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Deep learning models are prone to forgetting information learned in the past when trained on new data. This problem becomes even more pronounced in the context of federated learning (FL), where data is decentralized and subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Sara Babakniya , Zalan Fabian , Chaoyang He , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

In zero-shot learning (ZSL), conditional generators have been widely used to generate additional training features. These features can then be used to train the classifiers for testing data. However, some testing data are considered "hard"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Jingyi Xu , Zhixin Shu , Dimitris Samaras

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) addresses the unseen class recognition problem by leveraging semantic information to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. Generative models synthesize the unseen visual features and convert ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Maunil R Vyas , Hemanth Venkateswara , Sethuraman Panchanathan

Robust object recognition systems usually rely on powerful feature extraction mechanisms from a large number of real images. However, in many realistic applications, collecting sufficient images for ever-growing new classes is unattainable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Yang Long , Li Liu , Ling Shao , Fumin Shen , Guiguang Ding , Jungong Han

We introduce a simple yet effective episode-based training framework for zero-shot learning (ZSL), where the learning system requires to recognize unseen classes given only the corresponding class semantics. During training, the model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Zhongfei Zhang , Jungong Han

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen objects (test classes) given some other seen objects (training classes), by sharing information of attributes between different objects. Attributes are artificially annotated for objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xiaofeng Xu , Ivor W. Tsang , Chuancai Liu

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

Zero-shot instance segmentation aims to detect and precisely segment objects of unseen categories without any training samples. Since the model is trained on seen categories, there is a strong bias that the model tends to classify all the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Shuting He , Henghui Ding , Wei Jiang

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel compositions using knowledge learned from seen attribute-object compositions in the training set. Previous works mainly project an image and a composition into a common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tian Zhang , Kongming Liang , Ruoyi Du , Xian Sun , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Modern recognition systems require large amounts of supervision to achieve accuracy. Adapting to new domains requires significant data from experts, which is onerous and can become too expensive. Zero-shot learning requires an annotated set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Utkarsh Mall , Bharath Hariharan , Kavita Bala

Class-incremental learning in the context of limited personal labeled samples (few-shot) is critical for numerous real-world applications, such as smart home devices. A key challenge in these scenarios is balancing the trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kirill Paramonov , Mete Ozay , Eunju Yang , Jijoong Moon , Umberto Michieli

Incremental Learning scenarios do not always represent real-world inference use-cases, which tend to have less strict task boundaries, and exhibit repetition of common classes and concepts in their continual data stream. To better represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Benedikt Tscheschner , Eduardo Veas , Marc Masana

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 Classification (ZSC) equips the learned model with the ability to recognize the visual instances from the novel classes via constructing the interactions between the visual and the semantic modalities. In contrast to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhong Ji , Xuejie Yu , Yunlong Yu , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

Generalization is often regarded as an essential property of machine learning systems. However, perhaps not every component of a system needs to generalize. Training models for generalization typically produces entangled representations at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 David Rawlinson , Gideon Kowadlo

Zero-shot learning, which aims to recognize new categories that are not included in the training set, has gained popularity owing to its potential ability in the real-word applications. Zero-shot learning models rely on learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xinsheng Wang , Shanmin Pang , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li , Zhiqiang Tian , Yaochen Li

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to generate a classifier using limited labeled examples. Many existing works take the meta-learning approach, constructing a few-shot learner that can learn from few-shot examples to generate a classifier.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Han-Jia Ye , Lu Ming , De-Chuan Zhan , Wei-Lun Chao

We present a deep generative model for learning to predict classes not seen at training time. Unlike most existing methods for this problem, that represent each class as a point (via a semantic embedding), we represent each seen/unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Wenlin Wang , Yunchen Pu , Vinay Kumar Verma , Kai Fan , Yizhe Zhang , Changyou Chen , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims at predicting classes that have never appeared during the training using external knowledge (a.k.a. side information) has been widely investigated. In this paper we present a literature review towards ZSL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiaoyan Chen , Yuxia Geng , Zhuo Chen , Ian Horrocks , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

In Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL), embedding-based methods enable knowledge transfer from seen to unseen classes by learning a visual-semantic mapping from seen-class images to class-level semantic prototypes (e.g., attributes). However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lei Wang , Shiming Chen , Guo-Sen Xie , Ziming Hong , Chaojian Yu , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You