Deep learning · graph neural networks papers, 2023–2026
Deep learning area: graph_neural_networks
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,648 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Deep learning · graph neural networks fell from 728 papers in 2023 to 326 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Deep learning · graph neural networks work: 842 papers from 2023 to 2026, 51% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Datasets and Benchmarks: papers tagged with both rose from 9 in 2023 to 20 in 2026.
- Among the 11 topics under Deep Learning, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Diffusion Models, is up 4.1x versus 0.4x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 489 | 68 | 148 | 23 | 728 |
| 2024 | 160 | 51 | 76 | 10 | 297 |
| 2025 | 91 | 50 | 141 | 15 | 297 |
| 2026 | 102 | 32 | 168 | 24 | 326 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026A New Perspective on Target-Conditioned Structural Dynamics for Link Prediction in Dynamic Graphs
- ICML 2026A Graph Foundation Model with Cross-Modal Alignment and Modality-Aware Expert Fusion for Multi-Modal Graphs
- ICLR 2026Laplacian Kernelized Bandit
- CVPR 2026Gamba Mamba-based graph convolutional network with dynamic graph topology learning
- NeurIPS 2025Depth-Width Tradeoffs for Transformers on Graph Tasks
- ICML 2025A Cognac Shot To Forget Bad Memories: Corrective Unlearning for Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Factor Graph-based Interpretable Neural Networks
- CVPR 2025Coeff-Tuning: A Graph Filter Subspace View for Tuning Attention-Based Large Models
- NeurIPS 2024[Re] GNNInterpreter: A probabilistic generative model-level explanation for Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2024A Graph is Worth $K$ Words: Euclideanizing Graph using Pure Transformer
- ICLR 2024A Graph is Worth 1-bit Spikes: When Graph Contrastive Learning Meets Spiking Neural Networks
- CVPR 2024Learning Structure-from-Motion with Graph Attention Networks
- NeurIPS 2023[Re] On Explainability of Graph Neural Networks via Subgraph Explorations
- ICML 2023A Gromov--Wasserstein Geometric View of Spectrum-Preserving Graph Coarsening
- ICLR 2023Anti-Symmetric DGN: a stable architecture for Deep Graph Networks
- CVPR 2023An Actor-Centric Causality Graph for Asynchronous Temporal Inference in Group Activity
- NeurIPS 2026A Topological Encoder Decoder Framework for Temporal Graph Learning
- ICML 2026A Graphop Analysis of Graph Neural Networks on Sparse Graphs: Generalization and Universal Approximation
- ICLR 2026GTool: Graph Enhanced Tool Planning with Large Language Model
- CVPR 2026GSNR Graph Smooth Null-Space Representation for Inverse Problems
All Deep learning · graph neural networks papers
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- NeurIPS 2025Robust Graph Condensation via Classification Complexity Mitigation
- NeurIPS 2025Self-Assembling Graph Perceptrons
- NeurIPS 2025Semi-supervised Graph Anomaly Detection via Robust Homophily Learning
- NeurIPS 2025SignFlow Bipartite Subgraph Network For Large-Scale Graph Link Sign Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025Sketch-Augmented Features Improve Learning Long-Range Dependencies in Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025SONAR: Long-Range Graph Propagation Through Information Waves
- NeurIPS 2025Sound Logical Explanations for Mean Aggregation Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025Spectral Graph Neural Networks are Incomplete on Graphs with a Simple Spectrum
- NeurIPS 2025Stealthy Yet Effective: Distribution-Preserving Backdoor Attacks on Graph Classification
- NeurIPS 2025TAMI: Taming Heterogeneity in Temporal Interactions for Temporal Graph Link Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025Taxonomy of reduction matrices for Graph Coarsening
- NeurIPS 2025The Logical Expressiveness of Temporal GNNs via Two-Dimensional Product Logics
- NeurIPS 2025The quest for the GRAph Level autoEncoder (GRALE)
- NeurIPS 2025TopER: Topological Embeddings in Graph Representation Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Topology-aware Graph Diffusion Model with Persistent Homology
- NeurIPS 2025Topology-Aware Learning of Tubular Manifolds via SE(3)-Equivariant Network on Ball B-Spline Curve
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Generalizable Retina Vessel Segmentation with Deformable Graph Priors
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Pre-trained Graph Condensation via Optimal Transport
- NeurIPS 2025Uncertain Knowledge Graph Completion via Semi-Supervised Confidence Distribution Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Universally Invariant Learning in Equivariant GNNs
- NeurIPS 2025Unsupervised Federated Graph Learning
- NeurIPS 2025VGGT-SLAM: Dense RGB SLAM Optimized on the SL(4) Manifold
- NeurIPS 2025You Only Spectralize Once: Taking a Spectral Detour to Accelerate Graph Neural Network
- CVPR 2024Adaptive Hyper-graph Aggregation for Modality-Agnostic Federated Learning
- CVPR 2024FastMAC: Stochastic Spectral Sampling of Correspondence Graph
- CVPR 2024FlowerFormer: Empowering Neural Architecture Encoding using a Flow-aware Graph Transformer
- CVPR 2024GLiDR: Topologically Regularized Graph Generative Network for Sparse LiDAR Point Clouds
- CVPR 2024HHMR: Holistic Hand Mesh Recovery by Enhancing the Multimodal Controllability of Graph Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Improving Graph Contrastive Learning via Adaptive Positive Sampling
- CVPR 2024Learning Structure-from-Motion with Graph Attention Networks
- CVPR 2024MaskClustering: View Consensus based Mask Graph Clustering for Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Tumor Micro-environment Interactions Guided Graph Learning for Survival Analysis of Human Cancers from Whole-slide Pathological Images
- CVPR 2024Zero-TPrune: Zero-Shot Token Pruning through Leveraging of the Attention Graph in Pre-Trained Transformers
- ICLR 2024A Graph is Worth 1-bit Spikes: When Graph Contrastive Learning Meets Spiking Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024BroGNet: Momentum-Conserving Graph Neural Stochastic Differential Equation for Learning Brownian Dynamics
- ICLR 2024Clifford Group Equivariant Simplicial Message Passing Networks
- ICLR 2024Conformal Inductive Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024Contrastive Learning is Spectral Clustering on Similarity Graph
- ICLR 2024CoRe-GD: A Hierarchical Framework for Scalable Graph Visualization with GNNs
- ICLR 2024Counting Graph Substructures with Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024Deep Temporal Graph Clustering
- ICLR 2024Distinguished In Uniform: Self-Attention Vs. Virtual Nodes
- ICLR 2024DREAM: Dual Structured Exploration with Mixup for Open-set Graph Domain Adaption
- ICLR 2024Effective Structural Encodings via Local Curvature Profiles
- ICLR 2024Forward Learning of Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024From Latent Graph to Latent Topology Inference: Differentiable Cell Complex Module
- ICLR 2024GNNCert: Deterministic Certification of Graph Neural Networks against Adversarial Perturbations
- ICLR 2024Graph Lottery Ticket Automated
- ICLR 2024Graph Metanetworks for Processing Diverse Neural Architectures
- ICLR 2024Graph Neural Networks for Learning Equivariant Representations of Neural Networks
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FAQ
- How many Deep learning · graph neural networks papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 1,648 in total: 728 in 2023, 297 in 2024, 297 in 2025, 326 in 2026.
- How many Deep learning · graph neural networks papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 102 Deep learning · graph neural networks papers, versus 91 the year before.
- How many Deep learning · graph neural networks papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 32 Deep learning · graph neural networks papers, versus 50 the year before.
- How many Deep learning · graph neural networks papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 168 Deep learning · graph neural networks papers, versus 141 the year before.
- How many Deep learning · graph neural networks papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 24 Deep learning · graph neural networks papers, versus 15 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Deep learning · graph neural networks papers?
- NeurIPS, with 842 papers from 2023 to 2026.
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