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. ICML 2026A Close Look at Negative Label Guided Out-of-distribution Detection in Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
2. ICML 2026A Geometry-Based View of Mahalanobis OOD Detection
3. ICML 2026An In-Depth Study on Deep Learning Model Cloning
4. ICML 2026EPS3D: End-to-End Feed-Forward 3D Panoptic Segmentation
5. ICML 2026ExpAlign: Expectation-Guided Vision–Language Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Grounding
6. ICML 2026ForensicConcept: Transferable Forensic Concepts for AIGI Detection
7. ICML 2026From Out-of-Distribution Detection to Hallucination Detection: A Geometric View
8. ICML 2026IMPACT: Influence Modeling for Open-Set Time Series Anomaly Detection
9. ICML 2026Knowing the Unknown: Interpretable Open-World Object Detection via Concept Decomposition Model
10. ICML 2026Learning Attribute–Affordance Hierarchies in Hyperbolic Space for Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Affordance Grounding
11. ICML 2026Mixture Prototype Flow Matching for Open-Set Supervised Anomaly Detection
12. ICML 2026Names Don’t Matter: Symbol-Invariant Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Learning
13. ICML 2026Object-level Semantic and Spatial Distillation for Open Vocabulary Detection
14. ICML 2026OOVDet: Low-Density Prior Learning for Zero-Shot Out-of-Vocabulary Object Detection
15. ICML 2026Open-Text Aerial Detection: A Unified Framework For Aerial Visual Grounding And Detection
16. ICML 2026PhaseAlign: Complex Phase Alignment for Stable Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
17. ICML 2026Pix2Key: Controllable Open-Vocabulary Retrieval with Semantic Decomposition and Self-Supervised Visual Dictionary Learning
18. ICML 2026Rh-3DGS: Robust Open-Vocabulary Scene Understanding via Riemannian Huber Distillation and Manifold-Aware Sampling
19. ICML 2026SeisMark: A Large-Scale Open Benchmark for Robust 3D Seismic Fault Detection
20. ICML 2026Self-Prompting Diffusion Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Scene Text Edit via In-Context Learning
21. ICML 2026Source-Free Open-World RF Fingerprint Identification
22. ICML 2026VIP: Visual-guided Prompt Evolution for Efficient Dense Vision-Language Inference
23. ICML 2025A Closer Look at Generalized BH Algorithm for Out-of-Distribution Detection
24. ICML 2025Accelerating LLM Inference with Lossless Speculative Decoding Algorithms for Heterogeneous Vocabularies
25. ICML 2025Feature Shift Localization Network
26. ICML 2025FLAM: Frame-Wise Language-Audio Modeling
27. ICML 2025Fluctuations of the largest eigenvalues of transformed spiked Wigner matrices
28. ICML 2025Learning State-Based Node Representations from a Class Hierarchy for Fine-Grained Open-Set Detection
29. ICML 2025Open-Det: An Efficient Learning Framework for Open-Ended Detection
30. ICML 2025OV-MER: Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition
31. ICML 2025OW-VAP: Visual Attribute Parsing for Open World Object Detection
32. ICML 2025Position: We Can’t Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary
33. ICML 2025Revisiting Instance-Optimal Cluster Recovery in the Labeled Stochastic Block Model
34. ICML 2025Robust Conformal Outlier Detection under Contaminated Reference Data
35. ICML 2025Tackling View-Dependent Semantics in 3D Language Gaussian Splatting
36. ICML 2025The Case for Learned Provenance-based System Behavior Baseline
37. ICML 2024A Provable Decision Rule for Out-of-Distribution Detection
38. ICML 2024Binary Decomposition: A Problem Transformation Perspective for Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning
39. ICML 2024CRoFT: Robust Fine-Tuning with Concurrent Optimization for OOD Generalization and Open-Set OOD Detection
40. ICML 2024DeCoOp: Robust Prompt Tuning with Out-of-Distribution Detection
41. ICML 2024DRCT: Diffusion Reconstruction Contrastive Training towards Universal Detection of Diffusion Generated Images
42. ICML 2024Envisioning Outlier Exposure by Large Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection
43. ICML 2024Hierarchical Novelty Detection via Fine-Grained Evidence Allocation
44. ICML 2024Intersecting-Boundary-Sensitive Fingerprinting for Tampering Detection of DNN Models
45. ICML 2024Meta Evidential Transformer for Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition
46. ICML 2024Network Tight Community Detection
47. ICML 2024Open-Vocabulary Calibration for Fine-tuned CLIP
48. ICML 2024OpenMoE: An Early Effort on Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
49. ICML 2024Position: Open-Endedness is Essential for Artificial Superhuman Intelligence
50. ICML 2024Reducing sequential change detection to sequential estimation

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.