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 18 of 20

851. CVPR 2023Weak-Shot Object Detection Through Mutual Knowledge Transfer
852. CVPR 2023WinCLIP: Zero-/Few-Shot Anomaly Classification and Segmentation
853. CVPR 2023ZBS: Zero-Shot Background Subtraction via Instance-Level Background Modeling and Foreground Selection
854. CVPR 2023ZegCLIP: Towards Adapting CLIP for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
855. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Dual-Lens Super-Resolution
856. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Everything Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, and in Explainable Style
857. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Generative Model Adaptation via Image-Specific Prompt Learning
858. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Model Diagnosis
859. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Noise2Noise: Efficient Image Denoising Without Any Data
860. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Object Counting
861. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Pose Transfer for Unrigged Stylized 3D Characters
862. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Referring Image Segmentation With Global-Local Context Features
863. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Text-to-Parameter Translation for Game Character Auto-Creation
864. ICLR 2023Benign Overfitting in Classification: Provably Counter Label Noise with Larger Models
865. ICLR 2023Bidirectional Language Models Are Also Few-shot Learners
866. ICLR 2023Composing Ensembles of Pre-trained Models via Iterative Consensus
867. ICLR 2023Constraining Representations Yields Models That Know What They Don't Know
868. ICLR 2023Contrastive Meta-Learning for Partially Observable Few-Shot Learning
869. ICLR 2023CrAM: A Compression-Aware Minimizer
870. ICLR 2023Cross-Level Distillation and Feature Denoising for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Classification
871. ICLR 2023Data-Free One-Shot Federated Learning Under Very High Statistical Heterogeneity
872. ICLR 2023DeCap: Decoding CLIP Latents for Zero-Shot Captioning via Text-Only Training
873. ICLR 2023Decoupled Training for Long-Tailed Classification With Stochastic Representations
874. ICLR 2023Denoising Masked Autoencoders Help Robust Classification
875. ICLR 2023Dilated convolution with learnable spacings
876. ICLR 2023Does Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning Exist?
877. ICLR 2023FiT: Parameter Efficient Few-shot Transfer Learning for Personalized and Federated Image Classification
878. ICLR 2023Guess the Instruction! Flipped Learning Makes Language Models Stronger Zero-Shot Learners
879. ICLR 2023Hard-Meta-Dataset++: Towards Understanding Few-Shot Performance on Difficult Tasks
880. ICLR 2023Human-Guided Fair Classification for Natural Language Processing
881. ICLR 2023Improving Deep Regression with Ordinal Entropy
882. ICLR 2023Is the Performance of My Deep Network Too Good to Be True? A Direct Approach to Estimating the Bayes Error in Binary Classification
883. ICLR 2023Learning to Compose Soft Prompts for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
884. ICLR 2023Learning Uncertainty for Unknown Domains with Zero-Target-Assumption
885. ICLR 2023Learning Zero-Shot Cooperation with Humans, Assuming Humans Are Biased
886. ICLR 2023Masked Unsupervised Self-training for Label-free Image Classification
887. ICLR 2023MEDICAL IMAGE UNDERSTANDING WITH PRETRAINED VISION LANGUAGE MODELS: A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
888. ICLR 2023Multi-lingual Evaluation of Code Generation Models
889. ICLR 2023Mutual Partial Label Learning with Competitive Label Noise
890. ICLR 2023NANSY++: Unified Voice Synthesis with Neural Analysis and Synthesis
891. ICLR 2023Neural Collapse Inspired Feature-Classifier Alignment for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
892. ICLR 2023Neural-based classification rule learning for sequential data
893. ICLR 2023Not All Tasks Are Born Equal: Understanding Zero-Shot Generalization
894. ICLR 2023On the Soft-Subnetwork for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
895. ICLR 2023OTOv2: Automatic, Generic, User-Friendly
896. ICLR 2023Out-of-distribution Representation Learning for Time Series Classification
897. ICLR 2023Parallel Deep Neural Networks Have Zero Duality Gap
898. ICLR 2023PEER: A Collaborative Language Model
899. ICLR 2023Programmatically Grounded, Compositionally Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
900. ICLR 2023Prototypical Calibration for Few-shot Learning of Language Models

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.