Journal article
How Many Classes Are Out There? In Category Discovery the Class Count Is Granularity Carried Over From the Labelled Set, Supplying It Can Supply the Taxonomy, and Without It the Count Is Set by a Hyperparameter
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Category discovery asks a model to sort an unlabelled image collection into classes, some of which it has never been shown, using a labelled subset of other classes as its guide. Almost every method needs one number before it can produce an…