Zero-Shot Classification papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Zero-Shot Classification went from 203 papers in 2023 to 257 in 2026, roughly 1.3x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Zero-Shot Classification work: 318 papers from 2023 to 2026, 32% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Reinforcement Learning: papers tagged with both rose from 7 in 2023 to 22 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Open-Vocabulary Vision, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Visual Grounding, is up 4.3x versus 1.3x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Minimal Interpretable Architecture for Zero-Shot Reconstruction of Dynamical Systems
• ICML 2026Beyond Rational Illusion: Behaviorally Realistic Strategic Classification
• ICLR 2026Boomerang Distillation Enables Zero-Shot Model Size Interpolation
• CVPR 2026AG-VAS Anchor-Guided Zero-Shot Visual Anomaly Segmentation with Large Multimodal Models
• NeurIPS 2025\(\varepsilon\)-Optimally Solving Two-Player Zero-Sum POSGs
• ICML 2025A Classification View on Meta Learning Bandits
• ICLR 2025Convergence and Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent on Continual Linear Classification
• CVPR 2025AA-CLIP: Enhancing Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection via Anomaly-Aware CLIP
• NeurIPS 2024BIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity
• ICML 2024Agent Instructs Large Language Models to be General Zero-Shot Reasoners
• ICLR 2024AutoCast++: Enhancing World Event Prediction with Zero-shot Ranking-based Context Retrieval
• CVPR 2024Depth-aware Test-Time Training for Zero-shot Video Object Segmentation
• NeurIPS 2023Black-box Backdoor Defense via Zero-shot Image Purification
• ICML 2023A Simple Zero-shot Prompt Weighting Technique to Improve Prompt Ensembling in Text-Image Models
• ICLR 2023Benign Overfitting in Classification: Provably Counter Label Noise with Larger Models
• CVPR 2023(ML)$^2$P-Encoder: On Exploration of Channel-Class Correlation for Multi-Label Zero-Shot Learning
• NeurIPS 2026Align3D-AD: Cross-Modal Feature Alignment and Dual-Prompt Learning for Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Detection
• ICML 2026Calibrating Uncertainty for Zero-Shot Adversarial CLIP
• ICLR 2026Decoupling Primitive with Experts: Dynamic Feature Alignment for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
• CVPR 2026DLVP-CLIP Enhancing Fine-Grained Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection via Dynamic Local Visual

All Zero-Shot Classification papers

992 papers, page 17 of 20

801. CVPR 2023Decomposed Soft Prompt Guided Fusion Enhancing for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
802. CVPR 2023Delving Into Shape-Aware Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
803. CVPR 2023DiGeo: Discriminative Geometry-Aware Learning for Generalized Few-Shot Object Detection
804. CVPR 2023Distilling Self-Supervised Vision Transformers for Weakly-Supervised Few-Shot Classification & Segmentation
805. CVPR 2023Doubly Right Object Recognition: A Why Prompt for Visual Rationales
806. CVPR 2023Dream3D: Zero-Shot Text-to-3D Synthesis Using 3D Shape Prior and Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
807. CVPR 2023Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Class-Aware Bilateral Distillation
808. CVPR 2023Few-Shot Geometry-Aware Keypoint Localization
809. CVPR 2023Few-Shot Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging With Signal-Surface Collaborative Regularization
810. CVPR 2023Few-Shot Referring Relationships in Videos
811. CVPR 2023Fine-Grained Classification With Noisy Labels
812. CVPR 2023Finetune Like You Pretrain: Improved Finetuning of Zero-Shot Vision Models
813. CVPR 2023FreeNeRF: Improving Few-Shot Neural Rendering With Free Frequency Regularization
814. CVPR 2023From Images to Textual Prompts: Zero-Shot Visual Question Answering With Frozen Large Language Models
815. CVPR 2023Glocal Energy-Based Learning for Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition
816. CVPR 2023Hard Sample Matters a Lot in Zero-Shot Quantization
817. CVPR 2023Hubs and Hyperspheres: Reducing Hubness and Improving Transductive Few-Shot Learning With Hyperspherical Embeddings
818. CVPR 2023I2MVFormer: Large Language Model Generated Multi-View Document Supervision for Zero-Shot Image Classification
819. CVPR 2023iCLIP: Bridging Image Classification and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training for Visual Recognition
820. CVPR 2023Improving Zero-Shot Generalization and Robustness of Multi-Modal Models
821. CVPR 2023Interactive Segmentation As Gaussion Process Classification
822. CVPR 2023Language in a Bottle: Language Model Guided Concept Bottlenecks for Interpretable Image Classification
823. CVPR 2023Learning Attention As Disentangler for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
824. CVPR 2023Learning Bottleneck Concepts in Image Classification
825. CVPR 2023Learning Conditional Attributes for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
826. CVPR 2023Leveraging Inter-Rater Agreement for Classification in the Presence of Noisy Labels
827. CVPR 2023Master: Meta Style Transformer for Controllable Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Artistic Style Transfer
828. CVPR 2023MoLo: Motion-Augmented Long-Short Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Action Recognition
829. CVPR 2023Multimodality Helps Unimodality: Cross-Modal Few-Shot Learning With Multimodal Models
830. CVPR 2023NIFF: Alleviating Forgetting in Generalized Few-Shot Object Detection via Neural Instance Feature Forging
831. CVPR 2023Non-Contrastive Learning Meets Language-Image Pre-Training
832. CVPR 2023One-Shot Model for Mixed-Precision Quantization
833. CVPR 2023Open-Set Likelihood Maximization for Few-Shot Learning
834. CVPR 2023OTAvatar: One-Shot Talking Face Avatar With Controllable Tri-Plane Rendering
835. CVPR 2023Pic2Word: Mapping Pictures to Words for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
836. CVPR 2023Primitive Generation and Semantic-Related Alignment for Universal Zero-Shot Segmentation
837. CVPR 2023ProD: Prompting-To-Disentangle Domain Knowledge for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Image Classification
838. CVPR 2023Progressive Semantic-Visual Mutual Adaption for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
839. CVPR 2023Prompt-Guided Zero-Shot Anomaly Action Recognition Using Pretrained Deep Skeleton Features
840. CVPR 2023Prompt, Generate, Then Cache: Cascade of Foundation Models Makes Strong Few-Shot Learners
841. CVPR 2023Rethinking the Correlation in Few-Shot Segmentation: A Buoys View
842. CVPR 2023Revisiting Prototypical Network for Cross Domain Few-Shot Learning
843. CVPR 2023Robust 3D Shape Classification via Non-Local Graph Attention Network
844. CVPR 2023Semantic Prompt for Few-Shot Image Recognition
845. CVPR 2023Semantic-Promoted Debiasing and Background Disambiguation for Zero-Shot Instance Segmentation
846. CVPR 2023StyleRF: Zero-Shot 3D Style Transfer of Neural Radiance Fields
847. CVPR 2023Supervised Masked Knowledge Distillation for Few-Shot Transformers
848. CVPR 2023Thermal Spread Functions (TSF): Physics-Guided Material Classification
849. CVPR 2023ViewNet: A Novel Projection-Based Backbone With View Pooling for Few-Shot Point Cloud Classification
850. CVPR 2023Visual Language Pretrained Multiple Instance Zero-Shot Transfer for Histopathology Images

FAQ

How many Zero-Shot Classification papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

992 in total: 203 in 2023, 262 in 2024, 270 in 2025, 257 in 2026.

How many Zero-Shot Classification papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 68 Zero-Shot Classification papers, versus 86 the year before.

How many Zero-Shot Classification papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 44 Zero-Shot Classification papers, versus 56 the year before.

How many Zero-Shot Classification papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 64 Zero-Shot Classification papers, versus 49 the year before.

How many Zero-Shot Classification papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 81 Zero-Shot Classification papers, versus 79 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Zero-Shot Classification papers?

CVPR, with 318 papers from 2023 to 2026.