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 3 of 12

101. ICLR 2026SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts
102. ICLR 2026Segment Any Events with Language
103. ICLR 2026TRACEDET: HALLUCINATION DETECTION FROM THE DECODING TRACE OF DIFFUSION LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
104. ICLR 2026Uncertainty Estimation via Hyperspherical Confidence Mapping
105. ICML 2026A Close Look at Negative Label Guided Out-of-distribution Detection in Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
106. ICML 2026A Geometry-Based View of Mahalanobis OOD Detection
107. ICML 2026An In-Depth Study on Deep Learning Model Cloning
108. ICML 2026EPS3D: End-to-End Feed-Forward 3D Panoptic Segmentation
109. ICML 2026ExpAlign: Expectation-Guided Vision–Language Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Grounding
110. ICML 2026ForensicConcept: Transferable Forensic Concepts for AIGI Detection
111. ICML 2026From Out-of-Distribution Detection to Hallucination Detection: A Geometric View
112. ICML 2026IMPACT: Influence Modeling for Open-Set Time Series Anomaly Detection
113. ICML 2026Knowing the Unknown: Interpretable Open-World Object Detection via Concept Decomposition Model
114. ICML 2026Learning Attribute–Affordance Hierarchies in Hyperbolic Space for Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Affordance Grounding
115. ICML 2026Mixture Prototype Flow Matching for Open-Set Supervised Anomaly Detection
116. ICML 2026Names Don’t Matter: Symbol-Invariant Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Learning
117. ICML 2026Object-level Semantic and Spatial Distillation for Open Vocabulary Detection
118. ICML 2026OOVDet: Low-Density Prior Learning for Zero-Shot Out-of-Vocabulary Object Detection
119. ICML 2026Open-Text Aerial Detection: A Unified Framework For Aerial Visual Grounding And Detection
120. ICML 2026PhaseAlign: Complex Phase Alignment for Stable Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
121. ICML 2026Pix2Key: Controllable Open-Vocabulary Retrieval with Semantic Decomposition and Self-Supervised Visual Dictionary Learning
122. ICML 2026Rh-3DGS: Robust Open-Vocabulary Scene Understanding via Riemannian Huber Distillation and Manifold-Aware Sampling
123. ICML 2026SeisMark: A Large-Scale Open Benchmark for Robust 3D Seismic Fault Detection
124. ICML 2026Self-Prompting Diffusion Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Scene Text Edit via In-Context Learning
125. ICML 2026Source-Free Open-World RF Fingerprint Identification
126. ICML 2026VIP: Visual-guided Prompt Evolution for Efficient Dense Vision-Language Inference
127. NeurIPS 2026AffectGPT-RL: Revealing Roles of Reinforcement Learning in Open-Vocabulary Emotion Recognition
128. NeurIPS 2026At FullTilt: Real-Time Open-Set 3D Macromolecule Detection Directly from Tilted 2D Projections
129. NeurIPS 2026AWP: Activation-based Window Pruning for Gigapixel Object Detection
130. NeurIPS 2026CompleteRXN: Toward Completing Open Chemical Reaction Databases
131. NeurIPS 2026Component-Based Out-of-Distribution Detection
132. NeurIPS 2026ConfDet: Learning Reliable Confidence for MLLM-based Detection
133. NeurIPS 2026COVD: Continual Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Novel Concept Injection
134. NeurIPS 2026DIGS: Distribution-Informed Gaussian Splatting for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
135. NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Query as Budgeting for Tiny Object Detection
136. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Multi-Source Prompt Adaptation for Cross-Domain Open-Vocabulary Learning
137. NeurIPS 2026Forgery Evidence Peaks Mid-Stack: Forensic Evidence Relay for Multimodal Forgery Detection
138. NeurIPS 2026FrontierSmith: Synthesizing Open-Ended Coding Problems at Scale
139. NeurIPS 2026HierRR: Enhancing Instruction Alignment in Open-Vocabulary Indoor Scene Synthesis via Agentic Hierarchical Reasoning and Reflection
140. NeurIPS 2026How Complete Should a Reference Be? A Benchmark Audit for Fluorescence Spot Detection
141. NeurIPS 2026iDETR: Implicit DETR for Tiny Object Detection
142. NeurIPS 2026InCLAD: A Continual Learning Benchmark for Industrial Visual Anomaly Detection
143. NeurIPS 2026Inertia-1: An Open Exploration of Wearable Motion Foundation Models
144. NeurIPS 2026Learning Semantic Consistency for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
145. NeurIPS 2026MSR-3D: Multi-Mode Semantic Representation for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
146. NeurIPS 2026NavOCR: A Dataset Generator for Navigation-Relevant Text Detection in Mobile Robots
147. NeurIPS 2026Object Detection Benchmarks are Incomplete: The Role of Label Errors and Annotation Uncertainty
148. NeurIPS 2026Open Vocabulary Domain Unlearning
149. NeurIPS 2026Preference-Guided Adaptation for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation via Prompt Disagreement
150. NeurIPS 2026RefineAny3D: Depth Refinement as Semantic Alignment for Monocular 3D 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.