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
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- 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 4 of 21
- NeurIPS 2026Intern-Atlas: A Methodological Evolution Graph as Research Infrastructure for AI Scientists
- NeurIPS 2026Invariant Hyperbolic Unfolding: Radial Canonicalization for Label-Free Cross-Graph Link Prediction
- NeurIPS 2026KG-Guard: Graph-Based Hallucination Detection for Knowledge Base Question Answering
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds for Heterophilic Graphs via Graph Signature
- NeurIPS 2026Long-Range Spatio-Temporal Graph Propagation Through Oscillations
- NeurIPS 2026MCGI: Manifold-Consistent Graph Indexing for Billion-Scale Disk-Resident Vector Search
- NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Hierarchical MI-Surrogate Regulation for Graph Contrastive Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Multilateral Resistance-Guided Graph Message Passing for Trade Flow Prediction
- NeurIPS 2026Neighbor-Aware Snapshot-Based Temporal Graph Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Networks With Dense Weights Are Not Universal Approximators
- NeurIPS 2026Neutral-atom quantum features as complementary structural encodings for graph learning
- NeurIPS 2026Normalized Architectures are Natively 4-Bit
- NeurIPS 2026OgBench: A Framework for Evaluating Graph Neural Networks on Omics Data
- NeurIPS 2026On Worst-Case Guarantees for Graph-Based Nearest-Neighbor Search
- NeurIPS 2026Orlicz–Sobolev with Musielak: An Efficient Regularization Approach for Graph-based IPM
- NeurIPS 2026PATH: A Dual Perspective for High-quality Text-attributed Graph Learning
- NeurIPS 2026PhySPRING: Structure-Preserving Reduction of Physics-Informed Digital Twins via Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Pointwise Lipschitz Continuous Graph Algorithms
- NeurIPS 2026Practical Non-Stationary Graph Gaussian Processes
- NeurIPS 2026Return to Basics: Very Simple Graph Contrastive Learning via Noise Cancellation Principle
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Graph Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Surrogate Modeling for Explainable Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Solving Max-Cut to Global Optimality via Feasibility-Preserving Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Reversal: Counteracting Singular Value Bias for Graph Prompting
- NeurIPS 2026SpikeSTAG: A Dendritic Compartmental Spiking Graph Network for Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026SSDGExplainer: Structure-Semantic Dual-Guided Explainer for Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Toward in Silico Strain Evaluation: A Multimodal Surrogate for Fermentation Dynamics with Metabolic Graph Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty-Aware Fuzzy Graph Contrastive Learning
- NeurIPS 2026WavCIL: Wavelet Coefficient-Domain Invariant Learning for Dynamic Graph OOD Generalization
- NeurIPS 2026Weisfeiler-Leman Is Incomplete on Simple Spectrum Graphs, so Canonicalize Them
- NeurIPS 2026What to Perturb, How to Propagate: A Graph-Guided Transferable Attack on VLP Models
- NeurIPS 2026When Edge Independence Fails: Joint Graph Diffusion with Latent Sociability Priors
- NeurIPS 2026When Graph Structure Provably Helps Classification: Non-Asymptotic Recovery Guarantees
- CVPR 2025Attribute-Missing Multi-view Graph Clustering
- CVPR 2025Coeff-Tuning: A Graph Filter Subspace View for Tuning Attention-Based Large Models
- CVPR 2025Consistent Normal Orientation for 3D Point Clouds via Least Squares on Delaunay Graph
- CVPR 2025Deterministic Certification of Graph Neural Networks against Graph Poisoning Attacks with Arbitrary Perturbations
- CVPR 2025End-to-End HOI Reconstruction Transformer with Graph-based Encoding
- CVPR 2025FedSPA: Generalizable Federated Graph Learning under Homophily Heterogeneity
- CVPR 2025GG-SSMs: Graph-Generating State Space Models
- CVPR 2025GLane3D: Detecting Lanes with Graph of 3D Keypoints
- CVPR 2025MERGE: Multi-faceted Hierarchical Graph-based GNN for Gene Expression Prediction from Whole Slide Histopathology Images
- CVPR 2025Mosaic of Modalities: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Graph Learning
- CVPR 2025NN-Former: Rethinking Graph Structure in Neural Architecture Representation
- CVPR 2025Order-Robust Class Incremental Learning: Graph-Driven Dynamic Similarity Grouping
- ICLR 2025Biologically Plausible Brain Graph Transformer
- ICLR 2025Bonsai: Gradient-free Graph Condensation for Node Classification
- ICLR 2025Demystifying Topological Message-Passing with Relational Structures: A Case Study on Oversquashing in Simplicial Message-Passing
- ICLR 2025DUALFormer: Dual Graph Transformer
- ICLR 2025Edge Prompt Tuning for Graph Neural Networks
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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.