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Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

Data scarcity significantly complicates the continual learning problem, i.e., how a deep neural network learns in dynamic environments with very few samples. However, the latest progress of few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 M. Anwar Ma'sum , Mahardhika Pratama , Igor Skrjanc

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize novel concepts from only a few labeled support samples. Recent studies enhance support features by incorporating additional semantic information or designing complex semantic fusion modules.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenhao Li , Qiangchang Wang , Xianjing Meng , Zhibin Wu , Yilong Yin

Few-shot learning is a relatively new technique that specializes in problems where we have little amounts of data. The goal of these methods is to classify categories that have not been seen before with just a handful of samples. Recent…

Few-shot classification consists of learning a predictive model that is able to effectively adapt to a new class, given only a few annotated samples. To solve this challenging problem, meta-learning has become a popular paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

Automatic classification of pests and plants (both healthy and diseased) is of paramount importance in agriculture to improve yield. Conventional deep learning models based on convolutional neural networks require thousands of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Sai Vidyaranya Nuthalapati , Anirudh Tunga

In the context of few-shot learning, one cannot measure the generalization ability of a trained classifier using validation sets, due to the small number of labeled samples. In this paper, we are interested in finding alternatives to answer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Myriam Bontonou , Louis Béthune , Vincent Gripon

Meta-Learning (ML) has proven to be a useful tool for training Few-Shot Learning (FSL) algorithms by exposure to batches of tasks sampled from a meta-dataset. However, the standard training procedure overlooks the dynamic nature of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mateusz Ochal , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Amos Storkey , Jose Vazquez , Sen Wang

The task of Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to transfer the knowledge learned from base categories with sufficient labelled data to novel categories with scarce known information. It is currently an important research question and has great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Xinwei Sun , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Despite its astounding success in learning deeper multi-dimensional data, the performance of deep learning declines on new unseen tasks mainly due to its focus on same-distribution prediction. Moreover, deep learning is notorious for poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hassan Gharoun , Fereshteh Momenifar , Fang Chen , Amir H. Gandomi

Meta-learning has been the most common framework for few-shot learning in recent years. It learns the model from collections of few-shot classification tasks, which is believed to have a key advantage of making the training objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Yinbo Chen , Zhuang Liu , Huijuan Xu , Trevor Darrell , Xiaolong Wang

The use of a few examples for each class to train a predictive model that can be generalized to novel classes is a crucial and valuable research direction in artificial intelligence. This work addresses this problem by proposing a few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Bin Xiao , Chien-Liang Liu , Wen-Hoar Hsaio

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize new objects with extremely limited training data for each category. Previous efforts are made by either leveraging meta-learning paradigm or novel principles in data augmentation to alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Yikai Wang , Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu

Generalized Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (GFSS) extends Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) to simultaneously segment unseen classes and seen classes during evaluation. Previous works leverage additional branch or prototypical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Kai Huang , Feigege Wang , Ye Xi , Yutao Gao

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem where the goal is to achieve generalization from only few examples. Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) tackles the problem by formulating prior knowledge as a common initialization across tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Sungyong Baik , Seokil Hong , Kyoung Mu Lee

Recent progress on few-shot learning largely relies on annotated data for meta-learning: base classes sampled from the same domain as the novel classes. However, in many applications, collecting data for meta-learning is infeasible or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yunhui Guo , Noel C. Codella , Leonid Karlinsky , James V. Codella , John R. Smith , Kate Saenko , Tajana Rosing , Rogerio Feris

The problem of training with a small set of positive samples is known as few-shot learning (FSL). It is widely known that traditional deep learning (DL) algorithms usually show very good performance when trained with large datasets.…

Few-shot classification addresses the challenge of classifying examples given only limited labeled data. A powerful approach is to go beyond data augmentation, towards data synthesis. However, most of data augmentation/synthesis methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Michalis Lazarou , Yannis Avrithis , Tania Stathaki

Due to the emergence of powerful computing resources and large-scale annotated datasets, deep learning has seen wide applications in our daily life. However, most current methods require extensive data collection and retraining when dealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Chuangguan Ye , Hongyuan Zhu , Yongbin Liao , Yanggang Zhang , Tao Chen , Jiayuan Fan

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) alleviates the data shortage challenge via embedding discriminative target-aware features among plenty seen (base) and few unseen (novel) labeled samples. Most feature embedding modules in recent FSL methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jinxiang Lai , Siqian Yang , Wenlong Liu , Yi Zeng , Zhongyi Huang , Wenlong Wu , Jun Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Chengjie Wang