Paper proposes redundancy-free features for zero-shot object recognition.
problem Redundant visual features degrade zero-shot object recognition.
method Project original features into a new, statistically independent space.
result RFF-GZSL achieves competitive results on benchmark datasets.
CLAREL improves zero-shot learning by using per-image semantic supervision and metric rescaling.
problem Fine-grained cross-modal representation learning for zero-shot classification.
method Instance-based deep metric learning in joint visual and textual space, using per-image semantic supervision and metric rescaling.
result CLAREL consistently outperforms existing approaches on fine-grained zero-shot learning datasets.
Theory explains how AI models can predict unseen tasks without labeled data.
problem Understanding how AI models can generalize to unseen tasks.
method Developed a theoretical framework to analyze zero-shot prediction.
result Identified key quantities and independence relationships for generalization.
Study shows zero-shot super-resolution in neural operators is impossible in many cases.
problem Understanding the theoretical limits of zero-shot super-resolution in neural operators.
method Systematic theoretical study including information-theoretic and generalization bounds analysis.
result Zero-shot super-resolution is information-theoretically impossible in many settings.
Paper proposes CCVAE for generalized zero-shot domain adaptation.
problem Adapting to unseen classes in target domain with limited labeled data.
method Coupled Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CCVAE).
result CCVAE generates synthetic target domain features for unseen classes.
Generative framework tackles zero-shot learning with adversarial domain adaptation.
problem Domain shift between seen and unseen class distributions in zero-shot learning.
method End-to-end learning of seen and unseen class distributions, adversarial domain adaptation.
result Superior accuracies compared to state-of-the-art models on various benchmark datasets.
Optimal transport framework for zero-shot learning.
problem Generalized zero-shot learning of unseen classes.
method Conditional generative model and optimal transport between generated and real features.
result Optimal transport-based method outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
Faster ZSL with continual learning and self-gating.
problem Generalizing models to unseen categories and handling sequential data.
method Meta-continual zero-shot learning (MCZSL) with self-gating and scaled class normalization.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art results with faster training (>100imes). CLIP learns joint image-text representations for zero-shot learning.
problem Understanding and improving zero-shot transfer performance in CLIP.
method Formal study of transferrable representation learning and analysis of zero-shot transfer performance.
result Proposes a new CLIP-type approach that outperforms existing methods.
Paper tackles zero-shot translation by encouraging consistent agreement in models.
problem Challenges of generalizing multilingual translation without parallel data.
method Reformulated as probabilistic inference, introduced consistent agreement-based training.
result Agreement-based learning improves zero-shot translation by 2-3 BLEU points.
Paper proposes a new process for GZSL improving recognition performance on unseen classes.
problem Maximizing recognition performance on unseen classes in ZSL.
method Proposes a new training and evaluation process that penalizes samples from seen classes to improve performance on unseen classes.
result Significant performance boost on CUB and AwA2 datasets.
Paper explores zero-shot cross-lingual reading comprehension using pre-trained multi-lingual model.
problem Lack of training data for every language in reading comprehension tasks.
method Systematic exploration of zero-shot cross-lingual transfer learning with a multi-lingual language representation model.
result Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer learning is feasible and translating source data into target language is not necessary.
Raven's Progressive Matrices are one of the widely used tests in evaluating the human test taker's fluid intelligence. Analogously, this paper introduces geometric generalization based zero-shot learning tests to measure the rapid learning ability and the internal consistency of deep generative models. Our empirical re…
Zero-shot learning transfers knowledge from seen classes to novel unseen classes to reduce human labor of labelling data for building new classifiers. Much effort on zero-shot learning however has focused on the standard multi-class setting, the more challenging multi-label zero-shot problem has received limited attent…
We present a generative framework for generalized zero-shot learning where the training and test classes are not necessarily disjoint. Built upon a variational autoencoder based architecture, consisting of a probabilistic encoder and a probabilistic conditional decoder, our model can generate novel exemplars from seen/…
Meta-learning framework improves zero-shot learning for unseen classes.
problem Handling unseen classes with strong bias towards seen classes.
method Meta-learning with Wasserstein GAN to handle class bias and unseen samples.
result Significant improvements in ZSL and GZSL settings.
ZSL-KG learns class representations from common sense knowledge graphs.
problem Predicting classes without labeled examples using semantic class representations.
method TrGCN, a novel transformer graph convolutional network, embeds nodes from common sense knowledge graphs in a vector space.
result ZSL-KG improves over existing methods on five out of six zero-shot benchmark datasets.
IZF uses flow-based models to overcome ZSL limitations.
problem Hardness of training ZSL models and limited generation quality.
method IZF incorporates flow-based models to learn factorized data embeddings and generates samples.
result IZF significantly outperforms existing methods on ZSL benchmarks.
MAIN network learns attributes without unseen class attributes for faster, more adaptable ZSL.
problem Learning unseen categories without known attributes and handling continual learning.
method Meta-learning attribute self-interaction network with inverse regularization.
result Main network outperforms state-of-the-art ZSL methods without unseen class attributes.
Improved zero-shot learning with graph-based regularization.
problem Transfer knowledge to unknown classes in zero-shot learning.
method Isoperimetric loss for learning map between visual and semantic embeddings, exploiting graph structure.
result Regularization alone outperforms state-of-the-art methods in zero-shot learning benchmarks.
TGG improves zero-shot and few-shot learning by explicitly modeling and utilizing seen-unseen domain relations.
problem Lack of data in unseen domains hinders generalization in zero-shot and few-shot learning.
method TGG generates explicit instance-level graphs to model and utilize seen-unseen domain relations, addressing domain shift.
result TGG outperforms existing methods in zero-shot, generalized zero-shot, and few-shot learning.
Class Normalization improves zero-shot learning models.
problem Improving zero-shot learning models in a continual setting.
method Class Normalization (CN) technique to address irregular loss surfaces and improve training efficiency.
result CN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models on 4 standard ZSL datasets.
Zero-shot anomaly detection method using batch normalization.
problem Adapting anomaly detectors to new normal data distributions without training data.
method Adaptive Centered Representations (ACR) with batch normalization.
result First zero-shot AD results for tabular data and image data.
Zero-shot audio classification using class label embeddings.
problem Classifying audio without labeled data.
method Bilinear model with audio feature embeddings and class label embeddings.
result Achieved accuracy up to 39.7% for natural audio categories.
Meta-learning framework improves zero-shot time-series forecasting.
problem Improving generalization on new time series from different datasets.
method Broad meta-learning framework with residual connections as adaptation mechanism.
result Viable zero-shot univariate forecasting without retraining.
This work improves fairness in federated learning by using zero-shot data augmentation.
problem Statistical heterogeneity leads to biased and less uniform accuracy across clients in federated learning.
method Proposes a federated learning system with zero-shot data augmentation to mitigate statistical heterogeneity and improve fairness.
result Empirical results show improved test accuracy and fairness across clients.
M2M tackles zero-shot structured noise suppression in images.
problem Structured noise with strong anisotropic correlations in real-world images.
method M2M introduces a novel sampling strategy that generates pseudo-independent sub-image pairs from a single noisy input, using directional interpolation and generalized median filtering.
result M2M consistently outperforms state-of-the-art zero-shot methods under correlated noise.
Despite the advancement of supervised image recognition algorithms, their dependence on the availability of labeled data and the rapid expansion of image categories raise the significant challenge of zero-shot learning. Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to transfer knowledge from labeled classes into unlabeled classes to r…
Zero-Shot learning has been shown to be an efficient strategy for domain adaptation. In this context, this paper builds on the recent work of Bucher et al. [1], which proposed an approach to solve Zero-Shot classification problems (ZSC) by introducing a novel metric learning based objective function. This objective fun…
GANs improve VSR accuracy by generating unseen classes.
problem Scarcity of training data for unseen classes in VSR.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate new class samples.
result Accuracy increased by 27% for unseen classes.
Zero-shot contrastive loss improves text-guided image style transfer without extra training.
problem Stochastic nature of diffusion models leads to trade-offs between style transformation and content preservation.
method Proposes a zero-shot contrastive loss for diffusion models that doesn't require additional fine-tuning or auxiliary networks.
result Method outperforms existing methods while preserving content and requiring no additional training.
Study evaluates ZSL methods for unseen hashtag predictions from tweet text.
problem Lack of labeled data for all possible hashtag labels in supervised training.
method Proposed a Zero Shot Learning (ZSL) paradigm to predict unseen hashtag labels.
result Demonstrated effectiveness and scalability of ZSL methods for unseen hashtag recommendations.
Aggregates diverse zero-shot LLM outputs for better corporate disclosure classification.
problem Combining varied zero-shot LLM predictions for improved stock return prediction.
method Multi-prompt framework with three fixed zero-shot LLM classifiers, logistic meta-classifier aggregation.
result Aggregated model outperforms single classifiers and baseline models, increasing balanced accuracy from 0.566 to 0.606.
Paper tackles zero-shot policy learning for agents in new environments.
problem Learning in one environment and generalizing to unseen environments without additional data.
method Decomposes sparse rewards into spatial-temporal regions and uses Model Predictive Control (MPC).
result Method achieves natural generalization to new environments, demonstrated on various tasks.
This study evaluates zero-shot LLMs in finance, finding ChatGPT performs well but fine-tuned models are better.
problem Evaluating zero-shot LLMs in financial tasks.
method Comparison of ChatGPT and fine-tuned models on annotated data.
result Fine-tuned models generally outperform zero-shot LLMs.
Paper tackles target shift in zero-shot learning using adversarial learning.
problem Target shift in zero-shot learning leads to performance degradation.
method Estimates target shift using class-attribute mapping and applies grouped adversarial learning.
result Improves zero-shot learning performance on multiple datasets.
In principle, zero-shot learning makes it possible to train a recognition model simply by specifying the category's attributes. For example, with classifiers for generic attributes like \emph{striped} and \emph{four-legged}, one can construct a classifier for the zebra category by enumerating which properties it posses…
ZegOT uses optimal transport to zero-shot segment images with text prompts.
problem Zero-shot semantic segmentation with limited image-text alignment knowledge.
method ZegOT uses optimal transport to match multiple text prompts with frozen image embeddings.
result ZegOT achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation.
TempoPFN models for zero-shot time series forecasting using synthetic data.
problem Efficient long-horizon prediction and reproducibility in zero-shot time series forecasting.
method Linear RNNs pre-trained on synthetic data with GatedDeltaProduct architecture and state-weaving.
result Achieves top-tier competitive performance on various benchmarks.
Paper tackles zero-shot activity recognition using video features and text embeddings.
problem Zero-shot activity recognition with videos.
method Auto-encoder model for multimodal joint embedding, 3D convolutional action recognition for visual features, GloVe word embeddings for textual features.
result Improved zero-shot recognition results with top-n accuracy and mean Nearest Neighbor Overlap.
Study uses zero-shot models to forecast mortality rates globally.
problem Forecasting mortality rates without task-specific fine-tuning.
method Two state-of-the-art foundation models (TimesFM and CHRONOS) and traditional/machine learning methods were evaluated.
result CHRONOS outperformed traditional methods for shorter-term forecasts, but TimesFM consistently underperformed.
Paper proposes a new unsupervised method for cross-modality data translation without requiring direct mappings.
problem Tackles the challenge of zero-shot cross-modality data translation with fidelity.
method Mutual Information guided Diffusion cross-modality data translation Model (MIDiffusion) using score-matching and stochastic diffusion.
result Empirically shows advanced performance compared to other generative models.
Paper proposes SAN and SN for zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval.
problem Handling unseen classes in sketch-based image retrieval.
method Generative approach using Stacked Adversarial Network (SAN) and Siamese Network (SN).
result Significant improvement in standard and generalized ZSL settings.
Generative model improves zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval.
problem Existing SBIR methods struggle with novel classes.
method Generative model learns to generate images conditioned on novel sketches.
result Significantly outperforms baselines on two challenging datasets.
Paper tackles zero-shot learning for semantic image interpretation.
problem Extracting structured semantic descriptions from images requires complete training sets, which are often unavailable.
method Uses Logic Tensor Networks to leverage logical constraints and similarities among relationships in the training set.
result Background knowledge can alleviate the incompleteness of training sets, improving zero-shot learning performance.
Generative model learns functional vector fields for pharmacokinetics.
problem Generating accurate virtual cohorts and forecasting patient trajectories without manual tuning.
method Prior-Fitted Functional Flows model, learning functional vector fields conditioned on sparse, irregular data.
result State-of-the-art predictive accuracy on real-world datasets.
Heterogeneous SVO leads to diverse policies in sequential social dilemmas.
problem Understanding how diverse social value orientations affect behavior in sequential social dilemmas.
method Extending prior reinforcement learning studies, we instantiated heterogeneous SVO in a sequential social dilemma setting and measured task-specific diversity metrics.
result Heterogeneous SVO leads to meaningfully diverse policies across various incentive structures.
Paper proposes zero-shot transfer learning for semantic parsing.
problem Applying neural networks to tasks with little data remains challenging.
method Introduces a new method for learning shared space between domains based on domain label prediction.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques in zero-shot experimental setting.