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
203 papers, page 2 of 5
- CVPR 2025The Devil is in Low-Level Features for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Token Cropr: Faster ViTs for Quite a Few Tasks
- CVPR 2025Tripartite Weight-Space Ensemble for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2025Twinner: Shining Light on Digital Twins in a Few Snaps
- CVPR 2025UNEM: UNrolled Generalized EM for Transductive Few-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2025UniGoal: Towards Universal Zero-shot Goal-oriented Navigation
- CVPR 2025UniVAD: A Training-free Unified Model for Few-shot Visual Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2025Unleashing In-context Learning of Autoregressive Models for Few-shot Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2025Visual and Semantic Prompt Collaboration for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2025Z-Magic: Zero-shot Multiple Attributes Guided Image Creator
- CVPR 2025Zero-shot 3D Question Answering via Voxel-based Dynamic Token Compression
- CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Image Restoration Using Few-Step Guidance of Consistency Models (and Beyond)
- CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Monocular Scene Flow Estimation in the Wild
- CVPR 2025ZeroGrasp: Zero-Shot Shape Reconstruction Enabled Robotic Grasping
- ICLR 2025Aligning Language Models with Demonstrated Feedback
- ICLR 2025Black Sheep in the Herd: Playing with Spuriously Correlated Attributes for Vision-Language Recognition
- ICLR 2025CapeX: Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation from Textual Point Explanation
- ICLR 2025Dist Loss: Enhancing Regression in Few-Shot Region through Distribution Distance Constraint
- ICLR 2025Divergence-enhanced Knowledge-guided Context Optimization for Visual-Language Prompt Tuning
- ICLR 2025Efficient and Context-Aware Label Propagation for Zero-/Few-Shot Training-Free Adaptation of Vision-Language Model
- ICLR 2025Emergence of meta-stable clustering in mean-field transformer models
- ICLR 2025Federated Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
- ICLR 2025FedTMOS: Efficient One-Shot Federated Learning with Tsetlin Machine
- ICLR 2025From Few to Many: Self-Improving Many-Shot Reasoners Through Iterative Optimization and Generation
- ICLR 2025Intermediate Layer Classifiers for OOD generalization
- ICLR 2025Large (Vision) Language Models are Unsupervised In-Context Learners
- ICLR 2025Learning to Adapt Frozen CLIP for Few-Shot Test-Time Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2025Local-Prompt: Extensible Local Prompts for Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection
- ICLR 2025LOIRE: LifelOng learning on Incremental data via pre-trained language model gRowth Efficiently
- ICLR 2025Making Text Embedders Few-Shot Learners
- ICLR 2025Manifold Induced Biases for Zero-shot and Few-shot Detection of Generated Images
- ICLR 2025Meta-Dynamical State Space Models for Integrative Neural Data Analysis
- ICLR 2025Metalic: Meta-Learning In-Context with Protein Language Models
- ICLR 2025Multi-Perspective Data Augmentation for Few-shot Object Detection
- ICLR 2025Multimodality Helps Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2025One-for-All Few-Shot Anomaly Detection via Instance-Induced Prompt Learning
- ICLR 2025PEAR: Primitive Enabled Adaptive Relabeling for Boosting Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2025Predicate Hierarchies Improve Few-Shot State Classification
- ICLR 2025Preserving Deep Representations in One-Shot Pruning: A Hessian-Free Second-Order Optimization Framework
- ICLR 2025Protein Language Model Fitness is a Matter of Preference
- ICLR 2025Prototype antithesis for biological few-shot class-incremental learning
- ICLR 2025Safety Alignment Should be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep
- ICLR 2025STRAP: Robot Sub-Trajectory Retrieval for Augmented Policy Learning
- ICLR 2025SynQ: Accurate Zero-shot Quantization by Synthesis-aware Fine-tuning
- ICLR 2025UniMatch: Universal Matching from Atom to Task for Few-Shot Drug Discovery
- ICLR 2025Unsupervised Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning via Dual-Value Forward-Backward Representation
- ICLR 2025Weighted Multi-Prompt Learning with Description-free Large Language Model Distillation
- ICLR 2025Why In-Context Learning Models are Good Few-Shot Learners?
- ICLR 2025Zero-Shot Natural Language Explanations
- ICLR 2025ZeroDiff: Solidified Visual-semantic Correlation in Zero-Shot Learning
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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.