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Language models built using semi-supervised machine learning on large corpora of natural language have very quickly enveloped the fields of natural language generation and understanding. In this paper we apply a zero-shot approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Darren Abramson , Ali Emami

Enabling robots to learn novel visuomotor skills in a data-efficient manner remains an unsolved problem with myriad challenges. A popular paradigm for tackling this problem is through leveraging large unlabeled datasets that have many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Maximilian Du , Suraj Nair , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

While deep learning, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), has significantly advanced classification performance, its typical reliance on extensive annotated datasets presents a major obstacle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Matheus Vinícius Todescato , Joel Luís Carbonera

Zero-shot audio classification aims to recognize and classify a sound class that the model has never seen during training. This paper presents a novel approach for zero-shot audio classification using automatically generated sound attribute…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xuenan Xu , Pingyue Zhang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Mengyue Wu

Recent advances in large pretrained language models have increased attention to zero-shot text classification. In particular, models finetuned on natural language inference datasets have been widely adopted as zero-shot classifiers due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ariel Gera , Alon Halfon , Eyal Shnarch , Yotam Perlitz , Liat Ein-Dor , Noam Slonim

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot ability in image classification tasks by aligning text and images but suffer inferior performance compared with task-specific expert models. On the contrary,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jia Zhang , Zhi Zhou , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong cross-modal reasoning capabilities, yet their potential for vision-only tasks remains underexplored. We investigate MLLMs as training-free similarity estimators for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Bahey Tharwat , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Pavel Suma , Ian Reid , Giorgos Tolias

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

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

Large language models (LLMs) have been effectively used for many computer vision tasks, including image classification. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective approach for zero-shot image classification using multimodal LLMs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Abdelrahman Abdelhamed , Mahmoud Afifi , Alec Go

Zero-shot learning has received increasing interest as a means to alleviate the often prohibitive expense of annotating training data for large scale recognition problems. These methods have achieved great success via learning intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-27 Yanwei Fu , Yongxin Yang , Tim Hospedales , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

Log anomaly detection plays a critical role in ensuring the stability and reliability of software systems. However, existing approaches rely on large amounts of labeled log data, which poses significant challenges in real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xinlong Zhao , Tong Jia , Minghua He , Yihan Wu , Ying Li , Gang Huang

We focus on the challenge of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection in deep learning models, a crucial aspect in ensuring reliability. Despite considerable effort, the problem remains significantly challenging in deep learning models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yunhao Ge , Jie Ren , Jiaping Zhao , Kaifeng Chen , Andrew Gallagher , Laurent Itti , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

We equip a smaller Language Model to generalise to answering challenging compositional questions that have not been seen in training. To do so we propose a combination of multitask supervised pretraining on up to 93 tasks designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tim Hartill , Neset Tan , Michael Witbrock , Patricia J. Riddle

Attribute-based recognition models, due to their impressive performance and their ability to generalize well on novel categories, have been widely adopted for many computer vision applications. However, usually both the attribute vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Ziad Al-Halah , Rainer Stiefelhagen

We introduce ProLoRA, enabling zero-shot adaptation of parameter-efficient fine-tuning in text-to-image diffusion models. ProLoRA transfers pre-trained low-rank adjustments (e.g., LoRA) from a source to a target model without additional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Farzad Farhadzadeh , Debasmit Das , Shubhankar Borse , Fatih Porikli

Weight space learning aims to extract information about a neural network, such as its training dataset or generalization error. Recent approaches learn directly from model weights, but this presents many challenges as weights are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jonathan Kahana , Eliahu Horwitz , Imri Shuval , Yedid Hoshen

In this work, we propose a simple method that applies a large language model (LLM) to large-scale retrieval in zero-shot scenarios. Our method, the Language language model as Retriever (LameR), is built upon no other neural models but an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Tao Shen , Guodong Long , Xiubo Geng , Chongyang Tao , Tianyi Zhou , Daxin Jiang

This work introduces a model that can recognize objects in images even if no training data is available for the objects. The only necessary knowledge about the unseen categories comes from unsupervised large text corpora. In our zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Richard Socher , Milind Ganjoo , Hamsa Sridhar , Osbert Bastani , Christopher D. Manning , Andrew Y. Ng

Large scale vision and language models can achieve impressive zero-shot recognition performance by mapping class specific text queries to image content. Two distinct challenges that remain however, are high sensitivity to the choice of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Sarah Parisot , Yongxin Yang , Steven McDonagh