Graph Neural Networks papers, 2023–2026
GNN architectures
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,038 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Graph Neural Networks fell from 434 papers in 2023 to 183 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Graph Neural Networks work: 489 papers from 2023 to 2026, 47% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Datasets and Benchmarks: papers tagged with both rose from 10 in 2023 to 10 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Graph and Structured Data, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Time Series, is up 3.2x versus 0.4x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 251 | 69 | 96 | 18 | 434 |
| 2024 | 89 | 45 | 68 | 6 | 208 |
| 2025 | 75 | 45 | 81 | 12 | 213 |
| 2026 | 74 | 28 | 68 | 13 | 183 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026A Differentiable 3D Scene Graph Metric via Contextual Hellinger Triplet Geometry
- ICML 2026Aitchison Embeddings for Learning Compositional Graph Representations
- ICLR 2026Certified Evaluation of Model-Level Explanations for Graph Neural Networks
- CVPR 2026Gamba Mamba-based graph convolutional network with dynamic graph topology learning
- NeurIPS 2025Copresheaf Topological Neural Networks: A Generalized Deep Learning Framework
- ICML 2025Disentangling Invariant Subgraph via Variance Contrastive Estimation under Distribution Shifts
- ICLR 2025Edge Prompt Tuning for Graph Neural Networks
- CVPR 2025Coeff-Tuning: A Graph Filter Subspace View for Tuning Attention-Based Large Models
- NeurIPS 2024[Re] Reproducibility Study of “Explaining Temporal Graph Models Through an Explorer-Navigator Framework"
- ICML 2024A Graph is Worth $K$ Words: Euclideanizing Graph using Pure Transformer
- ICLR 2024Beyond Weisfeiler-Lehman: A Quantitative Framework for GNN Expressiveness
- CVPR 2024FlowerFormer: Empowering Neural Architecture Encoding using a Flow-aware Graph Transformer
- NeurIPS 2023[Re] On Explainability of Graph Neural Networks via Subgraph Explorations
- ICML 2023Beyond Homophily: Reconstructing Structure for Graph-agnostic Clustering
- ICLR 2023$\mathscr{N}$-WL: A New Hierarchy of Expressivity for Graph Neural Networks
- CVPR 2023Adversarially Robust Neural Architecture Search for Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026A Topological Encoder Decoder Framework for Temporal Graph Learning
- ICML 2026Any-dimensional invariant universality
- ICLR 2026Laplacian Kernelized Bandit
- CVPR 2026Global-Aware Edge Prioritization for Pose Graph Initialization
All Graph Neural Networks papers
1,038 papers, page 14 of 21
- ICLR 2023Explaining Temporal Graph Models through an Explorer-Navigator Framework
- ICLR 2023ExpressivE: A Spatio-Functional Embedding For Knowledge Graph Completion
- ICLR 2023Fair Attribute Completion on Graph with Missing Attributes
- ICLR 2023FoSR: First-order spectral rewiring for addressing oversquashing in GNNs
- ICLR 2023Fundamental Limits in Formal Verification of Message-Passing Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023GNNDelete: A General Strategy for Unlearning in Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023GNNInterpreter: A Probabilistic Generative Model-Level Explanation for Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023Graph Domain Adaptation via Theory-Grounded Spectral Regularization
- ICLR 2023Graph Neural Network-Inspired Kernels for Gaussian Processes in Semi-Supervised Learning
- ICLR 2023Graph Neural Networks are Inherently Good Generalizers: Insights by Bridging GNNs and MLPs
- ICLR 2023Graph Neural Networks for Link Prediction with Subgraph Sketching
- ICLR 2023GReTo: Remedying dynamic graph topology-task discordance via target homophily
- ICLR 2023Grounding Graph Network Simulators using Physical Sensor Observations
- ICLR 2023Latent Graph Inference using Product Manifolds
- ICLR 2023Learnable Graph Convolutional Attention Networks
- ICLR 2023Learnable Topological Features For Phylogenetic Inference via Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023Learning Fair Graph Representations via Automated Data Augmentations
- ICLR 2023Learning Heterogeneous Interaction Strengths by Trajectory Prediction with Graph Neural Network
- ICLR 2023Learning Hierarchical Protein Representations via Complete 3D Graph Networks
- ICLR 2023Learning rigid dynamics with face interaction graph networks
- ICLR 2023LightGCL: Simple Yet Effective Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation
- ICLR 2023Limitless Stability for Graph Convolutional Networks
- ICLR 2023Matching receptor to odorant with protein language and graph neural networks
- ICLR 2023MLPInit: Embarrassingly Simple GNN Training Acceleration with MLP Initialization
- ICLR 2023Mole-BERT: Rethinking Pre-training Graph Neural Networks for Molecules
- ICLR 2023NAGphormer: A Tokenized Graph Transformer for Node Classification in Large Graphs
- ICLR 2023On Compositional Uncertainty Quantification for Seq2seq Graph Parsing
- ICLR 2023On Representing Linear Programs by Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023On Representing Mixed-Integer Linear Programs by Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023Re-parameterizing Your Optimizers rather than Architectures
- ICLR 2023Rethinking Graph Lottery Tickets: Graph Sparsity Matters
- ICLR 2023Rethinking the Expressive Power of GNNs via Graph Biconnectivity
- ICLR 2023REVISITING PRUNING AT INITIALIZATION THROUGH THE LENS OF RAMANUJAN GRAPH
- ICLR 2023Robust Graph Dictionary Learning
- ICLR 2023Searching Lottery Tickets in Graph Neural Networks: A Dual Perspective
- ICLR 2023Serving Graph Compression for Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023Specformer: Spectral Graph Neural Networks Meet Transformers
- ICLR 2023Strategic Classification with Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023Subsampling in Large Graphs Using Ricci Curvature
- ICLR 2023Towards Open Temporal Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023Unbiased Stochastic Proximal Solver for Graph Neural Networks with Equilibrium States
- ICML 2023A Complete Expressiveness Hierarchy for Subgraph GNNs via Subgraph Weisfeiler-Lehman Tests
- ICML 2023A Fast, Well-Founded Approximation to the Empirical Neural Tangent Kernel
- ICML 2023A Gromov--Wasserstein Geometric View of Spectrum-Preserving Graph Coarsening
- ICML 2023A Large-Scale Study of Probabilistic Calibration in Neural Network Regression
- ICML 2023Adaptive Smoothing Gradient Learning for Spiking Neural Networks
- ICML 2023All in a Row: Compressed Convolution Networks for Graphs
- ICML 2023Alternately Optimized Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2023Analyzing Convergence in Quantum Neural Networks: Deviations from Neural Tangent Kernels
- ICML 2023Bayesian Progressive Deep Topic Model with Knowledge Informed Textual Data Coarsening Process
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FAQ
- How many Graph Neural Networks papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 1,038 in total: 434 in 2023, 208 in 2024, 213 in 2025, 183 in 2026.
- How many Graph Neural Networks papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 74 Graph Neural Networks papers, versus 75 the year before.
- How many Graph Neural Networks papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 28 Graph Neural Networks papers, versus 45 the year before.
- How many Graph Neural Networks papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 68 Graph Neural Networks papers, versus 81 the year before.
- How many Graph Neural Networks papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 13 Graph Neural Networks papers, versus 12 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Graph Neural Networks papers?
- NeurIPS, with 489 papers from 2023 to 2026.