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Thanks to the availability of powerful computing resources, big data and deep learning algorithms, we have made great progress on computer vision in the last few years. Computer vision systems begin to surpass humans in some tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Fupin Yao

Few-shot classification is a challenge in machine learning where the goal is to train a classifier using a very limited number of labeled examples. This scenario is likely to occur frequently in real life, for example when data acquisition…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Lyes Khacef , Vincent Gripon , Benoit Miramond

Few-shot semantic segmentation addresses the learning task in which only few images with ground truth pixel-level labels are available for the novel classes of interest. One is typically required to collect a large mount of data (i.e., base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yuan-Hao Lee , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

While deep learning excels in computer vision tasks with abundant labeled data, its performance diminishes significantly in scenarios with limited labeled samples. To address this, Few-shot learning (FSL) enables models to perform the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Huali Xu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Shuzhou Sun , Vishal M. Patel , Li Liu

Few-shot learning is an established topic in natural images for years, but few work is attended to histology images, which is of high clinical value since well-labeled datasets and rare abnormal samples are expensive to collect. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Jiawei Yang , Hanbo Chen , Jiangpeng Yan , Xiaoyu Chen , Jianhua Yao

Most approaches in few-shot learning rely on costly annotated data related to the goal task domain during (pre-)training. Recently, unsupervised meta-learning methods have exchanged the annotation requirement for a reduction in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Carlos Medina , Arnout Devos , Matthias Grossglauser

Learning with limited labelled data is a challenging problem in various applications, including remote sensing. Few-shot semantic segmentation is one approach that can encourage deep learning models to learn from few labelled examples for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Clifford Broni-Bediako , Junshi Xia , Jian Song , Hongruixuan Chen , Mennatullah Siam , Naoto Yokoya

Self-training provides an effective means of using an extremely small amount of labeled data to create pseudo-labels for unlabeled data. Many state-of-the-art self-training approaches hinge on different regularization methods to prevent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Hazel Kim , Jaeman Son , Yo-Sub Han

We develop a transductive meta-learning method that uses unlabelled instances to improve few-shot image classification performance. Our approach combines a regularized Mahalanobis-distance-based soft k-means clustering procedure with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Peyman Bateni , Jarred Barber , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Frank Wood

Meta-learning has become a practical approach towards few-shot image classification, where "a strategy to learn a classifier" is meta-learned on labeled base classes and can be applied to tasks with novel classes. We remove the requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Han-Jia Ye , Lu Han , De-Chuan Zhan

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

A recent study finds that existing few-shot learning methods, trained on the source domain, fail to generalize to the novel target domain when a domain gap is observed. This motivates the task of Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CD-FSL). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yuqian Fu , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang

While few-shot learning (FSL) aims for rapid generalization to new concepts with little supervision, self-supervised learning (SSL) constructs supervisory signals directly computed from unlabeled data. Exploiting the complementarity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhengyu Chen , Jixie Ge , Heshen Zhan , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

We propose a few-shot learning method for unsupervised feature selection, which is a task to select a subset of relevant features in unlabeled data. Existing methods usually require many instances for feature selection. However, sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Few-shot Learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Existing meta-learning or metric-learning based few-shot learning approaches are limited in handling diverse domains with various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yu Cheng , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Bowen Zhou

While semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms provide an efficient way to make use of both labelled and unlabelled data, they generally struggle when the number of annotated samples is very small. In this work, we consider the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sebastien Ehrhardt , Kai Han , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Few-shot text classification aims to recognize unseen classes with limited labeled text samples. Existing approaches focus on boosting meta-learners by developing complex algorithms in the training stage. However, the labeled samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yunlong Gao , Xinyue Liu , Yingbo Wang , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Recently, Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) has shown much promise in leveraging unlabeled data while being provided with very few labels. In this paper, we show that ignoring the labels altogether for whole epochs intermittently during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Boaz Lerner , Guy Shiran , Daphna Weinshall

Recent work on few-shot learning \cite{tian2020rethinking} showed that quality of learned representations plays an important role in few-shot classification performance. On the other hand, the goal of self-supervised learning is to recover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Nathaniel Simard , Guillaume Lagrange

Graph few-shot learning, which aims to classify nodes from novel classes with only a few labeled examples, is a widely studied problem in graph learning. However, existing methods often face two key limitations. First, the predominant graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Renchu Guan , Yajun Wang , Chunli Guo , Bowen Cao , Fausto Giunchiglia , Wei Pang , Yonghao Liu , Xiaoyue Feng