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 1 of 12
- ICLR 2026<SO$G_k$>: One LLM Token for Explicit Graph Structural Understanding
- ICLR 2026$\ell_1$ Latent Distance based Continuous-time Graph Representation
- ICLR 2026A Fictional Q&A Dataset for Studying Memorization and Knowledge Acquisition
- ICLR 2026A Graph Meta-Network for Learning on Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks
- ICLR 2026A Rich Knowledge Space for Scalable Deepfake Detection
- ICLR 2026ACE: Attribution-Controlled Knowledge Editing for Multi-hop Factual Recall
- ICLR 2026Actions Speak Louder than Prompts: A Large-Scale Study of LLMs for Graph Inference
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Data-Knowledge Alignment in Genetic Perturbation Prediction
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Mixture of Disentangled Experts for Dynamic Graphs under Distribution Shifts
- ICLR 2026AdaSpec: Adaptive Spectrum for Enhanced Node Distinguishability
- ICLR 2026AdS-GNN - a Conformally Equivariant Graph Neural Network
- ICLR 2026AMiD: Knowledge Distillation for LLMs with $\alpha$-mixture Assistant Distribution
- ICLR 2026Any-Subgroup Equivariant Networks via Symmetry Breaking
- ICLR 2026Are LLMs Really Not Knowledgeable? Mining the Submerged Knowledge in LLMs' Memory
- ICLR 2026Are we measuring oversmoothing in graph neural networks correctly?
- ICLR 2026AtlasKV: Augmenting LLMs with Billion-Scale Knowledge Graphs in 20GB VRAM
- ICLR 2026Atomic HINs: Entity-Attribute Duality for Heterogeneous Graph Modeling
- ICLR 2026BARREL: Boundary-Aware Reasoning for Factual and Reliable LRMs
- ICLR 2026Better Learning-Augmented Spanning Tree Algorithms via Metric Forest Completion
- ICLR 2026Beyond Entity Correlations: Disentangling Event Causal Puzzles in Temporal Knowledge Graphs
- ICLR 2026Beyond Simple Graphs: Neural Multi-Objective Routing on Multigraphs
- ICLR 2026Beyond Student: An Asymmetric Network for Neural Network Inheritance
- ICLR 2026Bilinear relational structure fixes reversal curse and enables consistent model editing
- ICLR 2026BioX-Bridge: Model Bridging for Unsupervised Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer across Biosignals
- ICLR 2026BIRD: Behavior Induction via Representation-structure Distillation
- ICLR 2026BoGrape: Bayesian optimization over graphs with shortest-path encoded
- ICLR 2026Bridging Input Feature Spaces Towards Graph Foundation Models
- ICLR 2026BrowseNet: Knowledge Graph-Based Associative Memory for Contextual Information Retrieval
- ICLR 2026CaTs and DAGs: Integrating Directed Acyclic Graphs with Transformers for Causally Constrained Predictions
- ICLR 2026Characterization and Learning of Causal Graphs with Latent Confounders and Post-treatment Selection from Interventional Data
- ICLR 2026CheckMate! Watermarking Graph Diffusion Models in Polynomial Time
- ICLR 2026Cite Pretrain: Retrieval-Free Knowledge Attribution for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026CLAUSE: Agentic Neuro-Symbolic Knowledge Graph Reasoning via Dynamic Learnable Context Engineering
- ICLR 2026Combination-of-Experts with Knowledge Sharing for Cross-Task Vehicle Routing Problems
- ICLR 2026Compactness and Consistency: A Conjoint Framework for Deep Graph Clustering
- ICLR 2026Controllable Logical Hypothesis Generation for Abductive Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs
- ICLR 2026Cooperative Sheaf Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026Copy-Paste to Mitigate Large Language Model Hallucinations
- ICLR 2026DAMR: Efficient and Adaptive Context-Aware Knowledge Graph Question Answering with LLM-Guided MCTS
- ICLR 2026Dataset Distillation for Memorized Data: Soft Labels can Leak Held-Out Teacher Knowledge
- ICLR 2026Diagnosing and Remedying Knowledge Deficiencies in LLMs via Label-free Curricular Meaningful Learning
- ICLR 2026Differentiable JPEG-based Input Perturbation for Knowledge Distillation Amplification via Conditional Mutual Information Maximization
- ICLR 2026Differentiable Lifting for Topological Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026Directional Sheaf Hypergraph Networks: Unifying Learning on Directed and Undirected Hypergraphs
- ICLR 2026Disentangling Knowledge Representations for Large Language Model Editing
- ICLR 2026Distill-SynthKG: Distilling Knowledge Graph Synthesis Workflow for Improved Coverage and Efficiency
- ICLR 2026Distillation of Large Language Models via Concrete Score Matching
- 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?
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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.