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Methods for object detection and segmentation often require abundant instance-level annotations for training, which are time-consuming and expensive to collect. To address this, the task of zero-shot object detection (or segmentation) aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Siddhesh Khandelwal , Anirudth Nambirajan , Behjat Siddiquie , Jayan Eledath , Leonid Sigal

Recommender systems (RSs) have emerged as very useful tools to help customers with their decision-making process, find items of their interest, and alleviate the information overload problem. There are two different lines of approaches in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shahpar Yakhchi

In the problem of generalized zero-shot learning, the datapoints from unknown classes are not available during training. The main challenge for generalized zero-shot learning is the unbalanced data distribution which makes it hard for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Hongguang Zhang , Piotr Koniusz

In Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS), a user provides feedback on recommended items at each turn, leading the CRS towards improved recommendations. Due to the need for a large amount of data, a user simulator is employed for both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Maria Vlachou

Trained on large datasets, deep learning (DL) can accurately classify videos into hundreds of diverse classes. However, video data is expensive to annotate. Zero-shot learning (ZSL) proposes one solution to this problem. ZSL trains a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Biagio Brattoli , Joseph Tighe , Fedor Zhdanov , Pietro Perona , Krzysztof Chalupka

Scaling up visual category recognition to large numbers of classes remains challenging. A promising research direction is zero-shot learning, which does not require any training data to recognize new classes, but rather relies on some form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Zeynep Akata , Mateusz Malinowski , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Recommender systems (RS) suggest items-based on the estimated preferences of users. Recent RS methods utilise vector space embeddings and deep learning methods to make efficient recommendations. However, most of these methods overlook the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Makbule Gulcin Ozsoy

The scarcity of high-quality training data presents a fundamental bottleneck to scaling machine learning models. This challenge is particularly acute in recommendation systems, where extreme sparsity in user interactions leads to rugged…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Luankang Zhang , Hao Wang , Zhongzhou Liu , Mingjia Yin , Yonghao Huang , Jiaqi Li , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Huifeng Guo , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) enables solving a task without the need to see its examples. In this paper, we propose two ZSL frameworks that learn to synthesize parameters for novel unseen classes. First, we propose to cast the problem of ZSL as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Boqing Gong , Fei Sha

Although zero-shot learning (ZSL) has an inferential capability of recognizing new classes that have never been seen before, it always faces two fundamental challenges of the cross modality and crossdomain challenges. In order to alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Cheng Xie , Hongxin Xiang , Ting Zeng , Yun Yang , Beibei Yu , Qing Liu

In most recent years, zero-shot recognition (ZSR) has gained increasing attention in machine learning and image processing fields. It aims at recognizing unseen class instances with knowledge transferred from seen classes. This is typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jingcai Guo , Song Guo

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a framework to classify images belonging to unseen classes based on solely semantic information about these unseen classes. In this paper, we propose a new ZSL algorithm using coupled dictionary learning. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mohammad Rostami , Soheil Kolouri , Zak Murez , Yuri Owekcho , Eric Eaton , Kuyngnam Kim

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) promises to scale visual recognition by bypassing the conventional model training requirement of annotated examples for every category. This is achieved by establishing a mapping connecting low-level features and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Xun Xu , Timothy M. Hospedales , Shaogang Gong

In this paper, we introduce a selective zero-shot classification problem: how can the classifier avoid making dubious predictions? Existing attribute-based zero-shot classification methods are shown to work poorly in the selective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Jie Song , Chengchao Shen , Jie Lei , An-Xiang Zeng , Kairi Ou , Dacheng Tao , Mingli Song

Preference-based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a new field in robot learning, where humans play a pivotal role in shaping robot behavior by expressing preferences on different sequences of state-action pairs. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Simon Holk , Daniel Marta , Iolanda Leite

In this paper, we propose a theoretically founded sequential strategy for training large-scale Recommender Systems (RS) over implicit feedback, mainly in the form of clicks. The proposed approach consists in minimizing pairwise ranking loss…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Aleksandra Burashnikova , Marianne Clausel , Charlotte Laclau , Frack Iutzeller , Yury Maximov , Massih-Reza Amini

Generalized zero-shot learning recognizes inputs from both seen and unseen classes. Yet, existing methods tend to be biased towards the classes seen during training. In this paper, we strive to mitigate this bias. We propose a bias-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 William Thong , Cees G. M. Snoek

A phrase grounding system localizes a particular object in an image referred to by a natural language query. In previous work, the phrases were restricted to have nouns that were encountered in training, we extend the task to Zero-Shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Arka Sadhu , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia

Modern online service providers such as online shopping platforms often provide both search and recommendation (S&R) services to meet different user needs. Rarely has there been any effective means of incorporating user behavior data from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Zihua Si , Zhongxiang Sun , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu , Xiaoxue Zang , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Ji-Rong Wen

Zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) methods aim at instantly producing a behavior for an RL task in a given environment, from a description of the reward function. These methods are usually tested by evaluating their average performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yann Ollivier