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 4 of 7

151. CVPR 2025Zero-shot 3D Question Answering via Voxel-based Dynamic Token Compression
152. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot 4D Lidar Panoptic Segmentation
153. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Blind-spot Image Denoising via Implicit Neural Sampling
154. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Head Swapping in Real-World Scenarios
155. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Image Restoration Using Few-Step Guidance of Consistency Models (and Beyond)
156. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Monocular Scene Flow Estimation in the Wild
157. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Novel View and Depth Synthesis with Multi-View Geometric Diffusion
158. CVPR 2025Zero-shot RGB-D Point Cloud Registration with Pre-trained Large Vision Model
159. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Styled Text Image Generation, but Make It Autoregressive
160. CVPR 2025ZeroGrasp: Zero-Shot Shape Reconstruction Enabled Robotic Grasping
161. CVPR 2024A Video is Worth 256 Bases: Spatial-Temporal Expectation-Maximization Inversion for Zero-Shot Video Editing
162. CVPR 2024Adapt Before Comparison: A New Perspective on Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
163. CVPR 2024Adversarially Robust Few-shot Learning via Parameter Co-distillation of Similarity and Class Concept Learners
164. CVPR 2024Affine Equivariant Networks Based on Differential Invariants
165. CVPR 2024AMU-Tuning: Effective Logit Bias for CLIP-based Few-shot Learning
166. CVPR 2024AnyDoor: Zero-shot Object-level Image Customization
167. CVPR 2024AZ-NAS: Assembling Zero-Cost Proxies for Network Architecture Search
168. CVPR 2024Bayesian Exploration of Pre-trained Models for Low-shot Image Classification
169. CVPR 2024Boosting Object Detection with Zero-Shot Day-Night Domain Adaptation
170. CVPR 2024CARZero: Cross-Attention Alignment for Radiology Zero-Shot Classification
171. CVPR 2024CLIP-KD: An Empirical Study of CLIP Model Distillation
172. CVPR 2024Context-based and Diversity-driven Specificity in Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
173. CVPR 2024CPLIP: Zero-Shot Learning for Histopathology with Comprehensive Vision-Language Alignment
174. CVPR 2024Deep Imbalanced Regression via Hierarchical Classification Adjustment
175. CVPR 2024Deformable One-shot Face Stylization via DINO Semantic Guidance
176. CVPR 2024Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data
177. CVPR 2024Depth-aware Test-Time Training for Zero-shot Video Object Segmentation
178. CVPR 2024DiffPortrait3D: Controllable Diffusion for Zero-Shot Portrait View Synthesis
179. CVPR 2024DiffSCI: Zero-Shot Snapshot Compressive Imaging via Iterative Spectral Diffusion Model
180. CVPR 2024Diffuse Attend and Segment: Unsupervised Zero-Shot Segmentation using Stable Diffusion
181. CVPR 2024EMOPortraits: Emotion-enhanced Multimodal One-shot Head Avatars
182. CVPR 2024Enhance Image Classification via Inter-Class Image Mixup with Diffusion Model
183. CVPR 2024Exploring Regional Clues in CLIP for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
184. CVPR 2024Few-shot Learner Parameterization by Diffusion Time-steps
185. CVPR 2024FocSAM: Delving Deeply into Focused Objects in Segmenting Anything
186. CVPR 2024Fourier Priors-Guided Diffusion for Zero-Shot Joint Low-Light Enhancement and Deblurring
187. CVPR 2024Fourier-basis Functions to Bridge Augmentation Gap: Rethinking Frequency Augmentation in Image Classification
188. CVPR 2024FRESCO: Spatial-Temporal Correspondence for Zero-Shot Video Translation
189. CVPR 2024Frozen Feature Augmentation for Few-Shot Image Classification
190. CVPR 2024Generalizable Whole Slide Image Classification with Fine-Grained Visual-Semantic Interaction
191. CVPR 2024GenZI: Zero-Shot 3D Human-Scene Interaction Generation
192. CVPR 2024Geometrically-driven Aggregation for Zero-shot 3D Point Cloud Understanding
193. CVPR 2024Hyperspherical Classification with Dynamic Label-to-Prototype Assignment
194. CVPR 2024Improved Zero-Shot Classification by Adapting VLMs with Text Descriptions
195. CVPR 2024Improving Generalized Zero-Shot Learning by Exploring the Diverse Semantics from External Class Names
196. CVPR 2024Instance-based Max-margin for Practical Few-shot Recognition
197. CVPR 2024Knowledge-Enhanced Dual-stream Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval
198. CVPR 2024Label Propagation for Zero-shot Classification with Vision-Language Models
199. CVPR 2024Language-Driven Anchors for Zero-Shot Adversarial Robustness
200. CVPR 2024Language-only Training of Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval

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.