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Zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a setting for developing general agents, capable of solving downstream tasks without additional training or planning at test-time. While conventional RL optimizes policies for fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jacopo Di Ventura , Jan Felix Kleuker , Aske Plaat , Thomas Moerland

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) can be defined by correctly solving a task where no training data is available, based on previous acquired knowledge from different, but related tasks. So far, this area has mostly drawn the attention from computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Joao Reis , Gil Gonçalves

We present a novel problem setting in zero-shot learning, zero-shot object recognition and detection in the context. Contrary to the traditional zero-shot learning methods, which simply infers unseen categories by transferring knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Ruotian Luo , Ning Zhang , Bohyung Han , Linjie Yang

Given semantic descriptions of object classes, zero-shot learning aims to accurately recognize objects of the unseen classes, from which no examples are available at the training stage, by associating them to the seen classes, from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Boqing Gong , Fei Sha

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli

We introduce and tackle the problem of zero-shot object detection (ZSD), which aims to detect object classes which are not observed during training. We work with a challenging set of object classes, not restricting ourselves to similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Ankan Bansal , Karan Sikka , Gaurav Sharma , Rama Chellappa , Ajay Divakaran

Action recognition in surveillance video makes our life safer by detecting the criminal events or predicting violent emergencies. However, efficient action recognition is not free of difficulty. First, there are so many action classes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Kun Liu , Wu Liu , Huadong Ma , Wenbing Huang , Xiongxiong Dong

A modern paradigm for generalization in machine learning and AI consists of pre-training a task-agnostic foundation model, generally obtained using self-supervised and multimodal contrastive learning. The resulting representations can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-03 Ronak Mehta , Zaid Harchaoui

Modern reinforcement learning (RL) systems capture deep truths about general, human problem-solving. In domains where new data can be simulated cheaply, these systems uncover sequential decision-making policies that far exceed the ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Scott Jeen

Music classification and tagging is conducted through categorical supervised learning with a fixed set of labels. In principle, this cannot make predictions on unseen labels. Zero-shot learning is an approach to solve the problem by using…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Jeong Choi , Jongpil Lee , Jiyoung Park , Juhan Nam

Zero-Shot Action Recognition has attracted attention in the last years and many approaches have been proposed for recognition of objects, events and actions in images and videos. There is a demand for methods that can classify instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Valter Estevam , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

Methods for object detection and segmentation often require abundant instance-level annotations for training, which are time-consuming and expensive to collect. To address this, the task of zero-shot object detection (or segmentation) aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Siddhesh Khandelwal , Anirudth Nambirajan , Behjat Siddiquie , Jayan Eledath , Leonid Sigal

Since 2012, Deep learning has revolutionized Artificial Intelligence and has achieved state-of-the-art outcomes in different domains, ranging from Image Classification to Speech Generation. Though it has many potentials, our current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shruti Jadon , Aryan Jadon

Large language models have shown that impressive zero-shot performance can be achieved through natural language prompts (Radford et al., 2019; Brown et al., 2020; Sanh et al., 2021). Creating an effective prompt, however, requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Gabriel Orlanski

Zero-shot learning strives to classify unseen categories for which no data is available during training. In the generalized variant, the test samples can further belong to seen or unseen categories. The state-of-the-art relies on Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sanath Narayan , Akshita Gupta , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Cees G. M. Snoek , Ling Shao

This paper tackles the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign classes to recognize the instances of unseen sign classes. In this context, readily available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunus Can Bilge , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Zero-shot recognition (ZSR) aims to recognize target-domain data instances of unseen classes based on the models learned from associated pairs of seen-class source and target domain data. One of the key challenges in ZSR is the relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Generalized zero-shot learning recognizes inputs from both seen and unseen classes. Yet, existing methods tend to be biased towards the classes seen during training. In this paper, we strive to mitigate this bias. We propose a bias-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 William Thong , Cees G. M. Snoek

Learning what to share between tasks has been a topic of great importance recently, as strategic sharing of knowledge has been shown to improve downstream task performance. This is particularly important for multilingual applications, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Farhad Nooralahzadeh , Giannis Bekoulis , Johannes Bjerva , Isabelle Augenstein

Zero-shot learning, which studies the problem of object classification for categories for which we have no training examples, is gaining increasing attention from community. Most existing ZSL methods exploit deterministic transfer learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Yanan Li , Donghui Wang