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Self-training is a simple yet effective method for semi-supervised learning, during which pseudo-label selection plays an important role for handling confirmation bias. Despite its popularity, applying self-training to landmark detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haibo Jin , Haoxuan Che , Hao Chen

Graph few-shot learning has garnered significant attention for its ability to rapidly adapt to downstream tasks with limited labeled data, sparking considerable interest among researchers. Recent advancements in graph few-shot learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yonghao Liu , Fausto Giunchiglia , Ximing Li , Lan Huang , Xiaoyue Feng , Renchu Guan

Advancements in wearable sensor technologies and the digitization of medical records have contributed to the unprecedented ubiquity of biomedical time series data. Data-driven models have tremendous potential to assist clinical diagnosis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Chenqi Li , Timothy Denison , Tingting Zhu

Vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on large, heterogeneous data sources are becoming increasingly popular, providing rich multi-modal embeddings that enable efficient transfer to new tasks. A particularly relevant application is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Ender Konukoglu

Few-shot classification and meta-learning methods typically struggle to generalize across diverse domains, as most approaches focus on a single dataset, failing to transfer knowledge across various seen and unseen domains. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kristi Topollai , Anna Choromanska

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a classifier that generalizes well even when trained with a limited number of training instances per class. The recently introduced meta-learning approaches tackle this problem by learning a generic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Yanbin Liu , Juho Lee , Minseop Park , Saehoon Kim , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang , Yi Yang

While modern visual recognition systems have made significant advancements, many continue to struggle with the open problem of learning from few exemplars. This paper focuses on the task of object detection in the setting where object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Phi Vu Tran

We study the problem of learning neural text classifiers without using any labeled data, but only easy-to-provide rules as multiple weak supervision sources. This problem is challenging because rule-induced weak labels are often noisy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Wendi Ren , Yinghao Li , Hanting Su , David Kartchner , Cassie Mitchell , Chao Zhang

Learning from a few examples remains a key challenge in machine learning. Despite recent advances in important domains such as vision and language, the standard supervised deep learning paradigm does not offer a satisfactory solution for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Oriol Vinyals , Charles Blundell , Timothy Lillicrap , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Daan Wierstra

Deep subspace clustering (DSC) algorithms face several challenges that hinder their widespread adoption across variois application domains. First, clustering quality is typically assessed using only the encoder's output layer, disregarding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Lovro Sindicic , Ivica Kopriva

Weak supervision (WS) is a powerful method to build labeled datasets for training supervised models in the face of little-to-no labeled data. It replaces hand-labeling data with aggregating multiple noisy-but-cheap label estimates expressed…

Can we automatically group images into semantically meaningful clusters when ground-truth annotations are absent? The task of unsupervised image classification remains an important, and open challenge in computer vision. Several recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Marc Proesmans , Luc Van Gool

As the labeling cost for different modules in task-oriented dialog (ToD) systems is expensive, a major challenge is to train different modules with the least amount of labeled data. Recently, large-scale pre-trained language models, have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Fei Mi , Wanhao Zhou , Fengyu Cai , Lingjing Kong , Minlie Huang , Boi Faltings

Few-shot detection and classification have advanced significantly in recent years. Yet, detection approaches require strong annotation (bounding boxes) both for pre-training and for adaptation to novel classes, and classification approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Leonid Karlinsky , Joseph Shtok , Amit Alfassy , Moshe Lichtenstein , Sivan Harary , Eli Schwartz , Sivan Doveh , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rogerio Feris , Alexander Bronstein , Raja Giryes

Few-shot learning is the process of learning novel classes using only a few examples and it remains a challenging task in machine learning. Many sophisticated few-shot learning algorithms have been proposed based on the notion that networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Akihiro Nakamura , Tatsuya Harada

Few-shot learning requires to recognize novel classes with scarce labeled data. Prototypical network is useful in existing researches, however, training on narrow-size distribution of scarce data usually tends to get biased prototypes. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jinlu Liu , Liang Song , Yongqiang Qin

Few-shot learning is a challenging task since only few instances are given for recognizing an unseen class. One way to alleviate this problem is to acquire a strong inductive bias via meta-learning on similar tasks. In this paper, we show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Unsupervised learning is argued to be the dark matter of human intelligence. To build in this direction, this paper focuses on unsupervised learning from an abundance of unlabeled data followed by few-shot fine-tuning on a downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Ojas Kishore Shirekar , Hadi Jamali-Rad

Test-time task adaptation in few-shot learning aims to adapt a pre-trained task-agnostic model for capturing taskspecific knowledge of the test task, rely only on few-labeled support samples. Previous approaches generally focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ji Zhang , Lianli Gao , Xu Luo , Hengtao Shen , Jingkuan Song

Existing approaches to lifelong language learning rely on plenty of labeled data for learning a new task, which is hard to obtain in most real scenarios. Considering that humans can continually learn new tasks from a handful of examples, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chengwei Qin , Shafiq Joty