arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-05
Explainable Novel Category Discovery in Semantic Concept Space
Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin, Yang Zhou, KC Santosh, Longwei Wang
Novel category discovery aims to identify unseen classes from unlabeled data by transferring knowledge from labeled categories, but most existing methods perform discovery in opaque latent feature spaces. As a result, they may separate novel categories accurately while providing…