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Generalized category discovery (GCD) is essential for improving deep learning models' robustness in open-world scenarios by clustering unlabeled data containing both known and novel categories. Traditional GCD methods focus on minimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Luyao Tang , Kunze Huang , Chaoqi Chen , Cheng Chen

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) leverages labeled data to categorize unlabeled samples from known or unknown classes. Most previous methods jointly optimize supervised and unsupervised objectives and achieve promising results. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Haiyang Zheng , Nan Pu , Yaqi Cai , Teng Long , Wenjing Li , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

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

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to categorize unlabelled instances from both known and unknown classes by transferring knowledge from labelled data of known classes. Existing methods assume all data comes from a single domain, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hongjun Wang , Po Hu , Kai Han

Fine-grained category discovery using only coarse-grained supervision is a cost-effective yet challenging task. Previous training methods focus on aligning query samples with positive samples and distancing them from negatives. They often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chang Tian , Matthew B. Blaschko , Wenpeng Yin , Mingzhe Xing , Yinliang Yue , Marie-Francine Moens

Deep clustering as an important branch of unsupervised representation learning focuses on embedding semantically similar samples into the identical feature space. This core demand inspires the exploration of contrastive learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haifeng Xia , Hai Huang , Zhengming Ding

Generalized Category Discovery is a significant and complex task that aims to identify both known and undefined novel categories from a set of unlabeled data, leveraging another labeled dataset containing only known categories. The primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Wenbin An , Haonan Lin , Jiahao Nie , Feng Tian , Wenkai Shi , Yaqiang Wu , Qianying Wang , Ping Chen

Neural Collapse (NC) is a well-known phenomenon of deep neural networks in the terminal phase of training (TPT). It is characterized by the collapse of features and classifier into a symmetrical structure, known as simplex equiangular tight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Peifeng Gao , Qianqian Xu , Yibo Yang , Peisong Wen , Huiyang Shao , Zhiyong Yang , Bernard Ghanem , Qingming Huang

Novel Class Discovery (NCD) involves identifying new categories within unlabeled data by utilizing knowledge acquired from previously established categories. However, existing NCD methods often struggle to maintain a balance between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yue Hou , Xueyuan Chen , He Zhu , Romei Liu , Bowen Shi , Jiaheng Liu , Junran Wu , Ke Xu

The problem of Novel Class Discovery (NCD) consists in extracting knowledge from a labeled set of known classes to accurately partition an unlabeled set of novel classes. While NCD has recently received a lot of attention from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Colin Troisemaine , Alexandre Reiffers-Masson , Stéphane Gosselin , Vincent Lemaire , Sandrine Vaton

Graph Similarity Computation (GSC) is a fundamental graph related task where Graph Edit Distance (GED) serves as a prevalent metric. GED is determined by an optimal alignment between a pair of graphs that partitions each into aligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhentao Zhan , Xiaoliang Xu , Jingjing Wang , Junmei Wang

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is a classification task that aims to classify both base and novel classes in unlabeled images, using knowledge from a labeled dataset. In GCD, previous research overlooks scene information or treats it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Zhengyuan Peng , Jinpeng Ma , Zhimin Sun , Ran Yi , Haichuan Song , Xin Tan , Lizhuang Ma

In this paper, we study the problem of Novel Class Discovery (NCD). NCD aims at inferring novel object categories in an unlabeled set by leveraging from prior knowledge of a labeled set containing different, but related classes. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Enrico Fini , Enver Sangineto , Stéphane Lathuilière , Zhun Zhong , Moin Nabi , Elisa Ricci

This paper investigates the problem of Generalized Category Discovery (GCD). Given a partially labelled dataset, GCD aims to categorize all unlabelled images, regardless of whether they belong to known or unknown classes. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zhenqi He , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han

Novel Categories Discovery (NCD) facilitates learning from a partially annotated label space and enables deep learning (DL) models to operate in an open-world setting by identifying and differentiating instances of novel classes based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zahid Hasan , Masud Ahmed , Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Sanjay Purushotham , Heesung Kwon , Hyungtae Lee , Nirmalya Roy

Continuous Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) aims to continually discover novel classes from unlabelled image sets while maintaining performance on old classes. In this paper, we propose a novel learning framework, dubbed Neighborhood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ye Wang , Yaxiong Wang , Guoshuai Zhao , Xueming Qian

In this paper, we consider a highly general image recognition setting wherein, given a labelled and unlabelled set of images, the task is to categorize all images in the unlabelled set. Here, the unlabelled images may come from labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sagar Vaze , Kai Han , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Novel Categories Discovery (NCD) aims to cluster novel data based on the class semantics of known classes using the open-world partial class space annotated dataset. As an alternative to the traditional pseudo-labeling-based approaches, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zahid Hasan , Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Masud Ahmed , Sanjay Purushotham , Heesung Kwon , Hyungtae Lee , Nirmalya Roy

Traditional semi-supervised learning tasks assume that both labeled and unlabeled data follow the same class distribution, but the realistic open-world scenarios are of more complexity with unknown novel classes mixed in the unlabeled set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jiaming Liu , Yangqiming Wang , Tongze Zhang , Yulu Fan , Qinli Yang , Junming Shao

In this paper, we address Novel Class Discovery (NCD), the task of unveiling new classes in a set of unlabeled samples given a labeled dataset with known classes. We exploit the peculiarities of NCD to build a new framework, named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhun Zhong , Enrico Fini , Subhankar Roy , Zhiming Luo , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe