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With the development of large language models (LLMs), zero-shot learning has attracted much attention for various NLP tasks. Different from prior works that generate training data with billion-scale natural language generation (NLG) models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Yue Yu , Yuchen Zhuang , Rongzhi Zhang , Yu Meng , Jiaming Shen , Chao Zhang

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

Deep learning-based semantic segmentation models achieve impressive results yet remain limited in handling distribution shifts between training and test data. In this paper, we present SDGPA (Synthetic Data Generation and Progressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jun Luo , Zijing Zhao , Yang Liu

Zero-shot learning strives to classify unseen categories for which no data is available during training. In the generalized variant, the test samples can further belong to seen or unseen categories. The state-of-the-art relies on Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sanath Narayan , Akshita Gupta , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Cees G. M. Snoek , Ling Shao

Building a semantic parser quickly in a new domain is a fundamental challenge for conversational interfaces, as current semantic parsers require expensive supervision and lack the ability to generalize to new domains. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Jonathan Herzig , Jonathan Berant

To overcome the absence of training data for unseen classes, conventional zero-shot learning approaches mainly train their model on seen datapoints and leverage the semantic descriptions for both seen and unseen classes. Beyond exploiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Hyeonwoo Yu , Beomhee Lee

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects from novel unseen classes without any training data. Recently, structure-transfer based methods are proposed to implement ZSL by transferring structural knowledge from the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Bo Zhao , Xinwei Sun , Yuan Yao , Yizhou Wang

Recent work has shown that commonly available machine reading comprehension (MRC) datasets can be used to train high-performance neural information retrieval (IR) systems. However, the evaluation of neural IR has so far been limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Revanth Gangi Reddy , Vikas Yadav , Md Arafat Sultan , Martin Franz , Vittorio Castelli , Heng Ji , Avirup Sil

This paper investigates synthetic data generation strategies in developing generative retrieval models for domain-specific corpora, thereby addressing the scalability challenges inherent in manually annotating in-domain queries. We study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Haoyang Wen , Jiang Guo , Yi Zhang , Jiarong Jiang , Zhiguo Wang

We present a neural model for question generation from knowledge base triples in a "Zero-Shot" setup, that is generating questions for triples containing predicates, subject types or object types that were not seen at training time. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Hady Elsahar , Christophe Gravier , Frederique Laforest

We propose a framework - Prompt, Generate, Train (PGT) - to efficiently develop a generative question-answering model for open-book question-answering over a proprietary collection of text documents. The framework adapts a retriever…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 C. S. Krishna

Zero-shot quantization aims to learn a quantized model from a pre-trained full-precision model with no access to original real training data. The common idea in zero-shot quantization approaches is to generate synthetic data for quantizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Dung Hoang-Anh , Cuong Pham Trung Le , Jianfei Cai , Thanh-Toan Do

The recent advance in deep generative models outlines a promising perspective in the realm of Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL). Most generative ZSL methods use category semantic attributes plus a Gaussian noise to generate visual features. After…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Xiaojie Zhao , Yuming Shen , Shidong Wang , Haofeng Zhang

Zero-shot recognition (ZSR) deals with the problem of predicting class labels for target domain instances based on source domain side information (e.g. attributes) of unseen classes. We formulate ZSR as a binary prediction problem. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Zero-shot learning deals with the ability to recognize objects without any visual training sample. To counterbalance this lack of visual data, each class to recognize is associated with a semantic prototype that reflects the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yannick Le Cacheux , Hervé Le Borgne , Michel Crucianu

We demonstrate substantial performance gains in zero-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) by enhancing training data diversity through synthetic data generation. Existing DST datasets are severely limited in the number of application domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 James D. Finch , Jinho D. Choi

Zero-shot learning is a new paradigm to classify objects from classes that are not available at training time. Zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods have attracted considerable attention in recent years because of their ability to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Chandan Gautam , Sethupathy Parameswaran , Ashish Mishra , Suresh Sundaram

We equip a smaller Language Model to generalise to answering challenging compositional questions that have not been seen in training. To do so we propose a combination of multitask supervised pretraining on up to 93 tasks designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tim Hartill , Neset Tan , Michael Witbrock , Patricia J. Riddle

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).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jiang Lu , Jin Li , Ziang Yan , Changshui Zhang

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