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
259 papers, page 3 of 6
- NeurIPS 2025Support Vector Generation: Kernelizing Large Language Models for Efficient Zero‑Shot NLP
- NeurIPS 2025Target Speaker Extraction through Comparing Noisy Positive and Negative Audio Enrollments
- NeurIPS 2025Technical Debt in In-Context Learning: Diminishing Efficiency in Long Context
- NeurIPS 2025The Catechol Benchmark: Time-series Solvent Selection Data for Few-shot Machine Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Time Series Generation Under Data Scarcity: A Unified Generative Modeling Approach
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Interpretable and Efficient Attention: Compressing All by Contracting a Few
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Large-Scale In-Context Reinforcement Learning by Meta-Training in Randomized Worlds
- NeurIPS 2025Transferable Black-Box One-Shot Forging of Watermarks via Image Preference Models
- NeurIPS 2025Uncertainty-Based Smooth Policy Regularisation for Reinforcement Learning with Few Demonstrations
- NeurIPS 2025UniGTE: Unified Graph–Text Encoding for Zero-Shot Generalization across Graph Tasks and Domains
- NeurIPS 2025Universal Few-shot Spatial Control for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025UtilGen: Utility-Centric Generative Data Augmentation with Dual-Level Task Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2025VT-FSL: Bridging Vision and Text with LLMs for Few-Shot Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Weak-shot Keypoint Estimation via Keyness and Correspondence Transfer
- NeurIPS 2025Zebra-Llama: Towards Extremely Efficient Hybrid Models
- NeurIPS 2025Zero-Shot Context Generalization in Reinforcement Learning from Few Training Contexts
- NeurIPS 2025Zero-shot Denoising via Neural Compression: Theoretical and algorithmic framework
- NeurIPS 2025Zero-shot protein stability prediction by inverse folding models: a free energy interpretation
- NeurIPS 2025ZEUS: Zero-shot Embeddings for Unsupervised Separation of Tabular Data
- NeurIPS 2024(FL)$^2$: Overcoming Few Labels in Federated Semi-Supervised Learning
- NeurIPS 2024A Closer Look at the CLS Token for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
- NeurIPS 2024A Novel Unified Architecture for Low-Shot Counting by Detection and Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024A Simple yet Universal Framework for Depth Completion
- NeurIPS 2024A Surprisingly Simple Approach to Generalized Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Active Classification with Few Queries under Misspecification
- NeurIPS 2024AED: Adaptable Error Detection for Few-shot Imitation Policy
- NeurIPS 2024An Efficient Memory Module for Graph Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Attention Temperature Matters in ViT-Based Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
- NeurIPS 2024AutoMix: Automatically Mixing Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Boosting Vision-Language Models with Transduction
- NeurIPS 2024Bridge the Points: Graph-based Few-shot Segment Anything Semantically
- NeurIPS 2024CableInspect-AD: An Expert-Annotated Anomaly Detection Dataset
- NeurIPS 2024Class Distribution Shifts in Zero-Shot Learning: Learning Robust Representations
- NeurIPS 2024Combining Observational Data and Language for Species Range Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024Concentrate Attention: Towards Domain-Generalizable Prompt Optimization for Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024D2R2: Diffusion-based Representation with Random Distance Matching for Tabular Few-shot Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Dendritic Integration Inspired Artificial Neural Networks Capture Data Correlation
- NeurIPS 2024DomainGallery: Few-shot Domain-driven Image Generation by Attribute-centric Finetuning
- NeurIPS 2024EPIC: Effective Prompting for Imbalanced-Class Data Synthesis in Tabular Data Classification via Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Fast Graph Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Enhancing and Accelerating Few-Shot Node Classification
- NeurIPS 2024FAST: A Dual-tier Few-Shot Learning Paradigm for Whole Slide Image Classification
- NeurIPS 2024FedLPA: One-shot Federated Learning with Layer-Wise Posterior Aggregation
- NeurIPS 2024Few-Shot Adversarial Prompt Learning on Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding (FALCON) Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2024Few-Shot Diffusion Models Escape the Curse of Dimensionality
- NeurIPS 2024Few-Shot Task Learning through Inverse Generative Modeling
- NeurIPS 2024FuseFL: One-Shot Federated Learning through the Lens of Causality with Progressive Model Fusion
- NeurIPS 2024Generate Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Few-Shot Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Generated and Pseudo Content guided Prototype Refinement for Few-shot Point Cloud Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Hybrid Mamba for Few-Shot Segmentation
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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.