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It is expensive and difficult to obtain the large number of sentence-level intent and token-level slot label annotations required to train neural network (NN)-based Natural Language Understanding (NLU) components of task-oriented dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Rashmi Gangadharaiah , Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen object classes without any training samples, which can be regarded as a form of transfer learning from seen classes to unseen ones. This is made possible by learning a projection between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 An Zhao , Mingyu Ding , Jiechao Guan , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen

This paper addresses the task of zero-shot image classification. The key contribution of the proposed approach is to control the semantic embedding of images -- one of the main ingredients of zero-shot learning -- by formulating it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Maxime Bucher , Stéphane Herbin , Frédéric Jurie

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to learn models that can recognize unseen image semantics based on the training of data with seen semantics. Recent studies either leverage the global image features or mine discriminative local patch features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 De Cheng , Gerong Wang , Bo Wang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Dingwen Zhang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes without visual instances. However, existing methods usually assume clean labels, overlooking real-world label noise and ambiguity, which degrades performance. To bridge this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiangnan Li , Linqing Huang , Xiaowen Yan , Min Gan , Wenpeng Lu , Jinfu Fan

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

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) enables classifiers to recognize classes unseen during training, commonly via generative two stage methods: (1) learn visual semantic correlations from seen classes; (2) synthesize unseen class features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zihan Ye , Shreyank N Gowda , Kaile Du , Weijian Luo , Ling Shao

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by aligning images with intermediate class semantics, like human-annotated concepts or class definitions. An emerging alternative leverages Large-scale Language Models (LLMs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zihan Ye , Shreyank N Gowda , Shiming Chen , Yaochu Jin , Kaizhu Huang , Xiaobo Jin

Deep learning is a data-hungry approach, which requires massive training data. However, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to collect abundant fully-annotated training data for all categories. Assuming the existence of base categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Li Niu

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) has received extensive attention and successes in recent years especially in areas of fine-grained object recognition, retrieval, and image captioning. Key to ZSL is to transfer knowledge from the seen to the unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Xingxing Zhang , Shupeng Gui , Zhenfeng Zhu , Yao Zhao , Ji Liu

Sentiment analysis in software engineering focuses on understanding emotions expressed in software artifacts. Previous research highlighted the limitations of applying general off-the-shelf sentiment analysis tools within the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Reem Alfayez , Manal Binkhonain

Zero-shot learning aims to classify visual objects without any training data via knowledge transfer between seen and unseen classes. This is typically achieved by exploring a semantic embedding space where the seen and unseen classes can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Zhen-Yong Fu , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

Zero-shot learning(ZSL) aims to recognize new classes without prior exposure to their samples, relying on semantic knowledge from observed classes. However, current attention-based models may overlook the transferability of visual features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yu Lei , Guoshuai Sheng , Fangfang Li , Quanxue Gao , Cheng Deng , Qin Li

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at understanding unseen categories with no training examples from class-level descriptions. To improve the discriminative power of zero-shot learning, we model the visual learning process of unseen categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Mohamed Elhoseiny , Mohamed Elfeki

In this paper, we study the problem of Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL), which is to recognize novel attribute-object combinations with pre-existing concepts. Recent researchers focus on applying large-scale Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhaoheng Zheng , Haidong Zhu , Ram Nevatia

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to train a model on seen classes and recognize unseen classes by knowledge transfer through shared auxiliary information. Recent studies reveal that documents from encyclopedias provide helpful auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiangyan Qu , Jing Yu , Jiamin Zhuang , Gaopeng Gou , Gang Xiong , Qi Wu

The Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) task pertains to the identification of entities or relations in texts that were not seen during training. ZSL has emerged as a critical research area due to the scarcity of labeled data in specific domains, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Gabriele Picco , Marcos Martínez Galindo , Alberto Purpura , Leopold Fuchs , Vanessa López , Hoang Thanh Lam

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) refers to the problem of learning to classify instances from the novel classes (unseen) that are absent in the training set (seen). Most ZSL methods infer the correlation between visual features and attributes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Zhe Liu , Yun Li , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Guodong Long

The goal of zero-shot learning (ZSL) is to train a model to classify samples of classes that were not seen during training. To address this challenging task, most ZSL methods relate unseen test classes to seen(training) classes via a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Lu Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) tackles the novel class recognition problem by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones. Existing attention-based models have struggled to learn inferior region features in a single image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Shiming Chen , Ziming Hong , Wenjin Hou , Guo-Sen Xie , Yibing Song , Jian Zhao , Xinge You , Shuicheng Yan , Ling Shao