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
571 papers, page 8 of 12
- 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
- ICLR 2025Towards Automated Knowledge Integration From Human-Interpretable Representations
- ICLR 2025Towards Bridging Generalization and Expressivity of Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Towards Continuous Reuse of Graph Models via Holistic Memory Diversification
- ICLR 2025Towards Explaining the Power of Constant-depth Graph Neural Networks for Structured Linear Programming
- ICLR 2025Towards Fast, Specialized Machine Learning Force Fields: Distilling Foundation Models via Energy Hessians
- ICLR 2025Towards Synergistic Path-based Explanations for Knowledge Graph Completion: Exploration and Evaluation
- ICLR 2025Training-Free Message Passing for Learning on Hypergraphs
- ICLR 2025Uncovering Overfitting in Large Language Model Editing
- ICLR 2025Understanding Virtual Nodes: Oversquashing and Node Heterogeneity
- ICLR 2025Unsupervised Multiple Kernel Learning for Graphs via Ordinality Preservation
- ICLR 2025Valid Conformal Prediction for Dynamic GNNs
- ICLR 2025What Are Good Positional Encodings for Directed Graphs?
- ICLR 2025When Graph Neural Networks Meet Dynamic Mode Decomposition
- ICLR 2024A Characterization Theorem for Equivariant Networks with Point-wise Activations
- ICLR 2024A Differentially Private Clustering Algorithm for Well-Clustered Graphs
- ICLR 2024A Good Learner can Teach Better: Teacher-Student Collaborative Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2024A Poincaré Inequality and Consistency Results for Signal Sampling on Large Graphs
- ICLR 2024A Topological Perspective on Demystifying GNN-Based Link Prediction Performance
- ICLR 2024Adaptive Chameleon or Stubborn Sloth: Revealing the Behavior of Large Language Models in Knowledge Conflicts
- ICLR 2024Approximately Piecewise E(3) Equivariant Point Networks
- ICLR 2024Bayes Conditional Distribution Estimation for Knowledge Distillation Based on Conditional Mutual Information
- ICLR 2024Beyond Spatio-Temporal Representations: Evolving Fourier Transform for Temporal Graphs
- ICLR 2024BioBridge: Bridging Biomedical Foundation Models via Knowledge Graphs
- ICLR 2024Boosting the Adversarial Robustness of Graph Neural Networks: An OOD Perspective
- ICLR 2024Bounding the Expected Robustness of Graph Neural Networks Subject to Node Feature Attacks
- ICLR 2024Causality-Inspired Spatial-Temporal Explanations for Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024Chain-of-Knowledge: Grounding Large Language Models via Dynamic Knowledge Adapting over Heterogeneous Sources
- ICLR 2024Clifford Group Equivariant Simplicial Message Passing Networks
- ICLR 2024Confidential-DPproof: Confidential Proof of Differentially Private Training
- ICLR 2024Conformal Inductive Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024Consistency Training with Learnable Data Augmentation for Graph Anomaly Detection with Limited Supervision
- ICLR 2024Constraint-Free Structure Learning with Smooth Acyclic Orientations
- ICLR 2024CoRe-GD: A Hierarchical Framework for Scalable Graph Visualization with GNNs
- ICLR 2024Counting Graph Substructures with Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024Deceptive Fairness Attacks on Graphs via Meta Learning
- ICLR 2024Decoupling Weighing and Selecting for Integrating Multiple Graph Pre-training Tasks
- ICLR 2024DiLu: A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024DistillSpec: Improving Speculative Decoding via Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2024Effective Structural Encodings via Local Curvature Profiles
- ICLR 2024Efficient Subgraph GNNs by Learning Effective Selection Policies
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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.