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

270 papers, page 5 of 6

201. NeurIPS 2025Equilibrium Policy Generalization: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Cross-Graph Zero-Shot Generalization in Pursuit-Evasion Games
202. NeurIPS 2025Evolving and Regularizing Meta-Environment Learner for Fine-Grained Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
203. NeurIPS 2025Flex-Judge: Text-Only Reasoning Unleashes Zero-Shot Multimodal Evaluators
204. NeurIPS 2025FlowRefiner: A Robust Traffic Classification Framework against Label Noise
205. NeurIPS 2025From Contextual Combinatorial Semi-Bandits to Bandit List Classification: Improved Sample Complexity with Sparse Rewards
206. NeurIPS 2025Fuse2Match: Training-Free Fusion of Flow, Diffusion, and Contrastive Models for Zero-Shot Semantic Matching
207. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Demonstration Order Optimization for Many-shot In-Context Learning
208. NeurIPS 2025How to Learn a Star: Binary Classification with Starshaped Polyhedral Sets
209. NeurIPS 2025IA-GGAD: Zero-shot Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection via Invariant and Affinity Learning
210. NeurIPS 2025iFinder: Structured Zero-Shot Vision-Based LLM Grounding for Dash-Cam Video Reasoning
211. NeurIPS 2025Impact of Dataset Properties on Membership Inference Vulnerability of Deep Transfer Learning
212. NeurIPS 2025Improved Balanced Classification with Theoretically Grounded Loss Functions
213. NeurIPS 2025In-Context Learning of Stochastic Differential Equations with Foundation Inference Models
214. NeurIPS 2025Incremental Sequence Classification with Temporal Consistency
215. NeurIPS 2025InvFusion: Bridging Supervised and Zero-shot Diffusion for Inverse Problems
216. NeurIPS 2025Learning from Reward-Free Offline Data: A Case for Planning with Latent Dynamics Models
217. NeurIPS 2025MAPLE: Multi-scale Attribute-enhanced Prompt Learning for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
218. NeurIPS 2025MonarchAttention: Zero-Shot Conversion to Fast, Hardware-Aware Structured Attention
219. NeurIPS 2025MoonCast: High-Quality Zero-Shot Podcast Generation
220. NeurIPS 2025Multiclass Loss Geometry Matters for Generalization of Gradient Descent in Separable Classification
221. NeurIPS 2025Multitask Learning with Stochastic Interpolants
222. NeurIPS 2025Optimism Without Regularization: Constant Regret in Zero-Sum Games
223. NeurIPS 2025ORIGEN: Zero-Shot 3D Orientation Grounding in Text-to-Image Generation
224. NeurIPS 2025Parameter-Free Hypergraph Neural Network for Few-Shot Node Classification
225. NeurIPS 2025PLANA3R: Zero-shot Metric Planar 3D Reconstruction via Feed-forward Planar Splatting
226. NeurIPS 2025Preference-driven Knowledge Distillation for Few-shot Node Classification
227. NeurIPS 2025QuanDA: Quantile-Based Discriminant Analysis for High-Dimensional Imbalanced Classification
228. NeurIPS 2025RadZero: Similarity-Based Cross-Attention for Explainable Vision-Language Alignment in Chest X-ray with Zero-Shot Multi-Task Capability
229. NeurIPS 2025RaySt3R: Predicting Novel Depth Maps for Zero-Shot Object Completion
230. NeurIPS 2025Representation-Level Counterfactual Calibration for Debiased Zero-Shot Recognition
231. NeurIPS 2025Repurposing Marigold for Zero-Shot Metric Depth Estimation via Defocus Blur Cues
232. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Approximate Gaussian Inference in Classification
233. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Multimodal Learning from the Perspective of Mitigating Classification Ability Disproportion
234. NeurIPS 2025RLZero: Direct Policy Inference from Language Without In-Domain Supervision
235. NeurIPS 2025Robust Minimax Boosting with Performance Guarantees
236. NeurIPS 2025Semantic Surgery: Zero-Shot Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
237. NeurIPS 2025SGN: Shifted Window-Based Hierarchical Variable Grouping for Multivariate Time Series Classification
238. NeurIPS 2025ShapeX: Shapelet-Driven Post Hoc Explanations for Time Series Classification Models
239. NeurIPS 2025SPAZER: Spatial-Semantic Progressive Reasoning Agent for Zero-shot 3D Visual Grounding
240. NeurIPS 2025SPiDR: A Simple Approach for Zero-Shot Safety in Sim-to-Real Transfer
241. NeurIPS 2025Split conformal classification with unsupervised calibration
242. NeurIPS 2025SuperCLIP: CLIP with Simple Classification Supervision
243. NeurIPS 2025Support Vector Generation: Kernelizing Large Language Models for Efficient Zero‑Shot NLP
244. NeurIPS 2025Taming generative video models for zero-shot optical flow extraction
245. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Spectrum-Aware Latent Steering for Zero-Shot Generalization in Vision-Language Models
246. NeurIPS 2025TiRex: Zero-Shot Forecasting Across Long and Short Horizons with Enhanced In-Context Learning
247. NeurIPS 2025TOMCAT: Test-time Comprehensive Knowledge Accumulation for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
248. NeurIPS 2025Towards Robust Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning
249. NeurIPS 2025Transformers are almost optimal metalearners for linear classification
250. NeurIPS 2025Tree-Guided Diffusion Planner

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.