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  1. Foundations without Fundamentals: Zero-Shot Blind Spots in Time Series FMs

    Oct 1, 2026Nafiseh Ghoroghchian, Haipeng Zhang, Shuyi Han +2Time Series Foundation ModelsZero-Shot Forecasting

    Layer6 AI

  2. BAM! Bayesian Anything Model: a foundation model for generative computational imaging

    Sep 30, 2026Alessio Spagnoletti, Charlesquin Kemajou Mbakam, Jonathan Spence +2Generative ModelsVisual Priors

    Laboratoire MAP5, UMR 8145, Université Paris Cité, CNRS · Heriot-Watt University, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences & Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences

  3. Zero-shot Dependency Parsing with Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Bootstrapping

    Sep 29, 2026Lalita Lowphansirikul, Attapol Rutherford, Jian Gang Ngui +2Cross-Lingual TransferSyntactic Structure

    VISTEC, Thailand · Chulalongkorn University, Thailand · AI Singapore, Singapore

  4. ZeroGAR: Benchmarking the Adversarial Robustness of Zero-Shot Graph Models

    Sep 27, 2026Zhongjian Zhang, Xiao Wang, Busheng Zhang +5Zero-Shot RobustnessLLM Defense Mechanisms

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Beihang University · Tsinghua University +2

  5. Self-Play Pretraining with Zero Data

    Sep 24, 2026Aditya Cowsik, Kfir Dolev, Michael Y. Li +4PretrainingSelf-Play

    Independent Researcher · Tel Aviv University · Stanford University +1

  6. Zero-shot narrative detection in social messaging

    Sep 15, 2026Jesús M. Fraile-Hernández, Anselmo Peñas, Patrick GiedemannNarrativesZero-Shot Robustness

  7. Layer Selection in VLMs for Zero-Shot OOD Detection via Multi-Resolution Entropy Estimation

    Sep 8, 2026Shyam Nandan Rai, Francesco Di Salvo, Sebastian Doerrich +1Out-Of-Distribution DetectionOut-Of-Distribution

    xAILab Bamberg, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

  8. Are Image Generators Zero-Shot Perceivers? A Rigorous Evaluation

    Sep 7, 2026Shangzhe Di, Zhaokai Wang, Weidi XieZero-Shot RobustnessImage Generation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  9. Learning to Zoom Efficiently with a Contrastive Curriculum

    Sep 2, 2026Falko Helm, Iryna GurevychZero-Shot RobustnessMultimodal Large Language Models

    Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab) Department of Computer Science and Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI) Technical University of Darmstadt

  10. Solving the Needle-in-a-Haystack Problem in Mammography Vision-Language Model with Differentiable Subset Sampling

    Sep 2, 2026Young Seok Jeon, Beatrice Brown-Mulry, Rohan Satya Isaac +5MammographyRecent Vision-Language Models

    Department of Radiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

  11. Whole-Slide Image Analysis under Realistic Few-Shot Annotation Protocols

    Aug 31, 2026Tiffanie Godelaine, Maxime Zanella, Karim El Khoury +2Whole-Slide ImagesFew-Shot Learning

    Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics, and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  12. J-Zero: Unified Challenger--Solver--Judge Self-Evolution from Zero Data

    Aug 27, 2026Gyouk Chu, Myeongho Jeon, Teresa Yeo +1Self-EvolutionSelf-Play

    KAIST

  13. StrAD: A Streaming Method and Benchmark for Audio Description Generation for Long-form Videos

    Aug 12, 2026Julian Spravil, Sebastian Houben, Sven BehnkeAudio-Video GenerationAudio Understanding

    Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany · A2S, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany · AIS, Computer Science Institute VI, University of Bonn, Germany +2

  14. Respect Your Zero-Shot Uncertainty: Conservative Calibration for Test-Time-Adapted Vision-Language Models

    Aug 6, 2026Jingyan Jiang, Yaru Sun, Xiao Chen +5Vision-Language Model AdaptationZero-Shot Robustness

    1Shenzhen Technology University · 3Shenzhen University · 2Tsinghua University +1

  15. Temporal Generalization in fNIRS-Based Autism Classification: A Cross-Time-Window Transfer Benchmark

    Aug 3, 2026Marios Petrov, Sahana Vinayak, Targol Bakhtiarvand +4Autism Spectrum DisorderCross-Dataset Benchmark

    Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, USA · Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA · Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

  16. MRAFnd: Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Zero-Shot Fake News Detection

    Aug 2, 2026Lehan Zhang, Yinlei Cheng, Shiqi Hu Yiheng Zhou +2Fake News DetectionReference-Guided Multimodal In-Context Verification

    Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing, China · Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, China

  17. HyperODE: Zero-Shot Surrogate for Simulation and Inference of Dynamical Systems

    Aug 1, 2026Ajitesh SrivastavaSurrogate ModelsNeural Ordinary Differential Equations

    Northeastern University

  18. Counting the Cost of War Under Satellite Embargo: Zero-Shot Estimation of Impacted Infrastructure

    Jul 31, 2026Saleh Sakib Ahmed, M. Sohel RahmanPost-Disaster Damage AssessmentSatellite Imagery

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Palashi, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh.

  19. Level, Sharpness, and Corpus: Why Zero-Shot OOD Detector Rankings Do Not Transfer

    Jul 29, 2026Ignacio M. De la Jara, Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo, Stephen Gould +1Out-Of-Distribution DetectionIn-Distribution

    University of Adelaide · 3Naval Group Pacific · 2Australian National University

  20. mmSimPrior: Learning Simulation Priors for Data-Efficient and Generalizable Real-World Radar-based Human Motion Reconstruction

    Jul 25, 2026Cheng Guo, Qiming Cao, Shengkai Xu +4Kinematic PriorsPrior Knowledge Integration

    University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA · Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

  21. Reexamining zero-shot summarization: Empirical investigation of trustworthiness of LLM-summarizers

    Jul 23, 2026Vasudha Bhatnagar, Purnima Bindal, Vikas Kumar +1Large Language Model ReliabilitySummarization

    Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, Delhi, India · Department of Statistics, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, Delhi, India

  22. What Matters in Humanoid General Motion Tracking? An Empirical Study

    Jul 22, 2026Fabio Amadio, Enrico Mingo HoffmanHumanoidMotion

    HUCEBOT · Inria, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Nancy, France

  23. Geometry-Enhanced Portion Estimation for Multimodal LLMs

    Jul 17, 2026Lin Liao, Peng LiMultimodal Large Language ModelsZero-Shot Robustness

  24. Metric-Guided Synthetic Image Data Rendering for Deep Learning compatible with Agentic AI

    Jul 14, 2026Martina Radoynova, Samuel Pantze, Trina De +2Synthetic-To-Real Domain GapZero-Shot Robustness

    Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Görlitz, Germany · Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e. V. (HZDR), Dresden, Germany · Institute of Computer Science, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland +1

  25. Anysynth:Zero-Shot Instrument Cloning via In-Context Learning and Asymmetric Hierarchical Guidance

    Jul 13, 2026Chong Jing, Junan Zhang, Jing Yang +3SynthesizerZero-Shot

    Chinese University of Hong Kong · Central Media Technology Institute, Huawei

  26. Quantifying the Affective Gap: A Zero-Shot Evaluation of LLMs on Fine-Grained Emotion Taxonomies

    Jul 1, 2026Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Jessica M. Johnson +3Emotion RecognitionZero-Shot Robustness

    Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

  27. Selective Test-Time Debiasing for CLIP via Reward Gating

    Jul 1, 2026Jaeho Han, Jisoo Yang, Hyeondong Woo +3Vision-Language Model AdaptationZero-Shot Robustness

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University

  28. DriftScope: Measuring The Hidden Effects of Diffusion Model Adaptation

    Jun 30, 2026Héctor Laria, Yiping Han, Julian D. Santamaria +4Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Models

    Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain · Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain · Program of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan), China +1

  29. How LLMs See Creativity: Zero-Shot Scoring of Visual Creativity with Interpretable Reasoning

    Jun 29, 2026William Orwig, Roger E. BeatyCreativityMultimodal Large Language Models

    Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Cambridge, MA, USA · Pennsylvania State University, Department of Psychology, University Park, PA, USA

  30. Autoregressive Boltzmann Generators

    Jun 25, 2026Danyal Rehman, Charlie B. Tan, Yoshua Bengio +2Autoregressive GenerationMolecular Generation

    Mila – Québec AI Institute · Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard · Aithyra +4

  31. GenHOI: Contact-Aware Humanoid-Object Interaction by Imitating Generated Videos without Task-Specific Training

    Jun 11, 2026Zhihai Bi, Qiang Zhang, Guoyang Zhao +8Hand-Object Interaction DetectionLong Video Generation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Artificial General Intelligence Institute, University of Science and Technology of China · The University of Hong Kong +1

  32. EWAM: An Enhanced World Action Model for Closed-Loop Online Adaptation in Embodied Intelligence

    Jun 10, 2026Xin Zhou, Cong MiaoEfficient World-Action ModelRecent World-Action Models

    Astronex Robotics · Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

  33. Can News Predict the Market? Limits of Zero-Shot Financial NLP and the Role of Explainable AI

    Jun 10, 2026Ali M Karaoglu, Shreyank N GowdaFinancial Sentiment AnalysisNext-Token Prediction

    School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

  34. Zero-Shot Semantic Re-Identification for Autonomous Driving: A VLM Baseline Study

    Jun 8, 2026Eduardo Borges, Manuel Abreu, Luís Garrote +1Re-IdentificationAutonomous Driving

    Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  35. Contextualized Prompting For Stance Detection On Social Media

    Jun 4, 2026Tilman Beck, Shakib Yazdani, Simon Kruschinski +2Cross-Topic Arabic Stance DetectionIndonesian E-Commerce Reviews

    Institute of Intensive Care, University Hospital of Zurich and University of Zurich · Institute of Computer Science, University of Goettingen · GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences +2

  36. Test-Time Training for Zero-Resource Dense Retrieval Reranking

    May 31, 2026Shiyan Liu, Yichen LiRetrieval LayerCross-Encoder Reranking

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · ByteDance

  37. HiERO-StepG @ Ego4D Step Grounding Challenge: hierarchical activity understanding enables zero-shot step grounding

    May 29, 2026Andrea Zenotto, Simone Alberto Peirone, Francesca Pistilli +1Fine-Grained ActionsGrounding

    Politecnico di Torino

  38. OmniCD: A Foundational Framework for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection Guided by Multimodal Semantics

    May 28, 2026Chenhao SunChange DetectionRemote Sensing

    Wuhan University

  39. STAP: A Shuffle-Tokenized App Predictor with Ultra Long Context for Vocabulary-Free Mobile App Prediction

    May 28, 2026Chengyu Fan, Hang LiuZero-Shot RobustnessDevice

    School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China · Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China

  40. Architecture-Sensitive Supervised Fine-Tuning for Screen-Conditioned Action Prediction: A PiSAR Benchmark

    May 28, 2026Rahul Bissa, Abhishek Vyas, Yash JainSupervised FinetuningZero-Shot Robustness

    AprioriLabs

  41. Towards Fine-Grained Robustness: Attention-Guided Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models

    May 19, 2026Jia-Wei Hai, Yijun Wang, Xiu-Shen WeiVision-Language Model AdaptationTest-Time Adaptation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, and Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications, Southeast University, China. · School of Intelligence Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China.

  42. When a Zero-Shooter Cheats: Improving Age Estimation via Activation Steering

    May 17, 2026Erik Imgrund, Pia Hanfeld, Klim Kireev +1Zero-Shot RobustnessAge

    BIFOLD & TU Berlin

  43. Exploring Vision-Language Models for Online Signature Verification: A Zero-Shot Capability Study

    May 14, 2026Marta Robledo-Moreno, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben Tolosana +1Online Signature VerificationRecent Vision-Language Models

    BiometricsAI, School of Engineering, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

  44. M4^4-SAM: Multi-Modal Mixture-of-Experts with Memory-Augmented SAM for RGB-D Video Salient Object Detection

    May 12, 2026Jiyuan Liu, Jia Lin, Xiaofei Zhou +3Rgb-Thermal Object DetectionAmodal Segmentation

    Hangzhou Dianzi University, China · Shandong University, China · Anqing Normal University, China +1

  45. MOTOR-Bench: A Real-world Dataset and Multi-agent Framework for Zero-shot Human Mental State Understanding

    May 10, 2026Xiaoyu Yuan, Niklas Heikkala, Tiina Törmänen +3Theory-Of-Mind ReasoningZero-Shot Robustness

    University of Oulu

  46. Agent Collectives Should Not Detect Their Own Imposters: A Chess Case Study

    May 9, 2026Alexandre Le Mercier, Chris Develder, Thomas DemeesterAdversarial EvaluationMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

    IDLab–T2K, Ghent University–imec

  47. Sat3R: Satellite DSM Reconstruction via RPC-Aware Depth Fine-tuning

    May 8, 2026Qiaoyi Yang, Chaoyi Zhou, Xi Liu +9Feed-Forward 3D ReconstructionZero-Shot Robustness

    1Clemson University · University of Washington · University of Tennessee

  48. Gaze4HRI: Zero-shot Benchmarking Gaze Estimation Neural-Networks for Human-Robot Interaction

    May 6, 2026Berk Sezer, Ali Görkem Küçük, Erol Şahin +1Gaze Target EstimationGaze Behavior

    Dept. of Computer Eng. and ROMER (Robotics Center), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye

  49. Zero-Shot Confidence Estimation for Small LLMs: When Supervised Baselines Aren't Worth Training

    May 4, 2026Luong N. NguyenZero-Shot RobustnessSmall Large Language Models

  50. PrismAgent: Illuminating Harm in Memes via a Zero-Shot Interpretable Multi-Agent Framework

    May 1, 2026Zihan Ding, Ziyuan Yang, Yi ZhangMemesHate Speech Detection

    Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  51. Prompt-Induced Score Variance in Zero-Shot Binary Vision-Language Safety Classification

    May 1, 2026Charles Weng, Dingwen Li, Alexander MartinLarge Language Model SafetyZero-Shot Robustness

    Johns Hopkins University · Independent

  52. Evaluating Remote Sensing Image Captions Beyond Metric Biases

    Apr 22, 2026Ziyun Chen, Fan Liu, Liang Yao +3Remote SensingImage Difference Captioning

    Hohai University Nanjing, China · Cardiff University Cardiff, UK

  53. What Makes an LLM a Good Optimizer? A Trajectory Analysis of LLM-Guided Evolutionary Search

    Apr 21, 2026Xinhao Zhang, Xi Chen, François Portet +1Evolutionary SearchOptimization Modeling

    Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, 38000 Grenoble, France

  54. Lost in Motion: Vision Language Models Fail the Dynamic Gauges Test

    Apr 19, 2026Tairan Fu, Francisco Javier Santos-Martín, Javier Conde +2VibrationZero-Shot Robustness

  55. Enhancing Zero-shot Personalized Image Aesthetics Assessment with Profile-aware Multimodal LLM

    Apr 19, 2026Chun Wang, Chenfeng Wei, Chenyang Liu +1Zero-Shot RobustnessZero-Shot

    Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd., Chongqing, China · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  56. Can LLMs Reason About Attention? Towards Zero-Shot Analysis of Multimodal Classroom Behavior

    Apr 3, 2026Nolan Platt, Sehrish Nizamani, Alp Tural +5Zero-Shot RobustnessStudent

    Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA · Incoming PhD student, University of Pennsylvania. · University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

  57. Learning On The Job: Zero-Shot Task Execution under Parametric Uncertainty via Trajectory-Parametrized Dual Control

    Oct 23, 2025Victor Vantilborgh, Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Guillaume Crevecoeur +2Scalable Robot LearningClosed-Loop Feedback

    Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, USA

  58. Training-Free, Identity-Preserving Image Editing for Fashion Pose Alignment and Normalization

    Jan 23, 2025Potito Aghilar, Vito Walter Anelli, Michelantonio Trizio +2Image EditingGarments

    Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Edoardo Orabona, 4, Bari, 70125, Apulia, Italy · Wideverse, Via Edoardo Orabona, 4, Bari, 70125, Apulia, Italy