Few-Shot Learning papers, 2023–2026

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.

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

168 papers, page 1 of 4

1. ICML 2026Bayes-inspired Integration of Pretrained Priors and Few-Shot Evidence for Few-Shot Classification
2. ICML 2026Benchmarking Dense and Indiscernible Object Counting with Blueberries
3. ICML 2026Beyond Description: Federated Adaptation via Semantic-Visual Prototype Alignment
4. ICML 2026BiCrossNet with Decoupled Dual Generators: A Parameter‑Efficient and Generalizable Few‑Shot Custom Gesture Recognition Framework
5. ICML 2026Breaking the Scale Barrier: One-Shot Knowledge Transfer via Frequency Transform
6. ICML 2026Calibrating Uncertainty for Zero-Shot Adversarial CLIP
7. ICML 2026CAOS: Conformal Aggregation of One-Shot Predictors
8. ICML 2026Consistent Zero-Shot Imitation with Contrastive Goal Inference
9. ICML 2026Decision Transformers As Zero-Shot Learners via Text-Behavior Alignment
10. ICML 2026DiP-G: Discrete Prompting for Graph Neural Networks
11. ICML 2026Directional Neural Collapse Explains Few-Shot Transfer in Self-Supervised Learning
12. ICML 2026Distribution Alignment for One-Shot Federated Learning via Optimal Transport
13. ICML 2026DNA: Uncovering Universal Latent Forgery Knowledge
14. ICML 2026Few-Shot Design Optimization by Exploiting Auxiliary Information
15. ICML 2026Fine-Tuning Without Forgetting In-Context Learning: A Theoretical Analysis of Linear Attention Models
16. ICML 2026Fleet: Few Shots Lead Effective AI-generated Image Detection
17. ICML 2026From Coarse to Fine: Deep Prototype Refinement Network for Few-Shot Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
18. ICML 2026Geometry-Aware Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Automatic Modulation Recognition
19. ICML 2026Harnessing Spectrum Video for Subject-Level Few-Shot and Cross-Montage EEG Generalization
20. ICML 2026Hedging on the Frontier: Learning New Tasks with Few Samples
21. ICML 2026How Few-Shot Examples Add Up: A Causal Decomposition of Function Vectors in In-Context Learning
22. ICML 2026Improving CLIP Adaptation by Breaking Tail Alignment for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
23. ICML 2026Infinite Mask Diffusion for Few-Step Distillation
24. ICML 2026InfoAtlas: A Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Statistical Dependence Estimate
25. ICML 2026Keep Everyone Happy: Online Fair Division of Numerous Items with Few Copies
26. ICML 2026Lottery Prior: Randomized Neural Compression for Zero-Shot Inverse Problems
27. ICML 2026Many Experiments, Few Repetitions, Unpaired Data, and Sparse Effects: Is Causal Inference Possible?
28. ICML 2026Meta-learning Structure-Preserving Dynamics
29. ICML 2026Mitigating the Contractivity Trap in Diffusion ODEs via Stein Stabilization
30. ICML 2026Motion Dynamics Learning for Few-Shot Embodied Adaptation
31. ICML 2026On the Expressive Power of Permutation-Equivariant Weight-Space Networks
32. ICML 2026One Step Forward and K Steps Back: Better Reasoning with Denoising Recursion Models
33. ICML 2026One-shot Conditional Sampling: MMD meets Nearest Neighbors
34. ICML 2026One-Shot Weighted Ensemble Estimation for Federated Quantile Regression: Optimal Statistical Guarantees under Heterogeneous Structured Data
35. ICML 2026Optimal Unconstrained Self-Distillation in Ridge Regression: Strict Improvements, Precise Asymptotics, and One-Shot Tuning
36. ICML 2026Path-Decoupled Hyperbolic Flow Matching for Few-Shot Adaptation
37. ICML 2026Prompt Tuning for CLIP on the Pretrained Manifold
38. ICML 2026Rank-guided Diffusion for Noise Few-Shot Learning
39. ICML 2026Reasoning Can Be Restored by Correcting a Few Decision Tokens
40. ICML 2026ReAugment: Targeted Few-Shot Time Series Augmentation via Model Zoo-Guided Reinforcement Learning
41. ICML 2026ReCoG: Relational and Compact Context Graph Learning for Few-shot Molecular Property Prediction
42. ICML 2026Remove the Ambiguity: Few-shot Multimodal Anomaly Detection Using Crossmodal Feature Replacers
43. ICML 2026SEMIR: Semantic Minor-Induced Representation Learning on Graphs for Visual Segmentation
44. ICML 2026SparseSSM: Efficient Selective Structured State Space Models Can Be Pruned in One-Shot
45. ICML 2026Structure-Centric Graph Foundation Model via Geometric Bases
46. ICML 2026Structured Expert Routing with Multi-View Task Priors for Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning
47. ICML 2026The Hippocampal Place Field Gradient: A Bio-inspired Framework Building Multiscale Representation for Better Sample Efficiency
48. ICML 2026Theoretical Guarantees for One-Shot Magnitude Pruning and Compute-Adaptive Early Exit
49. ICML 2026Tiny Brains, Giant Impact: Uncovering the Keystone Neurons of LLM with Just a Few Prompts
50. ICML 2026Towards a Unified Generative Model for Scarce Time Series with Domain Experts

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.