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Transfer-learning and meta-learning are two effective methods to apply knowledge learned from large data sources to new tasks. In few-class, few-shot target task settings (i.e. when there are only a few classes and training examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , David Eigen , Massoud Pedram

Meta-learning has emerged as a trending technique to tackle few-shot text classification and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, existing solutions heavily rely on the exploitation of lexical features and their distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 ChengCheng Han , Zeqiu Fan , Dongxiang Zhang , Minghui Qiu , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

We show that a deep learning model with built-in relational inductive bias can bring benefits to sample-efficient learning, without relying on extensive data augmentation. The proposed one-shot classification model performs relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Arturs Polis , Alexander Ilin

Few-shot image classification aims to classify unseen classes with limited labelled samples. Recent works benefit from the meta-learning process with episodic tasks and can fast adapt to class from training to testing. Due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Da Chen , Yuefeng Chen , Yuhong Li , Feng Mao , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Associative memory or content-addressable memory is an important component function in computer science and information processing, and at the same time a key concept in cognitive and computational brain science. Many different neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Anders Lansner , Andreas Knoblauch , Naresh B Ravichandran , Pawel Herman

Rapidly learning from ongoing experiences and remembering past events with a flexible memory system are two core capacities of biological intelligence. While the underlying neural mechanisms are not fully understood, various evidence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yu Duan , Zhongfan Jia , Qian Li , Yi Zhong , Kaisheng Ma

Difficult few-shot image recognition has significant application prospects, yet remaining the substantial technical gaps with the conventional large-scale image recognition. In this paper, we have proposed an efficient original method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaofei Qi , Zhitai Liu , Jianbin Qiu

Learning good feature embeddings for images often requires substantial training data. As a consequence, in settings where training data is limited (e.g., few-shot and zero-shot learning), we are typically forced to use a generic feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Xin Wang , Fisher Yu , Ruth Wang , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Meta-learning has emerged as a prominent technology for few-shot text classification and has achieved promising performance. However, existing methods often encounter difficulties in drawing accurate class prototypes from support set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinyue Liu , Yunlong Gao , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Learning in the brain is poorly understood and learning rules that respect biological constraints, yet yield deep hierarchical representations, are still unknown. Here, we propose a learning rule that takes inspiration from neuroscience and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Bernd Illing , Jean Ventura , Guillaume Bellec , Wulfram Gerstner

The focus of recent meta-learning research has been on the development of learning algorithms that can quickly adapt to test time tasks with limited data and low computational cost. Few-shot learning is widely used as one of the standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang , Dilip Krishnan , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Phillip Isola

The brain performs unsupervised learning and (perhaps) simultaneous supervised learning. This raises the question as to whether a hybrid of supervised and unsupervised methods will produce better learning. Inspired by the rich space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Jeffrey Cheng , Ari Benjamin , Benjamin Lansdell , Konrad Paul Kordin

Neural networks trained with backpropagation often struggle to identify classes that have been observed a small number of times. In applications where most class labels are rare, such as language modelling, this can become a performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jack W Rae , Chris Dyer , Peter Dayan , Timothy P Lillicrap

Animals can learn efficiently from a single experience and change their future behavior in response. However, in other instances, animals learn very slowly, requiring thousands of experiences. Here I survey tasks involving fast and slow…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-05 Markus Meister

Neural networks have been successfully applied in applications with a large amount of labeled data. However, the task of rapid generalization on new concepts with small training data while preserving performances on previously learned ones…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

We present a new approach, called meta-meta classification, to learning in small-data settings. In this approach, one uses a large set of learning problems to design an ensemble of learners, where each learner has high bias and low variance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Arkabandhu Chowdhury , Dipak Chaudhari , Swarat Chaudhuri , Chris Jermaine

In machine learning, error back-propagation in multi-layer neural networks (deep learning) has been impressively successful in supervised and reinforcement learning tasks. As a model for learning in the brain, however, deep learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Thomas Mesnard , Wulfram Gerstner , Johanni Brea

In this paper, we introduce the new ideas of augmenting Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with Memory and learning to learn the network parameters for the unlabelled images on the fly in one-shot learning. Specifically, we present Memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Qi Cai , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Chenggang Yan , Tao Mei

We propose a method that can perform one-class classification given only a small number of examples from the target class and none from the others. We formulate the learning of meaningful features for one-class classification as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Gabriel Dahia , Maurício Pamplona Segundo

The development of sensory receptive fields has been modeled in the past by a variety of models including normative models such as sparse coding or independent component analysis and bottom-up models such as spike-timing dependent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-08 Carlos S. N. Brito , Wulfram Gerstner