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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1. ICLR 2026APT: Towards Universal Scene Graph Generation via Plug-in Adaptive Prompt Tuning
2. ICLR 2026Contamination Detection for VLMs Using Multi‑Modal Semantic Perturbations
3. ICLR 2026Customizing Visual Emotion Evaluation for MLLMs: An Open-vocabulary, Multifaceted, and Scalable Approach
4. ICLR 2026DeCo-DETR: Decoupled Cognition DETR for efficient Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
5. ICLR 2026DETR-ViP: Detection Transformer with Robust Discriminative Visual Prompts
6. ICLR 2026Dynamic Multi-sample Mixup with Gradient Exploration for Open-set Graph Anomaly Detection
7. ICLR 2026EigenScore: OOD Detection using Posterior Covariance in Diffusion Models
8. ICLR 2026Exploring the Limits of Sub-Billion Language Model Reasoners with Open Training Recipes
9. ICLR 2026Fantastic Tractor-Dogs and How Not to Find Them With Open-Vocabulary Detectors
10. ICLR 2026Fisher-Rao Sensitivity for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Deep Neural Networks
11. ICLR 2026GeoPurify: A Data-Efficient Geometric Distillation Framework for Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
12. ICLR 2026Language-guided Open-world Video Anomaly Detection under Weak Supervision
13. ICLR 2026LINK: Learning Instance-level Knowledge from Vision-Language Models for Human-Object Interaction Detection
14. ICLR 2026Lossless Vocabulary Reduction for Auto-Regressive Language Models
15. ICLR 2026OVID: Open-Vocabulary Intrusion Detection
16. ICLR 2026OVSeg3R: Learn Open-vocabulary Instance Segmentation from 2D via 3D Reconstruction
17. ICLR 2026Progressive Gaussian Transformer with Anisotropy-aware Sampling for Open Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction
18. ICLR 2026Retain and Adapt: Auto-Balanced Model Editing for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection under Domain Shifts
19. ICLR 2026SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts
20. ICLR 2026Segment Any Events with Language
21. ICLR 2026TRACEDET: HALLUCINATION DETECTION FROM THE DECODING TRACE OF DIFFUSION LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
22. ICLR 2026Uncertainty Estimation via Hyperspherical Confidence Mapping
23. ICLR 20253D-AffordanceLLM: Harnessing Large Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection in 3D Worlds
24. ICLR 2025A Simple Framework for Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot Segmentation
25. ICLR 2025A Statistical Approach for Controlled Training Data Detection
26. ICLR 2025Black-Box Detection of Language Model Watermarks
27. ICLR 2025Class Distribution-induced Attention Map for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentations
28. ICLR 2025Cut Your Losses in Large-Vocabulary Language Models
29. ICLR 2025Cyclic Contrastive Knowledge Transfer for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
30. ICLR 2025econSG: Efficient and Multi-view Consistent Open-Vocabulary 3D Semantic Gaussians
31. ICLR 2025Fitting Networks with a Cancellation Trick
32. ICLR 2025Infilling Score: A Pretraining Data Detection Algorithm for Large Language Models
33. ICLR 2025MetaOOD: Automatic Selection of OOD Detection Models
34. ICLR 2025Neural Phylogeny: Fine-Tuning Relationship Detection among Neural Networks
35. ICLR 2025OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
36. ICLR 2025Open-Set Graph Anomaly Detection via Normal Structure Regularisation
37. ICLR 2025Open-Vocabulary Customization from CLIP via Data-Free Knowledge Distillation
38. ICLR 2025Open-YOLO 3D: Towards Fast and Accurate Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
39. ICLR 2025OVTR: End-to-End Open-Vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking with Transformer
40. ICLR 2025PseDet: Revisiting the Power of Pseudo Label in Incremental Object Detection
41. ICLR 2025Pursuing Feature Separation based on Neural Collapse for Out-of-Distribution Detection
42. ICLR 2025Refining CLIP's Spatial Awareness: A Visual-Centric Perspective
43. ICLR 2025Revisit the Open Nature of Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
44. ICLR 2025SAM-CP: Marrying SAM with Composable Prompts for Versatile Segmentation
45. ICLR 2025TDDBench: A Benchmark for Training data detection
46. ICLR 2025TimeInf: Time Series Data Contribution via Influence Functions
47. ICLR 2024BatteryML: An Open-source Platform for Machine Learning on Battery Degradation
48. ICLR 2024CLIPSelf: Vision Transformer Distills Itself for Open-Vocabulary Dense Prediction
49. ICLR 2024ConjNorm: Tractable Density Estimation for Out-of-Distribution Detection
50. ICLR 2024DNA-GPT: Divergent N-Gram Analysis for Training-Free Detection of GPT-Generated Text

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.