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Voice Conversion research in recent times has increasingly focused on improving the zero-shot capabilities of existing methods. Despite remarkable advancements, current architectures still tend to struggle in zero-shot cross-lingual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Advait Joglekar , Divyanshu Singh , Rooshil Rohit Bhatia , S. Umesh

Linear embedding transformation has been shown to be effective for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer tasks and achieve surprisingly promising results. However, cross-lingual embedding space mapping is usually studied in static word-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Haoran Xu , Philipp Koehn

Image recognition has recently witnessed a paradigm shift, where vision-language models are now used to perform few-shot classification based on textual prompts. Among these, the CLIP model has shown remarkable capabilities for zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Alberto Baldrati , Francesco Todino , Federico Becattini , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition aims to recognize unseen actions by transferring knowledge from seen categories through semantic descriptions. Most existing methods typically align skeleton features with textual embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ning Wang , Tieyue Wu , Naeha Sharif , Farid Boussaid , Guangming Zhu , Lin Mei , Mohammed Bennamoun , zhang liang

Topic modelling is a pivotal unsupervised machine learning technique for extracting valuable insights from large document collections. Existing neural topic modelling methods often encode contextual information of documents, while ignoring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Yanan Ma , Chenghao Xiao , Chenhan Yuan , Sabine N van der Veer , Lamiece Hassan , Chenghua Lin , Goran Nenadic

In this work, we address the challenge of zero-shot generalization (ZSG) in Reinforcement Learning (RL), where agents must adapt to entirely novel environments without additional training. We argue that understanding and utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tidiane Camaret Ndir , André Biedenkapp , Noor Awad

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims at classifying unlabeled objects by leveraging auxiliary knowledge, such as semantic representations. A limitation of previous approaches is that only intrinsic properties of objects, e.g. their visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Eloi Zablocki , Patrick Bordes , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari

Zero-shot learning has been actively studied for image classification task to relieve the burden of annotating image labels. Interestingly, semantic segmentation task requires more labor-intensive pixel-wise annotation, but zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhangxuan Gu , Siyuan Zhou , Li Niu , Zihan Zhao , Liqing Zhang

The methodology of context-sensitive access to e-documents considers context as a problem model based on the knowledge extracted from the application domain, and presented in the form of application ontology. Efficient access to an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. V. Smirnov , T. V. Levashova , M. P. Pashkin , N. G. Shilov , A. A. Krizhanovsky , A. M. Kashevnik , A. S. Komarova

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is challenging due to the cross-domain nature of sketches and photos, as well as the semantic gap between seen and unseen image distributions. Previous methods fine-tune pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Shiyin Dong , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

The need to address the scarcity of task-specific annotated data has resulted in concerted efforts in recent years for specific settings such as zero-shot learning (ZSL) and domain generalization (DG), to separately address the issues of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shivam Chandhok , Sanath Narayan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

In this paper, our goal is to adapt a pre-trained convolutional neural network to domain shifts at test time. We do so continually with the incoming stream of test batches, without labels. The existing literature mostly operates on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tommie Kerssies , Mert Kılıçkaya , Joaquin Vanschoren

Contextualized word embeddings such as ELMo and BERT provide a foundation for strong performance across a wide range of natural language processing tasks by pretraining on large corpora of unlabeled text. However, the applicability of this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Xiaochuang Han , Jacob Eisenstein

In real-world environments, AI systems often face unfamiliar scenarios without labeled data, creating a major challenge for conventional scene understanding models. The inability to generalize across unseen contexts limits the deployment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Manjunath Prasad Holenarasipura Rajiv , B. M. Vidyavathi

Zero-shot learning enables models to generalise to unseen classes by leveraging semantic information, bridging the gap between training and testing sets with non-overlapping classes. While much research has focused on zero-shot learning in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ysobel Sims , Alexandre Mendes , Stephan Chalup

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have significantly improved the state of the art in generative image modelling and allow for an intuitive and powerful user interface to drive the image generation process. Expressing spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Guillaume Couairon , Marlène Careil , Matthieu Cord , Stéphane Lathuilière , Jakob Verbeek

Zero-shot ASR for Arabic remains challenging: while multilingual models perform well on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), error rates rise sharply on dialectal and accented speech due to linguistic mismatch and scarce labeled data. We study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Bashar Talafha , Amin Abu Alhassan , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

While dense retrieval has been shown effective and efficient across tasks and languages, it remains difficult to create effective fully zero-shot dense retrieval systems when no relevance label is available. In this paper, we recognize the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Luyu Gao , Xueguang Ma , Jimmy Lin , Jamie Callan

Stereo depth estimation is of great interest for computer vision research. However, existing methods struggles to generalize and predict reliably in hazardous regions, such as large uniform regions. To overcome these limitations, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Weiyu Guo , Zhaoshuo Li , Yongkui Yang , Zheng Wang , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath , Alan Yuille , Yingwei Li

Contextual automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems allow for recognizing out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words, such as named entities or rare words. However, it remains challenging due to limited training data and ambiguous or inconsistent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Changsong Liu , Yizhou Peng , Eng Siong Chng