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
897 papers, page 9 of 18
- NeurIPS 2025ReinAD: Towards Real-world Industrial Anomaly Detection with a Comprehensive Contrastive Dataset
- NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement learning for one-shot DAG scheduling with comparability identification and dense reward
- NeurIPS 2025Repurposing Marigold for Zero-Shot Metric Depth Estimation via Defocus Blur Cues
- NeurIPS 2025SANSA: Unleashing the Hidden Semantics in SAM2 for Few-Shot Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2025SegGraph: Leveraging Graphs of SAM Segments for Few-Shot 3D Part Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2025Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning is Approximately Supervised Contrastive Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Shortcutting Pre-trained Flow Matching Diffusion Models is Almost Free Lunch
- 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
- CVPR 20243DFIRES: Few Image 3D REconstruction for Scenes with Hidden Surfaces
- CVPR 2024A Closer Look at the Few-Shot Adaptation of Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Adapt Before Comparison: A New Perspective on Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Addressing Background Context Bias in Few-Shot Segmentation through Iterative Modulation
- CVPR 2024Adversarially Robust Few-shot Learning via Parameter Co-distillation of Similarity and Class Concept Learners
- CVPR 2024AMU-Tuning: Effective Logit Bias for CLIP-based Few-shot Learning
- CVPR 2024APSeg: Auto-Prompt Network for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Back to 3D: Few-Shot 3D Keypoint Detection with Back-Projected 2D Features
- CVPR 2024CARZero: Cross-Attention Alignment for Radiology Zero-Shot Classification
- CVPR 2024Context-based and Diversity-driven Specificity in Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2024Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation via Iterative Support-Query Correspondence Mining
- CVPR 2024DAVE - A Detect-and-Verify Paradigm for Low-Shot Counting
- CVPR 2024Deformable One-shot Face Stylization via DINO Semantic Guidance
- CVPR 2024DeIL: Direct-and-Inverse CLIP for Open-World Few-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2024Dense Vision Transformer Compression with Few Samples
- CVPR 2024Descriptor and Word Soups: Overcoming the Parameter Efficiency Accuracy Tradeoff for Out-of-Distribution Few-shot Learning
- CVPR 2024DiaLoc: An Iterative Approach to Embodied Dialog Localization
- CVPR 2024DiffPortrait3D: Controllable Diffusion for Zero-Shot Portrait View Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Discriminative Sample-Guided and Parameter-Efficient Feature Space Adaptation for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2024DNGaussian: Optimizing Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Radiance Fields with Global-Local Depth Normalization
- CVPR 2024Domain-Rectifying Adapter for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2024EMOPortraits: Emotion-enhanced Multimodal One-shot Head Avatars
- CVPR 2024Exact Fusion via Feature Distribution Matching for Few-shot Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Exploring Regional Clues in CLIP for Zero-Shot Semantic 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.