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. CVPR 2025Bridging Gait Recognition and Large Language Models Sequence Modeling
2. CVPR 2025FineVQ: Fine-Grained User Generated Content Video Quality Assessment
3. CVPR 2025GroomLight: Hybrid Inverse Rendering for Relightable Human Hair Appearance Modeling
4. CVPR 2025MIMO: Controllable Character Video Synthesis with Spatial Decomposed Modeling
5. CVPR 2025ModeSeq: Taming Sparse Multimodal Motion Prediction with Sequential Mode Modeling
6. CVPR 2025MV-SSM: Multi-View State Space Modeling for 3D Human Pose Estimation
7. CVPR 2025Parallel Sequence Modeling via Generalized Spatial Propagation Network
8. CVPR 2025Person De-reidentification: A Variation-guided Identity Shift Modeling
9. CVPR 2025Poly-Autoregressive Prediction for Modeling Interactions
10. CVPR 2025ReCapture: Generative Video Camera Controls for User-Provided Videos using Masked Video Fine-Tuning
11. CVPR 2025VisionArena: 230k Real World User-VLM Conversations with Preference Labels
12. ICLR 2025BLEND: Behavior-guided Neural Population Dynamics Modeling via Privileged Knowledge Distillation
13. ICLR 2025BRAID: Input-driven Nonlinear Dynamical Modeling of Neural-Behavioral Data
14. ICLR 2025Bridging and Modeling Correlations in Pairwise Data for Direct Preference Optimization
15. ICLR 2025Causally Motivated Sycophancy Mitigation for Large Language Models
16. ICLR 2025Finally Rank-Breaking Conquers MNL Bandits: Optimal and Efficient Algorithms for MNL Assortment
17. ICLR 2025Fine-Grained Verifiers: Preference Modeling as Next-token Prediction in Vision-Language Alignment
18. ICLR 2025Flow Matching with General Discrete Paths: A Kinetic-Optimal Perspective
19. ICLR 2025Framer: Interactive Frame Interpolation
20. ICLR 2025HelpSteer2-Preference: Complementing Ratings with Preferences
21. ICLR 2025Language Representations Can be What Recommenders Need: Findings and Potentials
22. ICLR 2025Logic-Logit: A Logic-Based Approach to Choice Modeling
23. ICLR 2025Long-Sequence Recommendation Models Need Decoupled Embeddings
24. ICLR 2025Modeling Future Conversation Turns to Teach LLMs to Ask Clarifying Questions
25. ICLR 2025MuHBoost: Multi-Label Boosting For Practical Longitudinal Human Behavior Modeling
26. ICLR 2025PAL: Sample-Efficient Personalized Reward Modeling for Pluralistic Alignment
27. ICLR 2025Rethinking Reward Modeling in Preference-based Large Language Model Alignment
28. ICLR 2025Strong Preferences Affect the Robustness of Preference Models and Value Alignment
29. ICML 2025Aligning LLMs by Predicting Preferences from User Writing Samples
30. ICML 2025Combinatorial Reinforcement Learning with Preference Feedback
31. ICML 2025Deep Reinforcement Learning from Hierarchical Preference Design
32. ICML 2025Designing Cyclic Peptides via Harmonic SDE with Atom-Bond Modeling
33. ICML 2025Discovering Symbolic Cognitive Models from Human and Animal Behavior
34. ICML 2025DriveGPT: Scaling Autoregressive Behavior Models for Driving
35. ICML 2025Dynamical Modeling of Behaviorally Relevant Spatiotemporal Patterns in Neural Imaging Data
36. ICML 2025How Transformers Learn Structured Data: Insights From Hierarchical Filtering
37. ICML 2025Improving Reward Model Generalization from Adversarial Process Enhanced Preferences
38. ICML 2025Invariant Deep Uplift Modeling for Incentive Assignment in Online Marketing via Probability of Necessity and Sufficiency
39. ICML 2025LASER: Attention with Exponential Transformation
40. ICML 2025Latent Preference Coding: Aligning Large Language Models via Discrete Latent Codes
41. ICML 2025Learning Parametric Distributions from Samples and Preferences
42. ICML 2025Leveraging Sparsity for Sample-Efficient Preference Learning: A Theoretical Perspective
43. ICML 2025On-Device Collaborative Language Modeling via a Mixture of Generalists and Specialists
44. ICML 2025Position: Explainable AI Cannot Advance Without Better User Studies
45. ICML 2025Preference-CFR: Beyond Nash Equilibrium for Better Game Strategies
46. ICML 2025Representation Surgery in Model Merging with Probabilistic Modeling
47. ICML 2025Reward Modeling with Ordinal Feedback: Wisdom of the Crowd
48. ICML 2025Universal Approximation of Mean-Field Models via Transformers
49. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Preference Arithmetic: A Personalized Agent with Adaptive Preference Arithmetic for Dynamic Preference Modeling
50. NeurIPS 2025Architectural and Inferential Inductive Biases for Exchangeable Sequence 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.