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

200 papers, page 1 of 4

1. ICLR 2026A Cognitive Process-Inspired Architecture for Subject-Agnostic Brain Visual Decoding
2. ICLR 2026Adaptive Concept Discovery for Interpretable Few-Shot Text Classification
3. ICLR 2026An efficient, provably optimal, practical algorithm for the 0-1 loss linear classification problem
4. ICLR 2026Boomerang Distillation Enables Zero-Shot Model Size Interpolation
5. ICLR 2026Breaking Scale Anchoring: Frequency Representation Learning for Accurate High-Resolution Inference from Low-Resolution Training
6. ICLR 2026BTZSC: A Benchmark for Zero-Shot Text Classification Across Cross-Encoders, Embedding Models, and Rerankers
7. ICLR 2026CARPRT: Class-Aware Zero-Shot Prompt Reweighting for Vision-Language Model
8. ICLR 2026CauKer: Classification Time Series Foundation Models Can Be Pretrained on Synthetic Data
9. ICLR 2026CoT-RVS: Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Segmentation for Videos
10. ICLR 2026Decoupling Primitive with Experts: Dynamic Feature Alignment for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
11. ICLR 2026Directional Convergence, Benign Overfitting of Gradient Descent in leaky ReLU two-layer Neural Networks
12. ICLR 2026Distilling and Adapting: A Topology-Aware Framework for Zero-Shot Interaction Prediction in Multiplex Biological Networks
13. ICLR 2026DiVE-k: DIFFERENTIAL VISUAL REASONING FOR FINE-GRAINED IMAGE RECOGNITION
14. ICLR 2026Does the Data Processing Inequality Reflect Practice? On the Utility of Low-Level Tasks
15. ICLR 2026Efficient Zero-shot Inpainting with Decoupled Diffusion Guidance
16. ICLR 2026EMBridge: Enhancing Gesture Generalization from EMG Signals Through Cross-modal Representation Learning
17. ICLR 2026Exploiting Low-Dimensional Manifold of Features for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
18. ICLR 2026gen2seg: Generative Models Enable Generalizable Instance Segmentation
19. ICLR 2026In-Context Learning of Temporal Point Processes with Foundation Inference Models
20. ICLR 2026KernelFusion: Zero-Shot Blind Super-Resolution via Patch Diffusion
21. ICLR 2026Learning From Dictionary: Enhancing Robustness of Machine-Generated Text Detection in Zero-Shot Language via Adversarial Training
22. ICLR 2026Learning from Label Proportions via Proportional Value Classification
23. ICLR 2026Learning to Grasp Anything By Playing with Random Toys
24. ICLR 2026Let's Split Up: Zero-Shot Classifier Edits for Fine-Grained Video Understanding
25. ICLR 2026Measuring Uncertainty Calibration
26. ICLR 2026Monotone Near-Zero-Sum Games: A Generalization of Convex-Concave Minimax
27. ICLR 2026MRAD: Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection with Memory-Driven Retrieval
28. ICLR 2026Object-Centric Refinement for Enhanced Zero-Shot Segmentation
29. ICLR 2026On the $O(1/T)$ Convergence of Alternating Gradient Descent–Ascent in Bilinear Games
30. ICLR 2026OWLEYE: ZERO-SHOT LEARNER FOR CROSSDOMAIN GRAPH DATA ANOMALY DETECTION
31. ICLR 2026pySpatial: Generating 3D Visual Programs for Zero-Shot Spatial Reasoning
32. ICLR 2026Regularized Latent Dynamics Prediction is a Strong Baseline For Behavioral Foundation Models
33. ICLR 2026Relational Transformer: Toward Zero-Shot Foundation Models for Relational Data
34. ICLR 2026Sim2Real VLA: Zero-Shot Generalization of Synthesized Skills to Realistic Manipulation
35. ICLR 2026Structure-Aware Graph Hypernetworks for Neural Program Synthesis
36. ICLR 2026The False Promise of Zero-Shot Super-Resolution in Machine-Learned Operators
37. ICLR 2026TRACED: Transition-aware Regret Approximation with Co-learnability for Environment Design
38. ICLR 2026Turbo-DDCM: Fast and Flexible Zero-Shot Diffusion-Based Image Compression
39. ICLR 2026Unlocking the Power of Co-Occurrence in CLIP: A DualPrompt-Driven Method for Training-Free Zero-Shot Multi-Label Classification
40. ICLR 2026VITA: Zero-Shot Value Functions via Test-Time Adaptation of Vision–Language Models
41. ICLR 2026Zero-shot Forecasting by Simulation Alone
42. ICLR 2026Zero-shot HOI Detection with MLLM-based Detector-agnostic Interaction Recognition
43. ICLR 2026Zero-shot Human Pose Estimation using Diffusion-based Inverse solvers
44. ICLR 2026ZeroGR: A Generalizable and Scalable Framework for Zero-Shot Generative Retrieval
45. ICLR 2025A Simple Framework for Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot Segmentation
46. ICLR 2025Attention in Large Language Models Yields Efficient Zero-Shot Re-Rankers
47. ICLR 2025AvatarGO: Zero-shot 4D Human-Object Interaction Generation and Animation
48. ICLR 2025CLIPure: Purification in Latent Space via CLIP for Adversarially Robust Zero-Shot Classification
49. ICLR 2025Constraint-Conditioned Actor-Critic for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning
50. ICLR 2025Convergence and Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent on Continual Linear Classification

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.