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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- ICML 2024Generalization Error of Graph Neural Networks in the Mean-field Regime
- ICML 2024Generalized Sobolev Transport for Probability Measures on a Graph
- ICML 2024Generalizing Knowledge Graph Embedding with Universal Orthogonal Parameterization
- ICML 2024Generating In-Distribution Proxy Graphs for Explaining Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2024Graph Adversarial Diffusion Convolution
- ICML 2024Graph As Point Set
- ICML 2024Graph Automorphism Group Equivariant Neural Networks
- ICML 2024Graph Distillation with Eigenbasis Matching
- ICML 2024Graph External Attention Enhanced Transformer
- ICML 2024Graph Geometry-Preserving Autoencoders
- ICML 2024Graph Mixup on Approximate Gromov–Wasserstein Geodesics
- ICML 2024Graph Neural Network Explanations are Fragile
- ICML 2024Graph Neural Networks Use Graphs When They Shouldn't
- ICML 2024Graph Neural Networks with a Distribution of Parametrized Graphs
- ICML 2024Graph Neural Stochastic Diffusion for Estimating Uncertainty in Node Classification
- ICML 2024Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection Goes Neighborhood Shaping
- ICML 2024Graph Structure Extrapolation for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
- ICML 2024Graph-based Forecasting with Missing Data through Spatiotemporal Downsampling
- ICML 2024Graph-Triggered Rising Bandits
- ICML 2024HAMLET: Graph Transformer Neural Operator for Partial Differential Equations
- ICML 2024HGCN2SP: Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network for Two-Stage Stochastic Programming
- ICML 2024Homomorphism Counts for Graph Neural Networks: All About That Basis
- ICML 2024How Graph Neural Networks Learn: Lessons from Training Dynamics
- ICML 2024How Interpretable Are Interpretable Graph Neural Networks?
- ICML 2024Hypergraph-enhanced Dual Semi-supervised Graph Classification
- ICML 2024Improving Equivariant Graph Neural Networks on Large Geometric Graphs via Virtual Nodes Learning
- ICML 2024Individual Fairness in Graph Decomposition
- ICML 2024Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting: A Transformable Patching Graph Neural Networks Approach
- ICML 2024Learning Divergence Fields for Shift-Robust Graph Representations
- ICML 2024Learning Graph Representation via Graph Entropy Maximization
- ICML 2024Less is More: on the Over-Globalizing Problem in Graph Transformers
- ICML 2024LSEnet: Lorentz Structural Entropy Neural Network for Deep Graph Clustering
- ICML 2024Modelling Microbial Communities with Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2024Navigating Complexity: Toward Lossless Graph Condensation via Expanding Window Matching
- ICML 2024Networked Inequality: Preferential Attachment Bias in Graph Neural Network Link Prediction
- ICML 2024On the Expressive Power of Spectral Invariant Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2024On the Generalization of Equivariant Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2024On the Role of Edge Dependency in Graph Generative Models
- ICML 2024PAC-Bayesian Generalization Bounds for Knowledge Graph Representation Learning
- ICML 2024Perfect Alignment May be Poisonous to Graph Contrastive Learning
- ICML 2024Position: Future Directions in the Theory of Graph Machine Learning
- ICML 2024Position: Graph Foundation Models Are Already Here
- ICML 2024Position: Relational Deep Learning - Graph Representation Learning on Relational Databases
- ICML 2024Probabilistic Routing for Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
- ICML 2024Quantum Positional Encodings for Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2024Recurrent Distance Filtering for Graph Representation Learning
- ICML 2024Rethinking Independent Cross-Entropy Loss For Graph-Structured Data
- ICML 2024Robust Graph Matching when Nodes are Corrupt
- ICML 2024S3GCL: Spectral, Swift, Spatial Graph Contrastive Learning
- ICML 2024Sign Rank Limitations for Inner Product Graph Decoders
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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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