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
79 papers, page 1 of 2
- CVPR 2023(ML)$^2$P-Encoder: On Exploration of Channel-Class Correlation for Multi-Label Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2023A Meta-Learning Approach to Predicting Performance and Data Requirements
- CVPR 2023A Strong Baseline for Generalized Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Active Exploration of Multimodal Complementarity for Few-Shot Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023AsyFOD: An Asymmetric Adaptation Paradigm for Few-Shot Domain Adaptive Object Detection
- CVPR 2023Bi-Directional Distribution Alignment for Transductive Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2023Bi-Level Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2023BlendFields: Few-Shot Example-Driven Facial Modeling
- CVPR 2023Boosting Transductive Few-Shot Fine-Tuning With Margin-Based Uncertainty Weighting and Probability Regularization
- CVPR 2023CF-Font: Content Fusion for Few-Shot Font Generation
- CVPR 2023Decomposed Soft Prompt Guided Fusion Enhancing for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2023DiGeo: Discriminative Geometry-Aware Learning for Generalized Few-Shot Object Detection
- CVPR 2023Distilling Self-Supervised Vision Transformers for Weakly-Supervised Few-Shot Classification & Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Exploring Incompatible Knowledge Transfer in Few-Shot Image Generation
- CVPR 2023Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Class-Aware Bilateral Distillation
- CVPR 2023Few-Shot Geometry-Aware Keypoint Localization
- CVPR 2023Few-Shot Learning With Visual Distribution Calibration and Cross-Modal Distribution Alignment
- CVPR 2023Few-Shot Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging With Signal-Surface Collaborative Regularization
- CVPR 2023Few-Shot Referring Relationships in Videos
- CVPR 2023Few-Shot Semantic Image Synthesis With Class Affinity Transfer
- CVPR 2023Finetune Like You Pretrain: Improved Finetuning of Zero-Shot Vision Models
- CVPR 2023FreeNeRF: Improving Few-Shot Neural Rendering With Free Frequency Regularization
- CVPR 2023From Images to Textual Prompts: Zero-Shot Visual Question Answering With Frozen Large Language Models
- CVPR 2023Generating Features With Increased Crop-Related Diversity for Few-Shot Object Detection
- CVPR 2023GKEAL: Gaussian Kernel Embedded Analytic Learning for Few-Shot Class Incremental Task
- CVPR 2023Glocal Energy-Based Learning for Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition
- CVPR 2023Hard Sample Matters a Lot in Zero-Shot Quantization
- CVPR 2023Hierarchical Dense Correlation Distillation for Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Hint-Aug: Drawing Hints From Foundation Vision Transformers Towards Boosted Few-Shot Parameter-Efficient Tuning
- CVPR 2023Hubs and Hyperspheres: Reducing Hubness and Improving Transductive Few-Shot Learning With Hyperspherical Embeddings
- CVPR 2023I2MVFormer: Large Language Model Generated Multi-View Document Supervision for Zero-Shot Image Classification
- CVPR 2023Improving Generalization of Meta-Learning With Inverted Regularization at Inner-Level
- CVPR 2023JAWS: Just a Wild Shot for Cinematic Transfer in Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2023Learning Attention As Disentangler for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2023Learning Conditional Attributes for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2023Learning From Noisy Labels With Decoupled Meta Label Purifier
- CVPR 2023Learning Orthogonal Prototypes for Generalized Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Learning With Fantasy: Semantic-Aware Virtual Contrastive Constraint for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2023Master: Meta Style Transformer for Controllable Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Artistic Style Transfer
- CVPR 2023Meta Compositional Referring Expression Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Meta Omnium: A Benchmark for General-Purpose Learning-To-Learn
- CVPR 2023Meta-Learning With a Geometry-Adaptive Preconditioner
- CVPR 2023Meta-Tuning Loss Functions and Data Augmentation for Few-Shot Object Detection
- CVPR 2023MIANet: Aggregating Unbiased Instance and General Information for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023MoLo: Motion-Augmented Long-Short Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Action Recognition
- CVPR 2023Multimodality Helps Unimodality: Cross-Modal Few-Shot Learning With Multimodal Models
- CVPR 2023NIFF: Alleviating Forgetting in Generalized Few-Shot Object Detection via Neural Instance Feature Forging
- CVPR 2023Noisy Correspondence Learning With Meta Similarity Correction
- CVPR 2023One-Shot High-Fidelity Talking-Head Synthesis With Deformable Neural Radiance Field
- CVPR 2023One-Shot Model for Mixed-Precision Quantization
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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.