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Intent recognition aims to identify users' underlying intentions, traditionally focusing on text in natural language processing. With growing demands for natural human-computer interaction, the field has evolved through deep learning and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Jingwei Zhao , Yuhua Wen , Qifei Li , Minchi Hu , Yingying Zhou , Jingyao Xue , Junyang Wu , Yingming Gao , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Ya Li

Detecting Out-of-Domain (OOD) or unknown intents from user queries is essential in a task-oriented dialog system. A key challenge of OOD detection is to learn discriminative semantic features. Traditional cross-entropy loss only focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zhiyuan Zeng , Keqing He , Yuanmeng Yan , Zijun Liu , Yanan Wu , Hong Xu , Huixing Jiang , Weiran Xu

Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) enriches traditional object detectors by enabling continual discovery and integration of unknown objects via human guidance. However, existing OWOD approaches frequently suffer from semantic confusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anay Majee , Amitesh Gangrade , Rishabh Iyer

Intent detection, a critical component in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, faces significant challenges in adapting to the rapid influx of integrable tools with complex interrelationships. Existing approaches, such as zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zihao Feng , Xiaoxue Wang , Ziwei Bai , Donghang Su , Bowen Wu , Qun Yu , Baoxun Wang

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) faces the challenge of categorizing unlabeled data containing both known and novel classes, given only labels for known classes. Previous studies often treat each class independently, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Fang Zhou , Zhiqiang Chen , Martin Pavlovski , Yizhong Zhang

Incremental learning requires a model to continually learn new tasks from streaming data. However, traditional fine-tuning of a well-trained deep neural network on a new task will dramatically degrade performance on the old task -- a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Can Peng , Kun Zhao , Sam Maksoud , Meng Li , Brian C. Lovell

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

Prompt-based continual learning (CL) provides a parameter-efficient approach for adapting large language models (LLMs) across task sequences. However, most existing methods rely on task-aware inference and maintain a growing set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anushka Tiwari , Sayantan Pal , Rohini K. Srihari , Kaiyi Ji

Identifying user intents from natural language utterances is a crucial step in conversational systems that has been extensively studied as a supervised classification problem. However, in practice, new intents emerge after deploying an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 A. B. Siddique , Fuad Jamour , Luxun Xu , Vagelis Hristidis

New intent discovery is a crucial capability for task-oriented dialogue systems. Existing methods focus on transferring in-domain (IND) prior knowledge to out-of-domain (OOD) data through pre-training and clustering stages. They either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yimin Deng , Yuxia Wu , Guoshuai Zhao , Li Zhu , Xueming Qian

The task of identifying out-of-domain (OOD) input examples directly at test-time has seen renewed interest recently due to increased real world deployment of models. In this work, we focus on OOD detection for natural language sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Varun Gangal , Abhinav Arora , Arash Einolghozati , Sonal Gupta

Unknown intent detection aims to identify the out-of-distribution (OOD) utterance whose intent has never appeared in the training set. In this paper, we propose using energy scores for this task as the energy score is theoretically aligned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Yawen Ouyang , Jiasheng Ye , Yu Chen , Xinyu Dai , Shujian Huang , Jiajun Chen

Intent detection is a crucial component of modern conversational systems, since accurately identifying user intent at the beginning of a conversation is essential for generating effective responses. Recent efforts have focused on studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liang Zhang , Yuan Li , Shijie Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Xitong Li

Zero-shot intent detection (ZSID) aims to deal with the continuously emerging intents without annotated training data. However, existing ZSID systems suffer from two limitations: 1) They are not good at modeling the relationship between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Qingyi Si , Yuanxin Liu , Peng Fu , Zheng Lin , Jiangnan Li , Weiping Wang

This paper introduces a new and challenging Hidden Intention Discovery (HID) task. Unlike existing intention recognition tasks, which are based on obvious visual representations to identify common intentions for normal behavior, HID focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Zhuo Zhou , Wenxuan Liu , Danni Xu , Zheng Wang , Jian Zhao

With the advancement of deep neural networks in computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI) is widely employed in real-world applications. However, AI still faces limitations in mimicking high-level human capabilities, such as novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Keon-Hee Park , Hakyung Lee , Kyungwoo Song , Gyeong-Moon Park

Recognizing and differentiating among both familiar and unfamiliar faces is a critical capability for face recognition systems and a key step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Motivated by this ability, this paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yunseok Oh , Dong-Wan Choi

Conversational news recommendation requires grounding each suggestion in a rapidly evolving article corpus while addressing implicit user intents that lack explicit retrievable keywords. To characterize this scenario, we identify 6 intent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hongyang Su , Beibei Kong , Lei Cheng , Chengxiang Zhuo , Zang Li , Chenyun Yu

Open intent detection, a crucial aspect of natural language understanding, involves the identification of previously unseen intents in user-generated text. Despite the progress made in this field, challenges persist in handling new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yihao Fang , Xianzhi Li , Stephen W. Thomas , Xiaodan Zhu

New Intent Discovery (NID) strives to identify known and reasonably deduce novel intent groups in the open-world scenario. But current methods face issues with inaccurate pseudo-labels and poor representation learning, creating a negative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Shun Zhang , Chaoran Yan , Jian Yang , Changyu Ren , Jiaqi Bai , Tongliang Li , Zhoujun Li