Few-Shot Learning papers, 2023–2026
Meta-learning and few-shot
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 898 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Few-Shot Learning fell from 251 papers in 2023 to 224 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
- CVPR publishes the most Few-Shot Learning work: 303 papers from 2023 to 2026, 34% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 24 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Meta-Learning and Transfer, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Foundation Model Adaptation, is up 3.8x versus 0.9x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 76 | 56 | 40 | 79 | 251 |
| 2024 | 64 | 38 | 37 | 81 | 220 |
| 2025 | 68 | 36 | 35 | 64 | 203 |
| 2026 | 51 | 38 | 56 | 79 | 224 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026BAPM: Boundary-Aware Prompt Mining for Training-Free Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
- ICML 2026Bayes-inspired Integration of Pretrained Priors and Few-Shot Evidence for Few-Shot Classification
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Concept Discovery for Interpretable Few-Shot Text Classification
- CVPR 2026A Closer Look at Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection Fine-Tuning Matters
- NeurIPS 2025A Few Moments Please: Scalable Graphon Learning via Moment Matching
- ICML 2025FedBEns: One-Shot Federated Learning based on Bayesian Ensemble
- ICLR 2025Dist Loss: Enhancing Regression in Few-Shot Region through Distribution Distance Constraint
- CVPR 20253D Prior Is All You Need: Cross-Task Few-shot 2D Gaze Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding (FALCON) Benchmark
- ICML 2024Accelerating Convergence in Bayesian Few-Shot Classification
- ICLR 2024Few-shot Hybrid Domain Adaptation of Image Generator
- CVPR 2024Deformable One-shot Face Stylization via DINO Semantic Guidance
- NeurIPS 2023Alignment with human representations supports robust few-shot learning
- ICML 2023A Category-theoretical Meta-analysis of Definitions of Disentanglement
- ICLR 2023Bidirectional Language Models Are Also Few-shot Learners
- CVPR 2023A Meta-Learning Approach to Predicting Performance and Data Requirements
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Normal References: Discriminative Few-Shot Anomaly Detection
- ICML 2026BiCrossNet with Decoupled Dual Generators: A Parameter‑Efficient and Generalizable Few‑Shot Custom Gesture Recognition Framework
- ICLR 2026Dual Distillation for Few-Shot Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2026Beyond Patches Global-aware Autoregressive Model for Multimodal Few-Shot Font Generation
All Few-Shot Learning papers
251 papers, page 2 of 6
- CVPR 2023One-to-Few Label Assignment for End-to-End Dense Detection
- CVPR 2023Open-Set Likelihood Maximization for Few-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2023OTAvatar: One-Shot Talking Face Avatar With Controllable Tri-Plane Rendering
- CVPR 2023PartDistillation: Learning Parts From Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023PartSLIP: Low-Shot Part Segmentation for 3D Point Clouds via Pretrained Image-Language Models
- CVPR 2023ProD: Prompting-To-Disentangle Domain Knowledge for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Image Classification
- CVPR 2023Progressive Semantic-Visual Mutual Adaption for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2023Prompt, Generate, Then Cache: Cascade of Foundation Models Makes Strong Few-Shot Learners
- CVPR 2023Rethinking Few-Shot Medical Segmentation: A Vector Quantization View
- CVPR 2023Rethinking the Correlation in Few-Shot Segmentation: A Buoys View
- CVPR 2023Revisiting Prototypical Network for Cross Domain Few-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2023Semantic Prompt for Few-Shot Image Recognition
- CVPR 2023Semantic-Promoted Debiasing and Background Disambiguation for Zero-Shot Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023SMAE: Few-Shot Learning for HDR Deghosting With Saturation-Aware Masked Autoencoders
- CVPR 2023Stitchable Neural Networks
- CVPR 2023StyleAdv: Meta Style Adversarial Training for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2023StyleRF: Zero-Shot 3D Style Transfer of Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2023Supervised Masked Knowledge Distillation for Few-Shot Transformers
- CVPR 2023Transductive Few-Shot Learning With Prototype-Based Label Propagation by Iterative Graph Refinement
- CVPR 2023ViewNet: A Novel Projection-Based Backbone With View Pooling for Few-Shot Point Cloud Classification
- CVPR 2023Visual Language Pretrained Multiple Instance Zero-Shot Transfer for Histopathology Images
- CVPR 2023Where Is My Spot? Few-Shot Image Generation via Latent Subspace Optimization
- CVPR 2023WinCLIP: Zero-/Few-Shot Anomaly Classification and Segmentation
- CVPR 2023ZegCLIP: Towards Adapting CLIP for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Dual-Lens Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Generative Model Adaptation via Image-Specific Prompt Learning
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Model Diagnosis
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Object Counting
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Pose Transfer for Unrigged Stylized 3D Characters
- ICLR 2023$k$NN Prompting: Beyond-Context Learning with Calibration-Free Nearest Neighbor Inference
- ICLR 2023AANG : Automating Auxiliary Learning
- ICLR 2023Analogy-Forming Transformers for Few-Shot 3D Parsing
- ICLR 2023Automatic Chain of Thought Prompting in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2023Bidirectional Language Models Are Also Few-shot Learners
- ICLR 2023Composing Ensembles of Pre-trained Models via Iterative Consensus
- ICLR 2023Context-enriched molecule representations improve few-shot drug discovery
- ICLR 2023Contrastive Meta-Learning for Partially Observable Few-Shot Learning
- ICLR 2023Cross-Level Distillation and Feature Denoising for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Classification
- ICLR 2023Data-Free One-Shot Federated Learning Under Very High Statistical Heterogeneity
- ICLR 2023Decomposed Prompting: A Modular Approach for Solving Complex Tasks
- ICLR 2023Distributional Meta-Gradient Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2023Equivariant Descriptor Fields: SE(3)-Equivariant Energy-Based Models for End-to-End Visual Robotic Manipulation Learning
- ICLR 2023Few-shot Backdoor Attacks via Neural Tangent Kernels
- ICLR 2023Few-Shot Domain Adaptation For End-to-End Communication
- ICLR 2023FiT: Parameter Efficient Few-shot Transfer Learning for Personalized and Federated Image Classification
- ICLR 2023Guess the Instruction! Flipped Learning Makes Language Models Stronger Zero-Shot Learners
- ICLR 2023Hard-Meta-Dataset++: Towards Understanding Few-Shot Performance on Difficult Tasks
- ICLR 2023Hebbian and Gradient-based Plasticity Enables Robust Memory and Rapid Learning in RNNs
- ICLR 2023Hierarchical Relational Learning for Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completion
- ICLR 2023Improving Out-of-distribution Generalization with Indirection Representations
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FAQ
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 898 in total: 251 in 2023, 220 in 2024, 203 in 2025, 224 in 2026.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 51 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 68 the year before.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 38 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 36 the year before.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 56 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 35 the year before.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 79 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 64 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Few-Shot Learning papers?
- CVPR, with 303 papers from 2023 to 2026.