Graph Neural Networks papers, 2023–2026

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.

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

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1. ICML 2025A Cognac Shot To Forget Bad Memories: Corrective Unlearning for Graph Neural Networks
2. ICML 2025A Dynamical Systems-Inspired Pruning Strategy for Addressing Oversmoothing in Graph Attention Networks
3. ICML 2025A Manifold Perspective on the Statistical Generalization of Graph Neural Networks
4. ICML 2025Adapting Precomputed Features for Efficient Graph Condensation
5. ICML 2025Aggregation Buffer: Revisiting DropEdge with a New Parameter Block
6. ICML 2025Analytical Construction on Geometric Architectures: Transitioning from Static to Temporal Link Prediction
7. ICML 2025Attention Mechanisms Perspective: Exploring LLM Processing of Graph-Structured Data
8. ICML 2025AutoGFM: Automated Graph Foundation Model with Adaptive Architecture Customization
9. ICML 2025Best of Both Worlds: Advantages of Hybrid Graph Sequence Models
10. ICML 2025Beyond Message Passing: Neural Graph Pattern Machine
11. ICML 2025Can Classic GNNs Be Strong Baselines for Graph-level Tasks? Simple Architectures Meet Excellence
12. ICML 2025CEGA: A Cost-Effective Approach for Graph-Based Model Extraction and Acquisition
13. ICML 2025Commute Graph Neural Networks
14. ICML 2025COMRECGC: Global Graph Counterfactual Explainer through Common Recourse
15. ICML 2025Covered Forest: Fine-grained generalization analysis of graph neural networks
16. ICML 2025CurvGAD: Leveraging Curvature for Enhanced Graph Anomaly Detection
17. ICML 2025Delay-DSGN: A Dynamic Spiking Graph Neural Network with Delay Mechanisms for Evolving Graph
18. ICML 2025Directed Graph Grammars for Sequence-based Learning
19. ICML 2025Disentangling Invariant Subgraph via Variance Contrastive Estimation under Distribution Shifts
20. ICML 2025Diss-l-ECT: Dissecting Graph Data with Local Euler Characteristic Transforms
21. ICML 2025Does Graph Prompt Work? A Data Operation Perspective with Theoretical Analysis
22. ICML 2025Dynamic Similarity Graph Construction with Kernel Density Estimation
23. ICML 2025ENAHPool: The Edge-Node Attention-based Hierarchical Pooling for Graph Neural Networks
24. ICML 2025Enhancing Graph Contrastive Learning for Protein Graphs from Perspective of Invariance
25. ICML 2025Enhancing Graph Invariant Learning from a Negative Inference Perspective
26. ICML 2025Enhancing the Influence of Labels on Unlabeled Nodes in Graph Convolutional Networks
27. ICML 2025Expressive Power of Graph Neural Networks for (Mixed-Integer) Quadratic Programs
28. ICML 2025FicGCN: Unveiling the Homomorphic Encryption Efficiency from Irregular Graph Convolutional Networks
29. ICML 2025G-Adaptivity: optimised graph-based mesh relocation for finite element methods
30. ICML 2025Graph Adaptive Autoregressive Moving Average Models
31. ICML 2025GrokFormer: Graph Fourier Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformers
32. ICML 2025Haste Makes Waste: A Simple Approach for Scaling Graph Neural Networks
33. ICML 2025Hgformer: Hyperbolic Graph Transformer for Collaborative Filtering
34. ICML 2025Hi-Patch: Hierarchical Patch GNN for Irregular Multivariate Time Series
35. ICML 2025Hierarchical Graph Tokenization for Molecule-Language Alignment
36. ICML 2025Hyperbolic-PDE GNN: Spectral Graph Neural Networks in the Perspective of A System of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
37. ICML 2025Implicit Subgraph Neural Network
38. ICML 2025Improved Approximations for Hard Graph Problems using Predictions
39. ICML 2025Improved Expressivity of Hypergraph Neural Networks through High-Dimensional Generalized Weisfeiler-Leman Algorithms
40. ICML 2025Improving Soft Unification with Knowledge Graph Embedding Methods
41. ICML 2025Improving the Effective Receptive Field of Message-Passing Neural Networks
42. ICML 2025iN2V: Bringing Transductive Node Embeddings to Inductive Graphs
43. ICML 2025Instance Correlation Graph-based Naive Bayes
44. ICML 2025Learn Beneficial Noise as Graph Augmentation
45. ICML 2025Learning Condensed Graph via Differentiable Atom Mapping for Reaction Yield Prediction
46. ICML 2025Less is More: Federated Graph Learning with Alleviating Topology Heterogeneity from A Causal Perspective
47. ICML 2025Mitigating Over-Squashing in Graph Neural Networks by Spectrum-Preserving Sparsification
48. ICML 2025ML$^2$-GCL: Manifold Learning Inspired Lightweight Graph Contrastive Learning
49. ICML 2025Multi-View Graph Clustering via Node-Guided Contrastive Encoding
50. ICML 2025N2GON: Neural Networks for Graph-of-Net with Position Awareness

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.