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

203 papers, page 3 of 5

101. ICLR 2023NANSY++: Unified Voice Synthesis with Neural Analysis and Synthesis
102. ICLR 2023Neural Collapse Inspired Feature-Classifier Alignment for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
103. ICLR 2023Neural-based classification rule learning for sequential data
104. ICLR 2023Not All Tasks Are Born Equal: Understanding Zero-Shot Generalization
105. ICLR 2023On the Soft-Subnetwork for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
106. ICLR 2023OTOv2: Automatic, Generic, User-Friendly
107. ICLR 2023Out-of-distribution Representation Learning for Time Series Classification
108. ICLR 2023Parallel Deep Neural Networks Have Zero Duality Gap
109. ICLR 2023PEER: A Collaborative Language Model
110. ICLR 2023Programmatically Grounded, Compositionally Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
111. ICLR 2023Prototypical Calibration for Few-shot Learning of Language Models
112. ICLR 2023Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication
113. ICLR 2023Selective Annotation Makes Language Models Better Few-Shot Learners
114. ICLR 2023Self-Guided Noise-Free Data Generation for Efficient Zero-Shot Learning
115. ICLR 2023Socratic Models: Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language
116. ICLR 2023Strategic Classification with Graph Neural Networks
117. ICLR 2023TabCaps: A Capsule Neural Network for Tabular Data Classification with BoW Routing
118. ICLR 2023TabPFN: A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second
119. ICLR 2023TempCLR: Temporal Alignment Representation with Contrastive Learning
120. ICLR 2023Towards Addressing Label Skews in One-Shot Federated Learning
121. ICLR 2023Towards Better Selective Classification
122. ICLR 2023UL2: Unifying Language Learning Paradigms
123. ICLR 2023Understanding Zero-shot Adversarial Robustness for Large-Scale Models
124. ICLR 2023Unmasking the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: What's Encoded in a Winning Ticket's Mask?
125. ICLR 2023Visual Classification via Description from Large Language Models
126. ICLR 2023Visual Recognition with Deep Nearest Centroids
127. ICLR 2023Warping the Space: Weight Space Rotation for Class-Incremental Few-Shot Learning
128. ICLR 2023Zero-Shot Image Restoration Using Denoising Diffusion Null-Space Model
129. ICLR 2023ZiCo: Zero-shot NAS via inverse Coefficient of Variation on Gradients
130. ICML 2023A Closer Look at Few-shot Classification Again
131. ICML 2023A Simple Zero-shot Prompt Weighting Technique to Improve Prompt Ensembling in Text-Image Models
132. ICML 2023A Universal Unbiased Method for Classification from Aggregate Observations
133. ICML 2023Abstracting Imperfect Information Away from Two-Player Zero-Sum Games
134. ICML 2023Adapting to game trees in zero-sum imperfect information games
135. ICML 2023Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs
136. ICML 2023Benign Overfitting in Deep Neural Networks under Lazy Training
137. ICML 2023CHiLS: Zero-Shot Image Classification with Hierarchical Label Sets
138. ICML 2023Computational Asymmetries in Robust Classification
139. ICML 2023Continual Learning in Linear Classification on Separable Data
140. ICML 2023Cooperative Open-ended Learning Framework for Zero-Shot Coordination
141. ICML 2023DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection using Probability Curvature
142. ICML 2023Efficient Training of Language Models using Few-Shot Learning
143. ICML 2023ESC: Exploration with Soft Commonsense Constraints for Zero-shot Object Navigation
144. ICML 2023Evolving Semantic Prototype Improves Generative Zero-Shot Learning
145. ICML 2023Interval Bound Interpolation for Few-shot Learning with Few Tasks
146. ICML 2023PreNAS: Preferred One-Shot Learning Towards Efficient Neural Architecture Search
147. ICML 2023Probabilistic Imputation for Time-series Classification with Missing Data
148. ICML 2023PromptBoosting: Black-Box Text Classification with Ten Forward Passes
149. ICML 2023Quantum Speedups for Zero-Sum Games via Improved Dynamic Gibbs Sampling
150. ICML 2023Random Classification Noise does not defeat All Convex Potential Boosters Irrespective of Model Choice

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.