Zero-Shot Classification papers, 2023–2026
Zero-shot recognition
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 992 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 46 | 55 | 28 | 74 | 203 |
| 2024 | 82 | 45 | 51 | 84 | 262 |
| 2025 | 86 | 56 | 49 | 79 | 270 |
| 2026 | 68 | 44 | 64 | 81 | 257 |
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
64 papers, page 2 of 2
- ICML 2026TextMesh4D: Zero-shot Text-to-4D Mesh Generation
- ICML 2026Towards Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Time Series Anomaly Detection: Leveraging Synthetic Data and Relative Context Discrepancy
- ICML 2026Treatment Responder Classification with Abstention
- ICML 2026Universal Algorithm-Implicit Learning
- ICML 2026URS: A Unified Neural Routing Solver for Cross-Problem Zero-Shot Generalization
- ICML 2026VocSim A Training-free Benchmark for Zero-shot Content Identity in Single-source Audio
- ICML 2026Von Mises-Fisher Mixture Model with Dynamic Shrinkage for Realistic Test-Time Transduction
- ICML 2026Welfare-Optimal Classification with Accuracy Auctions
- ICML 2026When Generalized Zero-Shot Learning Meets PU Learning: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Seen-Class Bias Mitigation
- ICML 2026Zero-Flow Encoders
- ICML 2026Zero-shot Active Mapping via Fused 360-BEV Representations and Vision–Language Models
- ICML 2026Zero-Shot Off-Policy Learning
- ICML 2026Zero-Shot Rankability: Revealing Latent Ordinal Structure in Multimodal Large Language Models via Language
- ICML 2026ZeroDiff: Zero-Shot Time Series Reconstruction via Informed-Prior Diffusion
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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.