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 5 of 5
- NeurIPS 2026One-Shot Private Confidence Regions via Resampling
- NeurIPS 2026ONE-SHOT: Compositional Human-Environment Video Synthesis via Spatial-Decoupled Motion Injection and Hybrid Context Integration
- NeurIPS 2026PRIM: Meta-Learned Bayesian Root Cause Analysis
- NeurIPS 2026RAPTOR: Ridge-Adaptive Logistic Probes
- NeurIPS 2026Roll2Depth: Zero-Shot Metric Depth Estimation Exploiting Camera's Rolling Shutter Effect
- NeurIPS 2026ScreenShot: A Foundation Model for Few-Shot Combination Drug Screening
- NeurIPS 2026SD-LoRA: Training-Time Structural Distillation into LoRA for Few-Shot Vision-Language Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Seeking the Unfamiliar but Memorable: Conceptual Creativity as Meta-Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Semantic-Statistical Prior Banks for Federated Low-Shot Learning under Non-IID Clients
- NeurIPS 2026Shepherd: A Runtime Substrate Empowering Meta-Agents with a Formalized Execution Trace
- NeurIPS 2026Stabilizing Few-Shot Object Detection with Language-Conditioned Probabilistic Prototypes
- NeurIPS 2026Temporal Consistency Improves Generalization in Contextual Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026The Laplacian Keyboard: Beyond the Linear Span
- NeurIPS 2026Trajectory as the Teacher: Few-Step Discrete Flow Matching via Energy-Navigated Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026Transcoda: End-to-End Zero-Shot Optical Music Recognition via Data-Centric Synthetic Training
- NeurIPS 2026Ultra Fast PDE Solving via Physics Guided Few-step Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2026Umbilic Multinomial Logistic Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Unlocking Compositional Generalization in Continual Few-Shot Learning
- NeurIPS 2026VIGOR: Zero-Shot Visual Generalization via Latent-Space Consistency in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026What Fits (Into Few Tokens) Doesn't Overfit: Compression and Generalization in ML Research Agents
- NeurIPS 2026When Does Subspace Direction Matter for LoRA? Regime Analysis of the Magnitude Principle in Few-Shot Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Zero-Shot Coordination among LLM Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Zero-Shot Instruction Following in RL via Structured LTL 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.