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Zero-shot dense retrieval is a challenging setting where a document corpus is provided without relevant queries, necessitating a reliance on pretrained dense retrievers (DRs). However, since these DRs are not trained on the target corpus,…

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Incorporating auxiliary modalities such as images into event detection models has attracted increasing interest over the last few years. The complexity of natural language in describing situations has motivated researchers to leverage the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Farhad Moghimifar , Fatemeh Shiri , Van Nguyen , Reza Haffari , Yuan-Fang Li

Modern machine learning models typically represent inputs as fixed points in a high-dimensional embedding space. While this approach has been proven powerful for a wide range of downstream tasks, it fundamentally differs from the way humans…

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Generalized compositional zero-shot learning means to learn composed concepts of attribute-object pairs in a zero-shot fashion, where a model is trained on a set of seen concepts and tested on a combined set of seen and unseen concepts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 He Huang , Wei Tang , Jiawei Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Entity matching (EM) identifies data records that refer to the same real-world entity. Despite the effort in the past years to improve the performance in EM, the existing methods still require a huge amount of labeled data in each domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Mohamed Trabelsi , Jeff Heflin , Jin Cao

Existing scene text recognition (STR) methods struggle to recognize challenging texts, especially for artistic and severely distorted characters. The limitation lies in the insufficient exploration of character morphologies, including the…

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Building a semantic parser quickly in a new domain is a fundamental challenge for conversational interfaces, as current semantic parsers require expensive supervision and lack the ability to generalize to new domains. In this paper, we…

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Zero-shot depth completion has gained attention for its ability to generalize across environments without sensor-specific datasets or retraining. However, most existing approaches rely on diffusion-based test-time optimization, which is…

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Context-aware Machine Translation aims to improve translations of sentences by incorporating surrounding sentences as context. Towards this task, two main architectures have been applied, namely single-encoder (based on concatenation) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Paweł Mąka , Yusuf Can Semerci , Jan Scholtes , Gerasimos Spanakis

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have substantially improved the quality of image customization, enabling the synthesis of highly realistic images. Despite this progress, achieving fast and efficient personalization remains…

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Recent progress towards designing models that can generalize to unseen domains (i.e domain generalization) or unseen classes (i.e zero-shot learning) has embarked interest towards building models that can tackle both domain-shift and…

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Recent mask proposal models have significantly improved the performance of zero-shot semantic segmentation. However, the use of a `background' embedding during training in these methods is problematic as the resulting model tends to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Son Duy Dao , Hengcan Shi , Dinh Phung , Jianfei Cai

We propose a new context-aware correlation filter based tracking framework to achieve both high computational speed and state-of-the-art performance among real-time trackers. The major contribution to the high computational speed lies in…

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The task of Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) is to recognize images of novel state-object compositions that are absent during the training stage. Previous methods of learning compositional embedding have shown effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Zhe Liu , Yun Li , Lina Yao , Xiaojun Chang , Wei Fang , Xiaojun Wu , Yi Yang

Over the past decades, context sensitivity has been considered as one of the most effective ideas for improving the precision of pointer analysis for Java. However, despite great precision benefits, as each method is equivalently cloned and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Wenjie Ma , Shengyuan Yang , Tian Tan , Xiaoxing Ma , Chang Xu , Yue Li

Vision-language models have recently shown great potential on many tasks in computer vision. Meanwhile, prior work demonstrates prompt tuning designed for vision-language models could acquire superior performance on few-shot image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kun Ding , Ying Wang , Pengzhang Liu , Qiang Yu , Haojian Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

We introduce SynSE, a novel syntactically guided generative approach for Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL). Our end-to-end approach learns progressively refined generative embedding spaces constrained within and across the involved modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Pranay Gupta , Divyanshu Sharma , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

Audio-text models are widely used in zero-shot environmental sound classification as they alleviate the need for annotated data. However, we show that their performance severely drops in the presence of background sound sources. Our…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Emiliano Acevedo , Martín Rocamora , Magdalena Fuentes

Zero-shot referring expression comprehension aims at localizing bounding boxes in an image corresponding to provided textual prompts, which requires: (i) a fine-grained disentanglement of complex visual scene and textual context, and (ii) a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zeyu Han , Fangrui Zhu , Qianru Lao , Huaizu Jiang

Customized text-to-image generation, which aims to learn user-specified concepts with a few images, has drawn significant attention recently. However, existing methods usually suffer from overfitting issues and entangle the…

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