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Imitation learning and instruction-following are two common approaches to communicate a user's intent to a learning agent. However, as the complexity of tasks grows, it could be beneficial to use both demonstrations and language to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Prasoon Goyal , Raymond J. Mooney , Scott Niekum

In this paper, we address the task of natural language object retrieval, to localize a target object within a given image based on a natural language query of the object. Natural language object retrieval differs from text-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Ronghang Hu , Huazhe Xu , Marcus Rohrbach , Jiashi Feng , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell

Recent single image unsupervised representation learning techniques show remarkable success on a variety of tasks. The basic principle in these works is instance discrimination: learning to differentiate between two augmented versions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Daniel Gordon , Kiana Ehsani , Dieter Fox , Ali Farhadi

Transfer learning from supervised ImageNet models has been frequently used in medical image analysis. Yet, no large-scale evaluation has been conducted to benchmark the efficacy of newly-developed pre-training techniques for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher , Fatemeh Haghighi , Ruibin Feng , Michael B. Gotway , Jianming Liang

This paper proposes a novel method of learning by predicting view assignments with support samples (PAWS). The method trains a model to minimize a consistency loss, which ensures that different views of the same unlabeled instance are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Mahmoud Assran , Mathilde Caron , Ishan Misra , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Nicolas Ballas , Michael Rabbat

The named concepts and compositional operators present in natural language provide a rich source of information about the kinds of abstractions humans use to navigate the world. Can this linguistic background knowledge improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Jacob Andreas , Dan Klein , Sergey Levine

Understanding the 3D world without supervision is currently a major challenge in computer vision as the annotations required to supervise deep networks for tasks in this domain are expensive to obtain on a large scale. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Octave Mariotti , Oisin Mac Aodha , Hakan Bilen

Model pre-training is a cornerstone of modern visual recognition systems. Although fully supervised pre-training on datasets like ImageNet is still the de-facto standard, recent studies suggest that large-scale weakly supervised…

Pre-trained language models are still far from human performance in tasks that need understanding of properties (e.g. appearance, measurable quantity) and affordances of everyday objects in the real world since the text lacks such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Woojeong Jin , Dong-Ho Lee , Chenguang Zhu , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren

Few-shot Learning aims to learn and distinguish new categories with a very limited number of available images, presenting a significant challenge in the realm of deep learning. Recent researchers have sought to leverage the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chunpeng Zhou , Haishuai Wang , Xilu Yuan , Zhi Yu , Jiajun Bu

We present a convolutional neural network for joint 3D shape prediction and viewpoint estimation from a single input image. During training, our network gets the learning signal from a silhouette of an object in the input image - a form of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Oier Mees , Maxim Tatarchenko , Thomas Brox , Wolfram Burgard

Real world learning scenarios involve a nonstationary distribution of classes with sequential dependencies among the samples, in contrast to the standard machine learning formulation of drawing samples independently from a fixed, typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Mengye Ren , Tyler R. Scott , Michael L. Iuzzolino , Michael C. Mozer , Richard Zemel

Contrastive visual language pretraining has emerged as a powerful method for either training new language-aware image encoders or augmenting existing pretrained models with zero-shot visual recognition capabilities. However, existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ming Y. Lu , Bowen Chen , Andrew Zhang , Drew F. K. Williamson , Richard J. Chen , Tong Ding , Long Phi Le , Yung-Sung Chuang , Faisal Mahmood

We introduce a new setting, Edit Transfer, where a model learns a transformation from just a single source-target example and applies it to a new query image. While text-based methods excel at semantic manipulations through textual prompts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Lan Chen , Qi Mao , Yuchao Gu , Mike Zheng Shou

When trained at sufficient scale, auto-regressive language models exhibit the notable ability to learn a new language task after being prompted with just a few examples. Here, we present a simple, yet effective, approach for transferring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Maria Tsimpoukelli , Jacob Menick , Serkan Cabi , S. M. Ali Eslami , Oriol Vinyals , Felix Hill

Humans can visualize new and unknown concepts from their natural language description, based on their experience and previous knowledge. Insipired by this, we present a way to extend this ability to Vision-Language Models (VLMs), teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Carlo Alberto Barbano , Luca Molinaro , Massimiliano Ciranni , Emanuele Aiello , Vito Paolo Pastore , Marco Grangetto

Acquiring a large vocabulary is an important aspect of human intelligence. Onecommon approach for human to populating vocabulary is to learn words duringreading or listening, and then use them in writing or speaking. This ability totransfer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Yuanpeng Li , Yi Yang , Jianyu Wang , Wei Xu

While the Transformer architecture has become the de-facto standard for natural language processing tasks, its applications to computer vision remain limited. In vision, attention is either applied in conjunction with convolutional…

Pre-trained vision-language models provide a robust foundation for efficient transfer learning across various downstream tasks. In the field of video action recognition, mainstream approaches often introduce additional modules to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Haoxing Chen , Zizheng Huang , Yan Hong , Yanshuo Wang , Zhongcai Lyu , Zhuoer Xu , Jun Lan , Zhangxuan Gu

Existing solutions to zero-shot text classification either conduct prompting with pre-trained language models, which is sensitive to the choices of templates, or rely on large-scale annotated data of relevant tasks for meta-tuning. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Chaoqun Liu , Wenxuan Zhang , Guizhen Chen , Xiaobao Wu , Anh Tuan Luu , Chip Hong Chang , Lidong Bing