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Humans leverage compositionality to efficiently learn new concepts, understanding how familiar parts can combine together to form novel objects. In contrast, popular computer vision models struggle to make the same types of inferences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yanli Zhou , Reuben Feinman , Brenden M. Lake

Compositional generalization -- the ability to understand and generate novel combinations of learned concepts -- enables models to extend their capabilities beyond limited experiences. While effective, the data structures and principles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Lingjing Kong , Shaoan Xie , Yang Jiao , Yetian Chen , Yanhui Guo , Simone Shao , Yan Gao , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang

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

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen compositions with prior knowledge of known primitives (attribute and object). Previous works for CZSL often suffer from grasping the contextuality between attribute and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hanjae Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Seongheon Park , Kwanghoon Sohn

Compositional Zero-Shot learning (CZSL) requires to recognize state-object compositions unseen during training. In this work, instead of assuming prior knowledge about the unseen compositions, we operate in the open world setting, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Massimiliano Mancini , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Yongqin Xian , Zeynep Akata

We develop a novel compositional generative model for zero- and few-shot learning to recognize fine-grained classes with a few or no training samples. Our key observation is that generating holistic features for fine-grained classes fails…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Dat Huynh , Ehsan Elhamifar

We study the problem of compositional zero-shot learning for object-attribute recognition. Prior works use visual features extracted with a backbone network, pre-trained for object classification and thus do not capture the subtly distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Nirat Saini , Khoi Pham , Abhinav Shrivastava

We present a generative framework for generalized zero-shot learning where the training and test classes are not necessarily disjoint. Built upon a variational autoencoder based architecture, consisting of a probabilistic encoder and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Vinay Kumar Verma , Gundeep Arora , Ashish Mishra , Piyush Rai

Compositional Zero-Shot learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen compositions of state and object visual primitives seen during training. A problem with standard CZSL is the assumption of knowing which unseen compositions will be available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Massimiliano Mancini , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Yongqin Xian , Zeynep Akata

Humans excel at applying learned behavior to unlearned situations. A crucial component of this generalization behavior is our ability to compose/decompose a whole into reusable parts, an attribute known as compositionality. One of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Prasanna Vijayaraghavan , Jeffrey Frederic Queisser , Sergio Verduzco Flores , Jun Tani

We propose a novel Generalized Zero-Shot learning (GZSL) method that is agnostic to both unseen images and unseen semantic vectors during training. Prior works in this context propose to map high-dimensional visual features to the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Pengkai Zhu , Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama

The ability to learn and compose functions is foundational to efficient learning and reasoning in humans, enabling flexible generalizations such as creating new dishes from known cooking processes. Beyond sequential chaining of functions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yanli Zhou , Brenden M. Lake , Adina Williams

Single-image 3D shape reconstruction is an important and long-standing problem in computer vision. A plethora of existing works is constantly pushing the state-of-the-art performance in the deep learning era. However, there remains a much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Songfang Han , Jiayuan Gu , Kaichun Mo , Li Yi , Siyu Hu , Xuejin Chen , Hao Su

Compositional generalization is the ability to generalize systematically to a new data distribution by combining known components. Although humans seem to have a great ability to generalize compositionally, state-of-the-art neural models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Juyong Kim , Pradeep Ravikumar , Joshua Ainslie , Santiago Ontañón

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

Compositional generalization, the ability to recognize familiar parts in novel contexts, is a defining property of intelligent systems. Although modern models are trained on massive datasets, they still cover only a tiny fraction of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Arnas Uselis , Andrea Dittadi , Seong Joon Oh

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

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

Prevalent techniques in zero-shot learning do not generalize well to other related problem scenarios. Here, we present a unified approach for conventional zero-shot, generalized zero-shot and few-shot learning problems. Our approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Shafin Rahman , Salman H. Khan , Fatih Porikli

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to train models to recognize novel compositional concepts based on learned concepts such as attribute-object combinations. One of the challenges is to model attributes interacted with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Qingsheng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Chenchen Jing , Hao Chen , Guoqiang Liang , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen