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
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- 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
571 papers, page 3 of 12
- ICLR 2026Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models through Residual Learning
- ICLR 2026Knowledge Editing with Subspace-Aware Key-Value Mappings
- ICLR 2026Knowledge Fusion of Large Language Models via Modular SkillPacks
- ICLR 2026Knowledge Reasoning Language Model: Unifying Knowledge and Language for Inductive Knowledge Graph Reasoning
- ICLR 2026KnowledgeSmith: Uncovering Knowledge Updating in LLMs with Model Editing and Unlearning
- ICLR 2026KnowProxy: Adapting Large Language Models by Knowledge-guided Proxy
- ICLR 2026Latent Geometry-Driven Network Automata for Complex Network Dismantling
- ICLR 2026LEAP: Local ECT-Based Learnable Positional Encodings for Graphs
- ICLR 2026Learning Adaptive Distribution Alignment with Neural Characteristic Function for Graph Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Learning Dynamic Causal Graphs Under Parametric Uncertainty via Polynomial Chaos Expansions
- ICLR 2026Learning from Historical Activations in Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026Learning Posterior Predictive Distributions for Node Classification from Synthetic Graph Priors
- ICLR 2026Learning Structure-Semantic Evolution Trajectories for Graph Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2026LINGOLY-TOO: Disentangling Reasoning from Knowledge with Templatised Orthographic Obfuscation
- ICLR 2026LLMs Struggle to Balance Reasoning and World Knowledge in Causal Narrative Understanding
- ICLR 2026Low-pass Personalized Subgraph Federated Recommendation
- ICLR 2026LRIM: a Physics-Based Benchmark for Provably Evaluating Long-Range Capabilities in Graph Learning
- ICLR 2026LUMINA: Detecting Hallucinations in RAG System with Context–Knowledge Signals
- ICLR 2026Mapping Post-Training Forgetting in Language Models at Scale
- ICLR 2026MaRS: Memory-Adaptive Routing for Reliable Capacity Expansion and Knowledge Retention
- ICLR 2026MCbiF: Measuring Topological Autocorrelation in Multiscale Clusterings via 2-Parameter Persistent Homology
- ICLR 2026Medical Interpretability and Knowledge Maps of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Minimax Sample Complexity of Graph Neural Networks: Lower Bounds and Structural Effects
- ICLR 2026Mixed-Curvature Tree-Sliced Wasserstein Distance
- ICLR 2026MobiEdit: Resource-efficient Knowledge Editing for Personalized On-device LLMs
- ICLR 2026MobileKGQA: On-Device KGQA System on Dynamic Mobile Environments
- ICLR 2026Modality-free Graph In-context Alignment
- ICLR 2026MolecularIQ: Characterizing Chemical Reasoning Capabilities Through Symbolic Verification on Molecular Graphs
- ICLR 2026MomaGraph: State-Aware Unified Scene Graphs with Vision-Language Models for Embodied Task Planning
- ICLR 2026Multi-Domain Transferable Graph Gluing for Building Graph Foundation Models
- ICLR 2026Multiple Streams of Knowledge Retrieval: Enriching and Recalling in Transformers
- ICLR 2026Neural Graduated Assignment for Maximum Common Edge Subgraphs
- ICLR 2026Neural Message-Passing on Attention Graphs for Hallucination Detection
- ICLR 2026Non-Clashing Teaching in Graphs: Algorithms, Complexity, and Bounds
- ICLR 2026On The Expressive Power of GNN Derivatives
- ICLR 2026On the Expressive Power of GNNs for Boolean Satisfiability
- ICLR 2026On the identifiability of causal graphs with multiple environments
- ICLR 2026On the trade-off between expressivity and privacy in graph representation learning
- ICLR 2026On the Universality and Complexity of GNN for Solving Second-order Cone Programs
- ICLR 2026One for Two: A Unified Framework for Imbalanced Graph Classification via Dynamic Balanced Prototype
- ICLR 2026Oversmoothing, "Oversquashing'', Heterophily, Long-Range, and more: Demystifying Common Beliefs in Graph Machine Learning
- ICLR 2026OWLEYE: ZERO-SHOT LEARNER FOR CROSSDOMAIN GRAPH DATA ANOMALY DETECTION
- ICLR 2026Panoptic Pairwise Distortion Graph
- ICLR 2026Pedagogically-Inspired Data Synthesis for Language Model Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2026Plan-Answer-Refine-on-Graph: Structured Planning and Self-Refinement for Large Language Model Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs
- ICLR 2026Pre-training Limited Memory Language Models with Internal and External Knowledge
- ICLR 2026Pretraining with hierarchical memories: separating long-tail and common knowledge
- ICLR 2026Principled Fast and Meta Knowledge Learners for Continual Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026Probing to Refine: Reinforcement Distillation of LLM Reasoners via Explanatory Inversion
- ICLR 2026Programming by Backprop: Learning Behaviour from Symbolic Descriptions
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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.