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Human-annotated attributes serve as powerful semantic embeddings in zero-shot learning. However, their annotation process is labor-intensive and needs expert supervision. Current unsupervised semantic embeddings, i.e., word embeddings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Wenjia Xu , Yongqin Xian , Jiuniu Wang , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Children can rapidly generalize compositionally-constructed rules to unseen test sets. On the other hand, deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents need to be trained over millions of episodes, and their ability to generalize to unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zijun Lin , Haidi Azaman , M Ganesh Kumar , Cheston Tan

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

Learning compositional representation is a key aspect of object-centric learning as it enables flexible systematic generalization and supports complex visual reasoning. However, most of the existing approaches rely on auto-encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Whie Jung , Jaehoon Yoo , Sungjin Ahn , Seunghoon Hong

Generalized zero-shot learning aims to recognize both seen and unseen classes with the help of semantic information that is shared among different classes. It inevitably requires consistent visual-semantic alignment. Existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Huajie Jiang , Zhengxian Li , Xiaohan Yu , Yongli Hu , Baocai Yin , Jian Yang , Yuankai Qi

Existing subject-driven text-to-image generation models suffer from tedious fine-tuning steps and struggle to maintain both text-image alignment and subject fidelity. For generating compositional subjects, it often encounters problems such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Shengyuan Liu , Bo Wang , Ye Ma , Te Yang , Xipeng Cao , Quan Chen , Han Li , Di Dong , Peng Jiang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by generalizing the relation between visual features and semantic attributes learned from the seen classes. A recent paradigm called transductive zero-shot learning further leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Zhengbo Wang , Jian Liang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Linear embedding transformation has been shown to be effective for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer tasks and achieve surprisingly promising results. However, cross-lingual embedding space mapping is usually studied in static word-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Haoran Xu , Philipp Koehn

In this paper, we address an open problem of zero-shot learning. Its principle is based on learning a mapping that associates feature vectors extracted from i.e. images and attribute vectors that describe objects and/or scenes of interest.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Hongguang Zhang , Piotr Koniusz

Reference-based object composition involves integrating foreground reference image with background scene to produce harmonious fused image. This task becomes particularly challenging in cross-domain scenarios, where models must balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Raghu Vamsi Chittersu , Yuvraj Singh Rathore , Pranav Adlinge , Kunal Swami

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

We propose a novel approach to improve a visual-semantic embedding model by incorporating concept representations captured from an external structured knowledge base. We investigate its performance on image classification under both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Mirantha Jayathilaka , Tingting Mu , Uli Sattler

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen objects using disjoint seen objects via sharing attributes. The generalization performance of ZSL is governed by the attributes, which transfer semantic information from seen classes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xiaofeng Xu , Ivor W. Tsang , Chuancai Liu

Zero-shot learning methods rely on fixed visual and semantic embeddings, extracted from independent vision and language models, both pre-trained for other large-scale tasks. This is a weakness of current zero-shot learning frameworks as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shah Nawaz , Jacopo Cavazza , Alessio Del Bue

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to predict unknown compositions made up of attribute and object pairs. Predicting compositions unseen during training is a challenging task. We are exploring Open World Compositional Zero-Shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Ans Munir , Faisal Z. Qureshi , Muhammad Haris Khan , Mohsen Ali

The existing zero-shot detection approaches project visual features to the semantic domain for seen objects, hoping to map unseen objects to their corresponding semantics during inference. However, since the unseen objects are never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Nasir Hayat , Munawar Hayat , Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Syed Waqas Zamir , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Conventional object detection models require large amounts of training data. In comparison, humans can recognize previously unseen objects by merely knowing their semantic description. To mimic similar behaviour, zero-shot object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes

This paper investigates the problem of zero-shot action recognition, in the setting where no training videos with seen actions are available. For this challenging scenario, the current leading approach is to transfer knowledge from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Carlo Bretti , Pascal Mettes

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects of novel classes without any training samples of specific classes, which is achieved by exploiting the semantic information and auxiliary datasets. Recently most ZSL approaches focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Huajie Jiang , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Reinforcement learning in problems with symbolic state spaces is challenging due to the need for reasoning over long horizons. This paper presents a new approach that utilizes relational abstractions in conjunction with deep learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Rushang Karia , Siddharth Srivastava