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Vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled strong zero-shot classification through image-text alignment. Yet, their purely visual inference capabilities remain under-explored. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Illia Volkov , Nikita Kisel , Klara Janouskova , Jiri Matas

Zero-shot learning deals with the ability to recognize objects without any visual training sample. To counterbalance this lack of visual data, each class to recognize is associated with a semantic prototype that reflects the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yannick Le Cacheux , Hervé Le Borgne , Michel Crucianu

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have exhibited impressive zero-shot performance and transferability, allowing them to adapt to downstream tasks in a data-efficient manner. However, when only a few labeled samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ce Zhang , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

Zero-shot classification is a promising paradigm to solve an applicable problem when the training classes and test classes are disjoint. Achieving this usually needs experts to externalize their domain knowledge by manually specifying a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Shichao Jia , Zeyu Li , Nuo Chen , Jiawan Zhang

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on a wide range of downstream computer vision tasks. However, there still exists a considerable performance gap between these models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bardia Safaei , Vishal M. Patel

Conventional approaches to text classification typically assume the existence of a fixed set of predefined labels to which a given text can be classified. However, in real-world applications, there exists an infinite label space for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Christopher Clarke , Yuzhao Heng , Yiping Kang , Krisztian Flautner , Lingjia Tang , Jason Mars

Zero-shot multi-label recognition (MLR) with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) faces significant challenges without training data, model tuning, or architectural modifications. Existing approaches require prompt tuning or architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kevin Miller , Samarth Mishra , Aditya Gangrade , Kate Saenko , Venkatesh Saligrama

Pretrained vision-language models, such as CLIP, show promising zero-shot performance across a wide variety of datasets. For closed-set classification tasks, however, there is an inherent limitation: CLIP image encoders are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Piyapat Saranrittichai , Mauricio Munoz , Volker Fischer , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi

Vision-language models like CLIP are widely used in zero-shot image classification due to their ability to understand various visual concepts and natural language descriptions. However, how to fully leverage CLIP's unprecedented human-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Bang An , Sicheng Zhu , Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Furong Huang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at recognizing classes for which no visual sample is available at training time. To address this issue, one can rely on a semantic description of each class. A typical ZSL model learns a mapping between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Celina Hanouti , Hervé Le Borgne

Open vocabulary models (e.g. CLIP) have shown strong performance on zero-shot classification through their ability generate embeddings for each class based on their (natural language) names. Prior work has focused on improving the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Zachary Novack , Julian McAuley , Zachary C. Lipton , Saurabh Garg

We propose general visual inspection model using Vision-Language Model~(VLM) with few-shot images of non-defective or defective products, along with explanatory texts that serve as inspection criteria. Although existing VLM exhibit high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Shiryu Ueno , Yoshikazu Hayashi , Shunsuke Nakatsuka , Yusei Yamada , Hiroaki Aizawa , Kunihito Kato

We propose a new paradigm for zero-shot learners that is format agnostic, i.e., it is compatible with any format and applicable to a list of language tasks, such as text classification, commonsense reasoning, coreference resolution, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Ping Yang , Junjie Wang , Ruyi Gan , Xinyu Zhu , Lin Zhang , Ziwei Wu , Xinyu Gao , Jiaxing Zhang , Tetsuya Sakai

Learning from a few examples remains a key challenge in machine learning. Despite recent advances in important domains such as vision and language, the standard supervised deep learning paradigm does not offer a satisfactory solution for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Oriol Vinyals , Charles Blundell , Timothy Lillicrap , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Daan Wierstra

Which multimodal model should we use for classification? Previous studies suggest that the answer lies in CLIP-like contrastive Vision-Language Models (VLMs), due to their remarkable performance in zero-shot classification. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Marco Garosi , Matteo Farina , Alessandro Conti , Massimiliano Mancini , Elisa Ricci

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli

Zero-shot learning for visual recognition, e.g., object and action recognition, has recently attracted a lot of attention. However, it still remains challenging in bridging the semantic gap between visual features and their underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Qian Wang , Ke Chen

Zero-shot medical image classification is a critical process in real-world scenarios where we have limited access to all possible diseases or large-scale annotated data. It involves computing similarity scores between a query medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Jiaxiang Liu , Tianxiang Hu , Yan Zhang , Xiaotang Gai , Yang Feng , Zuozhu Liu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims to recognize unseen classes with no labeled training sample, efficiently tackles the problem of missing labeled data in image retrieval. Nowadays there are mainly two types of popular methods for ZSL to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Gang Yang , Jinlu Liu , Xirong Li

We study the application of large language models to zero-shot and few-shot classification of tabular data. We prompt the large language model with a serialization of the tabular data to a natural-language string, together with a short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Stefan Hegselmann , Alejandro Buendia , Hunter Lang , Monica Agrawal , Xiaoyi Jiang , David Sontag