Bonbon shows zero-shot molecular skills without structural training
A 1.6B model trained only on protein-ligand sequences reports binding-site, mechanism, and bond predictions plus a 61.5% wet-lab hit rate.
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Flex-DDCM adapts zero-shot image compression with diffusion guidance
Task guidance is embedded in the compressed trajectory without extra decoding complexity.
D&A Enables VLMs as Zero-Shot Robotic Reward Models
Decouples progress estimation into objective description and rubric-based assessment to reduce confirmation bias in zero-shot VLM evaluations for robotics.
Auriga harness doubles GPT-6 Astra zero-shot robot success on RoboDojo
The frozen harness posts 57.7% success and stays first under scene randomization while learned policies fall by up to 33.9%.
GAS-PFN adds road graphs to zero-shot traffic forecasts
At a 90-minute horizon it cuts MSE 34.0% versus TimePFN and 27.7% versus four general zero-shot forecasters.
Zero-shot multimodal model spots events in full soccer broadcasts
On three annotated matches with 130 events, the best setup reaches 72.0% F1@5s and cuts inference cost 72% versus frames.
Unigram cross-entropy tracks zero-shot scores from pre-training overlap
Across 10 benchmarks, four corpora, and three scales, lower UCE predicted higher accuracy, and document selection and prompt routing also gained.
VioLA: Learning Generalist Humanoid Control Policies from Human Data
VioLA trains a generalist humanoid policy mostly on human motion and follows real-robot instructions without task fine-tuning.
A Developer’s Guide to Laya: Zero-Shot Decisions and Calibration
A coding guide shows how to use Laya for zero-shot decisions, calibration, and abstention on CLINC150.
Beyond the Current Scene: Event-Referential Grasping with Active View Selection
BeyondSCe enables zero-shot robotic grasping of event-referenced objects, including occluded targets, using pretrained models and active view selection.
DEFINE: Exemplar-Guided Accent Control for Zero-Shot TTS
DEFINE decouples speaker identity from accent in zero-shot TTS using separate audio exemplars, with a single inference-time guidance weight controlling accent strength.
MotorMind: Scaffolding General Vision Language Models for Zero-Shot Robot Manipulation
MotorMind lets a general VLM control robots zero-shot, reaching 66.7% on LIBERO-PRO.
TabFM: A Zero-Shot Foundation Model for Tabular Data
TabFM, a 400M tabular foundation model, delivers calibrated zero-shot predictions that beat tuned AutoML.
ALICE: In-context, Zero-shot, Mutual Information Estimation
ALICE estimates mutual information zero-shot from samples without retraining on each distribution.
One Proposal for Every Margin: Zero-Shot Amortized Sequential Importance Sampling for Binary Matrices
MarginFlow learns a zero-shot sequential importance sampling proposal, matching or beating 31 analytic designs on 1187 of 1190 margins.
SentZero: An Enhanced Sentence-Centric Vision-Language Pretraining for Multi-Task Zero-Shot Chest X-Ray Analysis
SentZero improves zero-shot multi-task chest X-ray analysis with sentence-centric vision-language pretraining.
Just Ask Jev: Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions as a Zero-Shot Detector of AI Alignment Failures
RLCDAlignBench benchmarks Jev, a calibrated-decision model detecting ten AI alignment failure types zero-shot at 0.886 median AUROC, 63x cheaper than LLM judges.
SyncWorld: Visual Calibration Enables World Models as Zero-Shot Simulators
SyncWorld is an action-conditioned world model acting as a zero-shot robotics simulator across unseen environments via visual calibration.