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 2024EGonc : Energy-based Open-Set Node Classification with substitute Unknowns
- NeurIPS 2024EGSST: Event-based Graph Spatiotemporal Sensitive Transformer for Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2024Energy-based Epistemic Uncertainty for Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Chess Reinforcement Learning with Graph Representation
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Graph Transformers with Hierarchical Distance Structural Encoding
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Robustness of Graph Neural Networks on Social Media with Explainable Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Equivariant Machine Learning on Graphs with Nonlinear Spectral Filters
- NeurIPS 2024Even Sparser Graph Transformers
- NeurIPS 2024Expected Probabilistic Hierarchies
- NeurIPS 2024Exploitation of a Latent Mechanism in Graph Contrastive Learning: Representation Scattering
- NeurIPS 2024Exploring Consistency in Graph Representations: from Graph Kernels to Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2024Extracting Training Data from Molecular Pre-trained Models
- NeurIPS 2024Fair GLASSO: Estimating Fair Graphical Models with Unbiased Statistical Behavior
- NeurIPS 2024Fast Graph Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Enhancing and Accelerating Few-Shot Node Classification
- NeurIPS 2024Faster Local Solvers for Graph Diffusion Equations
- NeurIPS 2024Federated Graph Learning for Cross-Domain Recommendation
- NeurIPS 2024FedGMark: Certifiably Robust Watermarking for Federated Graph Learning
- NeurIPS 2024FUG: Feature-Universal Graph Contrastive Pre-training for Graphs with Diverse Node Features
- NeurIPS 2024G-Retriever: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Textual Graph Understanding and Question Answering
- NeurIPS 2024GDeR: Safeguarding Efficiency, Balancing, and Robustness via Prototypical Graph Pruning
- NeurIPS 2024Generalizing CNNs to graphs with learnable neighborhood quantization
- NeurIPS 2024Generative Semi-supervised Graph Anomaly Detection
- NeurIPS 2024Geometric Trajectory Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Geometry Awakening: Cross-Geometry Learning Exhibits Superiority over Individual Structures
- NeurIPS 2024GFT: Graph Foundation Model with Transferable Tree Vocabulary
- NeurIPS 2024GLBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Graph with Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Gradient Rewiring for Editable Graph Neural Network Training
- NeurIPS 2024GRANOLA: Adaptive Normalization for Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Classification via Reference Distribution Learning: Theory and Practice
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Coarsening with Message-Passing Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Convolutions Enrich the Self-Attention in Transformers!
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Edit Distance with General Costs Using Neural Set Divergence
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Learning for Numeric Planning
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Neural Flows for Unveiling Systemic Interactions Among Irregularly Sampled Time Series
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Neural Networks and Arithmetic Circuits
- NeurIPS 2024Graph neural networks and non-commuting operators
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Neural Networks Do Not Always Oversmooth
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Neural Networks Need Cluster-Normalize-Activate Modules
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Structure Inference with BAM: Neural Dependency Processing via Bilinear Attention
- NeurIPS 2024Graphcode: Learning from multiparameter persistent homology using graph neural networks
- NeurIPS 2024GraphCroc: Cross-Correlation Autoencoder for Graph Structural Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2024GraphMETRO: Mitigating Complex Graph Distribution Shifts via Mixture of Aligned Experts
- NeurIPS 2024GraphTrail: Translating GNN Predictions into Human-Interpretable Logical Rules
- NeurIPS 2024Hamba: Single-view 3D Hand Reconstruction with Graph-guided Bi-Scanning Mamba
- NeurIPS 2024HardCore Generation: Generating Hard UNSAT Problems for Data Augmentation
- NeurIPS 2024HC-GAE: The Hierarchical Cluster-based Graph Auto-Encoder for Graph Representation Learning
- NeurIPS 2024HGDL: Heterogeneous Graph Label Distribution Learning
- NeurIPS 2024If You Want to Be Robust, Be Wary of Initialization
- NeurIPS 2024Improving Generalization of Dynamic Graph Learning via Environment Prompt
- NeurIPS 2024Improving Temporal Link Prediction via Temporal Walk Matrix Projection
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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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