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
466 papers, page 4 of 10
- ICLR 2025Node Identifiers: Compact, Discrete Representations for Efficient Graph Learning
- ICLR 2025Node-Time Conditional Prompt Learning in Dynamic Graphs
- ICLR 2025On the Byzantine-Resilience of Distillation-Based Federated Learning
- ICLR 2025On the Completeness of Invariant Geometric Deep Learning Models
- ICLR 2025On the Expressive Power of Sparse Geometric MPNNs
- ICLR 2025On the Hölder Stability of Multiset and Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Open-Set Graph Anomaly Detection via Normal Structure Regularisation
- ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 3.2, Knowledge Manipulation
- ICLR 2025Point-based Instance Completion with Scene Constraints
- ICLR 2025PolyhedronNet: Representation Learning for Polyhedra with Surface-attributed Graph
- ICLR 2025Precedence-Constrained Winter Value for Effective Graph Data Valuation
- ICLR 2025Precise Localization of Memories: A Fine-grained Neuron-level Knowledge Editing Technique for LLMs
- ICLR 2025Quality Measures for Dynamic Graph Generative Models
- ICLR 2025Query-based Knowledge Transfer for Heterogeneous Learning Environments
- ICLR 2025Rationalizing and Augmenting Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Reasoning of Large Language Models over Knowledge Graphs with Super-Relations
- ICLR 2025Reasoning-Enhanced Healthcare Predictions with Knowledge Graph Community Retrieval
- ICLR 2025Reconsidering Faithfulness in Regular, Self-Explainable and Domain Invariant GNNs
- ICLR 2025Recovering Manifold Structure Using Ollivier Ricci Curvature
- ICLR 2025Refine Knowledge of Large Language Models via Adaptive Contrastive Learning
- ICLR 2025Relation-Aware Diffusion for Heterogeneous Graphs with Partially Observed Features
- ICLR 2025Reliable and Diverse Evaluation of LLM Medical Knowledge Mastery
- ICLR 2025Residual Connections and Normalization Can Provably Prevent Oversmoothing in GNNs
- ICLR 2025Rethinking Graph Neural Networks From A Geometric Perspective Of Node Features
- ICLR 2025Revealing and Mitigating Over-Attention in Knowledge Editing
- ICLR 2025Revisiting Random Walks for Learning on Graphs
- ICLR 2025Scalable and Certifiable Graph Unlearning: Overcoming the Approximation Error Barrier
- ICLR 2025Scalable Influence and Fact Tracing for Large Language Model Pretraining
- ICLR 2025Scale-Free Graph-Language Models
- ICLR 2025SelKD: Selective Knowledge Distillation via Optimal Transport Perspective
- ICLR 2025Shapley-Guided Utility Learning for Effective Graph Inference Data Valuation
- ICLR 2025Simple is Effective: The Roles of Graphs and Large Language Models in Knowledge-Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- ICLR 2025Single Teacher, Multiple Perspectives: Teacher Knowledge Augmentation for Enhanced Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2025SpaceGNN: Multi-Space Graph Neural Network for Node Anomaly Detection with Extremely Limited Labels
- ICLR 2025Sparse Feature Circuits: Discovering and Editing Interpretable Causal Graphs in Language Models
- ICLR 2025Spectro-Riemannian Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Speculative Knowledge Distillation: Bridging the Teacher-Student Gap Through Interleaved Sampling
- ICLR 2025Spreading Out-of-Distribution Detection on Graphs
- ICLR 2025ST-GCond: Self-supervised and Transferable Graph Dataset Condensation
- ICLR 2025StructRAG: Boosting Knowledge Intensive Reasoning of LLMs via Inference-time Hybrid Information Structurization
- ICLR 2025Structuring Benchmark into Knowledge Graphs to Assist Large Language Models in Retrieving and Designing Models
- ICLR 2025Subgraph Federated Learning for Local Generalization
- ICLR 2025Systematic Relational Reasoning With Epistemic Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025TAID: Temporally Adaptive Interpolated Distillation for Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Language Models
- ICLR 2025The Computational Complexity of Positive Non-Clashing Teaching in Graphs
- ICLR 2025The Effectiveness of Curvature-Based Rewiring and the Role of Hyperparameters in GNNs Revisited
- ICLR 2025Think-on-Graph 2.0: Deep and Faithful Large Language Model Reasoning with Knowledge-guided Retrieval Augmented Generation
- ICLR 2025Topological Blindspots: Understanding and Extending Topological Deep Learning Through the Lens of Expressivity
- ICLR 2025Topological Zigzag Spaghetti for Diffusion-based Generation and Prediction on Graphs
- ICLR 2025Towards a Complete Logical Framework for GNN Expressiveness
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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.