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

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.