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The ability to anticipate possible future human actions is essential for a wide range of applications, including autonomous driving and human-robot interaction. Consequently, numerous methods have been introduced for action anticipation in…

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Object classes that surround us have a natural tendency to emerge at varying levels of abstraction. We propose a Bayesian approach to zero-shot learning (ZSL) that introduces the notion of meta-classes and implements a Bayesian hierarchy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Sarkhan Badirli , Zeynep Akata , Murat Dundar

In task-oriented dialogue, a system often needs to follow a sequence of actions, called a workflow, that complies with a set of guidelines in order to complete a task. In this paper, we propose the novel problem of multi-step workflow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Ramya Ramakrishnan , Ethan R. Elenberg , Hashan Narangodage , Ryan McDonald

Zero-shot execution of unseen robotic tasks is important to allowing robots to perform a wide variety of tasks in human environments, but collecting the amounts of data necessary to train end-to-end policies in the real-world is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Shohin Mukherjee , Chris Paxton , Arsalan Mousavian , Adam Fishman , Maxim Likhachev , Dieter Fox

As we move towards large-scale object detection, it is unrealistic to expect annotated training data, in the form of bounding box annotations around objects, for all object classes at sufficient scale, and so methods capable of unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Pengkai Zhu , Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama

With the recent renaissance of deep convolution neural networks, encouraging breakthroughs have been achieved on the supervised recognition tasks, where each class has sufficient training data and fully annotated training data. However, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Yanwei Fu , Tao Xiang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue , Leonid Sigal , Shaogang Gong

A world model creates a surrogate world to train a controller and predict safety violations by learning the internal dynamic model of systems. However, the existing world models rely solely on statistical learning of how observations change…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zhenjiang Mao , Siqi Dai , Yuang Geng , Ivan Ruchkin

In this paper we consider a version of the zero-shot learning problem where seen class source and target domain data are provided. The goal during test-time is to accurately predict the class label of an unseen target domain instance based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

A core challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to predict how its actions affect objects in its environment. Many existing methods for learning the dynamics of physical interactions require labeled object information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Chelsea Finn , Ian Goodfellow , Sergey Levine

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

In Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL), unseen categories (for which no visual data are available at training time) can be predicted by leveraging their class embeddings (e.g., a list of attributes describing them) together with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Federico Marmoreo , Julio Ivan Davila Carrazco , Vittorio Murino , Jacopo Cavazza

Language-enabled robots have been widely studied over the past years to enable natural human-robot interaction and teaming in various real-world applications. Language-enabled robots must be able to comprehend referring expressions to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Peng Gao , Ahmed Jaafar , Brian Reily , Christopher Reardon , Hao Zhang

Large language models have recently been shown to attain reasonable zero-shot generalization on a diverse set of tasks (Brown et al., 2020). It has been hypothesized that this is a consequence of implicit multitask learning in language…

Zero-shot imitation learning algorithms hold the promise of reproducing unseen behavior from as little as a single demonstration at test time. Existing practical approaches view the expert demonstration as a sequence of goals, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Thomas Rupf , Marco Bagatella , Nico Gürtler , Jonas Frey , Georg Martius

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at understanding unseen categories with no training examples from class-level descriptions. To improve the discriminative power of zero-shot learning, we model the visual learning process of unseen categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Mohamed Elhoseiny , Mohamed Elfeki

Robotic manipulation requires anticipating how the environment evolves in response to actions, yet most existing systems lack this predictive capability, often resulting in errors and inefficiency. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Songen Gu , Yunuo Cai , Tianyu Wang , Simo Wu , Yanwei Fu

Can we turn a video prediction model into a robot policy? Videos, including those of humans or teleoperated robots, capture rich physical interactions. However, most of them lack labeled actions, which limits their use in robot learning. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sandeep Routray , Hengkai Pan , Unnat Jain , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects of novel classes without any training samples of specific classes, which is achieved by exploiting the semantic information and auxiliary datasets. Recently most ZSL approaches focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Huajie Jiang , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

In principle, zero-shot learning makes it possible to train a recognition model simply by specifying the category's attributes. For example, with classifiers for generic attributes like \emph{striped} and \emph{four-legged}, one can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Dinesh Jayaraman , Kristen Grauman

We present a framework for robots to learn novel visual concepts and tasks via in-situ linguistic interactions with human users. Previous approaches have either used large pre-trained visual models to infer novel objects zero-shot, or added…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Weiwei Gu , Anant Sah , Nakul Gopalan