User-item Interaction Modeling with Decoupled XOR Attention for Efficient Test Time Scaling
26. NeurIPS 2026Loss is Not Behavior: A Unified Output-Space Analysis of Gradient-Based Machine Unlearning
27. NeurIPS 2026Measuring and Mitigating the Distributional Gap Between Real and Simulated User Behaviors
28. NeurIPS 2026MiniPIC: Flexible Position-Independent Caching in <100LOC
29. NeurIPS 2026Model Incrimination: Investigating Whether Concerning Behavior Reflects Misalignment
30. NeurIPS 2026Modeling Whole-Slide Images as Dynamic Tumor Microenvironment Fields
31. NeurIPS 2026Neural-Behavioral Representation of Natural Whole-body Movement in Monkeys
32. NeurIPS 2026OmniSimulator: Aligning Small Language Models for Authentic Heterogeneous Behavior Modeling
33. NeurIPS 2026On the Complexity of Preference-Based Bandits
34. NeurIPS 2026On the Runway Cascade of Transformers for Language Modeling
35. NeurIPS 2026PreDiff: Sequential Recommendation by Denoising Preference Distributions
36. NeurIPS 2026Preferential dynamic modeling with forward-backward smoothing
37. NeurIPS 2026PriSM: Prior-guided Shared-basis Mixture Personalization for LLMs under Sparse User Histories
38. NeurIPS 2026PRISMIC: Reconstructing User Preference via Intent Decomposition and Consolidation
39. NeurIPS 2026PrivacySIM: Evaluating LLM Simulation of User Privacy Behavior
40. NeurIPS 2026ProactBench: Beyond What The User Asked For
41. NeurIPS 2026Raven: High-Recall Sequence Modeling via Sparse Memory Routing
42. NeurIPS 2026Recon: Reconstruction-Guided Reasoning Synthesis for User Modeling
43. NeurIPS 2026Recovering Evolving User Preference State via Adaptive Interaction-aware Representation Correction
44. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Rubric Generation for Improving LLM Judge and Reward Modeling for Open-ended Tasks
45. NeurIPS 2026Seahorse: A Unified Benchmarking Framework for Spatiotemporal Event Modeling
46. NeurIPS 2026TimeOperator: A Function-to-Function Approach to Time Series Modeling
47. NeurIPS 2026Towards Realistic Conversational Multimodal Instruction Following
48. NeurIPS 2026TReDS: Trajectory-Grounded Requirement-Capability Modeling for Training Distribution Shaping in Tool-Interactive Tasks
49. NeurIPS 2026UxSID: Semantic-Aware User Interests Modeling for Ultra-Long Sequence
50. NeurIPS 2026VINCIE-NExT: Unlocking Video Editing from Images via In-Context 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.