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

257 papers, page 5 of 6

201. NeurIPS 2026DeltaPrompts: Escaping the Zero-Delta Trap in Multimodal Distillation
202. NeurIPS 2026Detecting Hidden ML Training With Zero-Overhead Telemetry
203. NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Tokenization via Reinforcement Patching: End-to-end Training and Zero-shot Transfer
204. NeurIPS 2026DynaPFN: Zero-Shot Dynamical System Forecasting with Tabular Prior-Fitted Networks
205. NeurIPS 2026Early Semantic Grounding in Image Editing Models for Zero-Shot Referring Image Segmentation
206. NeurIPS 2026Echo-SAM: Zero-Shot Learning of Unseen Structures via Medical Knowledge Graph Grounding
207. NeurIPS 2026EENAS: Zero-Shot Energy-Efficiency-Aware Neural Architecture Search
208. NeurIPS 2026Eliciting Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition in Large Language Models via Instruction Semantic Elaboration
209. NeurIPS 2026EpistasisBench: Revealing Structural Limitations of Zero-Shot Protein Language Models
210. NeurIPS 2026Estimation of the Label-Noise Transition Matrix with Performance Guarantees via Selective Classification
211. NeurIPS 2026From Zero to Hero: Training-Free Custom Concept Spawning in World Models
212. NeurIPS 2026GCD: GCM-consistent Diffusion for Zero-shot Downscaling across Heterogeneous GCMs
213. NeurIPS 2026Geometric Factual Recall in Transformers
214. NeurIPS 2026GReFEM: Multimodal LLMs as Zero-Shot Semantic Assistants for Physics-Guided 3D Mesh Refinement
215. NeurIPS 2026Hyperspherical Local Margin Retraction for Zero-Shot Instance-Wise Machine Unlearning
216. NeurIPS 2026InfoNav: A Unified Value Framework Integrating Semantic Relevance and Information Gain for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation
217. NeurIPS 2026Intervention-Guided Image-Free Classifier Expansion for Fine-Grained Recognition
218. NeurIPS 2026Kinetic-Optimal Scheduling with Moment Correction for Metric-Induced Discrete Flow Matching in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech
219. NeurIPS 2026LAtte: Hyperbolic Lorentz Attention for Joint-Subject EEG Classification
220. NeurIPS 2026Learning Neuronal Wiring Rules from Morphological Token Sequences
221. NeurIPS 2026Learning Recoverable Neural Networks against Weight Corruption via Simple Zero-Sum Projection
222. NeurIPS 2026Matching2Matching: Zero-Shot Light Field Image Denoising with Matching View Construction
223. NeurIPS 2026Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning
224. NeurIPS 2026MindAlign: Bridging EEG, Vision, and Language for Zero-Shot Visual Decoding
225. NeurIPS 2026Minimax Optimal Early-Stopped Gradient Descent for Gaussian Mixture Classification
226. NeurIPS 2026MobTA: Bus-Conditioned Zero-Shot Trajectory Generation via Task Arithmetic
227. NeurIPS 2026MPQ: A Message-Passing View of Post-Training Quantization
228. NeurIPS 2026Neural Chameleons: Language Models Can Learn to Hide Their Thoughts from Unseen Activation Monitors
229. NeurIPS 2026One-Shot Private Confidence Regions via Resampling
230. NeurIPS 2026Order-based structure learning for zero-inflated count data under data heterogeneity
231. NeurIPS 2026Polynomial-Time Robust Multiclass Linear Classification under Gaussian Marginals
232. NeurIPS 2026PoseBridge: Bridging the Skeletonization Gap for Zero-Shot Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
233. NeurIPS 2026Prompting Diffusion Models for Zero-Shot Instance Segmentation
234. NeurIPS 2026RAO-Nav: Probing Omni-Language Models for Zero-shot Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation
235. NeurIPS 2026RaZeR: Pushing the Limits of NVFP4 Quantization with Redundant Zero Remapping
236. NeurIPS 2026Robust Stream Classification using Time Neutralising Decision Trees
237. NeurIPS 2026Roll2Depth: Zero-Shot Metric Depth Estimation Exploiting Camera's Rolling Shutter Effect
238. NeurIPS 2026SimReg: Achieving Higher Performance in the Pretraining via Embedding Similarity Regularization
239. NeurIPS 2026Soft Forward-Backward Representations for Zero-shot Reinforcement Learning with General Utilities
240. NeurIPS 2026Subset-Conditioned Boundary Compensation for Missing-Modality Multimodal Classification
241. NeurIPS 2026SVG-3D: Mining Decision Boundaries with Generative Splatting Priors for Zero-Shot 3D Classification
242. NeurIPS 2026TempoPFN: Synthetic Pre-training of Linear RNNs for Zero-shot Time Series Forecasting
243. NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Adaptation via Self-Reinforced Optimal Transport for Zero-Shot OOD Detection with Vision–Language Models
244. NeurIPS 2026TokenCLIP: Token-wise Prompt Learning for Zero-shot Anomaly Detection
245. NeurIPS 2026Toward Minimal-dimensional Convex Calibrated Surrogate Losses for Classification with Rejection
246. NeurIPS 2026Transcoda: End-to-End Zero-Shot Optical Music Recognition via Data-Centric Synthetic Training
247. NeurIPS 2026UnfoldArt: Zero-Shot Recovery of Full Articulated 3D Objects from Text or Image
248. NeurIPS 2026VETime: Vision Enhanced Zero-Shot Time Series Anomaly Detection
249. NeurIPS 2026Video Forensic Self-Descriptions: Leveraging Temporally Distributed Forensic Microstructures for Zero-Shot Detection of AI-Generated Videos
250. NeurIPS 2026VIGOR: Zero-Shot Visual Generalization via Latent-Space Consistency in Model-Based Reinforcement 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.