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Logarithm-transform aided Gaussian Sampling for Few-Shot Learning

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023-09-29 v1

Abstract

Few-shot image classification has recently witnessed the rise of representation learning being utilised for models to adapt to new classes using only a few training examples. Therefore, the properties of the representations, such as their underlying probability distributions, assume vital importance. Representations sampled from Gaussian distributions have been used in recent works, [19] to train classifiers for few-shot classification. These methods rely on transforming the distributions of experimental data to approximate Gaussian distributions for their functioning. In this paper, I propose a novel Gaussian transform, that outperforms existing methods on transforming experimental data into Gaussian-like distributions. I then utilise this novel transformation for few-shot image classification and show significant gains in performance, while sampling lesser data.

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@article{arxiv.2309.16337,
  title  = {Logarithm-transform aided Gaussian Sampling for Few-Shot Learning},
  author = {Vaibhav Ganatra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16337},
  year   = {2023}
}
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