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Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify both known and novel categories using partially labeled data that contains only known classes. Despite achieving strong performance on existing benchmarks, current textual GCD methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yi Luo , Qiwen Wang , Junqi Yang , Luyao Tang , Zhenghao Lin , Zhenzhe Ying , Weiqiang Wang , Chen Lin

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) faces the challenge of categorizing unlabeled data containing both known and novel classes, given only labels for known classes. Previous studies often treat each class independently, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Fang Zhou , Zhiqiang Chen , Martin Pavlovski , Yizhong Zhang

As AI agents are increasingly used in the real open world with unknowns or novelties, they need the ability to (1) recognize objects that (a) they have learned before and (b) detect items that they have never seen or learned, and (2) learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Gyuhak Kim , Changnan Xiao , Tatsuya Konishi , Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu

One promising approach to dealing with datapoints that are outside of the initial training distribution (OOD) is to create new classes that capture similarities in the datapoints previously rejected as uncategorizable. Systems that generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jeremy Nixon , Jeremiah Liu , David Berthelot

One-class classification (OCC) algorithms aim to build classification models when the negative class is either absent, poorly sampled or not well defined. This unique situation constrains the learning of efficient classifiers by defining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Shehroz S. Khan , Michael G. Madden

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify instances from both known and novel categories within a large-scale unlabeled dataset, a critical yet challenging task for real-world, open-world applications. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Wenwen Liao , Hang Ruan , Jianbo Yu , Yuansong Wang , Qingchao Jiang , Xiaofeng Yang

One-class classification (OCC), which models one single positive class and distinguishes it from the negative class, has been a long-standing topic with pivotal application to realms like anomaly detection. As modern society often deals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Siqi Wang , Jiyuan Liu , Guang Yu , Xinwang Liu , Sihang Zhou , En Zhu , Yuexiang Yang , Jianping Yin

Class distribution mismatch (CDM) refers to the discrepancy between class distributions in training data and target tasks. Previous methods address this by designing classifiers to categorize classes known during training, while grouping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Pan Du , Wangbo Zhao , Xinai Lu , Nian Liu , Zhikai Li , Chaoyu Gong , Suyun Zhao , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li , Kai Wang , Yang You

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

Classification is an essential and fundamental task in machine learning, playing a cardinal role in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). In a supervised learning setting, labels are always needed for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Irene Li

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) focuses on classifying known categories while simultaneously discovering novel categories from unlabeled data. However, previous GCD methods face challenges due to inconsistent optimization objectives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jizhou Han , Shaokun Wang , Yuhang He , Chenhao Ding , Qiang Wang , Xinyuan Gao , SongLin Dong , Yihong Gong

Novel categories are commonly defined as those unobserved during training but present during testing. However, partially labelled training datasets can contain unlabelled training samples that belong to novel categories, meaning these can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-01 Emile R. Engelbrecht , Johan A. du Preez

One-Class Classification (OCC) is a special case of multi-class classification, where data observed during training is from a single positive class. The goal of OCC is to learn a representation and/or a classifier that enables recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Pramuditha Perera , Poojan Oza , Vishal M. Patel

This paper studies the problem of novel category discovery on single- and multi-modal data with labels from different but relevant categories. We present a generic, end-to-end framework to jointly learn a reliable representation and assign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Xuhui Jia , Kai Han , Yukun Zhu , Bradley Green

We consider the problem of retrieving objects from image data and learning to classify them into meaningful semantic categories with minimal supervision. To that end, we propose a fully differentiable unsupervised deep clustering approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Steven Hickson , Anelia Angelova , Irfan Essa , Rahul Sukthankar

Conventional approaches to text classification typically assume the existence of a fixed set of predefined labels to which a given text can be classified. However, in real-world applications, there exists an infinite label space for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Christopher Clarke , Yuzhao Heng , Yiping Kang , Krisztian Flautner , Lingjia Tang , Jason Mars

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify unlabelled images from both `seen' and `unseen' classes by transferring knowledge from a set of labelled `seen' class images. A key theme in existing GCD approaches is adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hongjun Wang , Sagar Vaze , Kai Han

In this paper, we formally address universal object detection, which aims to detect every scene and predict every category. The dependence on human annotations, the limited visual information, and the novel categories in the open world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhenyu Wang , Yali Li , Xi Chen , Ser-Nam Lim , Antonio Torralba , Hengshuang Zhao , Shengjin Wang

Causal deep learning (CDL) is a new and important research area in the larger field of machine learning. With CDL, researchers aim to structure and encode causal knowledge in the extremely flexible representation space of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jeroen Berrevoets , Krzysztof Kacprzyk , Zhaozhi Qian , Mihaela van der Schaar

Continual learning is a process that involves training learning agents to sequentially master a stream of tasks or classes without revisiting past data. The challenge lies in leveraging previously acquired knowledge to learn new tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Marcus de Carvalho , Mahardhika Pratama , Jie Zhang , Chua Haoyan , Edward Yapp