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.
MuLan links music audio to natural language tags.
problem Traditional music tagging systems use rigid attributes; MuLan aims to link audio directly to natural language.
method Joint audio-text embedding model trained on 44 million music recordings and text annotations.
result MuLan's embeddings enable zero-shot functionalities and transfer learning.
Improved autoencoders guide latent sentence representations for better text generation and manipulation.
problem Current autoencoders struggle to maintain coherent latent spaces for meaningful text manipulations.
method Adversarial autoencoders with a denoising objective (DAAE) to guide latent space geometry.
result DAAE provides the best trade-off between generation quality and reconstruction capacity.
Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion, as well as zero-shot voice conversion, remain under-explored areas. Deep style transfer algorithms, such as generative adversarial networks (GAN) and conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE), are being applied as new solutions in this field. However, GAN training is sophist…
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.
Text style transfer aims to modify the style of a sentence while keeping its content unchanged. Recent style transfer systems often fail to faithfully preserve the content after changing the style. This paper proposes a structured content preserving model that leverages linguistic information in the structured fine-gra…
A method for disentangling text representations without supervision.
problem Challenges in learning disentangled representations of natural language.
method Information-theoretic guidance to induce independent style and content embeddings.
result High quality disentangled representations in terms of content and style preservation.
Ground-A-Video edits videos without training, preserving intended changes.
problem Complex multi-attribute video editing with omitted or wrong changes.
method Grounding-guided video-to-video translation with Cross-Frame Gated Attention.
result Zero-shot multi-attribute video editing with improved accuracy and frame consistency.
Improved TTS style transfer across disjoint datasets with adversarial cycle consistency.
problem Suboptimal TTS style transfer on disjoint datasets with underrepresented styles.
method Adversarial cycle consistency training with paired and unpaired triplets.
result 78% improvement in style transfer with minimal reduction in fidelity and naturalness.
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.
A new method for image translation using disentangled style and content preservation.
problem Difficulty in maintaining original content during reverse diffusion in diffusion-based image translation.
method Disentangled style and content representation using intermediate keys from ViT model, CLIP loss, semantic divergence loss, and resampling strategy.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models in text-guided and image-guided translation tasks.
Many problems in image processing and computer vision (e.g. colorization, style transfer) can be posed as 'manipulating' an input image into a corresponding output image given a user-specified guiding signal. A holy-grail solution towards generic image manipulation should be able to efficiently alter an input image wit…
XL-Editor improves sentence post-editing using XLNet's variable-length insertion probability.
problem Post-editing sentences to refine generated text.
method XL-Editor trains XLNet to estimate variable-length insertion probabilities and apply post-editing operations.
result XL-Editor outperforms XLNet on text insertion and deletion tasks, and achieves significant style transfer improvements.
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.
Unified model for audio control and style transfer.
problem Explicit control and style transfer in music generation.
method Diffusion autoencoders for semantic feature extraction, disentanglement using adversarial criterion.
result Model generates audio matching timbre targets with specified structure.
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…
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.
Efficiently transfers style to content without distorting the content structure.
problem Arbitrary style transfer in computer vision.
method Rigid alignment of style features to content features.
result High-quality stylized images with intact content structure.
Proposes Gaussian optimal transport for image style transfer.
problem Image style transfer and mixing different artistic styles.
method Encoder/Decoder framework with optimal transport for Gaussian measures.
result Simple methodology for generating stylized content interpolating between many styles.
New study finds best language model architecture and pretraining objective for zero-shot tasks.
problem Evaluating which language model architectures and pretraining objectives best enable zero-shot generalization.
method Compared three model architectures and two pretraining objectives across 170 billion tokens, with and without finetuning.
result Causal decoder-only models trained on autoregressive language modeling exhibit strongest zero-shot generalization.
New method for one-shot timbre transfer in music.
problem One-shot timbre transfer in music.
method Self-supervised VQ-VAE extension for disentangled representations.
result Outperforms selected baselines on objective metrics.
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.
BTZSC benchmarks zero-shot text classification across diverse models.
problem Systematically comparing zero-shot text classification across various models.
method Comprehensive benchmark of 22 datasets, comparing NLI cross-encoders, embedding models, rerankers, and instruction-tuned LLMs.
result Rerankers and instruction-tuned LLMs outperform NLI cross-encoders, with rerankers setting a new state-of-the-art.
A new framework converts EEG signals between subjects and tasks.
problem Noise and variability in EEG data hinder generalizable signal extraction.
method Contrastive Split-Latent Permutation Autoencoder (CSLP-AE) framework.
result The CSLP-AE framework enables zero-shot conversion between unseen subjects.
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.
MicAugment transfers audio style from few seconds of input to match target conditions.
problem Audio model robustness to diverse acquisition conditions.
method Identifies and applies transformations learned from target audio to input audio.
result MicAugment significantly improves model robustness in downstream tasks.
We introduce MIDI-VAE, a neural network model based on Variational Autoencoders that is capable of handling polyphonic music with multiple instrument tracks, as well as modeling the dynamics of music by incorporating note durations and velocities. We show that MIDI-VAE can perform style transfer on symbolic music by au…
How can we learn, transfer and extract handwriting styles using deep neural networks? This paper explores these questions using a deep conditioned autoencoder on the IRON-OFF handwriting data-set. We perform three experiments that systematically explore the quality of our style extraction procedure. First, We compare o…
New method transfers emotions in facial images.
problem Transforming facial images to different emotions.
method Infinite task learning and vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.
result Achieves low reconstruction cost and high emotion classification accuracy.
Generates coherent storybooks from plain text using diffusion models.
problem Ensuring coherency in a sequence of images for storytelling applications.
method Combines pre-trained LLM and text-guided Latent Diffusion Model for zero-shot generation.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art image editing baselines in generating coherent storybooks.
SASSL improves self-supervised learning by preserving image structure.
problem Distorted augmented samples in self-supervised learning.
method Neural Style Transfer to decouple semantic and stylistic attributes.
result Boosts ImageNet top-1 accuracy by up to 2 percentage points.
AI recovers lost art from x-rays.
problem Reconstructing lost artwork under layers of x-ray imaging.
method Neural style transfer applied to x-radiographs.
result Reconstructed lost artwork visible through x-rays.
HGKT transfers knowledge from seen to unseen classes in GZSL without prior unseen class info.
problem Learning to classify unseen classes in GZSL.
method Structured heterogeneous graph with graph neural network for knowledge transfer.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on public benchmark datasets.
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.
Global Style Tokens (GSTs) are a recently-proposed method to learn latent disentangled representations of high-dimensional data. GSTs can be used within Tacotron, a state-of-the-art end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis system, to uncover expressive factors of variation in speaking style. In this work, we introduce the T…
In this paper we address the problem of artist style transfer where the painting style of a given artist is applied on a real world photograph. We train our neural networks in adversarial setting via recently introduced quadratic potential divergence for stable learning process. To further improve the quality of genera…
Proposes a VAE with a discrete bottleneck for better text generation.
problem VAEs struggle with latent variable auto-regressive decoding in text generation.
method Introduces a discretized bottleneck to enforce latent feature matching in a compact space.
result Demonstrates improved text generation capabilities across various tasks.
Improved autoencoder for F0-consistent voice conversion.
problem Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion with prosodic information leakage.
method Conditional autoencoder with information-constraining bottlenecks.
result Controlled F0 contour and improved speech quality.
SCR diversifies recommendations by applying style transfer to user profiles.
problem Diversify personalized recommendations without losing relevance.
method Style injection using Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) architecture.
result 12% improvement in NDCG@20 and 22% improvement in AUC across all classes.
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.
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.
Paper proposes operator deep Q-learning for quick reward adaptation.
problem Standard RL can only handle one reward function and struggles with unseen rewards.
method Develops operator neural networks to map reward functions to value functions.
result Operator deep Q-learning can quickly adapt to new reward functions.
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…
AudioPaLM combines text and speech models to improve speech processing and translation.
problem Improving speech understanding and generation models.
method Unified multimodal architecture combining text and speech models.
result AudioPaLM significantly outperforms existing speech translation systems.
Detects out-of-domain cases with limited training data.
problem Detecting out-of-domain cases with insufficient in-domain training data.
method Proposes an OOD-resistant Prototypical Network.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods in zero-shot OOD detection.
Telescope detects LLM generated text by measuring token repetition probability.
problem Distinguishing LLM generated text from human writing.
method Telescope Perplexity, evaluating token repetition probability.
result Telescope Perplexity enables effective zero-shot LLM detection.
Enhanced text-to-speech synthesizes expressive speech from a single example.
problem Creating a new expressive speech style from a single example of speech.
method Combines VAE and Normalizing Flows to improve disentanglement and naturalness.
result Reduces KL-divergence by 22% and improves perceptual metrics.
Enhances nighttime vehicle detection using style transfer and augmentation.
problem Nighttime object detection challenges due to lack of lighting and glare.
method Day-to-night style transfer and labeling-free augmentation with CARLA synthetic data.
result Significant improvements in nighttime vehicle detection with YOLO11 model.