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

200 papers, page 2 of 4

51. ICLR 2025Credal Wrapper of Model Averaging for Uncertainty Estimation in Classification
52. ICLR 2025Cross the Gap: Exposing the Intra-modal Misalignment in CLIP via Modality Inversion
53. ICLR 2025Dist Loss: Enhancing Regression in Few-Shot Region through Distribution Distance Constraint
54. ICLR 2025Distribution-Specific Agnostic Conditional Classification With Halfspaces
55. ICLR 2025Divergence of Neural Tangent Kernel in Classification Problems
56. ICLR 2025Divergence-enhanced Knowledge-guided Context Optimization for Visual-Language Prompt Tuning
57. ICLR 2025Federated Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
58. ICLR 2025Fully-inductive Node Classification on Arbitrary Graphs
59. ICLR 2025Glauber Generative Model: Discrete Diffusion Models via Binary Classification
60. ICLR 2025Glimpse: Enabling White-Box Methods to Use Proprietary Models for Zero-Shot LLM-Generated Text Detection
61. ICLR 2025HALL-E: Hierarchical Neural Codec Language Model for Minute-Long Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis
62. ICLR 2025Last-Iterate Convergence Properties of Regret-Matching Algorithms in Games
63. ICLR 2025Layer Swapping for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer in Large Language Models
64. ICLR 2025Learning Clustering-based Prototypes for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
65. ICLR 2025LR0.FM: Low-Res Benchmark and Improving robustness for Zero-Shot Classification in Foundation Models
66. ICLR 2025Making Text Embedders Few-Shot Learners
67. ICLR 2025Manifold Induced Biases for Zero-shot and Few-shot Detection of Generated Images
68. ICLR 2025MaskGCT: Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Masked Generative Codec Transformer
69. ICLR 2025Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Zero-Shot Multimodal Models
70. ICLR 2025MoE++: Accelerating Mixture-of-Experts Methods with Zero-Computation Experts
71. ICLR 2025MS-Diffusion: Multi-subject Zero-shot Image Personalization with Layout Guidance
72. ICLR 2025Multi-Label Test-Time Adaptation with Bound Entropy Minimization
73. ICLR 2025NatureLM-audio: an Audio-Language Foundation Model for Bioacoustics
74. ICLR 2025NVS-Solver: Video Diffusion Model as Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesizer
75. ICLR 2025On the Transfer of Object-Centric Representation Learning
76. ICLR 2025OvercookedV2: Rethinking Overcooked for Zero-Shot Coordination
77. ICLR 2025Param$\Delta$ for Direct Mixing: Post-Train Large Language Model At Zero Cost
78. ICLR 2025Planning Anything with Rigor: General-Purpose Zero-Shot Planning with LLM-based Formalized Programming
79. ICLR 2025PostEdit: Posterior Sampling for Efficient Zero-Shot Image Editing
80. ICLR 2025Predicate Hierarchies Improve Few-Shot State Classification
81. ICLR 2025Prompt as Knowledge Bank: Boost Vision-language model via Structural Representation for zero-shot medical detection
82. ICLR 2025Protein Language Model Fitness is a Matter of Preference
83. ICLR 2025Prototype antithesis for biological few-shot class-incremental learning
84. ICLR 2025Pushing the Limits of All-Atom Geometric Graph Neural Networks: Pre-Training, Scaling, and Zero-Shot Transfer
85. ICLR 2025Random-Set Neural Networks
86. ICLR 2025REMEDY: Recipe Merging Dynamics in Large Vision-Language Models
87. ICLR 2025Straight to Zero: Why Linearly Decaying the Learning Rate to Zero Works Best for LLMs
88. ICLR 2025SynQ: Accurate Zero-shot Quantization by Synthesis-aware Fine-tuning
89. ICLR 2025Theory on Score-Mismatched Diffusion Models and Zero-Shot Conditional Samplers
90. ICLR 2025Transformer Learns Optimal Variable Selection in Group-Sparse Classification
91. ICLR 2025Transformers Provably Learn Two-Mixture of Linear Classification via Gradient Flow
92. ICLR 2025Unleashing the Potential of Vision-Language Pre-Training for 3D Zero-Shot Lesion Segmentation via Mask-Attribute Alignment
93. ICLR 2025Video In-context Learning: Autoregressive Transformers are Zero-Shot Video Imitators
94. ICLR 2025Visually Consistent Hierarchical Image Classification
95. ICLR 2025W-PCA Based Gradient-Free Proxy for Efficient Search of Lightweight Language Models
96. ICLR 2025Zero-shot forecasting of chaotic systems
97. ICLR 2025Zero-shot Imputation with Foundation Inference Models for Dynamical Systems
98. ICLR 2025Zero-shot Model-based Reinforcement Learning using Large Language Models
99. ICLR 2025Zero-Shot Natural Language Explanations
100. ICLR 2025ZeroDiff: Solidified Visual-semantic Correlation in Zero-Shot Learning

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.