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

282 papers, page 3 of 6

101. NeurIPS 2025MAPLE: Multi-scale Attribute-enhanced Prompt Learning for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
102. NeurIPS 2025MonarchAttention: Zero-Shot Conversion to Fast, Hardware-Aware Structured Attention
103. NeurIPS 2025MoonCast: High-Quality Zero-Shot Podcast Generation
104. NeurIPS 2025Multiclass Loss Geometry Matters for Generalization of Gradient Descent in Separable Classification
105. NeurIPS 2025Multitask Learning with Stochastic Interpolants
106. NeurIPS 2025Optimism Without Regularization: Constant Regret in Zero-Sum Games
107. NeurIPS 2025ORIGEN: Zero-Shot 3D Orientation Grounding in Text-to-Image Generation
108. NeurIPS 2025Parameter-Free Hypergraph Neural Network for Few-Shot Node Classification
109. NeurIPS 2025PLANA3R: Zero-shot Metric Planar 3D Reconstruction via Feed-forward Planar Splatting
110. NeurIPS 2025Preference-driven Knowledge Distillation for Few-shot Node Classification
111. NeurIPS 2025QuanDA: Quantile-Based Discriminant Analysis for High-Dimensional Imbalanced Classification
112. NeurIPS 2025RadZero: Similarity-Based Cross-Attention for Explainable Vision-Language Alignment in Chest X-ray with Zero-Shot Multi-Task Capability
113. NeurIPS 2025RaySt3R: Predicting Novel Depth Maps for Zero-Shot Object Completion
114. NeurIPS 2025Representation-Level Counterfactual Calibration for Debiased Zero-Shot Recognition
115. NeurIPS 2025Repurposing Marigold for Zero-Shot Metric Depth Estimation via Defocus Blur Cues
116. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Approximate Gaussian Inference in Classification
117. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Multimodal Learning from the Perspective of Mitigating Classification Ability Disproportion
118. NeurIPS 2025RLZero: Direct Policy Inference from Language Without In-Domain Supervision
119. NeurIPS 2025Robust Minimax Boosting with Performance Guarantees
120. NeurIPS 2025Semantic Surgery: Zero-Shot Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
121. NeurIPS 2025SGN: Shifted Window-Based Hierarchical Variable Grouping for Multivariate Time Series Classification
122. NeurIPS 2025ShapeX: Shapelet-Driven Post Hoc Explanations for Time Series Classification Models
123. NeurIPS 2025SPAZER: Spatial-Semantic Progressive Reasoning Agent for Zero-shot 3D Visual Grounding
124. NeurIPS 2025SPiDR: A Simple Approach for Zero-Shot Safety in Sim-to-Real Transfer
125. NeurIPS 2025Split conformal classification with unsupervised calibration
126. NeurIPS 2025SuperCLIP: CLIP with Simple Classification Supervision
127. NeurIPS 2025Support Vector Generation: Kernelizing Large Language Models for Efficient Zero‑Shot NLP
128. NeurIPS 2025Taming generative video models for zero-shot optical flow extraction
129. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Spectrum-Aware Latent Steering for Zero-Shot Generalization in Vision-Language Models
130. NeurIPS 2025TiRex: Zero-Shot Forecasting Across Long and Short Horizons with Enhanced In-Context Learning
131. NeurIPS 2025TOMCAT: Test-time Comprehensive Knowledge Accumulation for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
132. NeurIPS 2025Towards Robust Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning
133. NeurIPS 2025Transformers are almost optimal metalearners for linear classification
134. NeurIPS 2025Tree-Guided Diffusion Planner
135. NeurIPS 2025True Zero-Shot Inference of Dynamical Systems Preserving Long-Term Statistics
136. NeurIPS 2025TS-RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation based Time Series Foundation Models are Stronger Zero-Shot Forecaster
137. NeurIPS 2025UniGTE: Unified Graph–Text Encoding for Zero-Shot Generalization across Graph Tasks and Domains
138. NeurIPS 2025Unlabeled Data Improves Fine-Grained Image Zero-shot Classification with Multimodal LLMs
139. NeurIPS 2025Unleashing the Potential of Multimodal LLMs for Zero-Shot Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
140. NeurIPS 2025Visual Diversity and Region-aware Prompt Learning for Zero-shot HOI Detection
141. NeurIPS 2025Word-Level Emotional Expression Control in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis
142. NeurIPS 2025Worse than Zero-shot? A Fact-Checking Dataset for Evaluating the Robustness of RAG Against Misleading Retrievals
143. NeurIPS 2025ZEBRA: Towards Zero-Shot Cross-Subject Generalization for Universal Brain Visual Decoding
144. NeurIPS 2025Zero-Shot Blind-Spot Image Denoising via Cross-Scale Non-Local Pixel Refilling
145. NeurIPS 2025Zero-Shot Context Generalization in Reinforcement Learning from Few Training Contexts
146. NeurIPS 2025Zero-shot Denoising via Neural Compression: Theoretical and algorithmic framework
147. NeurIPS 2025Zero-Shot Detection of LLM-Generated Text via Implicit Reward Model
148. NeurIPS 2025Zero-Shot Performance Prediction for Probabilistic Scaling Laws
149. NeurIPS 2025Zero-shot protein stability prediction by inverse folding models: a free energy interpretation
150. NeurIPS 2025Zero-Shot Trajectory Planning for Signal Temporal Logic Tasks

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.