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

262 papers, page 4 of 6

151. ICML 2024Mastering Zero-Shot Interactions in Cooperative and Competitive Simultaneous Games
152. ICML 2024MD tree: a model-diagnostic tree grown on loss landscape
153. ICML 2024Meta Evidential Transformer for Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition
154. ICML 2024MOKD: Cross-domain Finetuning for Few-shot Classification via Maximizing Optimized Kernel Dependence
155. ICML 2024NaturalSpeech 3: Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis with Factorized Codec and Diffusion Models
156. ICML 2024Neurodegenerative Brain Network Classification via Adaptive Diffusion with Temporal Regularization
157. ICML 2024No Dimensional Sampling Coresets for Classification
158. ICML 2024One Meta-tuned Transformer is What You Need for Few-shot Learning
159. ICML 2024One-Shot Strategic Classification Under Unknown Costs
160. ICML 2024PEARL: Zero-shot Cross-task Preference Alignment and Robust Reward Learning for Robotic Manipulation
161. ICML 2024Progressive Inference: Explaining Decoder-Only Sequence Classification Models Using Intermediate Predictions
162. ICML 2024Prompt-based Visual Alignment for Zero-shot Policy Transfer
163. ICML 2024Pruner-Zero: Evolving Symbolic Pruning Metric From Scratch for Large Language Models
164. ICML 2024QORA: Zero-Shot Transfer via Interpretable Object-Relational Model Learning
165. ICML 2024Restoring balance: principled under/oversampling of data for optimal classification
166. ICML 2024Robust Classification via a Single Diffusion Model
167. ICML 2024Sharpness-Aware Data Generation for Zero-shot Quantization
168. ICML 2024Spotting LLMs With Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text
169. ICML 2024SSL4Q: Semi-Supervised Learning of Quantum Data with Application to Quantum State Classification
170. ICML 2024State-Constrained Zero-Sum Differential Games with One-Sided Information
171. ICML 2024Stop Regressing: Training Value Functions via Classification for Scalable Deep RL
172. ICML 2024Tilt your Head: Activating the Hidden Spatial-Invariance of Classifiers
173. ICML 2024TimeMIL: Advancing Multivariate Time Series Classification via a Time-aware Multiple Instance Learning
174. ICML 2024Total Variation Floodgate for Variable Importance Inference in Classification
175. ICML 2024Trustless Audits without Revealing Data or Models
176. ICML 2024Unsupervised Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning via Functional Reward Encodings
177. ICML 2024VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation
178. ICML 2024VoroNav: Voronoi-based Zero-shot Object Navigation with Large Language Model
179. ICML 2024Zero-Shot ECG Classification with Multimodal Learning and Test-time Clinical Knowledge Enhancement
180. ICML 2024Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning via Function Encoders
181. NeurIPS 2024$\textit{NeuroPath}$: A Neural Pathway Transformer for Joining the Dots of Human Connectomes
182. NeurIPS 2024A Foundation Model for Zero-shot Logical Query Reasoning
183. NeurIPS 2024ALPS: Improved Optimization for Highly Sparse One-Shot Pruning for Large Language Models
184. NeurIPS 2024An Efficient Memory Module for Graph Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
185. NeurIPS 2024AutoMix: Automatically Mixing Language Models
186. NeurIPS 2024AWT: Transferring Vision-Language Models via Augmentation, Weighting, and Transportation
187. NeurIPS 2024BetterDepth: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Refiner for Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation
188. NeurIPS 2024BIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity
189. NeurIPS 2024Bridge the Modality and Capability Gaps in Vision-Language Model Selection
190. NeurIPS 2024Building a stable classifier with the inflated argmax
191. NeurIPS 2024Building Timeseries Dataset: Empowering Large-Scale Building Analytics
192. NeurIPS 2024Class Distribution Shifts in Zero-Shot Learning: Learning Robust Representations
193. NeurIPS 2024Classic GNNs are Strong Baselines: Reassessing GNNs for Node Classification
194. NeurIPS 2024Classification Diffusion Models: Revitalizing Density Ratio Estimation
195. NeurIPS 2024Combining Observational Data and Language for Species Range Estimation
196. NeurIPS 2024Confidence Calibration of Classifiers with Many Classes
197. NeurIPS 2024Conformal Classification with Equalized Coverage for Adaptively Selected Groups
198. NeurIPS 2024Conjugated Semantic Pool Improves OOD Detection with Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
199. NeurIPS 2024CoVoMix: Advancing Zero-Shot Speech Generation for Human-like Multi-talker Conversations
200. NeurIPS 2024DiffuLT: Diffusion for Long-tail Recognition Without External Knowledge

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.