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

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51. CVPR 2025Semantic-guided Cross-Modal Prompt Learning for Skeleton-based Zero-shot Action Recognition
52. CVPR 2025Seurat: From Moving Points to Depth
53. CVPR 2025SPARC: Score Prompting and Adaptive Fusion for Zero-Shot Multi-Label Recognition in Vision-Language Models
54. CVPR 2025Stereo Anywhere: Robust Zero-Shot Deep Stereo Matching Even Where Either Stereo or Mono Fail
55. CVPR 2025T2ICount: Enhancing Cross-modal Understanding for Zero-Shot Counting
56. CVPR 2025TAMT: Temporal-Aware Model Tuning for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Action Recognition
57. CVPR 2025Task-Specific Gradient Adaptation for Few-Shot One-Class Classification
58. CVPR 2025Temporal Alignment-Free Video Matching for Few-shot Action Recognition
59. CVPR 2025Text Augmented Correlation Transformer For Few-shot Classification & Segmentation
60. CVPR 2025Towards Efficient Foundation Model for Zero-shot Amodal Segmentation
61. CVPR 2025Towards Source-Free Machine Unlearning
62. CVPR 2025Towards Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection and Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
63. CVPR 2025Tripartite Weight-Space Ensemble for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
64. CVPR 2025UNEM: UNrolled Generalized EM for Transductive Few-Shot Learning
65. CVPR 2025UniGoal: Towards Universal Zero-shot Goal-oriented Navigation
66. CVPR 2025VidBot: Learning Generalizable 3D Actions from In-the-Wild 2D Human Videos for Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation
67. CVPR 2025Visual and Semantic Prompt Collaboration for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
68. CVPR 2025Z-Magic: Zero-shot Multiple Attributes Guided Image Creator
69. CVPR 2025Zero-1-to-A: Zero-Shot One Image to Animatable Head Avatars Using Video Diffusion
70. CVPR 2025Zero-shot 3D Question Answering via Voxel-based Dynamic Token Compression
71. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot 4D Lidar Panoptic Segmentation
72. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Blind-spot Image Denoising via Implicit Neural Sampling
73. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Head Swapping in Real-World Scenarios
74. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Image Restoration Using Few-Step Guidance of Consistency Models (and Beyond)
75. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Monocular Scene Flow Estimation in the Wild
76. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Novel View and Depth Synthesis with Multi-View Geometric Diffusion
77. CVPR 2025Zero-shot RGB-D Point Cloud Registration with Pre-trained Large Vision Model
78. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Styled Text Image Generation, but Make It Autoregressive
79. CVPR 2025ZeroGrasp: Zero-Shot Shape Reconstruction Enabled Robotic Grasping

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.