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We present Generalizable Hierarchical Skill Learning (GSL), a novel framework for hierarchical policy learning that significantly improves policy generalization and sample efficiency in robot manipulation. One core idea of GSL is to use…

Zero shot learning (ZSL) has seen a surge in interest over the decade for its tight links with the mechanism making young children recognize novel objects. Although different paradigms of visual semantic embedding models are designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yue Jiao , Jonathon Hare , Adam Prügel-Bennett

Trained on large datasets, deep learning (DL) can accurately classify videos into hundreds of diverse classes. However, video data is expensive to annotate. Zero-shot learning (ZSL) proposes one solution to this problem. ZSL trains a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Biagio Brattoli , Joseph Tighe , Fedor Zhdanov , Pietro Perona , Krzysztof Chalupka

In time-series domains where both predictive performance and interpretability are essential, deep neural networks achieve strong results but provide limited insight into how their predictions are made. Projection-based prototype networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Steven Song , Sahil Sethi , Brett Beaulieu-Jones , Robert L. Grossman

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by leveraging semantic information from seen classes, but most existing methods assume accurate class labels for training instances. However, in real-world scenarios, noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinfu Fan , Jiangnan Li , Xiaowen Yan , Xiaohui Zhong , Wenpeng Lu , Linqing Huang

In zero-shot learning (ZSL) community, it is generally recognized that transductive learning performs better than inductive one as the unseen-class samples are also used in its training stage. How to generate pseudo labels for unseen-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Bo Liu , Lihua Hu , Qiulei Dong , Zhanyi Hu

We present a meta-learning based generative model for zero-shot learning (ZSL) towards a challenging setting when the number of training examples from each \emph{seen} class is very few. This setup contrasts with the conventional ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Vinay Kumar Verma , Ashish Mishra , Anubha Pandey , Hema A. Murthy , Piyush Rai

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to classify objects that are not observed or seen during training. It relies on class semantic description to transfer knowledge from the seen classes to the unseen classes. Existing methods of obtaining class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Fahimul Hoque Shubho , Townim Faisal Chowdhury , Ali Cheraghian , Morteza Saberi , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) refers to recognizing unseen compositions of known visual primitives, which is an essential ability for artificial intelligence systems to learn and understand the world. While considerable progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Siteng Huang , Qiyao Wei , Donglin Wang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a popular research problem that aims at predicting for those classes that have never appeared in the training stage by utilizing the inter-class relationship with some side information. In this study, we propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jiaoyan Chen , Freddy Lecue , Yuxia Geng , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

Semantic-descriptor-based Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) poses challenges in recognizing novel classes in the test phase. The development of generative models enables current GZSL techniques to probe further into the semantic-visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Dubing Chen , Yuming Shen , Haofeng Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr

Zero-shot learning relies on semantic class representations such as hand-engineered attributes or learned embeddings to predict classes without any labeled examples. We propose to learn class representations by embedding nodes from common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Nihal V. Nayak , Stephen H. Bach

We address zero-shot (ZS) learning, building upon prior work in hierarchical classification by combining it with approaches based on semantic attribute estimation. For both non-novel and novel image classes we compare multiple formulations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Jared Markowitz , Aurora C. Schmidt , Philippe M. Burlina , I-Jeng Wang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) tackles the novel class recognition problem by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones. Existing attention-based models have struggled to learn inferior region features in a single image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Shiming Chen , Ziming Hong , Wenjin Hou , Guo-Sen Xie , Yibing Song , Jian Zhao , Xinge You , Shuicheng Yan , Ling Shao

Generalized zero-shot semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds aims to classify each point into both seen and unseen classes. A significant challenge with these models is their tendency to make biased predictions, often favoring the classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hyeonseok Kim , Byeongkeun Kang , Yeejin Lee

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel attribute-object compositions by leveraging knowledge from seen compositions. Current methods align textual prototypes with visual features via Vision-Language Models (VLMs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shiyu Zhang , Cheng Yan , Yang Liu , Chenchen Jing , Lei Zhou , Wenjun Wang

In Zero-shot learning (ZSL), we classify unseen categories using textual descriptions about their expected appearance when observed (class embeddings) and a disjoint pool of seen classes, for which annotated visual data are accessible. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jacopo Cavazza

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

While there has been a number of studies on Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) for 2D images, its application to 3D data is still recent and scarce, with just a few methods limited to classification. We present the first generative approach for both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Björn Michele , Alexandre Boulch , Gilles Puy , Maxime Bucher , Renaud Marlet