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

56 papers, page 1 of 2

1. ICLR 2025A Simple Framework for Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot Segmentation
2. ICLR 2025Attention in Large Language Models Yields Efficient Zero-Shot Re-Rankers
3. ICLR 2025AvatarGO: Zero-shot 4D Human-Object Interaction Generation and Animation
4. ICLR 2025CLIPure: Purification in Latent Space via CLIP for Adversarially Robust Zero-Shot Classification
5. ICLR 2025Constraint-Conditioned Actor-Critic for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning
6. ICLR 2025Convergence and Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent on Continual Linear Classification
7. ICLR 2025Credal Wrapper of Model Averaging for Uncertainty Estimation in Classification
8. ICLR 2025Cross the Gap: Exposing the Intra-modal Misalignment in CLIP via Modality Inversion
9. ICLR 2025Dist Loss: Enhancing Regression in Few-Shot Region through Distribution Distance Constraint
10. ICLR 2025Distribution-Specific Agnostic Conditional Classification With Halfspaces
11. ICLR 2025Divergence of Neural Tangent Kernel in Classification Problems
12. ICLR 2025Divergence-enhanced Knowledge-guided Context Optimization for Visual-Language Prompt Tuning
13. ICLR 2025Federated Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
14. ICLR 2025Fully-inductive Node Classification on Arbitrary Graphs
15. ICLR 2025Glauber Generative Model: Discrete Diffusion Models via Binary Classification
16. ICLR 2025Glimpse: Enabling White-Box Methods to Use Proprietary Models for Zero-Shot LLM-Generated Text Detection
17. ICLR 2025HALL-E: Hierarchical Neural Codec Language Model for Minute-Long Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis
18. ICLR 2025Last-Iterate Convergence Properties of Regret-Matching Algorithms in Games
19. ICLR 2025Layer Swapping for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer in Large Language Models
20. ICLR 2025Learning Clustering-based Prototypes for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
21. ICLR 2025LR0.FM: Low-Res Benchmark and Improving robustness for Zero-Shot Classification in Foundation Models
22. ICLR 2025Making Text Embedders Few-Shot Learners
23. ICLR 2025Manifold Induced Biases for Zero-shot and Few-shot Detection of Generated Images
24. ICLR 2025MaskGCT: Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Masked Generative Codec Transformer
25. ICLR 2025Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Zero-Shot Multimodal Models
26. ICLR 2025MoE++: Accelerating Mixture-of-Experts Methods with Zero-Computation Experts
27. ICLR 2025MS-Diffusion: Multi-subject Zero-shot Image Personalization with Layout Guidance
28. ICLR 2025Multi-Label Test-Time Adaptation with Bound Entropy Minimization
29. ICLR 2025NatureLM-audio: an Audio-Language Foundation Model for Bioacoustics
30. ICLR 2025NVS-Solver: Video Diffusion Model as Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesizer
31. ICLR 2025On the Transfer of Object-Centric Representation Learning
32. ICLR 2025OvercookedV2: Rethinking Overcooked for Zero-Shot Coordination
33. ICLR 2025Param$\Delta$ for Direct Mixing: Post-Train Large Language Model At Zero Cost
34. ICLR 2025Planning Anything with Rigor: General-Purpose Zero-Shot Planning with LLM-based Formalized Programming
35. ICLR 2025PostEdit: Posterior Sampling for Efficient Zero-Shot Image Editing
36. ICLR 2025Predicate Hierarchies Improve Few-Shot State Classification
37. ICLR 2025Prompt as Knowledge Bank: Boost Vision-language model via Structural Representation for zero-shot medical detection
38. ICLR 2025Protein Language Model Fitness is a Matter of Preference
39. ICLR 2025Prototype antithesis for biological few-shot class-incremental learning
40. ICLR 2025Pushing the Limits of All-Atom Geometric Graph Neural Networks: Pre-Training, Scaling, and Zero-Shot Transfer
41. ICLR 2025Random-Set Neural Networks
42. ICLR 2025REMEDY: Recipe Merging Dynamics in Large Vision-Language Models
43. ICLR 2025Straight to Zero: Why Linearly Decaying the Learning Rate to Zero Works Best for LLMs
44. ICLR 2025SynQ: Accurate Zero-shot Quantization by Synthesis-aware Fine-tuning
45. ICLR 2025Theory on Score-Mismatched Diffusion Models and Zero-Shot Conditional Samplers
46. ICLR 2025Transformer Learns Optimal Variable Selection in Group-Sparse Classification
47. ICLR 2025Transformers Provably Learn Two-Mixture of Linear Classification via Gradient Flow
48. ICLR 2025Unleashing the Potential of Vision-Language Pre-Training for 3D Zero-Shot Lesion Segmentation via Mask-Attribute Alignment
49. ICLR 2025Video In-context Learning: Autoregressive Transformers are Zero-Shot Video Imitators
50. ICLR 2025Visually Consistent Hierarchical Image 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.