Federated Learning papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Federated Learning fell from 137 papers in 2023 to 119 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Federated Learning work: 157 papers from 2023 to 2026, 34% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Low-Rank Adaptation: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 12 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Federated and Privacy, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Secure Aggregation, is up 1.8x versus 0.9x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A typed tensor language for federated learning
• ICML 2026BESplit: Bias-Compensated Split Federated Learning with Evidential Aggregation
• ICLR 2026Beyond Aggregation: Guiding Clients in Heterogeneous Federated Learning
• CVPR 2026FedRG Unleashing the Representation Geometry for Federated Learning with Noisy
• NeurIPS 2025Class-wise Balancing Data Replay for Federated Class-Incremental Learning
• ICML 2025Causality Inspired Federated Learning for OOD Generalization
• ICLR 2025Adaptive Gradient Clipping for Robust Federated Learning
• CVPR 2025FedCS: Coreset Selection for Federated Learning
• NeurIPS 2024Local Superior Soups: A Catalyst for Model Merging in Cross-Silo Federated Learning
• ICML 2024Achieving Lossless Gradient Sparsification via Mapping to Alternative Space in Federated Learning
• ICLR 2024FedTrans: Client-Transparent Utility Estimation for Robust Federated Learning
• CVPR 2024Decentralized Directed Collaboration for Personalized Federated Learning
• NeurIPS 2023DELTA: Diverse Client Sampling for Fasting Federated Learning
• ICML 2023Achieving Linear Speedup in Non-IID Federated Bilevel Learning
• ICLR 2023Combating Exacerbated Heterogeneity for Robust Models in Federated Learning
• CVPR 2023Federated Domain Generalization With Generalization Adjustment
• NeurIPS 2026Consistency-Verified Backdoor Defense for Federated Graph Learning via Cross-Layer Drift
• ICML 2026Breaking the Capacity Bottleneck in Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Gradual Model Restoration
• ICLR 2026DeepAFL: Deep Analytic Federated Learning
• CVPR 2026FedSST Rethinking Fair Federated Graph Learning under Structural Shift

All Federated Learning papers

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51. ICML 2025Improving Generalization in Federated Learning with Highly Heterogeneous Data via Momentum-Based Stochastic Controlled Weight Averaging
52. ICML 2025LBI-FL: Low-Bit Integerized Federated Learning with Temporally Dynamic Bit-Width Allocation
53. ICML 2025Local Pan-privacy for Federated Analytics
54. ICML 2025Momentum-Driven Adaptivity: Towards Tuning-Free Asynchronous Federated Learning
55. ICML 2025NTK-DFL: Enhancing Decentralized Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Settings via Neural Tangent Kernel
56. ICML 2025One Arrow, Two Hawks: Sharpness-aware Minimization for Federated Learning via Global Model Trajectory
57. ICML 2025Provably Near-Optimal Federated Ensemble Distillation with Negligible Overhead
58. ICML 2025SecEmb: Sparsity-Aware Secure Federated Learning of On-Device Recommender System with Large Embedding
59. ICML 2025Splitting with Importance-aware Updating for Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Large Language Models
60. ICML 2025Widening the Network Mitigates the Impact of Data Heterogeneity on FedAvg
61. ICML 2024A Federated Stochastic Multi-level Compositional Minimax Algorithm for Deep AUC Maximization
62. ICML 2024Accelerating Federated Learning with Quick Distributed Mean Estimation
63. ICML 2024Accelerating Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Closed-form Classifiers
64. ICML 2024Achieving Lossless Gradient Sparsification via Mapping to Alternative Space in Federated Learning
65. ICML 2024Adaptive Group Personalization for Federated Mutual Transfer Learning
66. ICML 2024AegisFL: Efficient and Flexible Privacy-Preserving Byzantine-Robust Cross-silo Federated Learning
67. ICML 2024Bridging Model Heterogeneity in Federated Learning via Uncertainty-based Asymmetrical Reciprocity Learning
68. ICML 2024Causally Motivated Personalized Federated Invariant Learning with Shortcut-Averse Information-Theoretic Regularization
69. ICML 2024Certifiably Byzantine-Robust Federated Conformal Prediction
70. ICML 2024Clustered Federated Learning via Gradient-based Partitioning
71. ICML 2024Decomposable Submodular Maximization in Federated Setting
72. ICML 2024Effective Federated Graph Matching
73. ICML 2024Fair Federated Learning via the Proportional Veto Core
74. ICML 2024FedBAT: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Learnable Binarization
75. ICML 2024FedBPT: Efficient Federated Black-box Prompt Tuning for Large Language Models
76. ICML 2024Federated Combinatorial Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits
77. ICML 2024Federated Continual Learning via Prompt-based Dual Knowledge Transfer
78. ICML 2024Federated Full-Parameter Tuning of Billion-Sized Language Models with Communication Cost under 18 Kilobytes
79. ICML 2024Federated Neuro-Symbolic Learning
80. ICML 2024Federated Representation Learning in the Under-Parameterized Regime
81. ICML 2024Federated Self-Explaining GNNs with Anti-shortcut Augmentations
82. ICML 2024FedLMT: Tackling System Heterogeneity of Federated Learning via Low-Rank Model Training with Theoretical Guarantees
83. ICML 2024FedMBridge: Bridgeable Multimodal Federated Learning
84. ICML 2024FedRC: Tackling Diverse Distribution Shifts Challenge in Federated Learning by Robust Clustering
85. ICML 2024FedREDefense: Defending against Model Poisoning Attacks for Federated Learning using Model Update Reconstruction Error
86. ICML 2024FedSC: Provable Federated Self-supervised Learning with Spectral Contrastive Objective over Non-i.i.d. Data
87. ICML 2024Improved Modelling of Federated Datasets using Mixtures-of-Dirichlet-Multinomials
88. ICML 2024Lessons from Generalization Error Analysis of Federated Learning: You May Communicate Less Often!
89. ICML 2024Locally Estimated Global Perturbations are Better than Local Perturbations for Federated Sharpness-aware Minimization
90. ICML 2024Momentum for the Win: Collaborative Federated Reinforcement Learning across Heterogeneous Environments
91. ICML 2024Noise-Aware Algorithm for Heterogeneous Differentially Private Federated Learning
92. ICML 2024PrE-Text: Training Language Models on Private Federated Data in the Age of LLMs
93. ICML 2024Provable Benefits of Local Steps in Heterogeneous Federated Learning for Neural Networks: A Feature Learning Perspective
94. ICML 2024Pursuing Overall Welfare in Federated Learning through Sequential Decision Making
95. ICML 2024Ranking-based Client Imitation Selection for Efficient Federated Learning
96. ICML 2024Recovering Labels from Local Updates in Federated Learning
97. ICML 2024Recurrent Early Exits for Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Clients
98. ICML 2024Rethinking the Flat Minima Searching in Federated Learning
99. ICML 2024Self-Driven Entropy Aggregation for Byzantine-Robust Heterogeneous Federated Learning
100. ICML 2024Understanding Server-Assisted Federated Learning in the Presence of Incomplete Client Participation

FAQ

How many Federated Learning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

460 in total: 137 in 2023, 113 in 2024, 91 in 2025, 119 in 2026.

How many Federated Learning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 42 Federated Learning papers, versus 31 the year before.

How many Federated Learning papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 19 Federated Learning papers, versus 18 the year before.

How many Federated Learning papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 37 Federated Learning papers, versus 23 the year before.

How many Federated Learning papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 21 Federated Learning papers, versus 19 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Federated Learning papers?

NeurIPS, with 157 papers from 2023 to 2026.