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

46 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2023A Tale of Two Features: Stable Diffusion Complements DINO for Zero-Shot Semantic Correspondence
2. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive recurrent vision performs zero-shot computation scaling to unseen difficulty levels
3. NeurIPS 2023ASL Citizen: A Community-Sourced Dataset for Advancing Isolated Sign Language Recognition
4. NeurIPS 2023Automated Classification of Model Errors on ImageNet
5. NeurIPS 2023Black-box Backdoor Defense via Zero-shot Image Purification
6. NeurIPS 2023Calibrating “Cheap Signals” in Peer Review without a Prior
7. NeurIPS 2023ChatGPT-Powered Hierarchical Comparisons for Image Classification
8. NeurIPS 2023CLIP4HOI: Towards Adapting CLIP for Practical Zero-Shot HOI Detection
9. NeurIPS 2023Convex-Concave Zero-Sum Markov Stackelberg Games
10. NeurIPS 2023CSLP-AE: A Contrastive Split-Latent Permutation Autoencoder Framework for Zero-Shot Electroencephalography Signal Conversion
11. NeurIPS 2023CWCL: Cross-Modal Transfer with Continuously Weighted Contrastive Loss
12. NeurIPS 2023Easy Learning from Label Proportions
13. NeurIPS 2023Embroid: Unsupervised Prediction Smoothing Can Improve Few-Shot Classification
14. NeurIPS 2023Explore to Generalize in Zero-Shot RL
15. NeurIPS 2023Exploring Question Decomposition for Zero-Shot VQA
16. NeurIPS 2023Extensible Prompts for Language Models on Zero-shot Language Style Customization
17. NeurIPS 2023FD-Align: Feature Discrimination Alignment for Fine-tuning Pre-Trained Models in Few-Shot Learning
18. NeurIPS 2023Fine-Grained Visual Prompting
19. NeurIPS 2023Focus Your Attention when Few-Shot Classification
20. NeurIPS 2023ForecastPFN: Synthetically-Trained Zero-Shot Forecasting
21. NeurIPS 2023Free-Bloom: Zero-Shot Text-to-Video Generator with LLM Director and LDM Animator
22. NeurIPS 2023InstructBLIP: Towards General-purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning
23. NeurIPS 2023Intra-Modal Proxy Learning for Zero-Shot Visual Categorization with CLIP
24. NeurIPS 2023KD-Zero: Evolving Knowledge Distiller for Any Teacher-Student Pairs
25. NeurIPS 2023LaFTer: Label-Free Tuning of Zero-shot Classifier using Language and Unlabeled Image Collections
26. NeurIPS 2023Language-based Action Concept Spaces Improve Video Self-Supervised Learning
27. NeurIPS 2023Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasters
28. NeurIPS 2023Latent Space Translation via Semantic Alignment
29. NeurIPS 2023Learning Mask-aware CLIP Representations for Zero-Shot Segmentation
30. NeurIPS 2023MeCo: Zero-Shot NAS with One Data and Single Forward Pass via Minimum Eigenvalue of Correlation
31. NeurIPS 2023MiliPoint: A Point Cloud Dataset for mmWave Radar
32. NeurIPS 2023OpenShape: Scaling Up 3D Shape Representation Towards Open-World Understanding
33. NeurIPS 2023Prompt Pre-Training with Twenty-Thousand Classes for Open-Vocabulary Visual Recognition
34. NeurIPS 2023Read and Reap the Rewards: Learning to Play Atari with the Help of Instruction Manuals
35. NeurIPS 2023Relative Entropic Optimal Transport: a (Prior-aware) Matching Perspective to (Unbalanced) Classification
36. NeurIPS 2023Segment Anything in High Quality
37. NeurIPS 2023Shape Non-rigid Kinematics (SNK): A Zero-Shot Method for Non-Rigid Shape Matching via Unsupervised Functional Map Regularized Reconstruction
38. NeurIPS 2023TexQ: Zero-shot Network Quantization with Texture Feature Distribution Calibration
39. NeurIPS 2023The Rise of AI Language Pathologists: Exploring Two-level Prompt Learning for Few-shot Weakly-supervised Whole Slide Image Classification
40. NeurIPS 2023TransHP: Image Classification with Hierarchical Prompting
41. NeurIPS 2023Vocabulary-free Image Classification
42. NeurIPS 2023What a MESS: Multi-Domain Evaluation of Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
43. NeurIPS 2023When Do Graph Neural Networks Help with Node Classification? Investigating the Homophily Principle on Node Distinguishability
44. NeurIPS 2023Zero-Regret Performative Prediction Under Inequality Constraints
45. NeurIPS 2023Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection via Batch Normalization
46. NeurIPS 2023Zero-shot Visual Relation Detection via Composite Visual Cues from Large Language Models

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.