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Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify unlabeled samples by leveraging the base knowledge from labeled ones, where the unlabeled set consists of both base and novel classes. Since clustering methods are time-consuming at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Duo Liu , Zhiquan Tan , Linglan Zhao , Zhongqiang Zhang , Xiangzhong Fang , Weiran Huang

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is a crucial task that aims to recognize both known and novel categories from a set of unlabeled data by utilizing a few labeled data with only known categories. Due to the lack of supervision and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Wenbin An , Wenkai Shi , Feng Tian , Haonan Lin , QianYing Wang , Yaqiang Wu , Mingxiang Cai , Luyan Wang , Yan Chen , Haiping Zhu , Ping Chen

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

In novel class discovery (NCD), we are given labeled data from seen classes and unlabeled data from unseen classes, and we train clustering models for the unseen classes. However, the implicit assumptions behind NCD are still unclear. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Haoang Chi , Feng Liu , Bo Han , Wenjing Yang , Long Lan , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Mingyuan Zhou , Masashi Sugiyama

This paper addresses the problem of Rehearsal-Free Continual Category Discovery (RF-CCD), which focuses on continuously identifying novel class by leveraging knowledge from labeled data. Existing methods typically train from scratch,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chuyu Zhang , Xueyang Yu , Peiyan Gu , Xuming He

We tackle the issue of generalized category discovery (GCD). GCD considers the open-world problem of automatically clustering a partially labelled dataset, in which the unlabelled data may contain instances from both novel categories and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shaozhe Hao , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Generalized category discovery (GCD) aims at grouping unlabeled samples from known and unknown classes, given labeled data of known classes. To meet the recent decentralization trend in the community, we introduce a practical yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Nan Pu , Zhun Zhong , Xinyuan Ji , Nicu Sebe

Continual Novel Class Discovery (CNCD) aims to continually discover novel classes without labels while maintaining the recognition capability for previously learned classes. The main challenges faced by CNCD include the feature-discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yifan Yu , Shaokun Wang , Yuhang He , Junzhe Chen , Yihong Gong

Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) requires identifying novel classes from unlabeled data while retaining knowledge of known classes over time. Existing methods typically update classifier weights dynamically, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , SongLin Dong , Yuhang He , Shaokun Wang , Qiang Wang , Yihong Gong

This paper studies the problem of novel category discovery on single- and multi-modal data with labels from different but relevant categories. We present a generic, end-to-end framework to jointly learn a reliable representation and assign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Xuhui Jia , Kai Han , Yukun Zhu , Bradley Green

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to leverage labeled samples from known categories to cluster unlabeled data that may include both known and unknown categories. While existing methods have achieved impressive results under standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wei Feng , Zongyuan Ge

This paper introduces a novel approach to Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) by leveraging the concept of contextuality to enhance the identification and classification of categories in unlabeled datasets. Drawing inspiration from human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tingzhang Luo , Mingxuan Du , Jiatao Shi , Xinxiang Chen , Bingchen Zhao , Shaoguang Huang

In this paper, we consider a highly general image recognition setting wherein, given a labelled and unlabelled set of images, the task is to categorize all images in the unlabelled set. Here, the unlabelled images may come from labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sagar Vaze , Kai Han , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to cluster unlabeled images into known and novel categories using labeled images from known classes. To address the challenge of transferring features from known to unknown classes while mitigating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bhupendra Solanki , Ashwin Nair , Mainak Singha , Souradeep Mukhopadhyay , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

Generalized category discovery (GCD) is a pragmatic but underexplored problem, which requires models to automatically cluster and discover novel categories by leveraging the labeled samples from old classes. The challenge is that unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shijie Ma , Fei Zhu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Generalized Continual Category Discovery (GCCD) tackles learning from sequentially arriving, partially labeled datasets while uncovering new categories. Traditional methods depend on feature distillation to prevent forgetting the old…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Grzegorz Rypeść , Daniel Marczak , Sebastian Cygert , Tomasz Trzciński , Bartłomiej Twardowski

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

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to recognize both known and novel categories from a set of unlabeled data, based on another dataset labeled with only known categories. Without considering differences between known and novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Wenbin An , Feng Tian , Qinghua Zheng , Wei Ding , QianYing Wang , Ping Chen

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is an emerging and challenging open-world problem that has garnered increasing attention in recent years. Most existing GCD methods focus on discovering categories in static images. However, relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhang Jing , Pu Nan , Xie Yu Xiang , Guo Yanming , Lu Qianqi , Zou Shiwei , Yan Jie , Chen Yan

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) seeks to uncover novel categories in unlabeled data while preserving recognition of known categories, yet prevailing visual-only pipelines and the loose coupling between supervised learning and discovery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , Yuhang He , Qiang Wang , Shaokun Wang , SongLin Dong , Yihong Gong