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This work explores the zero-shot compositional learning ability of large pre-trained vision-language models(VLMs) within the prompt-based learning framework and propose a model (\textit{PromptCompVL}) to solve the compositonal zero-shot…

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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a challenging task aiming at recognizing novel classes without any training instances. In this paper we present a simple but high-performance ZSL approach by generating pseudo feature representations (GPFR).…

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The knowledge encapsulated in a model is the core factor determining its final performance on downstream tasks. Much research in NLP has focused on efficient methods for storing and adapting different types of knowledge, e.g., in dedicated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Carolin Holtermann , Markus Frohmann , Navid Rekabsaz , Anne Lauscher

Supervised machine learning has several drawbacks that make it difficult to use in many situations. Drawbacks include: heavy reliance on massive training data, limited generalizability and poor expressiveness of high-level semantics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yang Hu , Adriane Chapman , Guihua Wen , Dame Wendy Hall

Recognizing visual entities in a natural language sentence and arranging them in a 2D spatial layout require a compositional understanding of language and space. This task of layout prediction is valuable in text-to-image synthesis as it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Wolf Nuyts , Ruben Cartuyvels , Marie-Francine Moens

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to transfer knowledge from seen state-object pairs to novel unseen pairs. In this process, visual bias caused by the diverse interrelationship of state-object combinations blurs their visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Chenyi Jiang , Haofeng Zhang

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) is a transfer learning technique which aims at transferring knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. This knowledge transfer is possible because of underlying semantic space which is common to seen and unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Omkar Gune , Mainak Pal , Preeti Mukherjee , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to learn the concepts of attributes and objects in seen compositions and to recognize their unseen compositions. Most Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)-based CZSL methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Pan Yang , Cheng Deng , Jing Yang , Han Zhao , Yun Liu , Yuling Chen , Xiaoli Ruan , Yanping Chen

Recent advances in audio-text cross-modal contrastive learning have shown its potential towards zero-shot learning. One possibility for this is by projecting item embeddings from pre-trained backbone neural networks into a cross-modal space…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tiago Tavares , Fabio Ayres , Zhepei Wang , Paris Smaragdis

Learning a common representation space between vision and language allows deep networks to relate objects in the image to the corresponding semantic meaning. We present a model that learns a shared Gaussian mixture representation imposing…

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Recombining known primitive concepts into larger novel combinations is a quintessentially human cognitive capability. Whether large neural models in NLP can acquire this ability while learning from data is an open question. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Josef Valvoda , Naomi Saphra , Jonathan Rawski , Adina Williams , Ryan Cotterell

In compositional zero-shot learning, the goal is to recognize unseen compositions (e.g. old dog) of observed visual primitives states (e.g. old, cute) and objects (e.g. car, dog) in the training set. This is challenging because the same…

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Effective task representations should facilitate compositionality, such that after learning a variety of basic tasks, an agent can perform compound tasks consisting of multiple steps simply by composing the representations of the…

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We introduce compositional soft prompting (CSP), a parameter-efficient learning technique to improve the zero-shot compositionality of large-scale pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP. We develop CSP for compositional…

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The goal of object-centric representation learning is to decompose visual scenes into a structured representation that isolates the entities. Recent successes have shown that object-centric representation learning can be scaled to…

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The need to address the scarcity of task-specific annotated data has resulted in concerted efforts in recent years for specific settings such as zero-shot learning (ZSL) and domain generalization (DG), to separately address the issues of…

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Component obsolescence poses significant challenges in industries reliant on electronic components, causing increased costs and disruptions in the security and availability of systems. Accurate obsolescence risk prediction is essential but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Elie Saad , Aya Mrabah , Mariem Besbes , Marc Zolghadri , Victor Czmil , Claude Baron , Vincent Bourgeois

Despite recent breakthroughs in reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL), existing algorithms fail to generalize beyond the training environments. In reality, humans can adapt to new tasks quickly by leveraging prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Tianshi Cao , Jingkang Wang , Yining Zhang , Sivabalan Manivasagam

A classic approach toward zero-shot learning (ZSL) is to map the input domain to a set of semantically meaningful attributes that could be used later on to classify unseen classes of data (e.g. visual data). In this paper, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Soheil Kolouri , Mohammad Rostami , Yuri Owechko , Kyungnam Kim

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen attribute-object compositions by recombining primitives learned from seen pairs. Recent CZSL methods built on vision-language models (VLMs) typically adopt parameter-efficient…

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