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Music classification and tagging is conducted through categorical supervised learning with a fixed set of labels. In principle, this cannot make predictions on unseen labels. Zero-shot learning is an approach to solve the problem by using…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Jeong Choi , Jongpil Lee , Jiyoung Park , Juhan Nam

Normalization techniques have proved to be a crucial ingredient of successful training in a traditional supervised learning regime. However, in the zero-shot learning (ZSL) world, these ideas have received only marginal attention. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Ivan Skorokhodov , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by leveraging semantic information from seen classes, but most existing methods assume accurate class labels for training instances. However, in real-world scenarios, noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinfu Fan , Jiangnan Li , Xiaowen Yan , Xiaohui Zhong , Wenpeng Lu , Linqing Huang

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to recognise unseen object classes, which are not observed during the training phase. The existing body of works on ZSL mostly relies on pretrained visual features and lacks the explicit attribute localisation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Faisal Alamri , Anjan Dutta

In Computer Vision, Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims at classifying unseen classes -- classes for which no matching training image exists. Most of ZSL works learn a cross-modal mapping between images and class labels for seen classes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Patrick Bordes , Eloi Zablocki , Benjamin Piwowarski , Patrick Gallinari

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize novel classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. Since semantic knowledge is built on attributes shared between different classes, which are highly local,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Yang Liu , Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Yifei Huang , Lin Gu , Jun Zhou , Tatsuya Harada

A significant shortcoming of current state-of-the-art (SOTA) named-entity recognition (NER) systems is their lack of generalization to unseen domains, which poses a major problem since obtaining labeled data for NER in a new domain is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Nguyen Van Hoang , Soeren Hougaard Mulvad , Dexter Neo Yuan Rong , Yang Yue

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize the unseen classes in the open-world guided by the side-information (e.g., attributes). Its key task is how to infer the latent semantic knowledge between visual and attribute features on seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shiming Chen , Shuhuang Chen , Guo-Sen Xie , Xinge You

We improve zero-shot learning (ZSL) by incorporating common-sense knowledge in DNNs. We propose Common-Sense based Neuro-Symbolic Loss (CSNL) that formulates prior knowledge as novel neuro-symbolic loss functions that regularize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Karan Sikka , Jihua Huang , Andrew Silberfarb , Prateeth Nayak , Luke Rohrer , Pritish Sahu , John Byrnes , Ajay Divakaran , Richard Rohwer

Zero-shot Learners are models capable of predicting unseen classes. In this work, we propose a Zero-shot Learning approach for text categorization. Our method involves training model on a large corpus of sentences to learn the relationship…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Pushpankar Kumar Pushp , Muktabh Mayank Srivastava

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

Due to the importance of zero-shot learning, i.e. classifying images where there is a lack of labeled training data, the number of proposed approaches has recently increased steadily. We argue that it is time to take a step back and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Yongqin Xian , Christoph H. Lampert , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

A common problem with most zero and few-shot learning approaches is they suffer from bias towards seen classes resulting in sub-optimal performance. Existing efforts aim to utilize unlabeled images from unseen classes (i.e transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Gaurav Bhatt , Shivam Chandhok , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Considering the increasing concerns about data copyright and privacy issues, we present a novel Absolute Zero-Shot Learning (AZSL) paradigm, i.e., training a classifier with zero real data. The key innovation is to involve a teacher model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Rui Gao , Fan Wan , Daniel Organisciak , Jiyao Pu , Junyan Wang , Haoran Duan , Peng Zhang , Xingsong Hou , Yang Long

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by exploiting semantic descriptions shared between seen classes and unseen classes. Current methods show that it is effective to learn visual-semantic alignment by projecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Zaiquan Yang , Yang Liu , Wenjia Xu , Chong Huang , Lei Zhou , Chao Tong

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) recognizes the unseen classes by conducting visual-semantic interactions to transfer semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones, supported by semantic information (e.g., attributes). However, existing ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shiming Chen , Wenjin Hou , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

A modern paradigm for generalization in machine learning and AI consists of pre-training a task-agnostic foundation model, generally obtained using self-supervised and multimodal contrastive learning. The resulting representations can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-03 Ronak Mehta , Zaid Harchaoui

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

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

Recently, many zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods focused on learning discriminative object features in an embedding feature space, however, the distributions of the unseen-class features learned by these methods are prone to be partly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Bo Liu , Qiulei Dong , Zhanyi Hu