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

42 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Preference Arithmetic: A Personalized Agent with Adaptive Preference Arithmetic for Dynamic Preference Modeling
2. NeurIPS 2025Architectural and Inferential Inductive Biases for Exchangeable Sequence Modeling
3. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Node-Centric Modeling: Sketching Signed Networks with Simplicial Complexes
4. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Implicit Feedback Modeling
5. NeurIPS 2025Cross-Modal Representational Knowledge Distillation for Enhanced Spike-informed LFP Modeling
6. NeurIPS 2025EyeBench: Predictive Modeling from Eye Movements in Reading
7. NeurIPS 2025Fading to Grow: Growing Preference Ratios via Preference Fading Discrete Diffusion for Recommendation
8. NeurIPS 2025Flow Matching-Based Autonomous Driving Planning with Advanced Interactive Behavior Modeling
9. NeurIPS 2025From Bytes to Ideas: Language Modeling with Autoregressive U-Nets
10. NeurIPS 2025Generalized Top-k Mallows Model for Ranked Choices
11. NeurIPS 2025Identifying interactions across brain areas while accounting for individual-neuron dynamics with a Transformer-based variational autoencoder
12. NeurIPS 2025In-Context Learning Strategies Emerge Rationally
13. NeurIPS 2025Inference-Time Personalized Alignment with a Few User Preference Queries
14. NeurIPS 2025Learning CAD Modeling Sequences via Projection and Part Awareness
15. NeurIPS 2025Limited Preference Data? Learning Better Reward Model with Latent Space Synthesis
16. NeurIPS 2025Listwise Preference Diffusion Optimization for User Behavior Trajectories Prediction
17. NeurIPS 2025LiteReality: Graphic-Ready 3D Scene Reconstruction from RGB-D Scans
18. NeurIPS 2025Local-Global Associative Frames for Symmetry-Preserving Crystal Structure Modeling
19. NeurIPS 2025Model–Behavior Alignment under Flexible Evaluation: When the Best-Fitting Model Isn’t the Right One
20. NeurIPS 2025Modeling Cell Dynamics and Interactions with Unbalanced Mean Field Schrödinger Bridge
21. NeurIPS 2025Modeling Dynamic Neural Activity by combining Naturalistic Video Stimuli and Stimulus-independent Latent Factors
22. NeurIPS 2025MTRec: Learning to Align with User Preferences via Mental Reward Models
23. NeurIPS 2025PANTHER: Generative Pretraining Beyond Language for Sequential User Behavior Modeling
24. NeurIPS 2025PDEfuncta: Spectrally-Aware Neural Representation for PDE Solution Modeling
25. NeurIPS 2025Preference Learning with Lie Detectors can Induce Honesty or Evasion
26. NeurIPS 2025Principled Fine-tuning of LLMs from User-Edits: A Medley of Preference, Supervision, and Reward
27. NeurIPS 2025Provably Efficient Online RLHF with One-Pass Reward Modeling
28. NeurIPS 2025RAT: Bridging RNN Efficiency and Attention Accuracy via Chunk-based Sequence Modeling
29. NeurIPS 2025Reaction Prediction via Interaction Modeling of Symmetric Difference Shingle Sets
30. NeurIPS 2025Red-Teaming Text-to-Image Systems by Rule-based Preference Modeling
31. NeurIPS 2025ResponseRank: Data-Efficient Reward Modeling through Preference Strength Learning
32. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Bi-Linear State Transitions in Recurrent Neural Networks
33. NeurIPS 2025SAS: Simulated Attention Score
34. NeurIPS 2025ShapeCraft: LLM Agents for Structured, Textured and Interactive 3D Modeling
35. NeurIPS 2025SPOT-Trip: Dual-Preference Driven Out-of-Town Trip Recommendation
36. NeurIPS 2025STaRFormer: Semi-Supervised Task-Informed Representation Learning via Dynamic Attention-Based Regional Masking for Sequential Data
37. NeurIPS 2025Streaming Stochastic Submodular Maximization with On-Demand User Requests
38. NeurIPS 2025Teaching Language Models to Evolve with Users: Dynamic Profile Modeling for Personalized Alignment
39. NeurIPS 2025Tractable Multinomial Logit Contextual Bandits with Non-Linear Utilities
40. NeurIPS 2025User-Instructed Disparity-aware Defocus Control
41. NeurIPS 2025Value-Guided Decision Transformer: A Unified Reinforcement Learning Framework for Online and Offline Settings
42. NeurIPS 2025Why Popular MOEAs are Popular: Proven Advantages in Approximating the Pareto Front

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.