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

318 papers, page 3 of 7

101. CVPR 2025From Zero to Detail: Deconstructing Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration from Progressive Spectral Perspective
102. CVPR 2025Generalized Zero-Shot Classification via Semantics-Free Inter-Class Feature Generation
103. CVPR 2025Generative Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
104. CVPR 2025GenPC: Zero-shot Point Cloud Completion via 3D Generative Priors
105. CVPR 2025HiFi-Portrait: Zero-shot Identity-preserved Portrait Generation with High-fidelity Multi-face Fusion
106. CVPR 2025Hybrid Global-Local Representation with Augmented Spatial Guidance for Zero-Shot Referring Image Segmentation
107. CVPR 2025Hyperspectral Pansharpening via Diffusion Models with Iteratively Zero-Shot Guidance
108. CVPR 2025IM-Zero: Instance-level Motion Controllable Video Generation in a Zero-shot Manner
109. CVPR 2025InteractAnything: Zero-shot Human Object Interaction Synthesis via LLM Feedback and Object Affordance Parsing
110. CVPR 2025Inversion Circle Interpolation: Diffusion-based Image Augmentation for Data-scarce Classification
111. CVPR 2025L-SWAG: Layer-Sample Wise Activation with Gradients Information for Zero-Shot NAS on Vision Transformers
112. CVPR 2025Large-Scale Text-to-Image Model with Inpainting is a Zero-Shot Subject-Driven Image Generator
113. CVPR 2025Learning on Model Weights using Tree Experts
114. CVPR 2025LesionLocator: Zero-Shot Universal Tumor Segmentation and Tracking in 3D Whole-Body Imaging
115. CVPR 2025LOGICZSL: Exploring Logic-induced Representation for Compositional Zero-shot Learning
116. CVPR 2025Logits DeConfusion with CLIP for Few-Shot Learning
117. CVPR 2025Missing Target-Relevant Information Prediction with World Model for Accurate Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
118. CVPR 2025Mitigating Ambiguities in 3D Classification with Gaussian Splatting
119. CVPR 2025MonSter: Marry Monodepth to Stereo Unleashes Power
120. CVPR 2025MVSAnywhere: Zero-Shot Multi-View Stereo
121. CVPR 2025Navigating the Unseen: Zero-shot Scene Graph Generation via Capsule-Based Equivariant Features
122. CVPR 2025Nearly Zero-Cost Protection Against Mimicry by Personalized Diffusion Models
123. CVPR 2025Neuron: Learning Context-Aware Evolving Representations for Zero-Shot Skeleton Action Recognition
124. CVPR 2025On the Zero-shot Adversarial Robustness of Vision-Language Models: A Truly Zero-shot and Training-free Approach
125. CVPR 2025OnlineAnySeg: Online Zero-Shot 3D Segmentation by Visual Foundation Model Guided 2D Mask Merging
126. CVPR 2025ProAPO: Progressively Automatic Prompt Optimization for Visual Classification
127. CVPR 2025Reason-before-Retrieve: One-Stage Reflective Chain-of-Thoughts for Training-Free Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
128. CVPR 2025Reconciling Stochastic and Deterministic Strategies for Zero-shot Image Restoration using Diffusion Model in Dual
129. CVPR 2025Robust 3D Shape Reconstruction in Zero-Shot from a Single Image in the Wild
130. CVPR 2025SAM2Object: Consolidating View Consistency via SAM2 for Zero-Shot 3D Instance Segmentation
131. CVPR 2025Scalable Autoregressive Monocular Depth Estimation
132. CVPR 2025Semantic-guided Cross-Modal Prompt Learning for Skeleton-based Zero-shot Action Recognition
133. CVPR 2025Seurat: From Moving Points to Depth
134. CVPR 2025SPARC: Score Prompting and Adaptive Fusion for Zero-Shot Multi-Label Recognition in Vision-Language Models
135. CVPR 2025Stereo Anywhere: Robust Zero-Shot Deep Stereo Matching Even Where Either Stereo or Mono Fail
136. CVPR 2025T2ICount: Enhancing Cross-modal Understanding for Zero-Shot Counting
137. CVPR 2025TAMT: Temporal-Aware Model Tuning for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Action Recognition
138. CVPR 2025Task-Specific Gradient Adaptation for Few-Shot One-Class Classification
139. CVPR 2025Temporal Alignment-Free Video Matching for Few-shot Action Recognition
140. CVPR 2025Text Augmented Correlation Transformer For Few-shot Classification & Segmentation
141. CVPR 2025Towards Efficient Foundation Model for Zero-shot Amodal Segmentation
142. CVPR 2025Towards Source-Free Machine Unlearning
143. CVPR 2025Towards Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection and Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
144. CVPR 2025Tripartite Weight-Space Ensemble for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
145. CVPR 2025UNEM: UNrolled Generalized EM for Transductive Few-Shot Learning
146. CVPR 2025UniGoal: Towards Universal Zero-shot Goal-oriented Navigation
147. CVPR 2025VidBot: Learning Generalizable 3D Actions from In-the-Wild 2D Human Videos for Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation
148. CVPR 2025Visual and Semantic Prompt Collaboration for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
149. CVPR 2025Z-Magic: Zero-shot Multiple Attributes Guided Image Creator
150. CVPR 2025Zero-1-to-A: Zero-Shot One Image to Animatable Head Avatars Using Video Diffusion

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.