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Few-shot learning (FSL) methods typically assume clean support sets with accurately labeled samples when training on novel classes. This assumption can often be unrealistic: support sets, no matter how small, can still include mislabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kevin J Liang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Vladan Petrovic , Tal Hassner

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel classes with few examples. Pre-training based methods effectively tackle the problem by pre-training a feature extractor and then fine-tuning it through the nearest centroid based meta-learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Baoquan Zhang , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Shanshan Feng

Few-shot segmentation~(FSS) performance has been extensively promoted by introducing episodic training and class-wise prototypes. However, the FSS problem remains challenging due to three limitations: (1) Models are distracted by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jian-Wei Zhang , Lei Lv , Yawei Luo , Hao-Zhe Feng , Yi Yang , Wei Chen

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn a classifier that can be easily adapted to recognize novel classes with only a few labeled examples. Some recent work about FSL has yielded promising classification performance, where the image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jianpeng Yang , Yuhang Niu , Xuemei Xie , Guangming Shi

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn new categories with a few visual samples per class. Few-shot class representations are often biased due to data scarcity. To mitigate this issue, we propose to generate visual samples based on semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le

Few-shot learning aims to classify unseen classes with a few training examples. While recent works have shown that standard mini-batch training with a carefully designed training strategy can improve generalization ability for unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jin-Woo Seo , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

Object recognition in the real-world requires handling long-tailed or even open-ended data. An ideal visual system needs to recognize the populated head visual concepts reliably and meanwhile efficiently learn about emerging new tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Han-Jia Ye , Hexiang Hu , De-Chuan Zhan

Most previous few-shot learning algorithms are based on meta-training with fake few-shot tasks as training samples, where large labeled base classes are required. The trained model is also limited by the type of tasks. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

Natural language processing (NLP) sees rich mobile applications. To support various language understanding tasks, a foundation NLP model is often fine-tuned in a federated, privacy-preserving setting (FL). This process currently relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Dongqi Cai , Shangguang Wang , Yaozong Wu , Felix Xiaozhu Lin , Mengwei Xu

Few-shot meta-learning methods consider the problem of learning new tasks from a small, fixed number of examples, by meta-learning across static data from a set of previous tasks. However, in many real world settings, it is more natural to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Tianhe Yu , Xinyang Geng , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Real-world contains an overwhelmingly large number of object classes, learning all of which at once is infeasible. Few shot learning is a promising learning paradigm due to its ability to learn out of order distributions quickly with only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Labeling data is often expensive and time-consuming, especially for tasks such as object detection and instance segmentation, which require dense labeling of the image. While few-shot object detection is about training a model on novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Gabriel Huang , Issam Laradji , David Vazquez , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Pau Rodriguez

In order to mimic the human few-shot learning (FSL) ability better and to make FSL closer to real-world applications, this paper proposes a practical FSL (pFSL) setting. pFSL is based on unsupervised pretrained models (analogous to human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Minghao Fu , Ke Zhu , Jianxin Wu

Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have led to strong text classification models for many tasks. However, still often thousands of examples are needed to train models with good quality. This makes it challenging to quickly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Thomas Müller , Guillermo Pérez-Torró , Angelo Basile , Marc Franco-Salvador

Recent zero-shot learning (ZSL) approaches have integrated fine-grained analysis, i.e., fine-grained ZSL, to mitigate the commonly known seen/unseen domain bias and misaligned visual-semantics mapping problems, and have made profound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jingcai Guo , Zhijie Rao , Zhi Chen , Jingren Zhou , Dacheng Tao

Transformer-based language models have achieved significant success in various domains. However, the data-intensive nature of the transformer architecture requires much labeled data, which is challenging in low-resource scenarios (i.e.,…

In this article, we consider the problem of few-shot learning for classification. We assume a network trained for base categories with a large number of training examples, and we aim to add novel categories to it that have only a few, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

Few-shot Learning (FSL), which endeavors to develop the generalization ability for recognizing novel classes using only a few images, faces significant challenges due to data scarcity. Recent CLIP-like methods based on contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wei Zhuo , Runjie Luo , Wufeng Xue , Linlin Shen

Few-shot learning has attracted intensive research attention in recent years. Many methods have been proposed to generalize a model learned from provided base classes to novel classes, but no previous work studies how to select base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Linjun Zhou , Peng Cui , Xu Jia , Shiqiang Yang , Qi Tian

To recognize the unseen classes with only few samples, few-shot learning (FSL) uses prior knowledge learned from the seen classes. A major challenge for FSL is that the distribution of the unseen classes is different from that of those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Jiechao Guan , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen