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

992 papers, page 7 of 20

301. CVPR 2025OnlineAnySeg: Online Zero-Shot 3D Segmentation by Visual Foundation Model Guided 2D Mask Merging
302. CVPR 2025ProAPO: Progressively Automatic Prompt Optimization for Visual Classification
303. CVPR 2025Reason-before-Retrieve: One-Stage Reflective Chain-of-Thoughts for Training-Free Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
304. CVPR 2025Reconciling Stochastic and Deterministic Strategies for Zero-shot Image Restoration using Diffusion Model in Dual
305. CVPR 2025Robust 3D Shape Reconstruction in Zero-Shot from a Single Image in the Wild
306. CVPR 2025SAM2Object: Consolidating View Consistency via SAM2 for Zero-Shot 3D Instance Segmentation
307. CVPR 2025Scalable Autoregressive Monocular Depth Estimation
308. CVPR 2025Semantic-guided Cross-Modal Prompt Learning for Skeleton-based Zero-shot Action Recognition
309. CVPR 2025Seurat: From Moving Points to Depth
310. CVPR 2025SPARC: Score Prompting and Adaptive Fusion for Zero-Shot Multi-Label Recognition in Vision-Language Models
311. CVPR 2025Stereo Anywhere: Robust Zero-Shot Deep Stereo Matching Even Where Either Stereo or Mono Fail
312. CVPR 2025T2ICount: Enhancing Cross-modal Understanding for Zero-Shot Counting
313. CVPR 2025TAMT: Temporal-Aware Model Tuning for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Action Recognition
314. CVPR 2025Task-Specific Gradient Adaptation for Few-Shot One-Class Classification
315. CVPR 2025Temporal Alignment-Free Video Matching for Few-shot Action Recognition
316. CVPR 2025Text Augmented Correlation Transformer For Few-shot Classification & Segmentation
317. CVPR 2025Towards Efficient Foundation Model for Zero-shot Amodal Segmentation
318. CVPR 2025Towards Source-Free Machine Unlearning
319. CVPR 2025Towards Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection and Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
320. CVPR 2025Tripartite Weight-Space Ensemble for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
321. CVPR 2025UNEM: UNrolled Generalized EM for Transductive Few-Shot Learning
322. CVPR 2025UniGoal: Towards Universal Zero-shot Goal-oriented Navigation
323. CVPR 2025VidBot: Learning Generalizable 3D Actions from In-the-Wild 2D Human Videos for Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation
324. CVPR 2025Visual and Semantic Prompt Collaboration for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
325. CVPR 2025Z-Magic: Zero-shot Multiple Attributes Guided Image Creator
326. CVPR 2025Zero-1-to-A: Zero-Shot One Image to Animatable Head Avatars Using Video Diffusion
327. CVPR 2025Zero-shot 3D Question Answering via Voxel-based Dynamic Token Compression
328. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot 4D Lidar Panoptic Segmentation
329. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Blind-spot Image Denoising via Implicit Neural Sampling
330. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Head Swapping in Real-World Scenarios
331. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Image Restoration Using Few-Step Guidance of Consistency Models (and Beyond)
332. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Monocular Scene Flow Estimation in the Wild
333. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Novel View and Depth Synthesis with Multi-View Geometric Diffusion
334. CVPR 2025Zero-shot RGB-D Point Cloud Registration with Pre-trained Large Vision Model
335. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Styled Text Image Generation, but Make It Autoregressive
336. CVPR 2025ZeroGrasp: Zero-Shot Shape Reconstruction Enabled Robotic Grasping
337. ICLR 2025A Simple Framework for Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot Segmentation
338. ICLR 2025Attention in Large Language Models Yields Efficient Zero-Shot Re-Rankers
339. ICLR 2025AvatarGO: Zero-shot 4D Human-Object Interaction Generation and Animation
340. ICLR 2025CLIPure: Purification in Latent Space via CLIP for Adversarially Robust Zero-Shot Classification
341. ICLR 2025Constraint-Conditioned Actor-Critic for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning
342. ICLR 2025Convergence and Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent on Continual Linear Classification
343. ICLR 2025Credal Wrapper of Model Averaging for Uncertainty Estimation in Classification
344. ICLR 2025Cross the Gap: Exposing the Intra-modal Misalignment in CLIP via Modality Inversion
345. ICLR 2025Dist Loss: Enhancing Regression in Few-Shot Region through Distribution Distance Constraint
346. ICLR 2025Distribution-Specific Agnostic Conditional Classification With Halfspaces
347. ICLR 2025Divergence of Neural Tangent Kernel in Classification Problems
348. ICLR 2025Divergence-enhanced Knowledge-guided Context Optimization for Visual-Language Prompt Tuning
349. ICLR 2025Federated Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
350. ICLR 2025Fully-inductive Node Classification on Arbitrary Graphs

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.