Open-Vocabulary Detection papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Open-Vocabulary Detection went from 111 papers in 2023 to 168 in 2026, roughly 1.5x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Open-Vocabulary Detection work: 294 papers from 2023 to 2026, 51% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Open-Domain QA: papers tagged with both rose from 8 in 2023 to 22 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Open-Vocabulary Vision, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Visual Grounding, is up 4.3x versus 1.5x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026At FullTilt: Real-Time Open-Set 3D Macromolecule Detection Directly from Tilted 2D Projections
• ICML 2026An In-Depth Study on Deep Learning Model Cloning
• ICLR 2026DeCo-DETR: Decoupled Cognition DETR for efficient Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
• CVPR 2026ANTS Adaptive Negative Textual Space Shaping for OOD Detection via
• NeurIPS 2025Beyond the Seen: Bounded Distribution Estimation for Open-Vocabulary Learning
• ICML 2025Position: We Can’t Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary
• ICLR 20253D-AffordanceLLM: Harnessing Large Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection in 3D Worlds
• CVPR 2025Anomize: Better Open Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection
• NeurIPS 2024DreamCatcher: A Wearer-aware Multi-modal Sleep Event Dataset Based on Earables in Non-restrictive Environments
• ICML 2024Binary Decomposition: A Problem Transformation Perspective for Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning
• ICLR 2024FROSTER: Frozen CLIP is A Strong Teacher for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition
• CVPR 2024DetCLIPv3: Towards Versatile Generative Open-vocabulary Object Detection
• NeurIPS 2023AttrSeg: Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation via Attribute Decomposition-Aggregation
• ICML 2023Internet Explorer: Targeted Representation Learning on the Open Web
• ICLR 2023Adaptive Robust Evidential Optimization For Open Set Detection from Imbalanced Data
• CVPR 2023Being Comes From Not-Being: Open-Vocabulary Text-to-Motion Generation With Wordless Training
• NeurIPS 2026CompleteRXN: Toward Completing Open Chemical Reaction Databases
• ICML 2026Learning Attribute–Affordance Hierarchies in Hyperbolic Space for Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Affordance Grounding
• ICLR 2026DETR-ViP: Detection Transformer with Robust Discriminative Visual Prompts
• CVPR 2026Bypassing the Transport Plan Dynamic Reweighting for Out-of-Distribution Detection with

All Open-Vocabulary Detection papers

577 papers, page 11 of 12

501. CVPR 2023LINe: Out-of-Distribution Detection by Leveraging Important Neurons
502. CVPR 2023LoGoNet: Towards Accurate 3D Object Detection With Local-to-Global Cross-Modal Fusion
503. CVPR 2023Mask-Free OVIS: Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation Without Manual Mask Annotations
504. CVPR 2023Mobile User Interface Element Detection via Adaptively Prompt Tuning
505. CVPR 2023Object-Aware Distillation Pyramid for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
506. CVPR 2023OcTr: Octree-Based Transformer for 3D Object Detection
507. CVPR 2023Open Set Action Recognition via Multi-Label Evidential Learning
508. CVPR 2023Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation With Patch Aligned Contrastive Learning
509. CVPR 2023Open-Set Likelihood Maximization for Few-Shot Learning
510. CVPR 2023Open-Vocabulary Attribute Detection
511. CVPR 2023Open-Vocabulary Panoptic Segmentation With Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
512. CVPR 2023Open-Vocabulary Point-Cloud Object Detection Without 3D Annotation
513. CVPR 2023Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation With Mask-Adapted CLIP
514. CVPR 2023OpenMix: Exploring Outlier Samples for Misclassification Detection
515. CVPR 2023OpenScene: 3D Scene Understanding With Open Vocabularies
516. CVPR 2023OvarNet: Towards Open-Vocabulary Object Attribute Recognition
517. CVPR 2023OVTrack: Open-Vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking
518. CVPR 2023Phase-Shifting Coder: Predicting Accurate Orientation in Oriented Object Detection
519. CVPR 2023PillarNeXt: Rethinking Network Designs for 3D Object Detection in LiDAR Point Clouds
520. CVPR 2023PLA: Language-Driven Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
521. CVPR 2023Post-Processing Temporal Action Detection
522. CVPR 2023PROB: Probabilistic Objectness for Open World Object Detection
523. CVPR 2023Region-Aware Pretraining for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection With Vision Transformers
524. CVPR 2023Side Adapter Network for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
525. CVPR 2023STAR Loss: Reducing Semantic Ambiguity in Facial Landmark Detection
526. CVPR 2023Unbalanced Optimal Transport: A Unified Framework for Object Detection
527. CVPR 2023Unknown Sniffer for Object Detection: Don't Turn a Blind Eye to Unknown Objects
528. ICLR 2023Adaptive Robust Evidential Optimization For Open Set Detection from Imbalanced Data
529. ICLR 2023CircNet: Meshing 3D Point Clouds with Circumcenter Detection
530. ICLR 2023Compositional Prompt Tuning with Motion Cues for Open-vocabulary Video Relation Detection
531. ICLR 2023Constraining Representations Yields Models That Know What They Don't Know
532. ICLR 2023Extremely Simple Activation Shaping for Out-of-Distribution Detection
533. ICLR 2023Fake It Until You Make It : Towards Accurate Near-Distribution Novelty Detection
534. ICLR 2023GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-trained Model
535. ICLR 2023GOOD: Exploring geometric cues for detecting objects in an open world
536. ICLR 2023H2RBox: Horizontal Box Annotation is All You Need for Oriented Object Detection
537. ICLR 2023How to Exploit Hyperspherical Embeddings for Out-of-Distribution Detection?
538. ICLR 2023Learning Object-Language Alignments for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
539. ICLR 2023Open-Vocabulary Object Detection upon Frozen Vision and Language Models
540. ICLR 2023Out-of-Distribution Detection based on In-Distribution Data Patterns Memorization with Modern Hopfield Energy
541. ICLR 2023Out-of-distribution Detection with Implicit Outlier Transformation
542. ICLR 2023The Devil is in the Wrongly-classified Samples: Towards Unified Open-set Recognition
543. ICLR 2023The KFIoU Loss for Rotated Object Detection
544. ICML 2023Deep Anomaly Detection under Labeling Budget Constraints
545. ICML 2023Delving into Noisy Label Detection with Clean Data
546. ICML 2023In or Out? Fixing ImageNet Out-of-Distribution Detection Evaluation
547. ICML 2023Internet Explorer: Targeted Representation Learning on the Open Web
548. ICML 2023Multi-Modal Classifiers for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
549. ICML 2023Open-VCLIP: Transforming CLIP to an Open-vocabulary Video Model via Interpolated Weight Optimization
550. ICML 2023Open-Vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation with MaskCLIP

FAQ

How many Open-Vocabulary Detection papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

577 in total: 111 in 2023, 144 in 2024, 154 in 2025, 168 in 2026.

How many Open-Vocabulary Detection papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 42 Open-Vocabulary Detection papers, versus 41 the year before.

How many Open-Vocabulary Detection papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 22 Open-Vocabulary Detection papers, versus 24 the year before.

How many Open-Vocabulary Detection papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 22 Open-Vocabulary Detection papers, versus 14 the year before.

How many Open-Vocabulary Detection papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 82 Open-Vocabulary Detection papers, versus 75 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Open-Vocabulary Detection papers?

CVPR, with 294 papers from 2023 to 2026.