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

192 papers, page 4 of 4

151. ICML 2024Sharpness-Aware Data Generation for Zero-shot Quantization
152. ICML 2024Spotting LLMs With Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text
153. ICML 2024SSL4Q: Semi-Supervised Learning of Quantum Data with Application to Quantum State Classification
154. ICML 2024State-Constrained Zero-Sum Differential Games with One-Sided Information
155. ICML 2024Stop Regressing: Training Value Functions via Classification for Scalable Deep RL
156. ICML 2024Tilt your Head: Activating the Hidden Spatial-Invariance of Classifiers
157. ICML 2024TimeMIL: Advancing Multivariate Time Series Classification via a Time-aware Multiple Instance Learning
158. ICML 2024Total Variation Floodgate for Variable Importance Inference in Classification
159. ICML 2024Trustless Audits without Revealing Data or Models
160. ICML 2024Unsupervised Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning via Functional Reward Encodings
161. ICML 2024VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation
162. ICML 2024VoroNav: Voronoi-based Zero-shot Object Navigation with Large Language Model
163. ICML 2024Zero-Shot ECG Classification with Multimodal Learning and Test-time Clinical Knowledge Enhancement
164. ICML 2024Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning via Function Encoders
165. ICML 2023A Closer Look at Few-shot Classification Again
166. ICML 2023A Simple Zero-shot Prompt Weighting Technique to Improve Prompt Ensembling in Text-Image Models
167. ICML 2023A Universal Unbiased Method for Classification from Aggregate Observations
168. ICML 2023Abstracting Imperfect Information Away from Two-Player Zero-Sum Games
169. ICML 2023Adapting to game trees in zero-sum imperfect information games
170. ICML 2023Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs
171. ICML 2023Benign Overfitting in Deep Neural Networks under Lazy Training
172. ICML 2023CHiLS: Zero-Shot Image Classification with Hierarchical Label Sets
173. ICML 2023Computational Asymmetries in Robust Classification
174. ICML 2023Continual Learning in Linear Classification on Separable Data
175. ICML 2023Cooperative Open-ended Learning Framework for Zero-Shot Coordination
176. ICML 2023DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection using Probability Curvature
177. ICML 2023Efficient Training of Language Models using Few-Shot Learning
178. ICML 2023ESC: Exploration with Soft Commonsense Constraints for Zero-shot Object Navigation
179. ICML 2023Evolving Semantic Prototype Improves Generative Zero-Shot Learning
180. ICML 2023Interval Bound Interpolation for Few-shot Learning with Few Tasks
181. ICML 2023PreNAS: Preferred One-Shot Learning Towards Efficient Neural Architecture Search
182. ICML 2023Probabilistic Imputation for Time-series Classification with Missing Data
183. ICML 2023PromptBoosting: Black-Box Text Classification with Ten Forward Passes
184. ICML 2023Quantum Speedups for Zero-Sum Games via Improved Dynamic Gibbs Sampling
185. ICML 2023Random Classification Noise does not defeat All Convex Potential Boosters Irrespective of Model Choice
186. ICML 2023Robust One-Class Classification with Signed Distance Function using 1-Lipschitz Neural Networks
187. ICML 2023SemSup-XC: Semantic Supervision for Zero and Few-shot Extreme Classification
188. ICML 2023SparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot
189. ICML 2023Strategic Classification with Unknown User Manipulations
190. ICML 2023The Computational Complexity of Concise Hypersphere Classification
191. ICML 2023The multimarginal optimal transport formulation of adversarial multiclass classification
192. ICML 2023Tuning Language Models as Training Data Generators for Augmentation-Enhanced Few-Shot Learning

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.