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

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51. NeurIPS 2025FerretNet: Efficient Synthetic Image Detection via Local Pixel Dependencies
52. NeurIPS 2025FlexEvent: Towards Flexible Event-Frame Object Detection at Varying Operational Frequencies
53. NeurIPS 2025FlexOLMo: Open Language Models for Flexible Data Use
54. NeurIPS 2025GUIDED: Granular Understanding via Identification, Detection, and Discrimination for Fine-Grained Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
55. NeurIPS 2025Interaction-Centric Knowledge Infusion and Transfer for Open Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation
56. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge Distillation Detection for Open-weights Models
57. NeurIPS 2025LabelAny3D: Label Any Object 3D in the Wild
58. NeurIPS 2025LangHOPS: Language Grounded Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
59. NeurIPS 2025Leveraging Depth and Language for Open-Vocabulary Domain-Generalized Semantic Segmentation
60. NeurIPS 2025Looking Beyond the Known: Towards a Data Discovery Guided Open-World Object Detection
61. NeurIPS 2025Normal-Abnormal Guided Generalist Anomaly Detection
62. NeurIPS 2025On the Empirical Power of Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Watermark Detection
63. NeurIPS 2025OOD-Barrier: Build a Middle-Barrier for Open-Set Single-Image Test Time Adaptation via Vision Language Models
64. NeurIPS 2025Open-Insect: Benchmarking Open-Set Recognition of Novel Species in Biodiversity Monitoring
65. NeurIPS 2025Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation via Progressive and Boundary-Aware Strategy
66. NeurIPS 2025OpenAD: Open-World Autonomous Driving Benchmark for 3D Object Detection
67. NeurIPS 2025OpenBox: Annotate Any Bounding Boxes in 3D
68. NeurIPS 2025OpenHype: Hyperbolic Embeddings for Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Radiance Fields
69. NeurIPS 2025OpenLex3D: A Tiered Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Representations
70. NeurIPS 2025OPMapper: Enhancing Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation with Multi-Guidance Information
71. NeurIPS 2025OVS Meets Continual Learning: Towards Sustainable Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
72. NeurIPS 2025PHANTOM: A Benchmark for Hallucination Detection in Financial Long-Context QA
73. NeurIPS 2025PLEIADES: Building Temporal Kernels with Orthogonal Polynomials
74. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Evaluation of Infrared Small Target Detection
75. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Logit Distributions for Reliable Out-of-Distribution Detection
76. NeurIPS 2025Seg4Diff: Unveiling Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformers
77. NeurIPS 2025Segment then Splat: Unified 3D Open-Vocabulary Segmentation via Gaussian Splatting
78. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
79. NeurIPS 2025Towards 3D Objectness Learning in an Open World
80. NeurIPS 2025UFO: A Unified Approach to Fine-grained Visual Perception via Open-ended Language Interface
81. NeurIPS 2025VL-SAM-V2: Open-World Object Detection with General and Specific Query Fusion
82. NeurIPS 2025Vocabulary In-Context Learning in Transformers: Benefits of Positional Encoding
83. NeurIPS 2025X-Mahalanobis: Transformer Feature Mixing for Reliable OOD Detection
84. NeurIPS 2024A Siamese Transformer with Hierarchical Refinement for Lane Detection
85. NeurIPS 2024Breaking Semantic Artifacts for Generalized AI-generated Image Detection
86. NeurIPS 2024Community Detection Guarantees using Embeddings Learned by Node2Vec
87. NeurIPS 2024ConStat: Performance-Based Contamination Detection in Large Language Models
88. NeurIPS 2024CountGD: Multi-Modal Open-World Counting
89. NeurIPS 2024DALD: Improving Logits-based Detector without Logits from Black-box LLMs
90. NeurIPS 2024Does Video-Text Pretraining Help Open-Vocabulary Online Action Detection?
91. NeurIPS 2024DreamCatcher: A Wearer-aware Multi-modal Sleep Event Dataset Based on Earables in Non-restrictive Environments
92. NeurIPS 2024EGonc : Energy-based Open-Set Node Classification with substitute Unknowns
93. NeurIPS 2024Expecting The Unexpected: Towards Broad Out-Of-Distribution Detection
94. NeurIPS 2024FlexCap: Describe Anything in Images in Controllable Detail
95. NeurIPS 2024FOOGD: Federated Collaboration for Both Out-of-distribution Generalization and Detection
96. NeurIPS 2024GFT: Graph Foundation Model with Transferable Tree Vocabulary
97. NeurIPS 2024HaloScope: Harnessing Unlabeled LLM Generations for Hallucination Detection
98. NeurIPS 2024Image Copy Detection for Diffusion Models
99. NeurIPS 2024ImOV3D: Learning Open Vocabulary Point Clouds 3D Object Detection from Only 2D Images
100. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Shape In-distribution Feature Space for Out-of-distribution Detection

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.