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
18 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2023Adaptive Graph Convolutional Subspace Clustering
- CVPR 2023Adversarially Robust Neural Architecture Search for Graph Neural Networks
- CVPR 2023An Actor-Centric Causality Graph for Asynchronous Temporal Inference in Group Activity
- CVPR 2023Deep Graph Reprogramming
- CVPR 2023Deep Graph-Based Spatial Consistency for Robust Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration
- CVPR 2023Deep Learning of Partial Graph Matching via Differentiable Top-K
- CVPR 2023Dynamic Graph Enhanced Contrastive Learning for Chest X-Ray Report Generation
- CVPR 2023High Fidelity 3D Hand Shape Reconstruction via Scalable Graph Frequency Decomposition
- CVPR 2023Highly Confident Local Structure Based Consensus Graph Learning for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2023Incremental 3D Semantic Scene Graph Prediction From RGB Sequences
- CVPR 2023Mind the Label Shift of Augmentation-Based Graph OOD Generalization
- CVPR 2023Robust 3D Shape Classification via Non-Local Graph Attention Network
- CVPR 2023Sample-Level Multi-View Graph Clustering
- CVPR 2023TopDiG: Class-Agnostic Topological Directional Graph Extraction From Remote Sensing Images
- CVPR 2023Transductive Few-Shot Learning With Prototype-Based Label Propagation by Iterative Graph Refinement
- CVPR 2023TranSG: Transformer-Based Skeleton Graph Prototype Contrastive Learning With Structure-Trajectory Prompted Reconstruction for Person Re-Identification
- CVPR 2023Turning Strengths Into Weaknesses: A Certified Robustness Inspired Attack Framework Against Graph Neural Networks
- CVPR 2023VectorFloorSeg: Two-Stream Graph Attention Network for Vectorized Roughcast Floorplan Segmentation
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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.