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In open-world semi-supervised learning, a machine learning model is tasked with uncovering novel categories from unlabeled data while maintaining performance on seen categories from labeled data. The central challenge is the substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Bo Ye , Kai Gan , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is one of the dominant approaches to address the annotation bottleneck of supervised learning. Recent SSL methods can effectively leverage a large repository of unlabeled data to improve performance while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Navid Kardan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

We introduce a novel method for training machine learning models in the presence of noisy labels, which are prevalent in domains such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving and have the potential to degrade a model's generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Farooq Ahmad Wani , Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Fabrizio Silvestri

Existed pre-trained models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various text classification tasks. These models have proven to be useful in learning universal language representations. However, the semantic discrepancy between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Jinhe Lan , Qingyuan Zhan , Chenhao Jiang , Kunping Yuan , Desheng Wang

Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) faces a critical challenge: incrementally learning new classes from unlabeled data streams while preserving knowledge of old classes. Existing methods struggle with catastrophic forgetting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Hao Dai , Jagmohan Chauhan

In real-world scenarios, many large-scale datasets often contain inaccurate labels, i.e., noisy labels, which may confuse model training and lead to performance degradation. To overcome this issue, Label Noise Learning (LNL) has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yongliang Ding , Tao Zhou , Chuang Zhang , Yijing Luo , Juan Tang , Chen Gong

We consider the problem of discovering novel object categories in an image collection. While these images are unlabelled, we also assume prior knowledge of related but different image classes. We use such prior knowledge to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Kai Han , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Generalized category discovery (GCD) aims at addressing a more realistic and challenging setting of semi-supervised learning, where only part of the category labels are assigned to certain training samples. Previous methods generally employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yuanpeng Tu , Zhun Zhong , Yuxi Li , Hengshuang Zhao

Deep metric learning has yielded impressive results in tasks such as clustering and image retrieval by leveraging neural networks to obtain highly discriminative feature embeddings, which can be used to group samples into different classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ismail Elezi , Sebastiano Vascon , Alessandro Torcinovich , Marcello Pelillo , Laura Leal-Taixe

We introduce Test-Time Discovery (TTD) as a novel task that addresses class shifts during testing, requiring models to simultaneously identify emerging categories while preserving previously learned ones. A key challenge in TTD is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Fan Lyu , Tianle Liu , Zhang Zhang , Fuyuan Hu , Liang Wang

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is a pragmatic and challenging open-world task, which endeavors to cluster unlabeled samples from both novel and old classes, leveraging some labeled data of old classes. Given that knowledge learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Shijie Ma , Fei Zhu , Zhun Zhong , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Continuous category discovery (CCD) aims to automatically discover novel categories in continuously arriving unlabeled data. This is a challenging problem considering that there is no number of categories and labels in the newly arrived…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ruobing Jiang , Yang Liu , Haobing Liu , Yanwei Yu , Chunyang Wang

While many works on Continual Learning have shown promising results for mitigating catastrophic forgetting, they have relied on supervised training. To successfully learn in a label-agnostic incremental setting, a model must distinguish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Shivam Khare , Kun Cao , James Rehg

This paper explores a novel setting called Generalized Category Discovery in Semantic Segmentation (GCDSS), aiming to segment unlabeled images given prior knowledge from a labeled set of base classes. The unlabeled images contain pixels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zhengyuan Peng , Qijian Tian , Jianqing Xu , Yizhang Jin , Xuequan Lu , Xin Tan , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Standard recognition approaches are unable to deal with novel categories at test time. Their overconfidence on the known classes makes the predictions unreliable for safety-critical applications such as healthcare or autonomous driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Lorenzo Li Lu , Giulia D'Ascenzi , Francesco Cappio Borlino , Tatiana Tommasi

Generalized Class Discovery (GCD) aims to dynamically assign labels to unlabelled data partially based on knowledge learned from labelled data, where the unlabelled data may come from known or novel classes. The prevailing approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Ye Wang , Yaxiong Wang , Yujiao Wu , Bingchen Zhao , Xueming Qian

Semantic novelty detection aims at discovering unknown categories in the test data. This task is particularly relevant in safety-critical applications, such as autonomous driving or healthcare, where it is crucial to recognize unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Francesco Cappio Borlino , Silvia Bucci , Tatiana Tommasi

Generalized category discovery (GCD) is a recently proposed open-world task. Given a set of images consisting of labeled and unlabeled instances, the goal of GCD is to automatically cluster the unlabeled samples using information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Xiangli Yang , Xinglin Pan , Irwin King , Zenglin Xu

Class labels used for machine learning are relatable to each other, with certain class labels being more similar to each other than others (e.g. images of cats and dogs are more similar to each other than those of cats and cars). Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare , John Michael Galeotti

Although a number of studies are devoted to novel category discovery, most of them assume a static setting where both labeled and unlabeled data are given at once for finding new categories. In this work, we focus on the application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xinwei Zhang , Jianwen Jiang , Yutong Feng , Zhi-Fan Wu , Xibin Zhao , Hai Wan , Mingqian Tang , Rong Jin , Yue Gao