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

318 papers, page 6 of 7

251. CVPR 2023Bi-Level Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Domain Generalization
252. CVPR 2023CLIP for All Things Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, Fine-Grained or Not
253. CVPR 2023CLIP-Sculptor: Zero-Shot Generation of High-Fidelity and Diverse Shapes From Natural Language
254. CVPR 2023ConZIC: Controllable Zero-Shot Image Captioning by Sampling-Based Polishing
255. CVPR 2023CoWs on Pasture: Baselines and Benchmarks for Language-Driven Zero-Shot Object Navigation
256. CVPR 2023Decomposed Soft Prompt Guided Fusion Enhancing for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
257. CVPR 2023Delving Into Shape-Aware Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
258. CVPR 2023DiGeo: Discriminative Geometry-Aware Learning for Generalized Few-Shot Object Detection
259. CVPR 2023Distilling Self-Supervised Vision Transformers for Weakly-Supervised Few-Shot Classification & Segmentation
260. CVPR 2023Doubly Right Object Recognition: A Why Prompt for Visual Rationales
261. CVPR 2023Dream3D: Zero-Shot Text-to-3D Synthesis Using 3D Shape Prior and Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
262. CVPR 2023Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Class-Aware Bilateral Distillation
263. CVPR 2023Few-Shot Geometry-Aware Keypoint Localization
264. CVPR 2023Few-Shot Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging With Signal-Surface Collaborative Regularization
265. CVPR 2023Few-Shot Referring Relationships in Videos
266. CVPR 2023Fine-Grained Classification With Noisy Labels
267. CVPR 2023Finetune Like You Pretrain: Improved Finetuning of Zero-Shot Vision Models
268. CVPR 2023FreeNeRF: Improving Few-Shot Neural Rendering With Free Frequency Regularization
269. CVPR 2023From Images to Textual Prompts: Zero-Shot Visual Question Answering With Frozen Large Language Models
270. CVPR 2023Glocal Energy-Based Learning for Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition
271. CVPR 2023Hard Sample Matters a Lot in Zero-Shot Quantization
272. CVPR 2023Hubs and Hyperspheres: Reducing Hubness and Improving Transductive Few-Shot Learning With Hyperspherical Embeddings
273. CVPR 2023I2MVFormer: Large Language Model Generated Multi-View Document Supervision for Zero-Shot Image Classification
274. CVPR 2023iCLIP: Bridging Image Classification and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training for Visual Recognition
275. CVPR 2023Improving Zero-Shot Generalization and Robustness of Multi-Modal Models
276. CVPR 2023Interactive Segmentation As Gaussion Process Classification
277. CVPR 2023Language in a Bottle: Language Model Guided Concept Bottlenecks for Interpretable Image Classification
278. CVPR 2023Learning Attention As Disentangler for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
279. CVPR 2023Learning Bottleneck Concepts in Image Classification
280. CVPR 2023Learning Conditional Attributes for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
281. CVPR 2023Leveraging Inter-Rater Agreement for Classification in the Presence of Noisy Labels
282. CVPR 2023Master: Meta Style Transformer for Controllable Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Artistic Style Transfer
283. CVPR 2023MoLo: Motion-Augmented Long-Short Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Action Recognition
284. CVPR 2023Multimodality Helps Unimodality: Cross-Modal Few-Shot Learning With Multimodal Models
285. CVPR 2023NIFF: Alleviating Forgetting in Generalized Few-Shot Object Detection via Neural Instance Feature Forging
286. CVPR 2023Non-Contrastive Learning Meets Language-Image Pre-Training
287. CVPR 2023One-Shot Model for Mixed-Precision Quantization
288. CVPR 2023Open-Set Likelihood Maximization for Few-Shot Learning
289. CVPR 2023OTAvatar: One-Shot Talking Face Avatar With Controllable Tri-Plane Rendering
290. CVPR 2023Pic2Word: Mapping Pictures to Words for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
291. CVPR 2023Primitive Generation and Semantic-Related Alignment for Universal Zero-Shot Segmentation
292. CVPR 2023ProD: Prompting-To-Disentangle Domain Knowledge for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Image Classification
293. CVPR 2023Progressive Semantic-Visual Mutual Adaption for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
294. CVPR 2023Prompt-Guided Zero-Shot Anomaly Action Recognition Using Pretrained Deep Skeleton Features
295. CVPR 2023Prompt, Generate, Then Cache: Cascade of Foundation Models Makes Strong Few-Shot Learners
296. CVPR 2023Rethinking the Correlation in Few-Shot Segmentation: A Buoys View
297. CVPR 2023Revisiting Prototypical Network for Cross Domain Few-Shot Learning
298. CVPR 2023Robust 3D Shape Classification via Non-Local Graph Attention Network
299. CVPR 2023Semantic Prompt for Few-Shot Image Recognition
300. CVPR 2023Semantic-Promoted Debiasing and Background Disambiguation for Zero-Shot Instance Segmentation

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.