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 5 of 6

201. NeurIPS 2024Distributional Successor Features Enable Zero-Shot Policy Optimization
202. NeurIPS 2024Dual Risk Minimization: Towards Next-Level Robustness in Fine-tuning Zero-Shot Models
203. NeurIPS 2024EEVR: A Dataset of Paired Physiological Signals and Textual Descriptions for Joint Emotion Representation Learning
204. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Zero-Shot Vision Models by Label-Free Prompt Distribution Learning and Bias Correcting
205. NeurIPS 2024EPIC: Effective Prompting for Imbalanced-Class Data Synthesis in Tabular Data Classification via Large Language Models
206. NeurIPS 2024EZ-HOI: VLM Adaptation via Guided Prompt Learning for Zero-Shot HOI Detection
207. NeurIPS 2024Facilitating Multimodal Classification via Dynamically Learning Modality Gap
208. NeurIPS 2024Fast Graph Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Enhancing and Accelerating Few-Shot Node Classification
209. NeurIPS 2024Fast Last-Iterate Convergence of Learning in Games Requires Forgetful Algorithms
210. NeurIPS 2024Fast Rates for Bandit PAC Multiclass Classification
211. NeurIPS 2024Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding (FALCON) Benchmark
212. NeurIPS 2024Foundation Inference Models for Markov Jump Processes
213. NeurIPS 2024GAMap: Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation with Multi-Scale Geometric-Affordance Guidance
214. NeurIPS 2024GLBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Graph with Large Language Models
215. NeurIPS 2024Hierarchical Selective Classification
216. NeurIPS 2024How Molecules Impact Cells: Unlocking Contrastive PhenoMolecular Retrieval
217. NeurIPS 2024Implicit Bias of Mirror Flow on Separable Data
218. NeurIPS 2024Infusing Synthetic Data with Real-World Patterns for Zero-Shot Material State Segmentation
219. NeurIPS 2024Instance-adaptive Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought Prompting
220. NeurIPS 2024InterControl: Zero-shot Human Interaction Generation by Controlling Every Joint
221. NeurIPS 2024Interpreting and Analysing CLIP's Zero-Shot Image Classification via Mutual Knowledge
222. NeurIPS 2024Language Models as Zero-shot Lossless Gradient Compressors: Towards General Neural Parameter Prior Models
223. NeurIPS 2024Listenable Maps for Zero-Shot Audio Classifiers
224. NeurIPS 2024LLM-based Skill Diffusion for Zero-shot Policy Adaptation
225. NeurIPS 2024LLMs as Zero-shot Graph Learners: Alignment of GNN Representations with LLM Token Embeddings
226. NeurIPS 2024LRM-Zero: Training Large Reconstruction Models with Synthesized Data
227. NeurIPS 2024Masked Pre-training Enables Universal Zero-shot Denoiser
228. NeurIPS 2024Metric from Human: Zero-shot Monocular Metric Depth Estimation via Test-time Adaptation
229. NeurIPS 2024Model-Based Transfer Learning for Contextual Reinforcement Learning
230. NeurIPS 2024Multiclass Transductive Online Learning
231. NeurIPS 2024Neural Collapse To Multiple Centers For Imbalanced Data
232. NeurIPS 2024Neuronal Competition Groups with Supervised STDP for Spike-Based Classification
233. NeurIPS 2024Nonparametric Classification on Low Dimensional Manifolds using Overparameterized Convolutional Residual Networks
234. NeurIPS 2024Object segmentation from common fate: Motion energy processing enables human-like zero-shot generalization to random dot stimuli
235. NeurIPS 2024Online Classification with Predictions
236. NeurIPS 2024Optimal Classification under Performative Distribution Shift
237. NeurIPS 2024OTTER: Effortless Label Distribution Adaptation of Zero-shot Models
238. NeurIPS 2024PointAD: Comprehending 3D Anomalies from Points and Pixels for Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Detection
239. NeurIPS 2024Pretrained Optimization Model for Zero-Shot Black Box Optimization
240. NeurIPS 2024Recognize Any Regions
241. NeurIPS 2024Robust Fine-tuning of Zero-shot Models via Variance Reduction
242. NeurIPS 2024Segment Any Change
243. NeurIPS 2024SG-Nav: Online 3D Scene Graph Prompting for LLM-based Zero-shot Object Navigation
244. NeurIPS 2024Skill-aware Mutual Information Optimisation for Zero-shot Generalisation in Reinforcement Learning
245. NeurIPS 2024Smoothed Online Classification can be Harder than Batch Classification
246. NeurIPS 2024Soft-Label Integration for Robust Toxicity Classification
247. NeurIPS 2024Solving Zero-Sum Markov Games with Continuous State via Spectral Dynamic Embedding
248. NeurIPS 2024SpeAr: A Spectral Approach for Zero-Shot Node Classification
249. NeurIPS 2024Stabilizing Zero-Shot Prediction: A Novel Antidote to Forgetting in Continual Vision-Language Tasks
250. NeurIPS 2024SwitchHead: Accelerating Transformers with Mixture-of-Experts Attention

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.