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

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1. CVPR 2026AG-VAS Anchor-Guided Zero-Shot Visual Anomaly Segmentation with Large Multimodal Models
2. CVPR 2026AGFT Alignment-Guided Fine-Tuning for Zero-Shot Adversarial Robustness of Vision-Language Models
3. CVPR 2026AnomalyVFM -- Transforming Vision Foundation Models into Zero-Shot Anomaly Detectors
4. CVPR 2026Are Image-to-Video Models Good Zero-Shot Image Editors
5. CVPR 2026Back to Point Exploring Point-Language Models for Zero-Shot 3D Anomaly
6. CVPR 2026Bayesian Decomposition and Semantic Completion for Few-shot Semantic Segmentation
7. CVPR 2026Beyond Heuristic Prompting A Concept-Guided Bayesian Framework for Zero-Shot Image
8. CVPR 2026Boosting Quantitive and Spatial Awareness for Zero-Shot Object Counting
9. CVPR 2026Bridging the Modality Gap in Compositional Zero-Shot Learning via Sparse
10. CVPR 2026CLIP Is Shortsighted Paying Attention Beyond the First Sentence
11. CVPR 2026ConceptPose Training-Free Zero-Shot Object Pose Estimation using Concept Vectors
12. CVPR 2026DDSF Robust Few-Shot Learning via Disentangled Subspaces with Determinantal Point
13. CVPR 2026Discover Segment and Select A Progressive Mechanism for Zero-shot Camouflaged
14. CVPR 2026DLVP-CLIP Enhancing Fine-Grained Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection via Dynamic Local Visual
15. CVPR 2026ENC-Bench A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models in
16. CVPR 2026Explaining CLIP Zero-shot Predictions Through Concepts
17. CVPR 2026Fast-FoundationStereo Real-Time Zero-Shot Stereo Matching
18. CVPR 2026FB-CLIP Fine-Grained Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection with Foreground-Background Disentanglement
19. CVPR 2026FBTA Enabling Single-GPU End-to-End Gigapixel WSI Classification with Feature Bridging
20. CVPR 2026FeatureFool Zero-Query Fooling of Video Models via Feature Map
21. CVPR 2026Feed-Forward One-Shot Animatable Textured Mesh Avatar Reconstruction
22. CVPR 2026FlowComposer Composable Flows for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
23. CVPR 2026From Attraction to Equilibrium Physics-Inspired Semantic Gravitons for Zero-Shot Anomaly
24. CVPR 2026From Few-way to Many-way Rethinking Few-shot Fine-grained Image Classification
25. CVPR 2026Graph Attention Prototypical Network for Robust Few-Shot Classification
26. CVPR 2026GS-CLIP Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Detection by Geometry-Aware Prompt and Synergistic
27. CVPR 2026HandDreamer Zero-Shot Text to 3D Hand Model Generation using Corrective
28. CVPR 2026Harnessing the Power of Foundation Models for Accurate Material Classification
29. CVPR 2026Hierarchically Robust Zero-shot Vision-language Models
30. CVPR 2026Humanoid Generative Pre-Training for Zero-Shot Motion Tracking
31. CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Defect Feature Synthesis for Few-Shot Defect Classification
32. CVPR 2026Incentivizing Generative Zero-Shot Learning via Outcome-Reward Reinforcement Learning with Visual
33. CVPR 2026InTrain Intrinsic Trainability for Zero-Cost Neural Architecture Search
34. CVPR 2026Language Does Matter for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Visual Feature Enhancement
35. CVPR 2026LaS-Comp Zero-shot 3D Completion with Latent-Spatial Consistency
36. CVPR 2026Lite Any Stereo Efficient Zero-Shot Stereo Matching
37. CVPR 2026Making the Classification Explanation Faithful to the Confidence Score
38. CVPR 2026Memory Matters Boosting Training-Free Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization with a
39. CVPR 2026MoECLIP Patch-Specialized Experts for Zero-shot Anomaly Detection
40. CVPR 2026MPL Match-guided Prototype Learning for Few-shot Action Recognition
41. CVPR 2026MR. Illuminate Zero-Shot Low-Light Image Enhancement with Diffusion Prior
42. CVPR 2026Multi-Scale Gaussian-Language Map for Zero-shot Embodied Navigation and Reasoning
43. CVPR 2026MV3DIS Multi-View Mask Matching via 3D Guides for Zero-Shot 3D
44. CVPR 2026NAF Zero-Shot Feature Upsampling via Neighborhood Attention Filtering
45. CVPR 2026No Need For Real Anomaly MLLM Empowered Zero-Shot Video Anomaly
46. CVPR 2026One Patch to Caption Them All A Unified Zero-Shot Captioning
47. CVPR 2026oslash Source Models Leak What They Shouldnt nrightarrow Unlearning Zero-Shot
48. CVPR 2026Post-training Feature Pruning for Fundus Images Classification
49. CVPR 2026PP-Brep Few-Shot B-rep Classification with Hybrid Graph Representation
50. CVPR 2026ProjFlow Projection Sampling with Flow Matching for Zero-Shot Exact Spatial

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.