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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- ICML 2026Neural Feature Geometry Evolves as Discrete Ricci Flow
- ICML 2026On Efficient Scaling of GNNs via IO-Aware Layers Implementations
- ICML 2026On the Origin of Neural Scaling Laws: from Random Graphs to Natural Language
- ICML 2026On the Spectral Unreachability of Brain Graph Learning
- ICML 2026On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-based Link Prediction
- ICML 2026PACER: Acyclic Causal Discovery from Large-scale Interventional Data
- ICML 2026PADD: Path-Aligned Decompression Distillation for Non-Router Teacher to Guide MoE Student Learning
- ICML 2026Parametrized Power-Iteration Clustering for Directed Graphs
- ICML 2026Plain Transformers are Surprisingly Powerful Link Predictors
- ICML 2026PPI Candidate Ranking: Large-Scale Evaluation of a Domain Knowledge–Guided Pipeline
- ICML 2026PromptDyG: Test-Time Prompt Adaptation on Dynamic Graphs
- ICML 2026Provable Accuracy Collapse of Embedding-Based Representations under Dimensionality Mismatch
- ICML 2026Quantifying Cross-Domain Knowledge Distillation in the Presence of Domain Shift
- ICML 2026REAL: Resolving Knowledge Conflicts in Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering via Reasoning-Pivot Alignment
- ICML 2026Reasoning Structure of Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Regret Pre-training: Bridging Prior and Posterior Views for Enhanced Knowledge Grounding
- ICML 2026Rethinking Efficient Graph Coarsening via a Non-Selfishness Principle
- ICML 2026Rethinking Graph Transformers as Graph Signal Denoisers: The Role of Block-Diagonal Priors
- ICML 2026Revisiting Parameter-Based Knowledge Editing in Large Language Models: Theoretical Limits and Empirical Evidence
- ICML 2026Revisiting Positive Samples in Graph Contrastive Learning: From the Perspective of Message Passing
- ICML 2026Robust Signal Enhancement via Fractional Detail Views and Knowledge Guided Multi-view Fusion
- ICML 2026Rotary Position Encodings for Graphs
- ICML 2026RSF-GLLM: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph QA via Recurrent Soft-Flow and Decoupled LLM Generation
- ICML 2026Scalable Topology-Preserving Graph Coarsening: Concepts and Algorithms
- ICML 2026Selecting Samples on Graphs: A Unified Dataset Pruning Framework for Lossless Training Acceleration
- ICML 2026Semi-Supervised Learning for Molecular Graphs via Ensemble Consensus
- ICML 2026Semi-Supervised Noise Adaptation: Transferring Knowledge from Noise Domain
- ICML 2026SG2Loc: Sequential Visual Localization on 3D Scene Graphs
- ICML 2026Size Transferability of Graph Convolutional Networks across Sparsity: A Generalized Graphon Perspective
- ICML 2026SPA: A Simple but Tough-to-Beat Baseline for Knowledge Injection
- ICML 2026SpaEF: Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Data Element-Wise Denoising Framework Powered by Large Models
- ICML 2026Split Personality Training: Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Alternate Personalities
- ICML 2026Structure-Centric Graph Foundation Model via Geometric Bases
- ICML 2026Structured Progressive Knowledge Activation for LLM-Driven Neural Architecture Search
- ICML 2026SWING: Unlocking Implicit Graph Representations for Graph Random Features
- ICML 2026Symbiosis-Inspired Knowledge Distillation for Incremental Object Detection
- ICML 2026TaskLoom: Weaving Knowledge Across Tasks in World Models
- ICML 2026The Bridge-Garden Dilemma in LLM Distillation: Why Mixing Hard and Soft Labels Works
- ICML 2026Torus Graphs for Large Scale Neural Phase Analysis
- ICML 2026Towards Rule-Based Knowledge Sharing in Federated Learning
- ICML 2026Towards Universal Gene Regulatory Network Inference: Unlocking Generalizable Regulatory Knowledge in Single-cell Foundation Models
- ICML 2026Trajectory Seriation via Spectral Tangent Alignment and Global Embedding
- ICML 2026Unitary Convolutions for Message-passing and Positional Encodings on Directed Graphs
- ICML 2026Unveiling the Structure of Do-Calculus Reasoning via Derivation Graphs
- ICML 2026Use What You Know: Causal Foundation Models with Partial Graphs
- ICML 2026View Space: Learning Representation across Arbitrary Graphs
- ICML 2026Weaving Graph over Tokens: Contextualizing Structured Sequences for LLMs
- ICML 2026What Makes a Desired Graph for Relational Deep Learning?
- ICML 2026What Makes a Strong Model? A Unified Spectral Analysis of Knowledge Transfer over High-dimensional Linear Regression
- ICML 2026When Do Hallucinations Arise? A Graph Perspective on the Evolution of Path Reuse and Path Compression
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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.