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Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) is a critical task in computer vision that enables models to recognize unseen combinations of known attributes and objects during inference, addressing the combinatorial challenge of requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ans Munir , Faisal Z. Qureshi , Mohsen Ali , Muhammad Haris Khan

We investigate the success conditions for compositional generalization of CLIP models on real-world data through performance prediction. Prior work shows that CLIP requires exponentially more pretraining data for linear performance gains on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Thaddäus Wiedemer , Yash Sharma , Ameya Prabhu , Matthias Bethge , Wieland Brendel

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel attribute-object compositions based on the knowledge learned from seen ones. Existing methods suffer from performance degradation caused by the distribution shift of label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xudong Yan , Songhe Feng , Jiaxin Wang , Xin Su , Yi Jin

Compositional generalization is the capability of a model to understand novel compositions composed of seen concepts. There are multiple levels of novel compositions including phrase-phrase level, phrase-word level, and word-word level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chuanhao Li , Zhen Li , Chenchen Jing , Xiaomeng Fan , Wenbo Ye , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Leveraging the compositional nature of our world to expedite learning and facilitate generalization is a hallmark of human perception. In machine learning, on the other hand, achieving compositional generalization has proven to be an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Thaddäus Wiedemer , Prasanna Mayilvahanan , Matthias Bethge , Wieland Brendel

Children can rapidly generalize compositionally-constructed rules to unseen test sets. On the other hand, deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents need to be trained over millions of episodes, and their ability to generalize to unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zijun Lin , Haidi Azaman , M Ganesh Kumar , Cheston Tan

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) seeks to recognize unseen state-object pairs by recombining primitives learned from seen compositions. Despite recent progress with vision-language models (VLMs), two limitations remain: (i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhong Peng , Yishi Xu , Gerong Wang , Wenchao Chen , Bo Chen , Jing Zhang , Hongwei Liu

This paper studies the problem of Generalized Zero-shot Learning (G-ZSL), whose goal is to classify instances belonging to both seen and unseen classes at the test time. We propose a novel space decomposition method to solve G-ZSL. Some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hanze Dong , Yanwei Fu , Sung Ju Hwang , Leonid Sigal , Xiangyang Xue

Compositional understanding is crucial for human intelligence, yet it remains unclear whether contemporary vision models exhibit it. The dominant machine learning paradigm is built on the premise that scaling data and model sizes will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Arnas Uselis , Andrea Dittadi , Seong Joon Oh

Compositional generalization-a key open challenge in modern machine learning-requires models to predict unknown combinations of known concepts. However, assessing compositional generalization remains a fundamental challenge due to the lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Giacomo Camposampiero , Pietro Barbiero , Michael Hersche , Roger Wattenhofer , Abbas Rahimi

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen compositions from seen states and objects. The disparity between the manually labeled semantic information and its actual visual features causes a significant imbalance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Chenyi Jiang , Dubing Chen , Shidong Wang , Yuming Shen , Haofeng Zhang , Ling Shao

Despite the significant advancements in computer vision models, their ability to generalize to novel object-attribute compositions remains limited. Existing methods for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) mainly focus on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Youssef Zahran , Gertjan Burghouts , Yke Bauke Eisma

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) task aims to recognize unseen compositional visual concepts, e.g., sliced tomatoes, where the model is learned only from the seen compositions, e.g., sliced potatoes and red tomatoes. Thanks to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Wentao Bao , Lichang Chen , Heng Huang , Yu Kong

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel attribute-object compositions based on the knowledge learned from seen ones. Existing methods suffer from performance degradation caused by the distribution shift of label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xudong Yan , Songhe Feng

In compositional zero-shot learning, the goal is to recognize unseen compositions (e.g. old dog) of observed visual primitives states (e.g. old, cute) and objects (e.g. car, dog) in the training set. This is challenging because the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Yongqin Xian , Federico Tombari , Zeynep Akata

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen compositions with prior knowledge of known primitives (attribute and object). Previous works for CZSL often suffer from grasping the contextuality between attribute and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hanjae Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Seongheon Park , Kwanghoon Sohn

Compositional generalization refers to correctly interpret novel combinations of known primitives, which remains a major challenge. Existing approaches often rely on supervised fine-tuning, which encourages models to imitate target outputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Xiyan Fu , Wei Liu

Zero-shot action recognition requires a strong ability to generalize from pre-training and seen classes to novel unseen classes. Similarly, continual learning aims to develop models that can generalize effectively and learn new tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shreyank N Gowda , Davide Moltisanti , Laura Sevilla-Lara

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize subtle differences in meaning or the combination of states and objects through the use of known and unknown concepts during training. Existing methods either focused on prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Sua Jung

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) has emerged as an essential paradigm in machine learning, aiming to overcome the constraints of traditional zero-shot learning by incorporating compositional thinking into its methodology.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Do Huu Dat , Po Yuan Mao , Tien Hoang Nguyen , Wray Buntine , Mohammed Bennamoun