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 2025RaCFormer: Towards High-Quality 3D Object Detection via Query-based Radar-Camera Fusion
52. CVPR 2025ReasonGrounder: LVLM-Guided Hierarchical Feature Splatting for Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding and Reasoning
53. CVPR 2025Reconstructing In-the-Wild Open-Vocabulary Human-Object Interactions
54. CVPR 2025Recover and Match: Open-Vocabulary Multi-Label Recognition through Knowledge-Constrained Optimal Transport
55. CVPR 2025RelationField: Relate Anything in Radiance Fields
56. CVPR 2025RLAIF-V: Open-Source AI Feedback Leads to Super GPT-4V Trustworthiness
57. CVPR 2025ROD-MLLM: Towards More Reliable Object Detection in Multimodal Large Language Models
58. CVPR 2025ScaleLSD: Scalable Deep Line Segment Detection Streamlined
59. CVPR 2025SDBF: Steep-Decision-Boundary Fingerprinting for Hard-Label Tampering Detection of DNN Models
60. CVPR 2025Secret Lies in Color: Enhancing AI-Generated Images Detection with Color Distribution Analysis
61. CVPR 2025SeeGround: See and Ground for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding
62. CVPR 2025SegEarth-OV: Towards Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images
63. CVPR 2025Semantic Library Adaptation: LoRA Retrieval and Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
64. CVPR 2025SET: Spectral Enhancement for Tiny Object Detection
65. CVPR 2025SGC-Net: Stratified Granular Comparison Network for Open-Vocabulary HOI Detection
66. CVPR 2025SimLTD: Simple Supervised and Semi-Supervised Long-Tailed Object Detection
67. CVPR 2025Solving Instance Detection from an Open-World Perspective
68. CVPR 2025SP3D: Boosting Sparsely-Supervised 3D Object Detection via Accurate Cross-Modal Semantic Prompts
69. CVPR 2025SparseAlign: a Fully Sparse Framework for Cooperative Object Detection
70. CVPR 2025Towards Generalizable Scene Change Detection
71. CVPR 2025Towards Open-Vocabulary Audio-Visual Event Localization
72. CVPR 2025Towards RAW Object Detection in Diverse Conditions
73. CVPR 2025UCOD-DPL: Unsupervised Camouflaged Object Detection via Dynamic Pseudo-label Learning
74. CVPR 2025Understanding Fine-tuning CLIP for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Space
75. CVPR 2025ViKIENet: Towards Efficient 3D Object Detection with Virtual Key Instance Enhanced Network
76. ICLR 20253D-AffordanceLLM: Harnessing Large Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection in 3D Worlds
77. ICLR 2025A Simple Framework for Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot Segmentation
78. ICLR 2025A Statistical Approach for Controlled Training Data Detection
79. ICLR 2025Black-Box Detection of Language Model Watermarks
80. ICLR 2025Class Distribution-induced Attention Map for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentations
81. ICLR 2025Cut Your Losses in Large-Vocabulary Language Models
82. ICLR 2025Cyclic Contrastive Knowledge Transfer for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
83. ICLR 2025econSG: Efficient and Multi-view Consistent Open-Vocabulary 3D Semantic Gaussians
84. ICLR 2025Fitting Networks with a Cancellation Trick
85. ICLR 2025Infilling Score: A Pretraining Data Detection Algorithm for Large Language Models
86. ICLR 2025MetaOOD: Automatic Selection of OOD Detection Models
87. ICLR 2025Neural Phylogeny: Fine-Tuning Relationship Detection among Neural Networks
88. ICLR 2025OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
89. ICLR 2025Open-Set Graph Anomaly Detection via Normal Structure Regularisation
90. ICLR 2025Open-Vocabulary Customization from CLIP via Data-Free Knowledge Distillation
91. ICLR 2025Open-YOLO 3D: Towards Fast and Accurate Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
92. ICLR 2025OVTR: End-to-End Open-Vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking with Transformer
93. ICLR 2025PseDet: Revisiting the Power of Pseudo Label in Incremental Object Detection
94. ICLR 2025Pursuing Feature Separation based on Neural Collapse for Out-of-Distribution Detection
95. ICLR 2025Refining CLIP's Spatial Awareness: A Visual-Centric Perspective
96. ICLR 2025Revisit the Open Nature of Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
97. ICLR 2025SAM-CP: Marrying SAM with Composable Prompts for Versatile Segmentation
98. ICLR 2025TDDBench: A Benchmark for Training data detection
99. ICLR 2025TimeInf: Time Series Data Contribution via Influence Functions
100. ICML 2025A Closer Look at Generalized BH Algorithm 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.