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In open-world scenarios, Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) requires identifying both known and novel categories within unlabeled data. However, existing methods often suffer from prototype confusion caused by shortcut learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kailin Lyu , Jianwei He , Long Xiao , Jianing Zeng , Liang Fan , Lin Shu , Jie Hao

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to discover novel categories in unlabelled datasets using knowledge learned from labelled samples. Previous studies argued that parametric classifiers are prone to overfitting to seen categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Xin Wen , Bingchen Zhao , Xiaojuan Qi

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is a practical and challenging open-world task that aims to recognize both known and novel categories in unlabeled data using limited labeled data from known categories. Due to the lack of supervision,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Henry Peng Zou , Siffi Singh , Yi Nian , Jianfeng He , Jason Cai , Saab Mansour , Hang Su

Human perceptual systems excel at inducing and recognizing objects across both known and novel categories, a capability far beyond current machine learning frameworks. While generalized category discovery (GCD) aims to bridge this gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Luyao Tang , Kunze Huang , Chaoqi Chen , Yuxuan Yuan , Chenxin Li , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify inputs into both known and novel categories, a task crucial for open-world scientific discoveries. However, current GCD methods are limited to unimodal data, overlooking the inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yuchang Su , Renping Zhou , Siyu Huang , Xingjian Li , Tianyang Wang , Ziyue Wang , Min Xu

Generalized category discovery (GCD) is a pragmatic but underexplored problem, which requires models to automatically cluster and discover novel categories by leveraging the labeled samples from old classes. The challenge is that unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shijie Ma , Fei Zhu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify unlabeled data containing both seen and novel categories. Although existing methods perform well on generic datasets, they struggle in fine-grained scenarios. We attribute this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Enguang Wang , Zhimao Peng , Zhengyuan Xie , Haori Lu , Fei Yang , Xialei Liu

Category discovery (CD) is an emerging open-world learning task, which aims at automatically categorizing unlabelled data containing instances from unseen classes, given some labelled data from seen classes. This task has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenqi He , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han

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

Generalized category discovery (GCD) is a recently proposed open-world problem, which aims to automatically cluster partially labeled data. The main challenge is that the unlabeled data contain instances that are not only from known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Nan Pu , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe

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

Generalized Class Discovery (GCD) plays a pivotal role in discerning both known and unknown categories from unlabeled datasets by harnessing the insights derived from a labeled set comprising recognized classes. A significant limitation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ziyun Li , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang

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

Different from the traditional semi-supervised learning paradigm that is constrained by the close-world assumption, Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) presumes that the unlabeled dataset contains new categories not appearing in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yuxun Qu , Yongqiang Tang , Chenyang Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify a mix of known and novel categories within unlabeled data sets, providing a more realistic setting for image recognition. Essentially, GCD needs to remember existing patterns thoroughly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xinzi Cao , Xiawu Zheng , Guanhong Wang , Weijiang Yu , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutong Lu , Yonghong Tian

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to cluster unlabeled images into known and novel categories using labeled images from known classes. To address the challenge of transferring features from known to unknown classes while mitigating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bhupendra Solanki , Ashwin Nair , Mainak Singha , Souradeep Mukhopadhyay , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

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

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify novel categories in unlabeled data while leveraging a small labeled subset of known classes. Training a parametric classifier solely on image features often leads to overfitting to old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Lorenzo Caselli , Marco Mistretta , Simone Magistri , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Generalized Continual Category Discovery (GCCD) tackles learning from sequentially arriving, partially labeled datasets while uncovering new categories. Traditional methods depend on feature distillation to prevent forgetting the old…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Grzegorz Rypeść , Daniel Marczak , Sebastian Cygert , Tomasz Trzciński , Bartłomiej Twardowski

In Generalized Category Discovery (GCD), we cluster unlabeled samples of known and novel classes, leveraging a training dataset of known classes. A salient challenge arises due to domain shifts between these datasets. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sai Bhargav Rongali , Sarthak Mehrotra , Ankit Jha , Mohamad Hassan N C , Shirsha Bose , Tanisha Gupta , Mainak Singha , Biplab Banerjee