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While deep learning, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), has significantly advanced classification performance, its typical reliance on extensive annotated datasets presents a major obstacle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Matheus Vinícius Todescato , Joel Luís Carbonera

We investigate the role of self-supervised learning (SSL) in the context of few-shot learning. Although recent research has shown the benefits of SSL on large unlabeled datasets, its utility on small datasets is relatively unexplored. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Jong-Chyi Su , Subhransu Maji , Bharath Hariharan

Active Learning (AL) and Few Shot Learning (FSL) are two label-efficient methods which have achieved excellent results recently. However, most prior arts in both learning paradigms fail to explore the wealth of the vast unlabelled data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Nico Schiavone , Jingyi Wang , Shuangzhi Li , Roger Zemp , Xingyu Li

Few-shot Learning has been studied to mimic human visual capabilities and learn effective models without the need of exhaustive human annotation. Even though the idea of meta-learning for adaptation has dominated the few-shot learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Jiawei Ma , Hanchen Xie , Guangxing Han , Shih-Fu Chang , Aram Galstyan , Wael Abd-Almageed

We propose a meta-learning method for semi-supervised learning that learns from multiple tasks with heterogeneous attribute spaces. The existing semi-supervised meta-learning methods assume that all tasks share the same attribute space,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai

We generalize the formulation of few-shot learning by introducing the concept of an aspect. In the traditional formulation of few-shot learning, there is an underlying assumption that a single "true" label defines the content of each data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Tim van Engeland , Lu Yin , Vlado Menkovski

Despite their recent successes in tackling many NLP tasks, large-scale pre-trained language models do not perform as well in few-shot settings where only a handful of training examples are available. To address this shortcoming, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Tu Vu , Minh-Thang Luong , Quoc V. Le , Grady Simon , Mohit Iyyer

Deep autoregressive models have shown state-of-the-art performance in density estimation for natural images on large-scale datasets such as ImageNet. However, such models require many thousands of gradient-based weight updates and unique…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Scott Reed , Yutian Chen , Thomas Paine , Aäron van den Oord , S. M. Ali Eslami , Danilo Rezende , Oriol Vinyals , Nando de Freitas

Just like other few-shot learning problems, few-shot segmentation aims to minimize the need for manual annotation, which is particularly costly in segmentation tasks. Even though the few-shot setting reduces this cost for novel test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Mustafa Sercan Amac , Ahmet Sencan , Orhun Bugra Baran , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to train a model which can segment the object from novel classes with a few labeled samples. The insufficient generalization ability of models leads to unsatisfactory performance when the models lack enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jie Zhang , Yuhan Li , Yude Wang , Stephen Lin , Shiguang Shan

Labeling a large set of data is expensive. Active learning aims to tackle this problem by asking to annotate only the most informative data from the unlabeled set. We propose a novel active learning approach that utilizes self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 John Seon Keun Yi , Minseok Seo , Jongchan Park , Dong-Geol Choi

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

Self-rationalizing models that also generate a free-text explanation for their predicted labels are an important tool to build trustworthy AI applications. Since generating explanations for annotated labels is a laborious and costly pro…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Aditya Srikanth Veerubhotla , Lahari Poddar , Jun Yin , György Szarvas , Sharanya Eswaran

Humans are capable of learning new concepts from only a few (labeled) exemplars, incrementally and continually. This happens within the context that we can differentiate among the exemplars, and between the exemplars and large amounts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Daniel T. Chang

Few-shot segmentation aims at assigning a category label to each image pixel with few annotated samples. It is a challenging task since the dense prediction can only be achieved under the guidance of latent features defined by sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Kai Zhu , Wei Zhai , Zheng-Jun Zha , Yang Cao

Despite the recent developments in vision-related problems using deep neural networks, there still remains a wide scope in the improvement of generalizing these models to unseen examples. In this paper, we explore the domain of few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Rohit Jena , Shirsendu Sukanta Halder , Katia Sycara

Semi-supervised learning aims to boost the accuracy of a model by exploring unlabeled images. The state-of-the-art methods are consistency-based which learn about unlabeled images by encouraging the model to give consistent predictions for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Rongchang Xie , Chunyu Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Yizhou Wang

Learning algorithms normally assume that there is at most one annotation or label per data point. However, in some scenarios, such as medical diagnosis and on-line collaboration,multiple annotations may be available. In either case,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yan Yan , Romer Rosales , Glenn Fung , Jennifer Dy

We present a novel data-efficient semi-supervised framework to improve the generalization of image captioning models. Constructing a large-scale labeled image captioning dataset is an expensive task in terms of labor, time, and cost. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Dong-Jin Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Jinsoo Choi , In So Kweon

Few-shot Learning (FSL) which aims to learn from few labeled training data is becoming a popular research topic, due to the expensive labeling cost in many real-world applications. One kind of successful FSL method learns to compare the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Baoming Yan , Chen Zhou , Bo Zhao , Kan Guo , Jiang Yang , Xiaobo Li , Ming Zhang , Yizhou Wang