Inductive Generalized Zero-Shot Learning with Adversarial Relation Network

Guanyu Yang, Kaizhu Huang*, Rui Zhang, John Y. Goulermas, Amir Hussain

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Abstract

We consider the inductive Generalized Zero Shot Learning (GZSL) problem where test information is assumed unavailable during training. In lack of training samples and attributes for unseen classes, most existing GZSL methods tend to classify target samples as seen classes. To alleviate such problem, we design an adversarial Relation Network that favors target samples towards unseen classes while enjoying robust recognition for seen classes. Specifically, through the adversarial framework, we can attain a robust recognizer where a small gradient adjustment to the instance will not affect too much the classification of seen classes but substantially increase the classification accuracy on unseen classes. We conduct a series of experiments extensively on four benchmarks i.e., AwA1, AwA2, aPY, and CUB. Experimental results show that our proposed method can attain encouraging performance, which is higher than the best of state-of-the-art models by 10.8%, 14.0%, 6.9%, and 1.9% on the four benchmark datasets, respectively in the inductive GZSL scenario. (The code is available on https://github.com/ygyvsys/AdvRN-with-SR

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2020, Proceedings
EditorsFrank Hutter, Kristian Kersting, Jefrey Lijffijt, Isabel Valera
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages724-739
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783030676605
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
EventEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 14 Sept 202018 Sept 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12458 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period14/09/2018/09/20

Keywords

  • Adversarial examples
  • Gradient penalty
  • Zero-shot learning

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