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We introduce the task of zero-shot style transfer between different languages. Our training data includes multilingual parallel corpora, but does not contain any parallel sentences between styles, similarly to the recent previous work. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Elizaveta Korotkova , Maksym Del , Mark Fishel

Automated lay summarisation (LS) aims to simplify complex technical documents into a more accessible format to non-experts. Existing approaches using pre-trained language models, possibly augmented with external background knowledge, tend…

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In some of object recognition problems, labeled data may not be available for all categories. Zero-shot learning utilizes auxiliary information (also called signatures) describing each category in order to find a classifier that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Seyed Mohsen Shojaee , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Personalized recommendation serves as a ubiquitous channel for users to discover information tailored to their interests. However, traditional recommendation models primarily rely on unique IDs and categorical features for user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Qijiong Liu , Jieming Zhu , Yanting Yang , Quanyu Dai , Zhaocheng Du , Xiao-Ming Wu , Zhou Zhao , Rui Zhang , Zhenhua Dong

Zero-shot learning, which aims to recognize new categories that are not included in the training set, has gained popularity owing to its potential ability in the real-word applications. Zero-shot learning models rely on learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xinsheng Wang , Shanmin Pang , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li , Zhiqiang Tian , Yaochen Li

Prompt-based learning is susceptible to intrinsic bias present in pre-trained language models (LMs), leading to sub-optimal performance in prompt-based zero/few-shot settings. In this work, we propose a null-input prompting method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kang He , Yinghan Long , Kaushik Roy

Generalized zero-shot learning recognizes inputs from both seen and unseen classes. Yet, existing methods tend to be biased towards the classes seen during training. In this paper, we strive to mitigate this bias. We propose a bias-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 William Thong , Cees G. M. Snoek

In recent years, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been shown to be more effective than phrase-based statistical methods, thus quickly becoming the state of the art in machine translation (MT). However, NMT systems are limited in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Surafel M. Lakew , Marcello Federico , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Intelligent virtual assistants are currently designed to perform tasks or services explicitly mentioned by users, so multiple related domains or tasks need to be performed one by one through a long conversation with many explicit intents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Hui-Chi Kuo , Yun-Nung Chen

Understanding complex human activities demands the ability to decompose motion into fine-grained, semantic-aligned sub-actions. This motion grounding process is crucial for behavior analysis, embodied AI and virtual reality. Yet, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yunjiao Zhou , Xinyan Chen , Junlang Qian , Lihua Xie , Jianfei Yang

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

Recent studies have demonstrated that natural-language prompts can help to leverage the knowledge learned by pre-trained language models for the binary sentence-level sentiment classification task. Specifically, these methods utilize…

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Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition aims to recognize actions of unseen categories after training on data of seen categories. The key is to build the connection between visual and semantic space from seen to unseen classes. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yujie Zhou , Wenwen Qiang , Anyi Rao , Ning Lin , Bing Su , Jiaqi Wang

Textual descriptions for multimodal inputs entail recurrent refinement of queries to produce relevant output images. Despite efforts to address challenges such as scaling model size and data volume, the cost associated with pre-training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Amit Kumar Jaiswal , Haiming Liu , Ingo Frommholz

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to enhance the effectiveness of enriching item descriptions, thereby improving the accuracy of recommendation systems. However, most existing approaches either rely on text-only prompting or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Hanjia Lyu , Ryan Rossi , Xiang Chen , Md Mehrab Tanjim , Stefano Petrangeli , Somdeb Sarkhel , Jiebo Luo

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong cross-modal reasoning capabilities, yet their potential for vision-only tasks remains underexplored. We investigate MLLMs as training-free similarity estimators for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Bahey Tharwat , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Pavel Suma , Ian Reid , Giorgos Tolias

We introduce OpenShape, a method for learning multi-modal joint representations of text, image, and point clouds. We adopt the commonly used multi-modal contrastive learning framework for representation alignment, but with a specific focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Minghua Liu , Ruoxi Shi , Kaiming Kuang , Yinhao Zhu , Xuanlin Li , Shizhong Han , Hong Cai , Fatih Porikli , Hao Su

Current multimodal machine translation (MMT) systems rely on fully supervised data (i.e models are trained on sentences with their translations and accompanying images). However, this type of data is costly to collect, limiting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Matthieu Futeral , Cordelia Schmid , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

Visual-language pre-training has achieved remarkable success in many multi-modal tasks, largely attributed to the availability of large-scale image-text datasets. In this work, we demonstrate that Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yanqing Liu , Kai Wang , Wenqi Shao , Ping Luo , Yu Qiao , Mike Zheng Shou , Kaipeng Zhang , Yang You

This work studies the representational mapping across multimodal data such that given a piece of the raw data in one modality the corresponding semantic description in terms of the raw data in another modality is immediately obtained. Such…

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