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In zero-shot multilingual extractive text summarization, a model is typically trained on English summarization dataset and then applied on summarization datasets of other languages. Given English gold summaries and documents, sentence-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Ruipeng Jia , Xingxing Zhang , Yanan Cao , Shi Wang , Zheng Lin , Furu Wei

By describing the features and abstractions of our world, language is a crucial tool for human learning and a promising source of supervision for machine learning models. We use language to improve few-shot visual classification in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jesse Mu , Percy Liang , Noah Goodman

Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the mainstream choice for fewshot and zeroshot learning thanks to the universality of text generation. Many users, however, do not need the broad capabilities of generative LLMs when they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Moritz Laurer , Wouter van Atteveldt , Andreu Casas , Kasper Welbers

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

Natural Language Generation (NLG) accepts input data in the form of images, videos, or text and generates corresponding natural language text as output. Existing NLG methods mainly adopt a supervised approach and rely heavily on coupled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Bang Yang , Fenglin Liu , Yuexian Zou , Xian Wu , Yaowei Wang , David A. Clifton

External knowledge (a.k.a. side information) plays a critical role in zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims to predict with unseen classes that have never appeared in training data. Several kinds of external knowledge, such as text and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Yuxia Geng , Jiaoyan Chen , Xiang Zhuang , Zhuo Chen , Jeff Z. Pan , Juan Li , Zonggang Yuan , Huajun Chen

In image recognition, there are many cases where training samples cannot cover all target classes. Zero-shot learning (ZSL) utilizes the class semantic information to classify samples of the unseen categories that have no corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Fan Wu , Kai Tian , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot learning (ZSL) by leveraging large-scale visual-text pair datasets. However, these methods often lack interpretability, as they compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiming Chen , Bowen Duan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to classify objects that are not observed or seen during training. It relies on class semantic description to transfer knowledge from the seen classes to the unseen classes. Existing methods of obtaining class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Fahimul Hoque Shubho , Townim Faisal Chowdhury , Ali Cheraghian , Morteza Saberi , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Supervised classification for tabular data remains a core machine learning task, yet its reliance on large labeled datasets limits applicability in data-scarce domains. For such few-shot scenarios, specialized methods like TabPFN - a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Daria Grushina , Kseniia Kuvshinova , Alina Kostromina , Aziz Temirkhanov , Mile Mitrovic , Dmitry Simakov

Zero Shot Learning (ZSL) enables a learning model to classify instances of an unseen class during training. While most research in ZSL focuses on single-label classification, few studies have been done in multi-label ZSL, where an instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Ubai Sandouk , Ke Chen

This work investigates the use of natural language to enable zero-shot model adaptation to new tasks. We use text and metadata from social commenting platforms as a source for a simple pretraining task. We then provide the language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Raul Puri , Bryan Catanzaro

To combat the potential misuse of Natural Language Generation (NLG) technology, a variety of algorithms have been developed for the detection of AI-generated texts. Traditionally, this task is treated as a binary classification problem.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yi-Fan Zhang , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan , Rong Jin

Improving multilingual language models capabilities in low-resource languages is generally difficult due to the scarcity of large-scale data in those languages. In this paper, we relax the reliance on texts in low-resource languages by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Fajri Koto , Tilman Beck , Zeerak Talat , Iryna Gurevych , Timothy Baldwin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become an increasingly important tool in research and society at large. While LLMs are regularly used all over the world by experts and lay-people alike, they are predominantly developed with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Cedric Lothritz , Jordi Cabot , Laura Bernardy

We introduce an open-domain topic classification system that accepts user-defined taxonomy in real time. Users will be able to classify a text snippet with respect to any candidate labels they want, and get instant response from our web…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Hantian Ding , Jinrui Yang , Yuqian Deng , Hongming Zhang , Dan Roth

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to identify unseen classes with zero samples during training. Broadly speaking, present ZSL methods usually adopt class-level semantic labels and compare them with instance-level semantic predictions to infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zihan Ye , Guanyu Yang , Xiaobo Jin , Youfa Liu , Kaizhu Huang

Large Language Models (LLMs) perform remarkably well in Natural Language Inference (NLI). However, NLI involving numerical and logical expressions remains challenging. Comparatives are a key linguistic phenomenon related to such inference,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yosuke Mikami , Daiki Matsuoka , Hitomi Yanaka

Zero-Shot Classification (ZSC) equips the learned model with the ability to recognize the visual instances from the novel classes via constructing the interactions between the visual and the semantic modalities. In contrast to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhong Ji , Xuejie Yu , Yunlong Yu , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

This paper presents an approach to classify documents in any language into an English topical label space, without any text categorization training data. The approach, Cross-Lingual Dataless Document Classification (CLDDC) relies on mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yangqiu Song , Stephen Mayhew , Dan Roth