Generalization and reliability of multilingual translation often highly depend on the amount of available parallel data for each language pair of interest. In this paper, we focus on zero-shot generalization---a challenging setup that tests models on translation directions they have not been optimized for at training t…
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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…
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.
We address the problem of learning fine-grained cross-modal representations. We propose an instance-based deep metric learning approach in joint visual and textual space. The key novelty of this paper is that it shows that using per-image semantic supervision leads to substantial improvement in zero-shot performance ov…
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.
In this paper we consider a version of the zero-shot learning problem where seen class source and target domain data are provided. The goal during test-time is to accurately predict the class label of an unseen target domain instance based on revealed source domain side information (\eg attributes) for unseen classes. …
ZeroSCROLLS benchmarks zero-shot natural language understanding over long texts.
problem Evaluate natural language understanding models over long texts without training data.
method Adapt six tasks from SCROLLS benchmark and add four new datasets, including novel aggregation tasks.
result Claude outperforms ChatGPT, and GPT-4 achieves highest average score.
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.
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/…
A Simple Zero-shot Prompt Weighting Technique to Improve Prompt Ensembling in Text-Image Modelscs.LG
Automates zero-shot classification by scoring and weighting prompts.
problem Improving zero-shot accuracy through prompt ensembling.
method Automatic prompt scoring and weighting method.
result Method outperforms existing techniques on various benchmarks.
Two new techniques improve zero-shot HPO efficiency.
problem Efficiently selecting hyperparameters for new datasets.
method Surrogate model and multi-fidelity techniques.
result Significant improvement in accuracy compared to standard methods.
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.
CAZSL learns to generalize physical interactions from context.
problem Designing models that can generalize over unknown objects during manipulation.
method Context-aware zero-shot learning using Siamese network architecture, embedding space masking, and regularization.
result CAZSL models can generalize to different parameters or features of interacting objects.
Paper introduces effect-invariance for better policy generalization.
problem Adapting policies to unseen environments efficiently.
method Introduces effect-invariance, a relaxation of full invariance, and develops testing procedures to test e-invariance directly from data.
result Effect-invariance enables zero-shot and few-shot policy generalization without assuming a causal graph.
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.
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 previous models with space decomposition operations only calibrate the confident pr…
Zero-shot Policy Learning with Spatial Temporal RewardDecomposition on Contingency-aware Observationcs.LG
It is a long-standing challenge to enable an intelligent agent to learn in one environment and generalize to an unseen environment without further data collection and finetuning. In this paper, we consider a zero shot generalization problem setup that complies with biological intelligent agents' learning and generaliza…
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.
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…
Programmable Agentscs.AI
We build deep RL agents that execute declarative programs expressed in formal language. The agents learn to ground the terms in this language in their environment, and can generalize their behavior at test time to execute new programs that refer to objects that were not referenced during training. The agents develop di…
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 improves zero-shot protein stability prediction by clarifying free-energy foundations.
problem Improving zero-shot protein stability prediction using inverse folding models.
method Clarifying the free-energy foundations of inverse folding models and proposing better estimates of relative stability.
result Significant gains in zero-shot performance can be achieved with simple methods.
Learning to classify unseen class samples at test time is popularly referred to as zero-shot learning (ZSL). If test samples can be from training (seen) as well as unseen classes, it is a more challenging problem due to the existence of strong bias towards seen classes. This problem is generally known as \emph{generali…
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.
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.
NeuralPrefix fills in missing sensor data without additional training.
problem Data intermittency in real-world sensing.
method NeuralPrefix is a task-agnostic, zero-shot imputation framework.
result NeuralPrefix accurately recovers missing samples and generalizes to unseen datasets.
New method improves RL/IL agents' adaptability to unseen environments.
problem Current RL/IL techniques struggle with generalizing to unseen environments.
method Zero-shot compositional policy learning with multi-modal fusion and attention mechanism.
result Language grounding enhances generalization across varied environments.
Foundation models improve volatility forecasting in finance.
problem Improving volatility forecasting in financial markets.
method Evaluation of TimesFM model, incremental fine-tuning, comparison with econometric benchmarks.
result Incremental fine-tuning improves forecast accuracy and outperforms traditional models.
SCL discovers compositional structures in analogical reasoning tasks.
problem Discovering compositional structures in analogical reasoning tasks like Raven's Progressive Matrices.
method Proposes Scattering Compositional Learner (SCL) that composes neural networks in sequence.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on RPM datasets with significant improvements.
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.
Because it is not feasible to collect training data for every language, there is a growing interest in cross-lingual transfer learning. In this paper, we systematically explore zero-shot cross-lingual transfer learning on reading comprehension tasks with a language representation model pre-trained on multi-lingual corp…
A Causal World Model Underlying Next Token Prediction: Exploring GPT in a Controlled Environmentcs.AI
GPT learns a causal world model from token predictions, validated in game sequences.
problem Does GPT implicitly learn a causal world model from token predictions?
method Derived a causal interpretation of GPT's attention mechanism and proposed zero-shot causal structure learning.
result GPT can generate legal next moves with high confidence for sequences with encoded causal structures, but fails for illegal moves.
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.
Dissertation tackles zero-shot anomaly detection, focusing on consistent anomalies and proposing CoDeGraph framework.
problem Consistent anomalies bias distance-based zero-shot anomaly detection methods.
method Formalized consistent anomalies, identified similarity scaling and neighbor-burnout phenomena, introduced CoDeGraph framework.
result CoDeGraph effectively suppresses consistent anomalies in zero-shot anomaly detection.
Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at recognizing unseen classes with knowledge transferred from seen classes. This is typically achieved by exploiting a semantic feature space (FS) shared by both seen and unseen classes, i.e., attributes or word vectors, as the bridge. However, due to the mutually disjoint of training (see…
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.
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.
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.
Zero-shot understanding of accidents from surveillance videos using vision-language models
problem Accident understanding from surveillance videos
method Three-stage pipeline with vision-language similarity, metadata-driven multi-prompt reasoning, and entropy-gated pairwise adjudicator
result Substantial improvement in harmonic-mean score over baseline
With the recent renaissance of deep convolution neural networks, encouraging breakthroughs have been achieved on the supervised recognition tasks, where each class has sufficient training data and fully annotated training data. However, to scale the recognition to a large number of classes with few or now training samp…
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.
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 ().
Recent neural waveform synthesizers such as WaveNet, WaveGlow, and the neural-source-filter (NSF) model have shown good performance in speech synthesis despite their different methods of waveform generation. The similarity between speech and music audio synthesis techniques suggests interesting avenues to explore in te…
OTSeg uses multi-prompt Sinkhorn attention to improve zero-shot semantic segmentation.
problem Leveraging pre-trained CLIP knowledge to align text embeddings with pixel embeddings.
method OTSeg employs Multi-Prompts Sinkhorn (MPS) and Multi-Prompts Sinkhorn Attention (MPSA) to enhance semantic feature matching.
result OTSeg achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation tasks.
We propose a comprehensive end-to-end pipeline for Twitter hashtags recommendation system including data collection, supervised training setting and zero shot training setting. In the supervised training setting, we have proposed and compared the performance of various deep learning architectures, namely Convolutional …
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…
The paper addresses score-mismatched diffusion models and zero-shot conditional samplers.
problem Theoretical guarantees for score-mismatched diffusion models in zero-shot conditional sampling.
method Theoretical analysis of score-mismatched diffusion models and zero-shot conditional samplers.
result Theoretical performance guarantees with explicit dimensional dependencies for score-mismatched diffusion samplers.
Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a framework to classify images belonging to unseen classes based on solely semantic information about these unseen classes. In this paper, we propose a new ZSL algorithm using coupled dictionary learning. The core idea is that the visual features and the semantic attributes of an image can s…