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 9 of 12

401. ICLR 2024ConjNorm: Tractable Density Estimation for Out-of-Distribution Detection
402. ICLR 2024DNA-GPT: Divergent N-Gram Analysis for Training-Free Detection of GPT-Generated Text
403. ICLR 2024DOS: Diverse Outlier Sampling for Out-of-Distribution Detection
404. ICLR 2024FROSTER: Frozen CLIP is A Strong Teacher for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition
405. ICLR 2024How Does Unlabeled Data Provably Help Out-of-Distribution Detection?
406. ICLR 2024INSIDE: LLMs' Internal States Retain the Power of Hallucination Detection
407. ICLR 2024Large-Vocabulary 3D Diffusion Model with Transformer
408. ICLR 2024LLMs Meet VLMs: Boost Open Vocabulary Object Detection with Fine-grained Descriptors
409. ICLR 2024Out-of-Distribution Detection by Leveraging Between-Layer Transformation Smoothness
410. ICLR 2024Out-of-Distribution Detection with Negative Prompts
411. ICLR 2024TextField3D: Towards Enhancing Open-Vocabulary 3D Generation with Noisy Text Fields
412. ICLR 2024The Devil is in the Object Boundary: Towards Annotation-free Instance Segmentation using Foundation Models
413. ICML 2024A Provable Decision Rule for Out-of-Distribution Detection
414. ICML 2024Binary Decomposition: A Problem Transformation Perspective for Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning
415. ICML 2024CRoFT: Robust Fine-Tuning with Concurrent Optimization for OOD Generalization and Open-Set OOD Detection
416. ICML 2024DeCoOp: Robust Prompt Tuning with Out-of-Distribution Detection
417. ICML 2024DRCT: Diffusion Reconstruction Contrastive Training towards Universal Detection of Diffusion Generated Images
418. ICML 2024Envisioning Outlier Exposure by Large Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection
419. ICML 2024Hierarchical Novelty Detection via Fine-Grained Evidence Allocation
420. ICML 2024Intersecting-Boundary-Sensitive Fingerprinting for Tampering Detection of DNN Models
421. ICML 2024Meta Evidential Transformer for Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition
422. ICML 2024Network Tight Community Detection
423. ICML 2024Open-Vocabulary Calibration for Fine-tuned CLIP
424. ICML 2024OpenMoE: An Early Effort on Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
425. ICML 2024Position: Open-Endedness is Essential for Artificial Superhuman Intelligence
426. ICML 2024Reducing sequential change detection to sequential estimation
427. ICML 2024RODEO: Robust Outlier Detection via Exposing Adaptive Out-of-Distribution Samples
428. ICML 2024Vocabulary for Universal Approximation: A Linguistic Perspective of Mapping Compositions
429. NeurIPS 2024A Siamese Transformer with Hierarchical Refinement for Lane Detection
430. NeurIPS 2024Breaking Semantic Artifacts for Generalized AI-generated Image Detection
431. NeurIPS 2024Community Detection Guarantees using Embeddings Learned by Node2Vec
432. NeurIPS 2024ConStat: Performance-Based Contamination Detection in Large Language Models
433. NeurIPS 2024CountGD: Multi-Modal Open-World Counting
434. NeurIPS 2024DALD: Improving Logits-based Detector without Logits from Black-box LLMs
435. NeurIPS 2024Does Video-Text Pretraining Help Open-Vocabulary Online Action Detection?
436. NeurIPS 2024DreamCatcher: A Wearer-aware Multi-modal Sleep Event Dataset Based on Earables in Non-restrictive Environments
437. NeurIPS 2024EGonc : Energy-based Open-Set Node Classification with substitute Unknowns
438. NeurIPS 2024Expecting The Unexpected: Towards Broad Out-Of-Distribution Detection
439. NeurIPS 2024FlexCap: Describe Anything in Images in Controllable Detail
440. NeurIPS 2024FOOGD: Federated Collaboration for Both Out-of-distribution Generalization and Detection
441. NeurIPS 2024GFT: Graph Foundation Model with Transferable Tree Vocabulary
442. NeurIPS 2024HaloScope: Harnessing Unlabeled LLM Generations for Hallucination Detection
443. NeurIPS 2024Image Copy Detection for Diffusion Models
444. NeurIPS 2024ImOV3D: Learning Open Vocabulary Point Clouds 3D Object Detection from Only 2D Images
445. NeurIPS 2024Learning to Shape In-distribution Feature Space for Out-of-distribution Detection
446. NeurIPS 2024Open-Vocabulary Object Detection via Language Hierarchy
447. NeurIPS 2024OpenGaussian: Towards Point-Level 3D Gaussian-based Open Vocabulary Understanding
448. NeurIPS 2024Out-Of-Distribution Detection with Diversification (Provably)
449. NeurIPS 2024OVT-B: A New Large-Scale Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary Multi-Object Tracking
450. NeurIPS 2024Relationship Prompt Learning is Enough for Open-Vocabulary Semantic 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.