arXiv Computation and Language

Just Pass Twice: Efficient Token Classification with LLMs for Zero-Shot NER

Just Pass Twice (JPT) is a method that allows causal large language models to perform token classification for zero‑shot named entity recognition by concatenating the input with itself, giving each token full bidirectional context without architectural changes. The approach combines these representations with definition‑guided entity embeddings to enable flexible zero‑shot generalization. JPT achieves state‑of‑the‑art results, outperforming prior methods by an average of +7.9 F1 on CrossNER and MIT benchmarks and running over 20× faster than comparable generative approaches.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2

FlowCIR: Semantic Transport via Flow Matching for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval

Zero-shot composed image retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve a target image by editing a reference image with a natural-language instruction, without relying on domain-specific annotated triplets. Most existing ZS-CIR methods rely on textual inversion to translate the reference image into pseudo-text tokens and then compose them with the instruction via simple concatenation in the text space, which can be lossy and brittle for fine-grained semantics.

arXiv AI
Aug 5

From Generator to Embedder: Harnessing Innate Abilities of Multimodal LLMs via Building Zero-Shot Discriminative Embedding Model

arXiv:2508. 00955v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adapting generative Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) into universal embedding models typically demands resource-intensive contrastive pre-training, while traditional hard negative mining methods suffer from severe false negative contamination.

By Yeong-Joon Ju, Seong-Whan Lee
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 27

G2D: Generative-to-Discriminative Collaborative Inference for Zero-Shot Image Classification

G2D is a training‑free framework that combines a discriminative model (CLIP) for broad candidate retrieval with a generative vision‑language model for fine‑grained, image‑grounded verification. By using CLIP’s top‑K shortlist and a structured prior from candidate names and probabilities, G2D focuses generative reasoning on uncertain samples, employing fixed confidence routing, entropy‑adaptive candidate sizing, and trie‑constrained decoding to produce a single valid output. Across eight benchmarks, G2D achieves an average accuracy of 68.85%, outperforming both CLIP (59.35%) and the standalone generative model (63.11%), and it also transfers effectively to other models such as DCLIP, WaffleCLIP, and CuPL.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

GraspLLM: Towards Zero-Shot Generalization on Text-Attributed Graphs with LLMs

arXiv:2606. 11898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research on Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs) has gained significant attention recently due to its broad applications across various real-world data scenarios, such as citation networks, e-commerce platforms, social media, and web pages.

By Hengyi Feng, Zeang Sheng, Meiyi Qiang, Meiyi Qiang, Wentao Zhang