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We consider the problem of zero-shot recognition: learning a visual classifier for a category with zero training examples, just using the word embedding of the category and its relationship to other categories, which visual data are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Xiaolong Wang , Yufei Ye , Abhinav Gupta

Deep metric learning aims to learn a function mapping image pixels to embedding feature vectors that model the similarity between images. Two major applications of metric learning are content-based image retrieval and face verification. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Andrew Zhai , Hao-Yu Wu

The purpose of generative Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is to learning from seen classes, transfer the learned knowledge, and create samples of unseen classes from the description of these unseen categories. To achieve better ZSL accuracies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Shayan Kousha , Marcus A. Brubaker

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones so that the latter can be recognised without any training samples. This is made possible by learning a projection function between a feature space and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Aoxue Li , Zhiwu Lu , Jiechao Guan , Tao Xiang , Liwei Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

Network intrusion detection is one of the most visible uses for Big Data analytics. One of the main problems in this application is the constant rise of new attacks. This scenario, characterized by the fact that not enough labeled examples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Jorge Luis Rivero Pérez , Bernardete Ribeiro

We propose a novel zero-shot learning method for semantic utterance classification (SUC). It learns a classifier $f: X \to Y$ for problems where none of the semantic categories $Y$ are present in the training set. The framework uncovers the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Yann N. Dauphin , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

Zero-shot learning provides models for targets for which instances are not available, commonly called unobserved targets. The availability of target side information becomes crucial in this context in order to properly induce models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Miriam Fdez-Díaz , Elena Montañés , José Ramón Quevedo

Zero-shot object recognition or zero-shot learning aims to transfer the object recognition ability among the semantically related categories, such as fine-grained animal or bird species. However, the images of different fine-grained objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Zongyan Han , Zhenyong Fu , Jian Yang

Semantic segmentation models are limited in their ability to scale to large numbers of object classes. In this paper, we introduce the new task of zero-shot semantic segmentation: learning pixel-wise classifiers for never-seen object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Maxime Bucher , Tuan-Hung Vu , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

Human-annotated attributes serve as powerful semantic embeddings in zero-shot learning. However, their annotation process is labor-intensive and needs expert supervision. Current unsupervised semantic embeddings, i.e., word embeddings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Wenjia Xu , Yongqin Xian , Jiuniu Wang , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) aims to enable image classifiers to recognize images from unseen classes that were not included during training. Unlike traditional supervised classification, ZSL typically relies on learning a mapping from visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zhiyuan Peng , Zihan Ye , Shreyank N Gowda , Yuping Yan , Haotian Xu , Ling Shao

A typical pipeline for Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is to integrate the visual features and the class semantic descriptors into a multimodal framework with a linear or bilinear model. However, the visual features and the class semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Zhong Ji , Yunxin Sun , Yulong Yu , Jichang Guo , Yanwei Pang

Zero-shot cross-domain sequential recommendation (ZCDSR) enables predictions in unseen domains without additional training or fine-tuning, addressing the limitations of traditional models in sparse data environments. Recent advancements in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yunzhe Li , Junting Wang , Hari Sundaram , Zhining Liu

Prevalent techniques in zero-shot learning do not generalize well to other related problem scenarios. Here, we present a unified approach for conventional zero-shot, generalized zero-shot and few-shot learning problems. Our approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Shafin Rahman , Salman H. Khan , Fatih Porikli

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to train models to recognize novel compositional concepts based on learned concepts such as attribute-object combinations. One of the challenges is to model attributes interacted with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Qingsheng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Chenchen Jing , Hao Chen , Guoqiang Liang , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen

Zero Shot Learning (ZSL) enables a learning model to classify instances of an unseen class during training. While most research in ZSL focuses on single-label classification, few studies have been done in multi-label ZSL, where an instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Ubai Sandouk , Ke Chen

Recently, many zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods focused on learning discriminative object features in an embedding feature space, however, the distributions of the unseen-class features learned by these methods are prone to be partly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Bo Liu , Qiulei Dong , Zhanyi Hu

Contrastive learning operates on a simple yet effective principle: Embeddings of positive pairs are pulled together, while those of negative pairs are pushed apart. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for understanding contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chungpa Lee , Sehee Lim , Kibok Lee , Jy-yong Sohn

This work introduces a model that can recognize objects in images even if no training data is available for the objects. The only necessary knowledge about the unseen categories comes from unsupervised large text corpora. In our zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Richard Socher , Milind Ganjoo , Hamsa Sridhar , Osbert Bastani , Christopher D. Manning , Andrew Y. Ng

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is challenging due to the cross-domain nature of sketches and photos, as well as the semantic gap between seen and unseen image distributions. Previous methods fine-tune pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Shiyin Dong , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao