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. CVPR 2024Open3DSG: Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs from Point Clouds with Queryable Objects and Open-Set Relationships
52. CVPR 2024OpenBias: Open-set Bias Detection in Text-to-Image Generative Models
53. CVPR 2024OVER-NAV: Elevating Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation with Open-Vocabulary Detection and StructurEd Representation
54. CVPR 2024OVFoodSeg: Elevating Open-Vocabulary Food Image Segmentation via Image-Informed Textual Representation
55. CVPR 2024OVMR: Open-Vocabulary Recognition with Multi-Modal References
56. CVPR 2024PREGO: Online Mistake Detection in PRocedural EGOcentric Videos
57. CVPR 2024Rethinking Boundary Discontinuity Problem for Oriented Object Detection
58. CVPR 2024Retrieval-Augmented Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
59. CVPR 2024Salience DETR: Enhancing Detection Transformer with Hierarchical Salience Filtering Refinement
60. CVPR 2024Scene-adaptive and Region-aware Multi-modal Prompt for Open Vocabulary Object Detection
61. CVPR 2024SeaBird: Segmentation in Bird's View with Dice Loss Improves Monocular 3D Detection of Large Objects
62. CVPR 2024SED: A Simple Encoder-Decoder for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
63. CVPR 2024SHiNe: Semantic Hierarchy Nexus for Open-vocabulary Object Detection
64. CVPR 2024Taming Self-Training for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
65. CVPR 2024The Devil is in the Fine-Grained Details: Evaluating Open-Vocabulary Object Detectors for Fine-Grained Understanding
66. CVPR 2024Towards Memorization-Free Diffusion Models
67. CVPR 2024Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with Offline Diffusion-Augmented Prototype Generation
68. CVPR 2024Transferable and Principled Efficiency for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
69. CVPR 2024UniMODE: Unified Monocular 3D Object Detection
70. CVPR 2024Universal Novelty Detection Through Adaptive Contrastive Learning
71. CVPR 2024Unleashing Channel Potential: Space-Frequency Selection Convolution for SAR Object Detection
72. CVPR 2024Unsupervised Salient Instance Detection
73. CVPR 2024USE: Universal Segment Embeddings for Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation
74. CVPR 2024VideoGrounding-DINO: Towards Open-Vocabulary Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
75. CVPR 2024Visual Programming for Zero-shot Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding
76. CVPR 2024YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
77. ICLR 2024BatteryML: An Open-source Platform for Machine Learning on Battery Degradation
78. ICLR 2024CLIPSelf: Vision Transformer Distills Itself for Open-Vocabulary Dense Prediction
79. ICLR 2024ConjNorm: Tractable Density Estimation for Out-of-Distribution Detection
80. ICLR 2024DNA-GPT: Divergent N-Gram Analysis for Training-Free Detection of GPT-Generated Text
81. ICLR 2024DOS: Diverse Outlier Sampling for Out-of-Distribution Detection
82. ICLR 2024FROSTER: Frozen CLIP is A Strong Teacher for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition
83. ICLR 2024How Does Unlabeled Data Provably Help Out-of-Distribution Detection?
84. ICLR 2024INSIDE: LLMs' Internal States Retain the Power of Hallucination Detection
85. ICLR 2024Large-Vocabulary 3D Diffusion Model with Transformer
86. ICLR 2024LLMs Meet VLMs: Boost Open Vocabulary Object Detection with Fine-grained Descriptors
87. ICLR 2024Out-of-Distribution Detection by Leveraging Between-Layer Transformation Smoothness
88. ICLR 2024Out-of-Distribution Detection with Negative Prompts
89. ICLR 2024TextField3D: Towards Enhancing Open-Vocabulary 3D Generation with Noisy Text Fields
90. ICLR 2024The Devil is in the Object Boundary: Towards Annotation-free Instance Segmentation using Foundation Models
91. ICML 2024A Provable Decision Rule for Out-of-Distribution Detection
92. ICML 2024Binary Decomposition: A Problem Transformation Perspective for Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning
93. ICML 2024CRoFT: Robust Fine-Tuning with Concurrent Optimization for OOD Generalization and Open-Set OOD Detection
94. ICML 2024DeCoOp: Robust Prompt Tuning with Out-of-Distribution Detection
95. ICML 2024DRCT: Diffusion Reconstruction Contrastive Training towards Universal Detection of Diffusion Generated Images
96. ICML 2024Envisioning Outlier Exposure by Large Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection
97. ICML 2024Hierarchical Novelty Detection via Fine-Grained Evidence Allocation
98. ICML 2024Intersecting-Boundary-Sensitive Fingerprinting for Tampering Detection of DNN Models
99. ICML 2024Meta Evidential Transformer for Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition
100. ICML 2024Network Tight Community 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.