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
172 papers, page 1 of 4
- ICLR 2025$\mathbb{X}$-Sample Contrastive Loss: Improving Contrastive Learning with Sample Similarity Graphs
- ICLR 2025$R^2$-Guard: Robust Reasoning Enabled LLM Guardrail via Knowledge-Enhanced Logical Reasoning
- ICLR 2025A Graph Enhanced Symbolic Discovery Framework For Efficient Logic Optimization
- ICLR 2025A Large-scale Training Paradigm for Graph Generative Models
- ICLR 2025A Theoretically-Principled Sparse, Connected, and Rigid Graph Representation of Molecules
- ICLR 2025Accelerating Training with Neuron Interaction and Nowcasting Networks
- ICLR 2025Accurate and Scalable Graph Neural Networks via Message Invariance
- ICLR 2025AlphaEdit: Null-Space Constrained Knowledge Editing for Language Models
- ICLR 2025Are Transformers Able to Reason by Connecting Separated Knowledge in Training Data?
- ICLR 2025AugKD: Ingenious Augmentations Empower Knowledge Distillation for Image Super-Resolution
- ICLR 2025BANGS: Game-theoretic Node Selection for Graph Self-Training
- ICLR 2025Beyond Graphs: Can Large Language Models Comprehend Hypergraphs?
- ICLR 2025Beyond Random Masking: When Dropout meets Graph Convolutional Networks
- ICLR 2025Biologically Plausible Brain Graph Transformer
- ICLR 2025Bonsai: Gradient-free Graph Condensation for Node Classification
- ICLR 2025BrainOOD: Out-of-distribution Generalizable Brain Network Analysis
- ICLR 2025Bundle Neural Network for message diffusion on graphs
- ICLR 2025Can Knowledge Editing Really Correct Hallucinations?
- ICLR 2025Capability Localization: Capabilities Can be Localized rather than Individual Knowledge
- ICLR 2025Centrality-guided Pre-training for Graph
- ICLR 2025Charting the Design Space of Neural Graph Representations for Subgraph Matching
- ICLR 2025ChroKnowledge: Unveiling Chronological Knowledge of Language Models in Multiple Domains
- ICLR 2025Clique Number Estimation via Differentiable Functions of Adjacency Matrix Permutations
- ICLR 2025CollabEdit: Towards Non-destructive Collaborative Knowledge Editing
- ICLR 2025ContextGNN: Beyond Two-Tower Recommendation Systems
- ICLR 2025Contextualizing biological perturbation experiments through language
- ICLR 2025Coreset Spectral Clustering
- ICLR 2025Decoupled Graph Energy-based Model for Node Out-of-Distribution Detection on Heterophilic Graphs
- ICLR 2025Decoupled Subgraph Federated Learning
- ICLR 2025Demystifying Topological Message-Passing with Relational Structures: A Case Study on Oversquashing in Simplicial Message-Passing
- ICLR 2025DistillHGNN: A Knowledge Distillation Approach for High-Speed Hypergraph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Do I Know This Entity? Knowledge Awareness and Hallucinations in Language Models
- ICLR 2025DUALFormer: Dual Graph Transformer
- ICLR 2025E(n) Equivariant Topological Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Edge Prompt Tuning for Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Equivariant Denoisers Cannot Copy Graphs: Align Your Graph Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Everything is Editable: Extend Knowledge Editing to Unstructured Data in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Exact Certification of (Graph) Neural Networks Against Label Poisoning
- ICLR 2025Explanations of GNN on Evolving Graphs via Axiomatic Layer edges
- ICLR 2025Fourier Sliced-Wasserstein Embedding for Multisets and Measures
- ICLR 2025From an LLM Swarm to a PDDL-empowered Hive: Planning Self-executed Instructions in a Multi-modal Jungle
- ICLR 2025From GNNs to Trees: Multi-Granular Interpretability for Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025From Models to Microtheories: Distilling a Model's Topical Knowledge for Grounded Question-Answering
- ICLR 2025Fully-inductive Node Classification on Arbitrary Graphs
- ICLR 2025Generalization, Expressivity, and Universality of Graph Neural Networks on Attributed Graphs
- ICLR 2025Generalizing Weisfeiler-Lehman Kernels to Subgraphs
- ICLR 2025Generating Graphs via Spectral Diffusion
- ICLR 2025GETS: Ensemble Temperature Scaling for Calibration in Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025GLoRa: A Benchmark to Evaluate the Ability to Learn Long-Range Dependencies in Graphs
- ICLR 2025GNNs Getting ComFy: Community and Feature Similarity Guided Rewiring
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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.