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 6 of 12

251. ICLR 2025econSG: Efficient and Multi-view Consistent Open-Vocabulary 3D Semantic Gaussians
252. ICLR 2025Fitting Networks with a Cancellation Trick
253. ICLR 2025Infilling Score: A Pretraining Data Detection Algorithm for Large Language Models
254. ICLR 2025MetaOOD: Automatic Selection of OOD Detection Models
255. ICLR 2025Neural Phylogeny: Fine-Tuning Relationship Detection among Neural Networks
256. ICLR 2025OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
257. ICLR 2025Open-Set Graph Anomaly Detection via Normal Structure Regularisation
258. ICLR 2025Open-Vocabulary Customization from CLIP via Data-Free Knowledge Distillation
259. ICLR 2025Open-YOLO 3D: Towards Fast and Accurate Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
260. ICLR 2025OVTR: End-to-End Open-Vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking with Transformer
261. ICLR 2025PseDet: Revisiting the Power of Pseudo Label in Incremental Object Detection
262. ICLR 2025Pursuing Feature Separation based on Neural Collapse for Out-of-Distribution Detection
263. ICLR 2025Refining CLIP's Spatial Awareness: A Visual-Centric Perspective
264. ICLR 2025Revisit the Open Nature of Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
265. ICLR 2025SAM-CP: Marrying SAM with Composable Prompts for Versatile Segmentation
266. ICLR 2025TDDBench: A Benchmark for Training data detection
267. ICLR 2025TimeInf: Time Series Data Contribution via Influence Functions
268. ICML 2025A Closer Look at Generalized BH Algorithm for Out-of-Distribution Detection
269. ICML 2025Accelerating LLM Inference with Lossless Speculative Decoding Algorithms for Heterogeneous Vocabularies
270. ICML 2025Feature Shift Localization Network
271. ICML 2025FLAM: Frame-Wise Language-Audio Modeling
272. ICML 2025Fluctuations of the largest eigenvalues of transformed spiked Wigner matrices
273. ICML 2025Learning State-Based Node Representations from a Class Hierarchy for Fine-Grained Open-Set Detection
274. ICML 2025Open-Det: An Efficient Learning Framework for Open-Ended Detection
275. ICML 2025OV-MER: Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition
276. ICML 2025OW-VAP: Visual Attribute Parsing for Open World Object Detection
277. ICML 2025Position: We Can’t Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary
278. ICML 2025Revisiting Instance-Optimal Cluster Recovery in the Labeled Stochastic Block Model
279. ICML 2025Robust Conformal Outlier Detection under Contaminated Reference Data
280. ICML 2025Tackling View-Dependent Semantics in 3D Language Gaussian Splatting
281. ICML 2025The Case for Learned Provenance-based System Behavior Baseline
282. NeurIPS 2025Anomaly Detection by an Ensemble of Random Pairs of Hyperspheres
283. NeurIPS 2025Beyond the Seen: Bounded Distribution Estimation for Open-Vocabulary Learning
284. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Token Probes: Hallucination Detection via Activation Tensors with ACT-ViT
285. NeurIPS 2025COS3D: Collaborative Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
286. NeurIPS 2025CQ-DINO: Mitigating Gradient Dilution via Category Queries for Vast Vocabulary Object Detection
287. NeurIPS 2025DitHub: A Modular Framework for Incremental Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
288. NeurIPS 2025DOVTrack: Data-Efficient Open-Vocabulary Tracking
289. NeurIPS 2025Exploiting Vocabulary Frequency Imbalance in Language Model Pre-training
290. NeurIPS 2025FerretNet: Efficient Synthetic Image Detection via Local Pixel Dependencies
291. NeurIPS 2025FlexEvent: Towards Flexible Event-Frame Object Detection at Varying Operational Frequencies
292. NeurIPS 2025FlexOLMo: Open Language Models for Flexible Data Use
293. NeurIPS 2025GUIDED: Granular Understanding via Identification, Detection, and Discrimination for Fine-Grained Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
294. NeurIPS 2025Interaction-Centric Knowledge Infusion and Transfer for Open Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation
295. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge Distillation Detection for Open-weights Models
296. NeurIPS 2025LabelAny3D: Label Any Object 3D in the Wild
297. NeurIPS 2025LangHOPS: Language Grounded Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
298. NeurIPS 2025Leveraging Depth and Language for Open-Vocabulary Domain-Generalized Semantic Segmentation
299. NeurIPS 2025Looking Beyond the Known: Towards a Data Discovery Guided Open-World Object Detection
300. NeurIPS 2025Normal-Abnormal Guided Generalist Anomaly 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.