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
223 papers, page 2 of 5
- CVPR 2026ProjFlow Projection Sampling with Flow Matching for Zero-Shot Exact Spatial
- CVPR 2026PromptStereo Zero-Shot Stereo Matching via Structure and Motion Prompts
- CVPR 2026Quantized Residuals to Continuous Prompts for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2026Reading Your Actions Learning Generalizable Action Representations via Pre-training AEMG
- CVPR 2026Reclaiming Lost Text Layers for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2026Reevaluating the Intra-Modal Misalignment Hypothesis in CLIP
- CVPR 2026RefTon Reference person shot assist virtual Try-on
- CVPR 2026Remedying Target-Domain Astigmatism for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection
- CVPR 2026Retrieve and Segment Are a Few Examples Enough to Bridge
- CVPR 2026Robustness Under Data Scarcity Few-Shot Continual Adversarial Training for Evolving
- CVPR 2026SD-FSMIS Adapting Stable Diffusion for Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Semantic-Guided Global-Local Collaborative Prompt Learning for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2026SkeletonContext Skeleton-side Context Prompt Learning for Zero-Shot Skeleton-based Action Recognition
- CVPR 2026STiTch Semantic Transition and Transportation in Collaboration for Training-Free Zero-Shot
- CVPR 2026SubspaceAD Training-Free Few-Shot Anomaly Detection via Subspace Modeling
- CVPR 2026SWIFT Sliding Window Reconstruction for Few-Shot Training-Free Generated Video Attribution
- CVPR 2026TAPE Task-Adaptive Prototype Evolution in Audio-Language Models for Fully Few-shot
- CVPR 2026Towards Multimodal Domain Generalization with Few Labels
- CVPR 2026Training-Only Heterogeneous Image-Patch-Text Graph Supervision for Advancing Few-Shot Learning Adapters
- CVPR 2026Uni-DAD Unified Distillation and Adaptation of Diffusion Models for Few-step
- CVPR 2026Universal-to-Specific Dynamic Knowledge-Guided Multiple Instance Learning for Few-Shot Whole Slide
- CVPR 2026Unlocking Pre-trained Weights Parameter Inheritance for Zero-Shot Initialization
- CVPR 2026VGGT-360 Geometry-Consistent Zero-Shot Panoramic Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2026What Makes Good Synthetic Training Data for Zero-Shot Stereo Matching
- CVPR 2026X-WIN Building Chest Radiograph World Model via Predictive Sensing
- CVPR 2026Your Dissimilarities Define You Complementary Learning Exploiting Class Diversities
- CVPR 2026Zero-shot Detection of AI-Generated Image via RAW-RGB Alignment
- CVPR 2026Zero-Shot Reconstruction of Animatable 3D Avatars with Cloth Dynamics from
- ICLR 2026A One-shot Framework for Directed Evolution of Antibodies
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Concept Discovery for Interpretable Few-Shot Text Classification
- ICLR 2026Boomerang Distillation Enables Zero-Shot Model Size Interpolation
- ICLR 2026Compositional Generalization through Gradient Search in Nonparametric Latent Space
- ICLR 2026Consistency-Driven Calibration and Matching for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
- ICLR 2026Dual Distillation for Few-Shot Anomaly Detection
- ICLR 2026DVLA-RL: Dual-Level Vision–Language Alignment with Reinforcement Learning Gating for Few-Shot Learning
- ICLR 2026EdgeCape: Edge Weight Prediction For Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
- ICLR 2026Efficient Zero-shot Inpainting with Decoupled Diffusion Guidance
- ICLR 2026Evaluating Data Influence in Meta Learning
- ICLR 2026Exploiting Low-Dimensional Manifold of Features for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
- ICLR 2026Exploring Cross-Modal Flows for Few-Shot Learning
- ICLR 2026FastGHA: Generalized Few-Shot 3D Gaussian Head Avatars with Real-Time Animation
- ICLR 2026Foundation Visual Encoders Are Secretly Few-Shot Anomaly Detectors
- ICLR 2026FSOD-VFM: Few-Shot Object Detection with Vision Foundation Models and Graph Diffusion
- ICLR 2026FSPO: Few-Shot Optimization of Synthetic Preferences Effectively Personalizes to Real Users
- ICLR 2026GNN-as-Judge: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Graph Few-shot Semi-supervised Learning with GNN Feedback
- ICLR 2026Identifying Robust Neural Pathways: Few-Shot Adversarial Mask Tuning for Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2026Learnability and Privacy Vulnerability are Entangled in a Few Critical Weights
- ICLR 2026Learning from Algorithm Feedback: One-Shot SAT Solver Guidance with GNNs
- ICLR 2026Low-Rank Few-Shot Node Classification by Node-Level Graph Diffusion
- ICLR 2026Meta-Adaptive Prompt Distillation for Few-Shot Visual Question Answering
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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.