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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen image categories by learning an embedding space between image and semantic representations. For years, among existing works, it has been the center task to learn the proper mapping matrices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yan Li , Junge Zhang , Jianguo Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen combinations of known objects and attributes by leveraging knowledge from previously seen compositions. Traditional approaches primarily focus on disentangling attributes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Peng Wu , Qiuxia Lai , Hao Fang , Guo-Sen Xie , Yilong Yin , Xiankai Lu , Wenguan Wang

Object-centric representations promise a key property for few-shot learning: Rather than treating a scene as a single unit, a model can decompose it into individual object-level parts that can be matched and compared across different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Phu-Quy Nguyen-Lam , Phu-Hoa Pham , Dao Sy Duy Minh , Chi-Nguyen Tran , Huynh Trung Kiet , Long Tran-Thanh

From the beginning of zero-shot learning research, visual attributes have been shown to play an important role. In order to better transfer attribute-based knowledge from known to unknown classes, we argue that an image representation with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Wenjia Xu , Yongqin Xian , Jiuniu Wang , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success, yet our understanding of how they learn remains limited. These models can learn high-dimensional tasks, which is generally statistically intractable due to the curse of dimensionality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Alessandro Favero

Open-World Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (OW-CZSL) addresses the challenge of recognizing novel compositions of known primitives and entities. Even though prior works utilize language knowledge for recognition, such approaches exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Hirunima Jayasekara , Khoi Pham , Nirat Saini , Abhinav Shrivastava

One of the key limitations of modern deep learning approaches lies in the amount of data required to train them. Humans, by contrast, can learn to recognize novel categories from just a few examples. Instrumental to this rapid learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Pavel Tokmakov , Yu-Xiong Wang , Martial Hebert

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) models rely on learning a joint embedding space where both textual/semantic description of object classes and visual representation of object images can be projected to for nearest neighbour search. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Li Zhang , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize instances of unseen classes solely based on the semantic descriptions of the classes. Existing algorithms usually formulate it as a semantic-visual correspondence problem, by learning mappings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kai Li , Martin Renqiang Min , Yun Fu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at recognizing classes for which no visual sample is available at training time. To address this issue, one can rely on a semantic description of each class. A typical ZSL model learns a mapping between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Celina Hanouti , Hervé Le Borgne

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

Compositionality, the phenomenon where the meaning of a phrase can be derived from its constituent parts, is a hallmark of human language. At the same time, many phrases are non-compositional, carrying a meaning beyond that of each part in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Emmy Liu , Graham Neubig

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods have been studied in the unrealistic setting where test data are assumed to come from unseen classes only. In this paper, we advocate studying the problem of generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Wei-Lun Chao , Soravit Changpinyo , Boqing Gong , Fei Sha

Recently, zero-shot learning (ZSL) emerged as an exciting topic and attracted a lot of attention. ZSL aims to classify unseen classes by transferring the knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes based on the class description. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Chandan Gautam , Sethupathy Parameswaran , Ashish Mishra , Suresh Sundaram

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

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is an emerging research that aims to solve the classification problems with very few training data. The present works on ZSL mainly focus on the mapping of learning semantic space to visual space. It encounters many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Zeng Ting , Xiang Hongxin , Xie Cheng , Yang Yun , Liu Qing

Recent advances in zero-shot image recognition suggest that vision-language models learn generic visual representations with a high degree of semantic information that may be arbitrarily probed with natural language phrases. Understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Brandon McKinzie , Sachin Ravi , Yinfei Yang , Alexander Toshev , Jonathon Shlens

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

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel attribute-object compositions based on the knowledge learned from seen ones. Existing methods suffer from performance degradation caused by the distribution shift of label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xudong Yan , Songhe Feng