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

282 papers, page 5 of 6

201. NeurIPS 2024Masked Pre-training Enables Universal Zero-shot Denoiser
202. NeurIPS 2024Metric from Human: Zero-shot Monocular Metric Depth Estimation via Test-time Adaptation
203. NeurIPS 2024Model-Based Transfer Learning for Contextual Reinforcement Learning
204. NeurIPS 2024Multiclass Transductive Online Learning
205. NeurIPS 2024Neural Collapse To Multiple Centers For Imbalanced Data
206. NeurIPS 2024Neuronal Competition Groups with Supervised STDP for Spike-Based Classification
207. NeurIPS 2024Nonparametric Classification on Low Dimensional Manifolds using Overparameterized Convolutional Residual Networks
208. NeurIPS 2024Object segmentation from common fate: Motion energy processing enables human-like zero-shot generalization to random dot stimuli
209. NeurIPS 2024Online Classification with Predictions
210. NeurIPS 2024Optimal Classification under Performative Distribution Shift
211. NeurIPS 2024OTTER: Effortless Label Distribution Adaptation of Zero-shot Models
212. NeurIPS 2024PointAD: Comprehending 3D Anomalies from Points and Pixels for Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Detection
213. NeurIPS 2024Pretrained Optimization Model for Zero-Shot Black Box Optimization
214. NeurIPS 2024Recognize Any Regions
215. NeurIPS 2024Robust Fine-tuning of Zero-shot Models via Variance Reduction
216. NeurIPS 2024Segment Any Change
217. NeurIPS 2024SG-Nav: Online 3D Scene Graph Prompting for LLM-based Zero-shot Object Navigation
218. NeurIPS 2024Skill-aware Mutual Information Optimisation for Zero-shot Generalisation in Reinforcement Learning
219. NeurIPS 2024Smoothed Online Classification can be Harder than Batch Classification
220. NeurIPS 2024Soft-Label Integration for Robust Toxicity Classification
221. NeurIPS 2024Solving Zero-Sum Markov Games with Continuous State via Spectral Dynamic Embedding
222. NeurIPS 2024SpeAr: A Spectral Approach for Zero-Shot Node Classification
223. NeurIPS 2024Stabilizing Zero-Shot Prediction: A Novel Antidote to Forgetting in Continual Vision-Language Tasks
224. NeurIPS 2024SwitchHead: Accelerating Transformers with Mixture-of-Experts Attention
225. NeurIPS 2024Text-Infused Attention and Foreground-Aware Modeling for Zero-Shot Temporal Action Detection
226. NeurIPS 2024TPR: Topology-Preserving Reservoirs for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
227. NeurIPS 2024UniBench: Visual Reasoning Requires Rethinking Vision-Language Beyond Scaling
228. NeurIPS 2024Zero-Shot Event-Intensity Asymmetric Stereo via Visual Prompting from Image Domain
229. NeurIPS 2024Zero-shot Generalizable Incremental Learning for Vision-Language Object Detection
230. NeurIPS 2024Zero-shot Image Editing with Reference Imitation
231. NeurIPS 2024Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning from Low Quality Data
232. NeurIPS 2024Zero-Shot Scene Reconstruction from Single Images with Deep Prior Assembly
233. NeurIPS 2024Zero-Shot Tokenizer Transfer
234. NeurIPS 2024Zero-Shot Transfer of Neural ODEs
235. NeurIPS 2024Zero-to-Hero: Enhancing Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesis via Attention Map Filtering
236. NeurIPS 2024ZOPP: A Framework of Zero-shot Offboard Panoptic Perception for Autonomous Driving
237. NeurIPS 2023A Tale of Two Features: Stable Diffusion Complements DINO for Zero-Shot Semantic Correspondence
238. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive recurrent vision performs zero-shot computation scaling to unseen difficulty levels
239. NeurIPS 2023ASL Citizen: A Community-Sourced Dataset for Advancing Isolated Sign Language Recognition
240. NeurIPS 2023Automated Classification of Model Errors on ImageNet
241. NeurIPS 2023Black-box Backdoor Defense via Zero-shot Image Purification
242. NeurIPS 2023Calibrating “Cheap Signals” in Peer Review without a Prior
243. NeurIPS 2023ChatGPT-Powered Hierarchical Comparisons for Image Classification
244. NeurIPS 2023CLIP4HOI: Towards Adapting CLIP for Practical Zero-Shot HOI Detection
245. NeurIPS 2023Convex-Concave Zero-Sum Markov Stackelberg Games
246. NeurIPS 2023CSLP-AE: A Contrastive Split-Latent Permutation Autoencoder Framework for Zero-Shot Electroencephalography Signal Conversion
247. NeurIPS 2023CWCL: Cross-Modal Transfer with Continuously Weighted Contrastive Loss
248. NeurIPS 2023Easy Learning from Label Proportions
249. NeurIPS 2023Embroid: Unsupervised Prediction Smoothing Can Improve Few-Shot Classification
250. NeurIPS 2023Explore to Generalize in Zero-Shot RL

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.