Graph-guided Cross-composition Feature Disentanglement for Compositional Zero-shot Learning

ACL ARR 2025 February Submission84 Authors

Abstract: Disentanglement of visual features of primitives (i.e., attributes and objects) has shown exceptional results in Compositional Zero-shot Learning (CZSL). However, due to the feature divergence of an attribute (resp. object) when combined with different objects (resp. attributes), it is challenging to learn disentangled primitive features that are general across different compositions. To this end, we propose the solution of \textit{cross-composition feature disentanglement}, which takes multiple primitive-sharing compositions as inputs and constrains the disentangled primitive features to be general across these compositions. More specifically, we leverage a compositional graph to define the overall primitive-sharing relationships between compositions, and build a task-specific architecture upon the recently successful large pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) CLIP, with dual cross-composition disentangling adapters (called L-Adapter and V-Adapter) inserted into CLIP's frozen text and image encoders, respectively. Evaluation on three popular CZSL benchmarks shows that our proposed solution significantly improves the performance of CZSL, and its components have been verified by solid ablation studies.

Paper Type: Long

Research Area: Efficient/Low-Resource Methods for NLP

Research Area Keywords: NLP in resource-constrained settings, data-efficient training

Contribution Types: NLP engineering experiment, Approaches to low-resource settings

Languages Studied: English

Submission Number: 84