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 2 of 20

51. CVPR 2026PromptStereo Zero-Shot Stereo Matching via Structure and Motion Prompts
52. CVPR 2026Quantized Residuals to Continuous Prompts for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
53. CVPR 2026Reevaluating the Intra-Modal Misalignment Hypothesis in CLIP
54. CVPR 2026RefTon Reference person shot assist virtual Try-on
55. CVPR 2026Scaling Zero-Shot Reference-to-Video Generation
56. CVPR 2026Self-guided Semantic Inspection for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
57. CVPR 2026Self-supervised Dynamic Heterogeneous Degradation Modeling for Unified Zero-Shot Image Restoration
58. CVPR 2026SFR-Net Steering-Fusion-Refining Network in Multi-label Zero-Shot Sewer Defect Detection
59. CVPR 2026SkeletonContext Skeleton-side Context Prompt Learning for Zero-Shot Skeleton-based Action Recognition
60. CVPR 2026SO3-Equivariant ViT-Adapter for Data-Efficient Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Indoor Panoramic Depth Estimation
61. CVPR 2026SOTA Self-adaptive Optimal Transport for Zero-Shot Classification with Multiple Foundation
62. CVPR 2026STiTch Semantic Transition and Transportation in Collaboration for Training-Free Zero-Shot
63. CVPR 2026StoryTailorA Zero-Shot Pipeline for Action-Rich Multi-Subject Visual Narratives
64. CVPR 2026SWIFT Sliding Window Reconstruction for Few-Shot Training-Free Generated Video Attribution
65. CVPR 2026Taming Video Models for 3D and 4D Generation via Zero-Shot
66. CVPR 2026TAPE Task-Adaptive Prototype Evolution in Audio-Language Models for Fully Few-shot
67. CVPR 2026TF-CADE Foreground-Concentrated Text-Video Alignment for Zero-Shot Temporal Action Detection
68. CVPR 2026TrajRAG Retrieving Geometric-Semantic Experience for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
69. CVPR 2026Unified Spherical Frontend Learning Rotation-Equivariant Representations of Spherical Images from
70. CVPR 2026Universal-to-Specific Dynamic Knowledge-Guided Multiple Instance Learning for Few-Shot Whole Slide
71. CVPR 2026Unlocking Pre-trained Weights Parameter Inheritance for Zero-Shot Initialization
72. CVPR 2026UZ3DVG Unaided Zero-Shot 3D Visual Grounding with Generated Language Conditions
73. CVPR 2026VGGT-360 Geometry-Consistent Zero-Shot Panoramic Depth Estimation
74. CVPR 2026VisualAD Language-Free Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection via Vision Transformer
75. CVPR 2026What Makes Good Synthetic Training Data for Zero-Shot Stereo Matching
76. CVPR 2026Your Dissimilarities Define You Complementary Learning Exploiting Class Diversities
77. CVPR 2026Zero-Shot Depth Completion with Vision-Language Model
78. CVPR 2026Zero-shot Detection of AI-Generated Image via RAW-RGB Alignment
79. CVPR 2026Zero-Shot Image Denoising via Hybrid Prior-Guided Pseudo Sample Generation
80. CVPR 2026Zero-Shot Reconstruction of Animatable 3D Avatars with Cloth Dynamics from
81. CVPR 2026Zoo3D Zero-Shot 3D Object Detection at Scene Level
82. ICLR 2026A Cognitive Process-Inspired Architecture for Subject-Agnostic Brain Visual Decoding
83. ICLR 2026Adaptive Concept Discovery for Interpretable Few-Shot Text Classification
84. ICLR 2026An efficient, provably optimal, practical algorithm for the 0-1 loss linear classification problem
85. ICLR 2026Boomerang Distillation Enables Zero-Shot Model Size Interpolation
86. ICLR 2026Breaking Scale Anchoring: Frequency Representation Learning for Accurate High-Resolution Inference from Low-Resolution Training
87. ICLR 2026BTZSC: A Benchmark for Zero-Shot Text Classification Across Cross-Encoders, Embedding Models, and Rerankers
88. ICLR 2026CARPRT: Class-Aware Zero-Shot Prompt Reweighting for Vision-Language Model
89. ICLR 2026CauKer: Classification Time Series Foundation Models Can Be Pretrained on Synthetic Data
90. ICLR 2026CoT-RVS: Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Segmentation for Videos
91. ICLR 2026Decoupling Primitive with Experts: Dynamic Feature Alignment for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
92. ICLR 2026Directional Convergence, Benign Overfitting of Gradient Descent in leaky ReLU two-layer Neural Networks
93. ICLR 2026Distilling and Adapting: A Topology-Aware Framework for Zero-Shot Interaction Prediction in Multiplex Biological Networks
94. ICLR 2026DiVE-k: DIFFERENTIAL VISUAL REASONING FOR FINE-GRAINED IMAGE RECOGNITION
95. ICLR 2026Does the Data Processing Inequality Reflect Practice? On the Utility of Low-Level Tasks
96. ICLR 2026Efficient Zero-shot Inpainting with Decoupled Diffusion Guidance
97. ICLR 2026EMBridge: Enhancing Gesture Generalization from EMG Signals Through Cross-modal Representation Learning
98. ICLR 2026Exploiting Low-Dimensional Manifold of Features for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
99. ICLR 2026gen2seg: Generative Models Enable Generalizable Instance Segmentation
100. ICLR 2026In-Context Learning of Temporal Point Processes with Foundation Inference 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.