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
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- 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
282 papers, page 2 of 6
- NeurIPS 2026Subset-Conditioned Boundary Compensation for Missing-Modality Multimodal Classification
- NeurIPS 2026SVG-3D: Mining Decision Boundaries with Generative Splatting Priors for Zero-Shot 3D Classification
- NeurIPS 2026TempoPFN: Synthetic Pre-training of Linear RNNs for Zero-shot Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Adaptation via Self-Reinforced Optimal Transport for Zero-Shot OOD Detection with Vision–Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026TokenCLIP: Token-wise Prompt Learning for Zero-shot Anomaly Detection
- NeurIPS 2026Toward Minimal-dimensional Convex Calibrated Surrogate Losses for Classification with Rejection
- NeurIPS 2026Transcoda: End-to-End Zero-Shot Optical Music Recognition via Data-Centric Synthetic Training
- NeurIPS 2026UnfoldArt: Zero-Shot Recovery of Full Articulated 3D Objects from Text or Image
- NeurIPS 2026VETime: Vision Enhanced Zero-Shot Time Series Anomaly Detection
- NeurIPS 2026Video Forensic Self-Descriptions: Leveraging Temporally Distributed Forensic Microstructures for Zero-Shot Detection of AI-Generated Videos
- NeurIPS 2026VIGOR: Zero-Shot Visual Generalization via Latent-Space Consistency in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Voxel as Token: A New Perspective for Zero-shot Cross-subject Vision Decoding
- NeurIPS 2026When a Zero-Shooter Cheats: Improving Age Estimation via Activation Steering
- NeurIPS 2026When Does Subspace Direction Matter for LoRA? Regime Analysis of the Magnitude Principle in Few-Shot Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026When Graph Structure Provably Helps Classification: Non-Asymptotic Recovery Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2026ZEBRA: Zero-shot Budgeted Resource Allocation for LLM Orchestration
- NeurIPS 2026Zero-Shot Coordination among LLM Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Zero-Shot Instruction Following in RL via Structured LTL Representations
- NeurIPS 2025\(\varepsilon\)-Optimally Solving Two-Player Zero-Sum POSGs
- NeurIPS 2025A Unified Reasoning Framework for Holistic Zero-Shot Video Anomaly Analysis
- NeurIPS 2025An Adaptive Quantum Circuit of Dempster's Rule of Combination for Uncertain Pattern Classification
- NeurIPS 2025BeliefMapNav: 3D Voxel-Based Belief Map for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
- NeurIPS 2025Boosting Skeleton-based Zero-Shot Action Recognition with Training-Free Test-Time Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Gradient Barrier: Unveiling Large Language Models for Strategic Classification
- NeurIPS 2025Cancer Survival Analysis via Zero-shot Tumor Microenvironment Segmentation on Low-resolution Whole Slide Pathology Images
- NeurIPS 2025CellCLIP - Learning Perturbation Effects in Cell Painting via Text-Guided Contrastive Learning
- NeurIPS 2025CoVoMix2: Advancing Zero-Shot Dialogue Generation with Fully Non-Autoregressive Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2025Denoising Trajectory Biases for Zero-Shot AI-Generated Image Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Drag-and-Drop LLMs: Zero-Shot Prompt-to-Weights
- NeurIPS 2025DualCnst: Enhancing Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Text-Image Consistency in Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Bundling with Large Language Models for Zero-Shot Inference on Text-Attributed Graphs
- NeurIPS 2025Dynamics-Aligned Latent Imagination in Contextual World Models for Zero-Shot Generalization
- NeurIPS 2025Embedding Principle of Homogeneous Neural Network for Classification Problem
- NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Zero-Shot Black-Box Optimization via Pretrained Models with Efficient Population Modeling, Interaction, and Stable Gradient Approximation
- NeurIPS 2025Equilibrium Policy Generalization: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Cross-Graph Zero-Shot Generalization in Pursuit-Evasion Games
- NeurIPS 2025Evolving and Regularizing Meta-Environment Learner for Fine-Grained Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Flex-Judge: Text-Only Reasoning Unleashes Zero-Shot Multimodal Evaluators
- NeurIPS 2025FlowRefiner: A Robust Traffic Classification Framework against Label Noise
- NeurIPS 2025From Contextual Combinatorial Semi-Bandits to Bandit List Classification: Improved Sample Complexity with Sparse Rewards
- NeurIPS 2025Fuse2Match: Training-Free Fusion of Flow, Diffusion, and Contrastive Models for Zero-Shot Semantic Matching
- NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Demonstration Order Optimization for Many-shot In-Context Learning
- NeurIPS 2025How to Learn a Star: Binary Classification with Starshaped Polyhedral Sets
- NeurIPS 2025IA-GGAD: Zero-shot Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection via Invariant and Affinity Learning
- NeurIPS 2025iFinder: Structured Zero-Shot Vision-Based LLM Grounding for Dash-Cam Video Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025Impact of Dataset Properties on Membership Inference Vulnerability of Deep Transfer Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Improved Balanced Classification with Theoretically Grounded Loss Functions
- NeurIPS 2025In-Context Learning of Stochastic Differential Equations with Foundation Inference Models
- NeurIPS 2025Incremental Sequence Classification with Temporal Consistency
- NeurIPS 2025InvFusion: Bridging Supervised and Zero-shot Diffusion for Inverse Problems
- NeurIPS 2025Learning from Reward-Free Offline Data: A Case for Planning with Latent Dynamics Models
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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.