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Concept discovery is one of the open problems in the interpretability literature that is important for bridging the gap between non-deep learning experts and model end-users. Among current formulations, concepts defines them by as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Adrianna Janik , Kris Sankaran

Humans possess a remarkable ability to acquire knowledge efficiently and apply it across diverse modalities through a coherent and shared understanding of the world. Inspired by this cognitive capability, we introduce a concept-centric…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yuchong Geng , Ao Tang

This paper investigates a general framework to discover categories of unlabeled scene images according to their appearances (i.e., textures and structures). We jointly solve the two coupled tasks in an unsupervised manner: (i) classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Liang Lin , Ruimao Zhang , Xiaohua Duan

We introduce the first unified framework for *Fine-Grained Domain-Generalized Generalized Category Discovery* (FG-DG-GCD), bringing open-world recognition closer to real-world deployment under domain shift. Unlike conventional GCD, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Vaibhav Rathore , Divyam Gupta , Moloud Abdar , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee

We address the problem of generalized category discovery (GCD) that aims to partition a partially labeled collection of images; only a small part of the collection is labeled and the total number of target classes is unknown. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Sua Choi , Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho

At present, object recognition studies are mostly conducted in a closed lab setting with classes in test phase typically in training phase. However, real-world problem is far more challenging because: i) new classes unseen in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Xiaojie Guo , Amir Alipour-Fanid , Lingfei Wu , Hemant Purohit , Xiang Chen , Kai Zeng , Liang Zhao

Data stream processing has become a landmark in modern machine learning applications, with concept drifts and novel class appearances posing the primary challenges faced by sophisticated recognition methods. This work proposes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Joanna Komorniczak

The recently proposed Novel Category Discovery (NCD) adapt paradigm of transductive learning hinders its application in more real-world scenarios. In fact, few labeled data in part of new categories can well alleviate this burden, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Chunming Li , Shidong Wang , Haofeng Zhang

Continual generalized category discovery has been introduced and studied in the literature as a method that aims to continuously discover and learn novel categories in incoming data batches while avoiding catastrophic forgetting of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alireza Fathalizadeh , Roozbeh Razavi-Far

Object detectors are typically trained once and for all on a fixed set of classes. However, this closed-world assumption is unrealistic in practice, as new classes will inevitably emerge after the detector is deployed in the wild. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Tyler L. Hayes , César R. de Souza , Namil Kim , Jiwon Kim , Riccardo Volpi , Diane Larlus

Existing object detectors often struggle to generalize across domains while adapting to emerging novel categories. Adaptive open-set object detection (AOOD) addresses this challenge by training on base categories in the source domain and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuqi Ji , Junjie Ke , Lihuo He , Lizhi Wang , Xinbo Gao

One important desideratum of lifelong learning aims to discover novel classes from unlabelled data in a continuous manner. The central challenge is twofold: discovering and learning novel classes while mitigating the issue of catastrophic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Guangyao Chen , Peixi Peng , Yangru Huang , Mengyue Geng , Yonghong Tian

Novel class discovery (NCD) aims to infer novel categories in an unlabeled dataset by leveraging prior knowledge of a labeled set comprising disjoint but related classes. Given that most existing literature focuses primarily on utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ziyun Li , Jona Otholt , Ben Dai , Di Hu , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang

Interpretability of Deep Neural Networks using concept-based models offers a promising way to explain model behavior through human-understandable concepts. A parallel line of research focuses on disentangling the data distribution into its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Sanchit Sinha , Guangzhi Xiong , Aidong Zhang

In this paper, we address Generalized Category Discovery, aiming to simultaneously uncover novel categories and accurately classify known ones. Traditional methods, which lean heavily on self-supervision and contrastive learning, often fall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Sarah Rastegar , Mohammadreza Salehi , Yuki M. Asano , Hazel Doughty , Cees G. M. Snoek

Continual learning in computer vision faces the critical challenge of catastrophic forgetting, where models struggle to retain prior knowledge while adapting to new tasks. Although recent studies have attempted to leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Linlan Huang , Fei Yang , Xialei Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Visual concept discovery has long been deemed important to improve interpretability of neural networks, because a bank of semantically meaningful concepts would provide us with a starting point for building machine learning models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Haiyang Huang , Zhi Chen , Cynthia Rudin

In this paper, a progressive learning technique for multi-class classification is proposed. This newly developed learning technique is independent of the number of class constraints and it can learn new classes while still retaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Rajasekar Venkatesan , Meng Joo Er

On-the-Fly Category Discovery (OCD) aims to recognize known classes while simultaneously discovering emerging novel categories during inference, using supervision only from known classes during offline training. Existing approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Bohan Zhang , Weidong Tang , Zhixiang Chi , Yi Jin , Zhenbo Li , Yang Wang , Yanan Wu

Novel category discovery aims at adapting models trained on known categories to novel categories. Previous works only focus on the scenario where known and novel categories are of the same granularity. In this paper, we investigate a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Wenbin An , Feng Tian , Ping Chen , Siliang Tang , Qinghua Zheng , QianYing Wang