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

19 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2026A Near-Optimal Best-of-Both-Worlds Algorithm for Federated Bandits
2. ICLR 2026A Unified Federated Framework for Trajectory Data Preparation via LLMs
3. ICLR 2026Bayesian Evidence-Driven Prototype Evolution for Federated Domain Adaptation
4. ICLR 2026Beyond Aggregation: Guiding Clients in Heterogeneous Federated Learning
5. ICLR 2026DeepAFL: Deep Analytic Federated Learning
6. ICLR 2026Deploying Models to Non-participating Clients in Federated Learning without Fine-tuning: A Hypernetwork-based Approach
7. ICLR 2026Enhancing Communication Compression via Discrepancy-aware Calibration for Federated Learning
8. ICLR 2026FedDAG: Clustered Federated Learning via Global Data and Gradient Integration for Heterogeneous Environments
9. ICLR 2026Federated ADMM from Bayesian Duality
10. ICLR 2026FedMC: Federated Manifold Calibration
11. ICLR 2026Incentives in Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Agents
12. ICLR 2026Layerwise Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Quantum Clients using Quorus
13. ICLR 2026Mitigating Non-IID Drift in Zeroth-Order Federated LLM Fine-Tuning with Transferable Sparsity
14. ICLR 2026Near Optimal Robust Federated Learning Against Data Poisoning Attack
15. ICLR 2026Riemannian Federated Learning via Averaging Gradient Streams
16. ICLR 2026Robust Federated Inference
17. ICLR 2026Traceable Black-Box Watermarks For Federated Learning
18. ICLR 2026Unified Analyses for Hierarchical Federated Learning: Topology Selection under Data Heterogeneity
19. ICLR 2026Unlocking the Potential of Weighting Methods in Federated Learning Through Communication Compression

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.