arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-01
Identifying Latent Concepts and Structures for Generalized Category Discovery
Boyang Dai, Chaoqi Chen, Yizhou Yu
Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to recognize known classes while autonomously discovering novel ones in open-world settings. However, current approaches primarily focus on designing clustering objectives, often overlooking a critical bottleneck: standard vision backbone…