The paper introduces CLEAR, a CLoze-style rEAsoning-based Re-ranking framework for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning. CLEAR treats primitive variations as context-driven activations of concrete visual cues rather than independent entities, extracting conditional variants in a coarse-to-fine manner and performing cloze-style reasoning to infer high-level semantics. Experiments show that CLEAR consistently improves base models and surpasses state-of-the-art methods on the C-GQA and MIT-States datasets.
Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to combine known attributes and objects as primitives for recognizing previously unseen attribute-object pairs. Prior works either predict attributes and objects independently, missing their strong contextual dependency, or use unidirectional conditional modeling (e.
arXiv:2610.29811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel combinations of previously observed objects and attributes. Prior work showed that larg...
The paper introduces PromptCCZSL, a framework that enables vision‑language models to continually learn new attributes, objects, and their unique compositions while avoiding forgetting. It uses a frozen VLM backbone with prompt‑based techniques, recency‑weighted multi‑teacher distillation, and several loss functions (CAL, OPL, IDL) to maintain prior knowledge and promote diverse, distinct embeddings. Experiments on UT‑Zappos and C‑GQA show significant performance gains over existing VLM‑based and non‑VLM baselines, establishing a new benchmark for continual compositional zero‑shot learning.
arXiv:2607. 00374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) retrieves a target image from a reference image and a textual modification.
arXiv:2606. 31222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Composed image retrieval requires identifying a target image from a gallery by integrating a reference image with a textual modification instruction.
Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen attribute-object compositions by leveraging knowledge of primitive concepts learned from seen compositions. Although recent works achieve impressive performance in CZSL by leveraging large vision-language models, they primarily rely on discriminative representations that may not explicitly preserve the structured relationships between primitive concepts and their compositions.
arXiv:2608. 19871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen attribute-object compositions by leveraging knowledge of primitive concepts learned from seen compositions.
The paper introduces a progressive training strategy for embodied vision‑language models aimed at reducing spatio‑temporal hallucinations. It first creates a Chain‑of‑Thought dataset that breaks complex reasoning into detailed spatiotemporal steps, then uses supervised pre‑training on this dataset followed by fine‑tuning with weakly‑labeled data. Experiments show the method improves backbone accuracy and narrows the forward‑backward performance gap from over 70% to 6.53%, indicating stronger dynamic reasoning and fewer temporal biases.
CS-CLIP is a vision‑language model that improves compositional reasoning by using scene graphs to identify compositional elements and create structured negative examples through selective masking. The approach retains only the most contradictory negatives, encouraging the model to depend on compositional structure instead of surface cues. CS-CLIP achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on compositional reasoning benchmarks while maintaining strong cross‑modal retrieval and downstream visual reasoning capabilities with fewer training samples.
arXiv:2609.35942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work in visual question answering has shown that vision-language models can exhibit strong reasoning capabilities by translating visual inputs i...
DVLA-RL++ introduces Dual-Level Vision‑Language Alignment with Reinforcement Learning Gating for few‑shot learning. It adds complementary semantic purification (CSP) to separate intrinsic from nuisance textual descriptions and counterfactual reinforcement‑learning gating (CRG) to learn layer‑wise fusion strengths. Experiments on standard, fine‑grained, and cross‑domain benchmarks demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art accuracy, improving on DVLA‑RL by an average of 1.4%.
arXiv:2603.26737v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current multimodal LLMs encode images as static visual prefixes and rely on text-based reasoning, lacking goal-driven and adaptive visual acc...