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

992 papers, page 4 of 20

151. ICML 2026HOI-PAGE: Zero-Shot Human-Object Interaction Generation with Part Affordance Guidance
152. ICML 2026Improving Zero-Shot Offline RL via Behavioral Task Sampling
153. ICML 2026InfoAtlas: A Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Statistical Dependence Estimate
154. ICML 2026Intrinsic Gradient Suppression for Label-Noise Prompt Tuning in Vision–Language Models
155. ICML 2026Klein Hyperbolic Metric Learning
156. ICML 2026Less Precise Can Be More Reliable: A Systematic Evaluation of Quantization’s Impact on VLMs Beyond Accuracy
157. ICML 2026Lottery Prior: Randomized Neural Compression for Zero-Shot Inverse Problems
158. ICML 2026Minimizing Mismatch Risk: A Prototype-Based Routing Framework for Zero-shot LLM-generated Text Detection
159. ICML 2026MusicDET: Zero-Shot AI-Generated Music Detection
160. ICML 2026Neural QAOA$^2$: Differentiable Joint Graph Partitioning and Parameter Initialization for Quantum Combinatorial Optimization
161. ICML 2026Offline Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games with KL Regularization
162. ICML 2026On the Limits of LLM Adaptability: Impact of Model-Internalized Priors on Annotation Task Performance
163. ICML 2026OOVDet: Low-Density Prior Learning for Zero-Shot Out-of-Vocabulary Object Detection
164. ICML 2026Prompt Tuning for CLIP on the Pretrained Manifold
165. ICML 2026Protein Autoregressive Modeling via Multiscale Structure Generation
166. ICML 2026PSMix: Robust Point Cloud Recognition through Spectral Domain Mixing
167. ICML 2026RDT2: Exploring the Scaling Limit of UMI Data Towards Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Generalization
168. ICML 2026Scaling depth capacity via zero/one-layer model expansion
169. ICML 2026scCBGM: Single-Cell Editing via Concept Bottlenecks
170. ICML 2026Segment Anything with Robust Uncertainty-Accuracy Correlation
171. ICML 2026SGERA: Stein-Guided ECG-Report Alignment for ECG Representation Learning
172. ICML 2026Stabilizing Equation Learning via Zero-Point Constraints
173. ICML 2026Stage-wise Distortion–Perception Traversal in Zero-shot Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models
174. ICML 2026Telescope: Improving Zero Shot Detection of LLM Generated Content By Measuring Token Repetition Probability
175. ICML 2026Test-time Generalization for Physics through Neural Operator Splitting
176. ICML 2026TextMesh4D: Zero-shot Text-to-4D Mesh Generation
177. ICML 2026Towards Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Time Series Anomaly Detection: Leveraging Synthetic Data and Relative Context Discrepancy
178. ICML 2026Treatment Responder Classification with Abstention
179. ICML 2026Universal Algorithm-Implicit Learning
180. ICML 2026URS: A Unified Neural Routing Solver for Cross-Problem Zero-Shot Generalization
181. ICML 2026VocSim A Training-free Benchmark for Zero-shot Content Identity in Single-source Audio
182. ICML 2026Von Mises-Fisher Mixture Model with Dynamic Shrinkage for Realistic Test-Time Transduction
183. ICML 2026Welfare-Optimal Classification with Accuracy Auctions
184. ICML 2026When Generalized Zero-Shot Learning Meets PU Learning: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Seen-Class Bias Mitigation
185. ICML 2026Zero-Flow Encoders
186. ICML 2026Zero-shot Active Mapping via Fused 360-BEV Representations and Vision–Language Models
187. ICML 2026Zero-Shot Off-Policy Learning
188. ICML 2026Zero-Shot Rankability: Revealing Latent Ordinal Structure in Multimodal Large Language Models via Language
189. ICML 2026ZeroDiff: Zero-Shot Time Series Reconstruction via Informed-Prior Diffusion
190. NeurIPS 2026A Minimal Interpretable Architecture for Zero-Shot Reconstruction of Dynamical Systems
191. NeurIPS 2026Align3D-AD: Cross-Modal Feature Alignment and Dual-Prompt Learning for Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Detection
192. NeurIPS 2026Alignment Imprint: Zero-Shot AI-Generated Text Detection via Provable Preference Discrepancy
193. NeurIPS 2026Beyond MNIST: Limitations of Amplitude Encoding on Quantum Classification
194. NeurIPS 2026Black-box model classification under the discriminative factorization
195. NeurIPS 2026BrainCoT: A Multi-Task Zero-Shot Brain Signal Foundation Model with Neurometric-Anchored Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
196. NeurIPS 2026Classification Fields: Arbitrarily Fine Recursive Hierarchical Clustering From Few Examples
197. NeurIPS 2026Data-Driven Soft Labeling Scales DNA Read Classification to Whole-Body Cell-Type Deconvolution
198. NeurIPS 2026Decoupled Descent: Exact Test Error Tracking Via Approximate Message Passing
199. NeurIPS 2026DeepArrhythmia: Segment-Contextualized ECG Arrhythmia Classification via Selective Evidence Acquisition
200. NeurIPS 2026DeltaMomentum: A Key-Value based Anisotropic Momentum Update via Delta Rule

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.