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
37 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2024Accelerating Convergence in Bayesian Few-Shot Classification
- ICML 2024Accelerating Legacy Numerical Solvers by Non-intrusive Gradient-based Meta-solving
- ICML 2024Agent Instructs Large Language Models to be General Zero-Shot Reasoners
- ICML 2024Audio Flamingo: A Novel Audio Language Model with Few-Shot Learning and Dialogue Abilities
- ICML 2024Balancing Feature Similarity and Label Variability for Optimal Size-Aware One-shot Subset Selection
- ICML 2024Bidirectional Reciprocative Information Communication for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2024Byzantine Resilient and Fast Federated Few-Shot Learning
- ICML 2024Can a Few Decide for Many? The Metric Distortion of Sortition
- ICML 2024Compositional Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
- ICML 2024DMTG: One-Shot Differentiable Multi-Task Grouping
- ICML 2024Double Stochasticity Gazes Faster: Snap-Shot Decentralized Stochastic Gradient Tracking Methods
- ICML 2024Enabling Few-Shot Learning with PID Control: A Layer Adaptive Optimizer
- ICML 2024Few-shot Adaptation to Distribution Shifts By Mixing Source and Target Embeddings
- ICML 2024Few-Shot Character Understanding in Movies as an Assessment to Meta-Learning of Theory-of-Mind
- ICML 2024Few-Shot Unsupervised Implicit Neural Shape Representation Learning with Spatial Adversaries
- ICML 2024Going beyond Compositions, DDPMs Can Produce Zero-Shot Interpolations
- ICML 2024Hyperbolic Optimizer as a Dynamical System
- ICML 2024Implicit meta-learning may lead language models to trust more reliable sources
- ICML 2024In-Context Unlearning: Language Models as Few-Shot Unlearners
- ICML 2024Language-Driven Cross-Modal Classifier for Zero-Shot Multi-Label Image Recognition
- ICML 2024Large Language Models Can Automatically Engineer Features for Few-Shot Tabular Learning
- ICML 2024Learning Causal Domain-Invariant Temporal Dynamics for Few-Shot Action Recognition
- ICML 2024Learning Multiple Secrets in Mastermind
- ICML 2024Learning to Route Among Specialized Experts for Zero-Shot Generalization
- ICML 2024MADA: Meta-Adaptive Optimizers Through Hyper-Gradient Descent
- ICML 2024Mastering Zero-Shot Interactions in Cooperative and Competitive Simultaneous Games
- ICML 2024MD tree: a model-diagnostic tree grown on loss landscape
- ICML 2024Meta Evidential Transformer for Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition
- ICML 2024MOKD: Cross-domain Finetuning for Few-shot Classification via Maximizing Optimized Kernel Dependence
- ICML 2024More Flexible PAC-Bayesian Meta-Learning by Learning Learning Algorithms
- ICML 2024One Meta-tuned Transformer is What You Need for Few-shot Learning
- ICML 2024One-Shot Strategic Classification Under Unknown Costs
- ICML 2024PID: Prompt-Independent Data Protection Against Latent Diffusion Models
- ICML 2024Premier-TACO is a Few-Shot Policy Learner: Pretraining Multitask Representation via Temporal Action-Driven Contrastive Loss
- ICML 2024The Balanced-Pairwise-Affinities Feature Transform
- ICML 2024Unleashing the Power of Meta-tuning for Few-shot Generalization Through Sparse Interpolated Experts
- ICML 2024Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning via Function Encoders
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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.