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Multilingual large language models (MLLMs), trained on multilingual balanced data, demonstrate better zero-shot learning performance in non-English languages compared to large language models trained on English-dominant data. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Hwichan Kim , Jun Suzuki , Tosho Hirasawa , Mamoru Komachi

Depth estimation (DE) provides spatial information about a scene and enables tasks such as 3D reconstruction, object detection, and scene understanding. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in using deep learning (DL)-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Ali Rohan , Md Junayed Hasan , Andrei Petrovski

Recently, several dense retrieval (DR) models have demonstrated competitive performance to term-based retrieval that are ubiquitous in search systems. In contrast to term-based matching, DR projects queries and documents into a dense vector…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sebastian Hofstätter , Nick Craswell , Bhaskar Mitra , Hamed Zamani , Allan Hanbury

In the field of visual scene understanding, deep neural networks have made impressive advancements in various core tasks like segmentation, tracking, and detection. However, most approaches operate on the close-set assumption, meaning that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Shilin Xu , Haobo Yuan , Henghui Ding , Yibo Yang , Xia Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Xudong Jiang , Bernard Ghanem , Dacheng Tao

A major obstacle to the wide-spread adoption of neural retrieval models is that they require large supervised training sets to surpass traditional term-based techniques, which are constructed from raw corpora. In this paper, we propose an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Ji Ma , Ivan Korotkov , Yinfei Yang , Keith Hall , Ryan McDonald

State-of-the-art methods for zero-shot visual recognition formulate learning as a joint embedding problem of images and side information. In these formulations the current best complement to visual features are attributes: manually encoded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Scott Reed , Zeynep Akata , Bernt Schiele , Honglak Lee

Zero-shot learning has received increasing interest as a means to alleviate the often prohibitive expense of annotating training data for large scale recognition problems. These methods have achieved great success via learning intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-27 Yanwei Fu , Yongxin Yang , Tim Hospedales , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

Dense retrieval models using a transformer-based bi-encoder design have emerged as an active area of research. In this work, we focus on the task of monolingual retrieval in a variety of typologically diverse languages using one such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Xinyu Zhang , Kelechi Ogueji , Xueguang Ma , Jimmy Lin

Zero-shot keyphrase extraction aims to build a keyphrase extractor without training by human-annotated data, which is challenging due to the limited human intervention involved. Challenging but worthwhile, zero-shot setting efficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Mingyang Song , Xuelian Geng , Songfang Yao , Shilong Lu , Yi Feng , Liping Jing

Decoder-only large language models (LLMs) are increasingly replacing BERT-style architectures as the backbone for dense retrieval, achieving substantial performance gains and broad adoption. However, the robustness of these LLM-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yongkang Li , Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Yixing Fan , Evangelos Kanoulas

With the explosive 3D data growth, the urgency of utilizing zero-shot learning to facilitate data labeling becomes evident. Recently, methods transferring language or language-image pre-training models like Contrastive Language-Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Weiguang Zhao , Guanyu Yang , Rui Zhang , Chenru Jiang , Chaolong Yang , Yuyao Yan , Amir Hussain , Kaizhu Huang

Vision-language models (VLMs) trained on internet-scale data achieve remarkable zero-shot detection performance on common objects like car, truck, and pedestrian. However, state-of-the-art models still struggle to generalize to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Peter Robicheaux , Matvei Popov , Anish Madan , Isaac Robinson , Joseph Nelson , Deva Ramanan , Neehar Peri

Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) generation by using an efficient draft model to propose the next few tokens, which are verified by the LLM in a single forward call, reducing latency while preserving its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Milan Gritta , Huiyin Xue , Gerasimos Lampouras

This work introduces a model that can recognize objects in images even if no training data is available for the objects. The only necessary knowledge about the unseen categories comes from unsupervised large text corpora. In our zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Richard Socher , Milind Ganjoo , Hamsa Sridhar , Osbert Bastani , Christopher D. Manning , Andrew Y. Ng

Deep prompt tuning (DPT) has gained great success in most natural language processing~(NLP) tasks. However, it is not well-investigated in dense retrieval where fine-tuning~(FT) still dominates. When deploying multiple retrieval tasks using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Zhengyang Tang , Benyou Wang , Ting Yao

In zero-shot image retrieval (ZSIR) task, embedding learning becomes more attractive, however, many methods follow the traditional metric learning idea and omit the problems behind zero-shot settings. In this paper, we first emphasize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Binghui Chen , Weihong Deng

Recent research on dialogue state tracking (DST) focuses on methods that allow few- and zero-shot transfer to new domains or schemas. However, performance gains heavily depend on aggressive data augmentation and fine-tuning of ever larger…

We introduce and tackle the problem of zero-shot object detection (ZSD), which aims to detect object classes which are not observed during training. We work with a challenging set of object classes, not restricting ourselves to similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Ankan Bansal , Karan Sikka , Gaurav Sharma , Rama Chellappa , Ajay Divakaran

Recently, information retrieval has seen the emergence of dense retrievers, using neural networks, as an alternative to classical sparse methods based on term-frequency. These models have obtained state-of-the-art results on datasets and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Gautier Izacard , Mathilde Caron , Lucas Hosseini , Sebastian Riedel , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Edouard Grave

Large language models (LLMs) have been effectively used for many computer vision tasks, including image classification. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective approach for zero-shot image classification using multimodal LLMs.…

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