Knowledge Graphs papers, 2023–2026
Graph embedding and reasoning
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,715 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Knowledge Graphs went from 287 papers in 2023 to 536 in 2026, roughly 1.9x in three years.
- ICLR publishes the most Knowledge Graphs work: 571 papers from 2023 to 2026, 33% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 17 in 2023 to 93 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Graph and Structured Data, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Time Series, is up 3.2x versus 1.9x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 76 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 287 |
| 2024 | 153 | 120 | 103 | 50 | 426 |
| 2025 | 154 | 172 | 99 | 41 | 466 |
| 2026 | 133 | 201 | 149 | 53 | 536 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Aligning LLMs with Biomedical Knowledge using Balanced Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2026Belief Propagation Converges to Gaussian Distributions in Sparsely-Connected Factor Graphs
- ICLR 2026$\ell_1$ Latent Distance based Continuous-time Graph Representation
- CVPR 2026A Unified Framework for Knowledge Transfer in Bidirectional Model Scaling
- NeurIPS 2025A CLT for Polynomial GNNs on Community-Based Graphs
- ICML 2025A Selective Learning Method for Temporal Graph Continual Learning
- ICLR 2025$R^2$-Guard: Robust Reasoning Enabled LLM Guardrail via Knowledge-Enhanced Logical Reasoning
- CVPR 2025A Hubness Perspective on Representation Learning for Graph-Based Multi-View Clustering
- NeurIPS 2024Can Large Language Models Analyze Graphs like Professionals? A Benchmark, Datasets and Models
- ICML 2024Bipartite Matching in Massive Graphs: A Tight Analysis of EDCS
- ICLR 2024A Good Learner can Teach Better: Teacher-Student Collaborative Knowledge Distillation
- CVPR 2024De-confounded Data-free Knowledge Distillation for Handling Distribution Shifts
- NeurIPS 2023A Comprehensive Study on Text-attributed Graphs: Benchmarking and Rethinking
- ICML 2023A Generalization of ViT/MLP-Mixer to Graphs
- ICLR 2023A Differential Geometric View and Explainability of GNN on Evolving Graphs
- CVPR 2023A Unified Knowledge Distillation Framework for Deep Directed Graphical Models
- NeurIPS 2026AT-SKM-Net: An Accelerated Trainable Sampling Kaczmarz-Motzkin Framework for Linear Hard-Constraint Feasibility on Dynamic Graphs
- ICML 2026Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation without Paired Data: Theoretical Foundation and Algorithm
- ICLR 2026A Graph Meta-Network for Learning on Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks
- CVPR 2026Distilling Balanced Knowledge from a Biased Teacher
All Knowledge Graphs papers
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- ICLR 2026Distilling and Adapting: A Topology-Aware Framework for Zero-Shot Interaction Prediction in Multiplex Biological Networks
- ICLR 2026Diverse and Sparse Mixture-of-Experts for Causal Subgraph–Based Out-of-Distribution Graph Learning
- ICLR 2026Do Large Language Models Know What They Are Capable Of?
- ICLR 2026Do We Really Need Permutations? Impact of Width Expansion on Linear Mode Connectivity
- ICLR 2026DOPPLER: Dual-Policy Learning for Device Assignment in Asynchronous Dataflow Graphs
- ICLR 2026DR-GGAD: Dual Residual Centering for Mitigating Anomaly Non‑Discriminativity in Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection
- ICLR 2026Dynamic Multi-sample Mixup with Gradient Exploration for Open-set Graph Anomaly Detection
- ICLR 2026Efficient Learning on Large Graphs using a Densifying Regularity Lemma
- ICLR 2026Enhancing LLMs for Knowledge Base Question Answering by Chain-of-Decomposition
- ICLR 2026EvA: Evolutionary Attacks on Graphs
- ICLR 2026Experience-based Knowledge Correction for Robust Planning in Minecraft
- ICLR 2026Expert Heads: Robust Evidence Identification for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Explain in Your Own Words: Improving Reasoning via Token-Selective Dual Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2026Explore-on-Graph: Incentivizing Autonomous Exploration of Large Language Models on Knowledge Graphs with Path-refined Reward Modeling
- ICLR 2026Exploring Knowledge Purification in Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation for LLMs
- ICLR 2026Exposing Weaknesses of Large Reasoning Models through Graph Algorithm Problems
- ICLR 2026Expressive and Invariant Graph Learning via Canonical Tree Cover Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026Federated Graph-Level Clustering Network with Dual Knowledge Separation
- ICLR 2026FedMC: Federated Manifold Calibration
- ICLR 2026Fine-tuning Done Right in Model Editing
- ICLR 2026Flock: A Knowledge Graph Foundation Model via Learning on Random Walks
- ICLR 2026FlowSymm: Physics–Aware, Symmetry–Preserving Graph Attention for Network Flow Completion
- ICLR 2026Forest-Based Graph Learning for Semi-Supervised Node Classification
- ICLR 2026Fresh in memory: Training-order recency is linearly encoded in language model activations
- ICLR 2026FSD-CAP: Fractional Subgraph Diffusion with Class-Aware Propagation for Graph Feature Imputation
- ICLR 2026FutureMind: Equipping Small Language Models with Strategic Thinking-Pattern Priors via Adaptive Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2026G-Merging: Graph Models Merging for Parameter-Efficient Multi-Task Knowledge Consolidation
- ICLR 2026G-reasoner: Foundation Models for Unified Reasoning over Graph-structured Knowledge
- ICLR 2026Gelato: Graph Edit Distance via Autoregressive Neural Combinatorial Optimization
- ICLR 2026General search techniques without common knowledge for imperfect-information games, and application to superhuman Fog of War chess
- ICLR 2026Generalized Spherical Neural Operators: Green’s Function Formulation
- ICLR 2026Generating Directed Graphs with Dual Attention and Asymmetric Encoding
- ICLR 2026Global-Recent Semantic Reasoning on Dynamic Text-Attributed Graphs with Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026gLSTM: Mitigating Over-Squashing by Increasing Storage Capacity
- ICLR 2026Graph homophily booster: Reimagining the role of discrete features in heterophilic graph learning
- ICLR 2026Graph Mixing Additive Networks
- ICLR 2026Graph Random Features for Scalable Gaussian Processes
- ICLR 2026Graph Representational Learning: When Does More Expressivity Hurt Generalization?
- ICLR 2026Graph Tokenization for Bridging Graphs and Transformers
- ICLR 2026GraphOmni: A Comprehensive and Extensible Benchmark Framework for Large Language Models on Graph-theoretic Tasks
- ICLR 2026Graphon Cross-Validation: Assessing Models on Network Data
- ICLR 2026GraphPlanner: Graph-Based Agentic Routing for LLMs
- ICLR 2026H$^3$GNNs: Harmonizing Heterophily and Homophily in GNNs via Self-Supervised Node Encoding
- ICLR 2026HGNet: Scalable Foundation Model for Automated Knowledge Graph Generation from Scientific Literature
- ICLR 2026Hourglass Persistence for Graphs, Simplices, and Cells
- ICLR 2026HYPER: A Foundation Model for Inductive Link Prediction with Knowledge Hypergraphs
- ICLR 2026In Good GRACES: Principled Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2026Inductive Reasoning for Temporal Knowledge Graphs with Emerging Entities
- ICLR 2026Inheriting Generalizable Knowledge from LLMs to Diverse Vertical Tasks
- ICLR 2026Interference-Isolated Elastic Weight Consolidation and Knowledge Calibration for Incremental Object Detection
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FAQ
- How many Knowledge Graphs papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 1,715 in total: 287 in 2023, 426 in 2024, 466 in 2025, 536 in 2026.
- How many Knowledge Graphs papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 133 Knowledge Graphs papers, versus 154 the year before.
- How many Knowledge Graphs papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 201 Knowledge Graphs papers, versus 172 the year before.
- How many Knowledge Graphs papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 149 Knowledge Graphs papers, versus 99 the year before.
- How many Knowledge Graphs papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 53 Knowledge Graphs papers, versus 41 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Knowledge Graphs papers?
- ICLR, with 571 papers from 2023 to 2026.