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

270 papers, page 3 of 6

101. ICLR 2025Making Text Embedders Few-Shot Learners
102. ICLR 2025Manifold Induced Biases for Zero-shot and Few-shot Detection of Generated Images
103. ICLR 2025MaskGCT: Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Masked Generative Codec Transformer
104. ICLR 2025Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Zero-Shot Multimodal Models
105. ICLR 2025MoE++: Accelerating Mixture-of-Experts Methods with Zero-Computation Experts
106. ICLR 2025MS-Diffusion: Multi-subject Zero-shot Image Personalization with Layout Guidance
107. ICLR 2025Multi-Label Test-Time Adaptation with Bound Entropy Minimization
108. ICLR 2025NatureLM-audio: an Audio-Language Foundation Model for Bioacoustics
109. ICLR 2025NVS-Solver: Video Diffusion Model as Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesizer
110. ICLR 2025On the Transfer of Object-Centric Representation Learning
111. ICLR 2025OvercookedV2: Rethinking Overcooked for Zero-Shot Coordination
112. ICLR 2025Param$\Delta$ for Direct Mixing: Post-Train Large Language Model At Zero Cost
113. ICLR 2025Planning Anything with Rigor: General-Purpose Zero-Shot Planning with LLM-based Formalized Programming
114. ICLR 2025PostEdit: Posterior Sampling for Efficient Zero-Shot Image Editing
115. ICLR 2025Predicate Hierarchies Improve Few-Shot State Classification
116. ICLR 2025Prompt as Knowledge Bank: Boost Vision-language model via Structural Representation for zero-shot medical detection
117. ICLR 2025Protein Language Model Fitness is a Matter of Preference
118. ICLR 2025Prototype antithesis for biological few-shot class-incremental learning
119. ICLR 2025Pushing the Limits of All-Atom Geometric Graph Neural Networks: Pre-Training, Scaling, and Zero-Shot Transfer
120. ICLR 2025Random-Set Neural Networks
121. ICLR 2025REMEDY: Recipe Merging Dynamics in Large Vision-Language Models
122. ICLR 2025Straight to Zero: Why Linearly Decaying the Learning Rate to Zero Works Best for LLMs
123. ICLR 2025SynQ: Accurate Zero-shot Quantization by Synthesis-aware Fine-tuning
124. ICLR 2025Theory on Score-Mismatched Diffusion Models and Zero-Shot Conditional Samplers
125. ICLR 2025Transformer Learns Optimal Variable Selection in Group-Sparse Classification
126. ICLR 2025Transformers Provably Learn Two-Mixture of Linear Classification via Gradient Flow
127. ICLR 2025Unleashing the Potential of Vision-Language Pre-Training for 3D Zero-Shot Lesion Segmentation via Mask-Attribute Alignment
128. ICLR 2025Video In-context Learning: Autoregressive Transformers are Zero-Shot Video Imitators
129. ICLR 2025Visually Consistent Hierarchical Image Classification
130. ICLR 2025W-PCA Based Gradient-Free Proxy for Efficient Search of Lightweight Language Models
131. ICLR 2025Zero-shot forecasting of chaotic systems
132. ICLR 2025Zero-shot Imputation with Foundation Inference Models for Dynamical Systems
133. ICLR 2025Zero-shot Model-based Reinforcement Learning using Large Language Models
134. ICLR 2025Zero-Shot Natural Language Explanations
135. ICLR 2025ZeroDiff: Solidified Visual-semantic Correlation in Zero-Shot Learning
136. ICML 2025A Classification View on Meta Learning Bandits
137. ICML 2025A Generalization Theory for Zero-Shot Prediction
138. ICML 2025Alpha-SQL: Zero-Shot Text-to-SQL using Monte Carlo Tree Search
139. ICML 2025Bootstrapping Self-Improvement of Language Model Programs for Zero-Shot Schema Matching
140. ICML 2025CERTAIN: Context Uncertainty-aware One-Shot Adaptation for Context-based Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning
141. ICML 2025Conformity Score Averaging for Classification
142. ICML 2025DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning
143. ICML 2025Discovering a Zero (Zero-Vector Class of Machine Learning)
144. ICML 2025DMOSpeech: Direct Metric Optimization via Distilled Diffusion Model in Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis
145. ICML 2025Do Not Mimic My Voice : Speaker Identity Unlearning for Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech
146. ICML 2025EnsLoss: Stochastic Calibrated Loss Ensembles for Preventing Overfitting in Classification
147. ICML 2025ERICT: Enhancing Robustness by Identifying Concept Tokens in Zero-Shot Vision Language Models
148. ICML 2025Explanatory Instructions: Towards Unified Vision Tasks Understanding and Zero-shot Generalization
149. ICML 2025FIC-TSC: Learning Time Series Classification with Fisher Information Constraint
150. ICML 2025Fine-Grained Captioning of Long Videos through Scene Graph Consolidation

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.