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

111 papers, page 2 of 3

51. CVPR 2023OVTrack: Open-Vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking
52. CVPR 2023Phase-Shifting Coder: Predicting Accurate Orientation in Oriented Object Detection
53. CVPR 2023PillarNeXt: Rethinking Network Designs for 3D Object Detection in LiDAR Point Clouds
54. CVPR 2023PLA: Language-Driven Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
55. CVPR 2023Post-Processing Temporal Action Detection
56. CVPR 2023PROB: Probabilistic Objectness for Open World Object Detection
57. CVPR 2023Region-Aware Pretraining for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection With Vision Transformers
58. CVPR 2023Side Adapter Network for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
59. CVPR 2023STAR Loss: Reducing Semantic Ambiguity in Facial Landmark Detection
60. CVPR 2023Unbalanced Optimal Transport: A Unified Framework for Object Detection
61. CVPR 2023Unknown Sniffer for Object Detection: Don't Turn a Blind Eye to Unknown Objects
62. ICLR 2023Adaptive Robust Evidential Optimization For Open Set Detection from Imbalanced Data
63. ICLR 2023CircNet: Meshing 3D Point Clouds with Circumcenter Detection
64. ICLR 2023Compositional Prompt Tuning with Motion Cues for Open-vocabulary Video Relation Detection
65. ICLR 2023Constraining Representations Yields Models That Know What They Don't Know
66. ICLR 2023Extremely Simple Activation Shaping for Out-of-Distribution Detection
67. ICLR 2023Fake It Until You Make It : Towards Accurate Near-Distribution Novelty Detection
68. ICLR 2023GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-trained Model
69. ICLR 2023GOOD: Exploring geometric cues for detecting objects in an open world
70. ICLR 2023H2RBox: Horizontal Box Annotation is All You Need for Oriented Object Detection
71. ICLR 2023How to Exploit Hyperspherical Embeddings for Out-of-Distribution Detection?
72. ICLR 2023Learning Object-Language Alignments for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
73. ICLR 2023Open-Vocabulary Object Detection upon Frozen Vision and Language Models
74. ICLR 2023Out-of-Distribution Detection based on In-Distribution Data Patterns Memorization with Modern Hopfield Energy
75. ICLR 2023Out-of-distribution Detection with Implicit Outlier Transformation
76. ICLR 2023The Devil is in the Wrongly-classified Samples: Towards Unified Open-set Recognition
77. ICLR 2023The KFIoU Loss for Rotated Object Detection
78. ICML 2023Deep Anomaly Detection under Labeling Budget Constraints
79. ICML 2023Delving into Noisy Label Detection with Clean Data
80. ICML 2023In or Out? Fixing ImageNet Out-of-Distribution Detection Evaluation
81. ICML 2023Internet Explorer: Targeted Representation Learning on the Open Web
82. ICML 2023Multi-Modal Classifiers for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
83. ICML 2023Open-VCLIP: Transforming CLIP to an Open-vocabulary Video Model via Interpolated Weight Optimization
84. ICML 2023Open-Vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation with MaskCLIP
85. ICML 2023SegCLIP: Patch Aggregation with Learnable Centers for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
86. ICML 2023Sequential Changepoint Detection via Backward Confidence Sequences
87. ICML 2023Topological Singularity Detection at Multiple Scales
88. NeurIPS 2023AttrSeg: Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation via Attribute Decomposition-Aggregation
89. NeurIPS 2023Cal-DETR: Calibrated Detection Transformer
90. NeurIPS 2023CoDA: Collaborative Novel Box Discovery and Cross-modal Alignment for Open-vocabulary 3D Object Detection
91. NeurIPS 2023CoDet: Co-occurrence Guided Region-Word Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
92. NeurIPS 2023Convolutions Die Hard: Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with Single Frozen Convolutional CLIP
93. NeurIPS 2023Derandomized novelty detection with FDR control via conformal e-values
94. NeurIPS 2023Described Object Detection: Liberating Object Detection with Flexible Expressions
95. NeurIPS 2023Hierarchical Open-vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation
96. NeurIPS 2023Multi-modal Queried Object Detection in the Wild
97. NeurIPS 2023Not All Out-of-Distribution Data Are Harmful to Open-Set Active Learning
98. NeurIPS 2023Open Visual Knowledge Extraction via Relation-Oriented Multimodality Model Prompting
99. NeurIPS 2023Opening the Vocabulary of Egocentric Actions
100. NeurIPS 2023OpenMask3D: Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation

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.