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

31 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2025A Fair Federated Learning Method for Handling Client Participation Probability Inconsistencies in Heterogeneous Environments
2. NeurIPS 2025A Reinforcement Learning-based Bidding Strategy for Data Consumers in Auction-based Federated Learning
3. NeurIPS 2025Accelerated Vertical Federated Adversarial Learning through Decoupling Layer-Wise Dependencies
4. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Latent-Space Constraints in Personalized Federated Learning
5. NeurIPS 2025Class-wise Balancing Data Replay for Federated Class-Incremental Learning
6. NeurIPS 2025Competitive Advantage Attacks to Decentralized Federated Learning
7. NeurIPS 2025Covariances for Free: Exploiting Mean Distributions for Training-free Federated Learning
8. NeurIPS 2025Decentralized Dynamic Cooperation of Personalized Models for Federated Continual Learning
9. NeurIPS 2025Feature Distillation is the Better Choice for Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning
10. NeurIPS 2025FedEL: Federated Elastic Learning for Heterogeneous Devices
11. NeurIPS 2025FedGPS: Statistical Rectification Against Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning
12. NeurIPS 2025FedIGL: Federated Invariant Graph Learning for Non-IID Graphs
13. NeurIPS 2025FedRTS: Federated Robust Pruning via Combinatorial Thompson Sampling
14. NeurIPS 2025FlowerTune: A Cross-Domain Benchmark for Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
15. NeurIPS 2025FORLA: Federated Object-centric Representation Learning with Slot Attention
16. NeurIPS 2025Global Prompt Refinement with Non-Interfering Attention Masking for One-Shot Federated Learning
17. NeurIPS 2025Layer-wise Update Aggregation with Recycling for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning
18. NeurIPS 2025Learning Reconfigurable Representations for Multimodal Federated Learning with Missing Data
19. NeurIPS 2025MARS: A Malignity-Aware Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning
20. NeurIPS 2025Personalized Bayesian Federated Learning with Wasserstein Barycenter Aggregation
21. NeurIPS 2025Personalized Federated Conformal Prediction with Localization
22. NeurIPS 2025Personalized Subgraph Federated Learning with Differentiable Auxiliary Projections
23. NeurIPS 2025Resource-Constrained Federated Continual Learning: What Does Matter?
24. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Consensus Error: A Fine-grained Analysis of Local SGD under Second-order Data Heterogeneity
25. NeurIPS 2025Rising from Ashes: Generalized Federated Learning via Dynamic Parameter Reset
26. NeurIPS 2025Sharp Gaussian approximations for Decentralized Federated Learning
27. NeurIPS 2025Soft-consensual Federated Learning for Data Heterogeneity via Multiple Paths
28. NeurIPS 2025Streaming Federated Learning with Markovian Data
29. NeurIPS 2025Tackling Feature-Classifier Mismatch in Federated Learning via Prompt-Driven Feature Transformation
30. NeurIPS 2025Tracing Back the Malicious Clients in Poisoning Attacks to Federated Learning
31. NeurIPS 2025Vertical Federated Feature Screening

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.