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We introduce an innovative approach to advancing semantic understanding in zero-shot object goal navigation (ZS-OGN), enhancing the autonomy of robots in unfamiliar environments. Traditional reliance on labeled data has been a limitation…

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The rapid advancement of generative audio models has outpaced the development of robust evaluation methodologies. Existing objective metrics and general multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often struggle with domain generalization,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Leying Zhang , Bowen Shi , Haibin Wu , Bach Viet Do , Yanmin Qian

Audio-Language Models (ALMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in zero-shot audio classification. In this paper, we introduce PAT (Parameter-free Audio-Text aligner), a simple and training-free method aimed at boosting the zero-shot…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ashish Seth , Ramaneswaran Selvakumar , Sonal Kumar , Sreyan Ghosh , Dinesh Manocha

Multimodal large language models have fueled progress in image captioning. These models, fine-tuned on vast image datasets, exhibit a deep understanding of semantic concepts. In this work, we show that this ability can be re-purposed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Hugo Malard , Michel Olvera , Stéphane Lathuiliere , Slim Essid

Never having seen an object and heard its sound simultaneously, can the model still accurately localize its visual position from the input audio? In this work, we concentrate on the Audio-Visual Localization and Segmentation tasks but under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Yaoting Wang , Weisong Liu , Guangyao Li , Jian Ding , Di Hu , Xi Li

Recent advances in audio-text cross-modal contrastive learning have shown its potential towards zero-shot learning. One possibility for this is by projecting item embeddings from pre-trained backbone neural networks into a cross-modal space…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tiago Tavares , Fabio Ayres , Zhepei Wang , Paris Smaragdis

Learning to associate audio with textual descriptions is valuable for a range of tasks, including pretraining, zero-shot classification, audio retrieval, audio captioning, and text-conditioned audio generation. Existing contrastive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Existing zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods usually learn a projection function between a feature space and a semantic embedding space(text or attribute space) in the training seen classes or testing unseen classes. However, the projection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Guangfeng Lin , Caixia Fan , Wanjun Chen , Yajun Chen , Fan Zhao

This work focuses on zero-shot non-intrusive speech assessment for hearing aids (HA) using large language models (LLMs). Specifically, we introduce GPT-Whisper-HA, an extension of GPT-Whisper, a zero-shot non-intrusive speech assessment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Ryandhimas E. Zezario , Dyah A. M. G. Wisnu , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

Zero-shot classification capabilities naturally arise in models trained within a vision-language contrastive framework. Despite their classification prowess, these models struggle in dense tasks like zero-shot open-vocabulary segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Thomas Stegmüller , Tim Lebailly , Nikola Dukic , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Tinne Tuytelaars , Jean-Philippe Thiran

While Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have advanced audio captioning, robust evaluation remains difficult. Reference-based metrics are expensive and often fail to assess acoustic fidelity, while Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Insung Lee , Taeyoung Jeong , Haejun Yoo , Du-Seong Chang , Myoung-Wan Koo

While pre-trained multimodal representations (e.g., CLIP) have shown impressive capabilities, they exhibit significant compositional vulnerabilities leading to counterintuitive judgments. We introduce Multimodal Adversarial Compositionality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jaewoo Ahn , Heeseung Yun , Dayoon Ko , Gunhee Kim

State-of-the-art audio classification often employs a zero-shot approach, which involves comparing audio embeddings with embeddings from text describing the respective audio class. These embeddings are usually generated by neural networks…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 James Taylor , Wolfgang Mack

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) models often fail to generalize when even small changes occur in the environment's observations or task requirements. Addressing these shifts typically requires costly retraining, limiting the reusability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Antonio Pio Ricciardi , Valentino Maiorca , Luca Moschella , Riccardo Marin , Emanuele Rodolà

Zero-shot In-context learning is the phenomenon where models can perform the task simply given the instructions. However, pre-trained large language models are known to be poorly calibrated for this task. One of the most effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Suzanna Sia , Alexandra DeLucia , Kevin Duh

Audio-Language Models (ALMs) have recently achieved remarkable success in zero-shot audio recognition tasks, which match features of audio waveforms with class-specific text prompt features, inspired by advancements in Vision-Language…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Asif Hanif , Maha Tufail Agro , Mohammad Areeb Qazi , Hanan Aldarmaki

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects of novel classes without any training samples of specific classes, which is achieved by exploiting the semantic information and auxiliary datasets. Recently most ZSL approaches focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Huajie Jiang , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

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

Zero-shot intent classification is a vital and challenging task in dialogue systems, which aims to deal with numerous fast-emerging unacquainted intents without annotated training data. To obtain more satisfactory performance, the crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Han Liu , Siyang Zhao , Xiaotong Zhang , Feng Zhang , Junjie Sun , Hong Yu , Xianchao Zhang

The fusion of vision and language has brought about a transformative shift in computer vision through the emergence of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, the resource-intensive nature of existing VLMs poses a significant challenge. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jordan Shipard , Arnold Wiliem , Kien Nguyen Thanh , Wei Xiang , Clinton Fookes