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Humans possess remarkable ability to accurately classify new, unseen images after being exposed to only a few examples. Such ability stems from their capacity to identify common features shared between new and previously seen images while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Weihao Jiang , Chang Liu , Kun He

An important aspect of intelligence is the ability to adapt to a novel task without any direct experience (zero-shot), based on its relationship to previous tasks. Humans can exhibit this cognitive flexibility. By contrast, models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Andrew K. Lampinen , James L. McClelland

Pre-trained vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) have shown promising zero-shot generalization in many downstream tasks with properly designed text prompts. Instead of relying on hand-engineered prompts, recent works learn prompts using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Manli Shu , Weili Nie , De-An Huang , Zhiding Yu , Tom Goldstein , Anima Anandkumar , Chaowei Xiao

We present a large-scale empirical investigation of the zero-shot learning phenomena in a specific recognizing textual entailment (RTE) task category, i.e. the automated mining of leaderboards for Empirical AI Research. The prior reported…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Salomon Kabongo , Jennifer D'Souza , Sören Auer

In Emergent Communication (EC) agents learn to communicate with one another, but the protocols that they develop are specialised to their training community. This observation led to research into Zero-Shot Coordination (ZSC) for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Dylan Cope , Peter McBurney

Many multiagent systems in the real world include multiple types of agents with different abilities and functionality. Such heterogeneous multiagent systems have significant practical advantages. However, they also come with challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Qingxu Fu , Xiaolin Ai , Jianqiang Yi , Tenghai Qiu , Wanmai Yuan , Zhiqiang Pu

The advancements in large language models (LLMs) have brought significant progress in NLP tasks. However, if a task cannot be fully described in prompts, the models could fail to carry out the task. In this paper, we propose a simple yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hwiyeol Jo , Hyunwoo Lee , Kang Min Yoo , Taiwoo Park

In this paper, we study imitation learning under the challenging setting of: (1) only a single demonstration, (2) no further data collection, and (3) no prior task or object knowledge. We show how, with these constraints, imitation learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Pietro Vitiello , Kamil Dreczkowski , Edward Johns

Zero-shot learning strives to classify unseen categories for which no data is available during training. In the generalized variant, the test samples can further belong to seen or unseen categories. The state-of-the-art relies on Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sanath Narayan , Akshita Gupta , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Cees G. M. Snoek , Ling Shao

In Computer Vision, Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims at classifying unseen classes -- classes for which no matching training image exists. Most of ZSL works learn a cross-modal mapping between images and class labels for seen classes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Patrick Bordes , Eloi Zablocki , Benjamin Piwowarski , Patrick Gallinari

It is challenging learning from demonstrated observation-only trajectories in a non-time-aligned environment because most imitation learning methods aim to imitate experts by following the demonstration step-by-step. However, aligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shanqi Liu , Junjie Cao , Wenzhou Chen , Licheng Wen , Yong Liu

While imitation learning (IL) has achieved impressive success in dexterous manipulation through generative modeling and pretraining, state-of-the-art approaches like Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models still struggle with adaptation to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Renming Huang , Chendong Zeng , Wenjing Tang , Jintian Cai , Cewu Lu , Panpan Cai

Although large language models can be prompted for both zero- and few-shot learning, performance drops significantly when no demonstrations are available. In this paper, we introduce Z-ICL, a new zero-shot method that closes the gap by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xinxi Lyu , Sewon Min , Iz Beltagy , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

This paper presents a method of zero-shot learning (ZSL) which poses ZSL as the missing data problem, rather than the missing label problem. Specifically, most existing ZSL methods focus on learning mapping functions from the image feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bo Zhao , Botong Wu , Tianfu Wu , Yizhou Wang

Synthesizing pseudo samples is currently the most effective way to solve the Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) problem. Most models achieve competitive performance but still suffer from two problems: (1) Feature confounding, the overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Yaogong Feng , Xiaowen Huang , Pengbo Yang , Jian Yu , Jitao Sang

Offline zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn agents that optimize unseen reward functions without additional environment interaction. The standard approach to this problem trains task-conditioned policies by sampling task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nazim Bendib , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert , Olivier Sigaud

Most of the existing Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods focus on learning a compatibility function between the image representation and class attributes. Few others concentrate on learning image representation combining local and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Faisal Alamri , Anjan Dutta

Generating agents that can achieve zero-shot coordination (ZSC) with unseen partners is a new challenge in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Recently, some studies have made progress in ZSC by exposing the agents to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ke Xue , Yutong Wang , Cong Guan , Lei Yuan , Haobo Fu , Qiang Fu , Chao Qian , Yang Yu

The goal of imitation learning is to mimic expert behavior without access to an explicit reward signal. Expert demonstrations provided by humans, however, often show significant variability due to latent factors that are typically not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Yunzhu Li , Jiaming Song , Stefano Ermon

Consider the following problem: given a few demonstrations of a task across a few different objects, how can a robot learn to perform that same task on new, previously unseen objects? This is challenging because the large variety of objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Vitalis Vosylius , Edward Johns