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Humans learn abstract concepts through multisensory synergy, and once formed, such representations can often be recalled from a single modality. Inspired by this principle, we introduce Concerto, a minimalist simulation of human concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yujia Zhang , Xiaoyang Wu , Yixing Lao , Chengyao Wang , Zhuotao Tian , Naiyan Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve target images given a compositional query, consisting of a reference image and a modifying text-without relying on annotated training data. Existing approaches often generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rong-Cheng Tu , Wenhao Sun , Hanzhe You , Yingjie Wang , Jiaxing Huang , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common knowledge transfer algorithm used for model compression across a variety of deep learning based natural language processing (NLP) solutions. In its regular manifestations, KD requires access to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ahmad Rashid , Vasileios Lioutas , Abbas Ghaddar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Zero-shot text learning enables text classifiers to handle unseen classes efficiently, alleviating the need for task-specific training data. A simple approach often relies on comparing embeddings of query (text) to those of potential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Tassallah Abdullahi , Ritambhara Singh , Carsten Eickhoff

A significant shortcoming of current state-of-the-art (SOTA) named-entity recognition (NER) systems is their lack of generalization to unseen domains, which poses a major problem since obtaining labeled data for NER in a new domain is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Nguyen Van Hoang , Soeren Hougaard Mulvad , Dexter Neo Yuan Rong , Yang Yue

The purpose of generative Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is to learning from seen classes, transfer the learned knowledge, and create samples of unseen classes from the description of these unseen categories. To achieve better ZSL accuracies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Shayan Kousha , Marcus A. Brubaker

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to train a model on seen classes and recognize unseen classes by knowledge transfer through shared auxiliary information. Recent studies reveal that documents from encyclopedias provide helpful auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiangyan Qu , Jing Yu , Jiamin Zhuang , Gaopeng Gou , Gang Xiong , Qi Wu

Contrastively trained vision-language models have achieved remarkable progress in vision and language representation learning, leading to state-of-the-art models for various downstream multimodal tasks. However, recent research has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Harman Singh , Pengchuan Zhang , Qifan Wang , Mengjiao Wang , Wenhan Xiong , Jingfei Du , Yu Chen

We propose Recognition as Part Composition (RPC), an image encoding approach inspired by human cognition. It is based on the cognitive theory that humans recognize complex objects by components, and that they build a small compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Samarth Mishra , Pengkai Zhu , Venkatesh Saligrama

Visual concepts (e.g., red apple, big elephant) are often semantically compositional and each element of the compositions can be reused to construct novel concepts (e.g., red elephant). Compositional feature synthesis, which generates image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Xin Wang , Fisher Yu , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Generative models have demonstrated remarkable abilities in generating high-fidelity visual content. In this work, we explore how generative models can further be used not only to synthesize visual content but also to understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yanbo Wang , Justin Dauwels , Yilun Du

This paper addresses the task of zero-shot image classification. The key contribution of the proposed approach is to control the semantic embedding of images -- one of the main ingredients of zero-shot learning -- by formulating it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Maxime Bucher , Stéphane Herbin , Frédéric Jurie

Image clustering aims to group images in an unsupervised fashion. Traditional methods focus on knowledge from visual space, making it difficult to distinguish between visually similar but semantically different classes. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yijie Zhong , Yunfan Gao , Weipeng Jiang , Haofen Wang

We present a new embedding-based framework for zero-shot learning (ZSL). Most embedding-based methods aim to learn the correspondence between an image classifier (visual representation) and its class prototype (semantic representation) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Mei-Chen Yeh , Fang Li

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 (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen object classes without any training samples, which can be regarded as a form of transfer learning from seen classes to unseen ones. This is made possible by learning a projection between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 An Zhao , Mingyu Ding , Jiechao Guan , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in unsupervised image-to-image translation. However, if there has no access to enough images in target classes, learning a mapping from source classes to the target classes always suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yuanqi Chen , Xiaoming Yu , Shan Liu , Ge Li

Context Optimization (CoOp) has emerged as a simple yet effective technique for adapting CLIP-like vision-language models to downstream image recognition tasks. Nevertheless, learning compact context with satisfactory base-to-new, domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kun Ding , Xiaohui Li , Qiang Yu , Ying Wang , Haojian Zhang , Shiming Xiang

Supervised learning methods can solve the given problem in the presence of a large set of labeled data. However, the acquisition of a dataset covering all the target classes typically requires manual labeling which is expensive and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Duygu Dogan , Huang Xie , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) is a transfer learning technique which aims at transferring knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. This knowledge transfer is possible because of underlying semantic space which is common to seen and unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Omkar Gune , Mainak Pal , Preeti Mukherjee , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri