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By describing the features and abstractions of our world, language is a crucial tool for human learning and a promising source of supervision for machine learning models. We use language to improve few-shot visual classification in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jesse Mu , Percy Liang , Noah Goodman

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

We study the impact of using rich and diverse textual descriptions of classes for zero-shot learning (ZSL) on ImageNet. We create a new dataset ImageNet-Wiki that matches each ImageNet class to its corresponding Wikipedia article. We show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Sebastian Bujwid , Josephine Sullivan

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot learning (ZSL) by leveraging large-scale visual-text pair datasets. However, these methods often lack interpretability, as they compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiming Chen , Bowen Duan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Generalized compositional zero-shot learning means to learn composed concepts of attribute-object pairs in a zero-shot fashion, where a model is trained on a set of seen concepts and tested on a combined set of seen and unseen concepts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 He Huang , Wei Tang , Jiawei Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) aims to train a classifier that can generalize to unseen classes, using a set of attributes as auxiliary information, and the visual features extracted from a pre-trained convolutional neural network.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Leonid Karlinsky , James Seale Smith , Yanjun Qi , Vicente Ordonez

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 2026-03-02 Xudong Yan , Songhe Feng , Jiaxin Wang , Xin Su , Yi Jin

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims at recognizing novel classes given only few training samples, which still remains a great challenge for deep learning. However, humans can easily recognize novel classes with only few samples. A key component of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Yixiong Zou , Shanghang Zhang , Ke Chen , Yonghong Tian , Yaowei Wang , José M. F. Moura

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims at predicting classes that have never appeared during the training using external knowledge (a.k.a. side information) has been widely investigated. In this paper we present a literature review towards ZSL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiaoyan Chen , Yuxia Geng , Zhuo Chen , Ian Horrocks , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

Due to the lack of properly annotated medical data, exploring the generalization capability of the deep model is becoming a public concern. Zero-shot learning (ZSL) has emerged in recent years to equip the deep model with the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cheng Bian , Chenglang Yuan , Kai Ma , Shuang Yu , Dong Wei , Yefeng Zheng

Recently, zero-shot learning (ZSL) has received increasing interest. The key idea underpinning existing ZSL approaches is to exploit knowledge transfer via an intermediate-level semantic representation which is assumed to be shared between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Yanwei Fu , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

Leveraging class semantic descriptions and examples of known objects, zero-shot learning makes it possible to train a recognition model for an object class whose examples are not available. In this paper, we propose a novel zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Fei Sha

In zero-shot learning (ZSL), a classifier is trained to recognize visual classes without any image samples. Instead, it is given semantic information about the class, like a textual description or a set of attributes. Learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Yuval Atzmon , Gal Chechik

Zero-shot learning extends the conventional object classification to the unseen class recognition by introducing semantic representations of classes. Existing approaches predominantly focus on learning the proper mapping function for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yizhe Zhu , Jianwen Xie , Zhiqiang Tang , Xi Peng , Ahmed Elgammal

This paper presents a method of zero-shot learning (ZSL) which poses ZSL as the missing data problem, rather than the missing label problem. Specifically, most existing ZSL methods focus on learning mapping functions from the image feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bo Zhao , Botong Wu , Tianfu Wu , Yizhou Wang

Instruction following vision-language (VL) models offer a flexible interface that supports a broad range of multimodal tasks in a zero-shot fashion. However, interfaces that operate on full images do not directly enable the user to "point…

Compositional generalization has achieved substantial progress in computer vision on pre-collected training data. Nonetheless, real-world data continually emerges, with possible compositions being nearly infinite, long-tailed, and not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Zhen Li , Yuwei Wu , Chenchen Jing , Che Sun , Chuanhao Li , Yunde Jia

Few-shot Learning (FSL) aims to classify new concepts from a small number of examples. While there have been an increasing amount of work on few-shot object classification in the last few years, most current approaches are limited to images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mathieu Pagé Fortin , Brahim Chaib-draa

One of the hallmarks of human intelligence is the ability to compose learned knowledge into novel concepts which can be recognized without a single training example. In contrast, current state-of-the-art methods require hundreds of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Senthil Purushwalkam , Maximilian Nickel , Abhinav Gupta , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) for image classification focuses on recognizing novel categories that have no labeled data available for training. The learning is generally carried out with the help of mid-level semantic descriptors associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Debasmit Das , C. S. George Lee