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
183 papers, page 1 of 4
- CVPR 2026Anomaly as Non-Conformity via Training-Free Graph Laplacian Energy Minimization
- CVPR 2026BrickNet Graph-Backed Generative Brick Assembly
- CVPR 2026Dual Graph Regularized Deep Unfolding Network for Guided Depth Map
- CVPR 2026FedSST Rethinking Fair Federated Graph Learning under Structural Shift
- CVPR 2026Gamba Mamba-based graph convolutional network with dynamic graph topology learning
- CVPR 2026Global-Aware Edge Prioritization for Pose Graph Initialization
- CVPR 2026GraPHFormer A Multimodal Graph Persistent Homology Transformer for the Analysis
- CVPR 2026GSNR Graph Smooth Null-Space Representation for Inverse Problems
- CVPR 2026Learning Scene Coordinate Reconstruction from Unposed Images via Pose Graph
- CVPR 2026R2G A Multi-View Circuit Graph Benchmark Suite from RTL to
- CVPR 2026Solvability of the Viewing Graph Under the Affine Camera Model
- CVPR 2026Variational Graph-based Normal Integration
- CVPR 2026Virtual Nodes Guided Dynamic Graph Neural Network for Brain Tumor
- ICLR 2026A Graph Meta-Network for Learning on Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks
- ICLR 2026AdS-GNN - a Conformally Equivariant Graph Neural Network
- ICLR 2026Any-Subgroup Equivariant Networks via Symmetry Breaking
- ICLR 2026Are we measuring oversmoothing in graph neural networks correctly?
- ICLR 2026Can You Hear Me Now? A Benchmark for Long-Range Graph Propagation
- ICLR 2026Certified Evaluation of Model-Level Explanations for Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026DGNet: Learning Spatiotemporal PDEs with Discrete Green Networks
- ICLR 2026Dynamic Kernel Graph Sparsifiers
- ICLR 2026Fair Graph Machine Learning under Adversarial Missingness Processes
- ICLR 2026Full-Graph vs. Mini-Batch Training: Comprehensive Analysis from a Batch Size and Fan-Out Size Perspective
- ICLR 2026GGBall: Graph Generative Model on Poincaré Ball
- ICLR 2026Glance for Context: Learning When to Leverage LLMs for Node-Aware GNN-LLM Fusion
- ICLR 2026GNN Explanations that do not Explain and How to find Them
- ICLR 2026GNN-as-Judge: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Graph Few-shot Semi-supervised Learning with GNN Feedback
- ICLR 2026Is Graph Unlearning Ready for Practice? A Benchmark on Efficiency, Utility, and Forgetting
- ICLR 2026Laplacian Kernelized Bandit
- ICLR 2026Learning Exposure Mapping Functions for Inferring Heterogeneous Peer Effects
- ICLR 2026Learning from Historical Activations in Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026Lightweight Transformer for EEG Classification via Balanced Signed Graph Algorithm Unrolling
- ICLR 2026LogicXGNN: Grounded Logical Rules for Explaining Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026On The Expressive Power of GNN Derivatives
- ICLR 2026One for Two: A Unified Framework for Imbalanced Graph Classification via Dynamic Balanced Prototype
- ICLR 2026Out-of-Distribution Graph Models Merging
- ICLR 2026Paradigm Shift of GNN Explainer from Label Space to Prototypical Representation Space
- ICLR 2026Relational Graph Transformer
- ICLR 2026Relatron: Automating Relational Machine Learning over Relational Databases
- ICLR 2026TopoFormer: Topology Meets Attention for Graph Learning
- ICLR 2026Weight Space Representation Learning on Diverse NeRF Architectures
- ICML 2026A Unifying Relational Perspective on Expressive Lottery Tickets
- ICML 2026Adaptive Node Feature Selection for Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2026Aitchison Embeddings for Learning Compositional Graph Representations
- ICML 2026An Approximation Algorithm for Graph Label Selection
- ICML 2026Anchor-guided Hypergraph Condensation with Dual-level Discrimination
- ICML 2026Any-dimensional invariant universality
- ICML 2026Backward Oversmoothing: why is it hard to train deep Graph Neural Networks?
- ICML 2026Beyond Tokens: Enhancing RTL Quality Estimation via Structural Graph Learning
- ICML 2026Bipartite Graph Attention-based Clustering for Large-scale scRNA-seq Data
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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.