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Few-shot learning (FSL) requires a model to classify new samples after learning from only a few samples. While remarkable results are achieved in existing methods, the performance of embedding and metrics determines the upper limit of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Hao Li , Li Li , Yunmeng Huang , Ning Li , Yongtao Zhang

In few-shot learning, classifiers are expected to generalize to unseen classes given only a small number of instances of each new class. One of the popular solutions to few-shot learning is metric-based meta-learning. However, it highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qiuhao Zeng

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to generalize to novel categories with only a few samples. Recent approaches incorporate large language models (LLMs) to enrich visual representations with semantic embeddings derived from class names. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Wenhao Li , Xianjing Meng , Qiangchang Wang , Zhongyi Han , Zhibin Wu , Yilong Yin

Few-shot learning aims to recognize instances from novel classes with few labeled samples, which has great value in research and application. Although there has been a lot of work in this area recently, most of the existing work is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Congqi Cao , Yajuan Li , Qinyi Lv , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Contrastive learning is a discriminative approach that aims at grouping similar samples closer and diverse samples far from each other. It it an efficient technique to train an encoder generating distinguishable and informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qing Chen , Jian Zhang

Few-shot learning aims at leveraging knowledge learned by one or more deep learning models, in order to obtain good classification performance on new problems, where only a few labeled samples per class are available. Recent years have seen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yassir Bendou , Yuqing Hu , Raphael Lafargue , Giulia Lioi , Bastien Pasdeloup , Stéphane Pateux , Vincent Gripon

The long-tailed image classification task remains important in the development of deep neural networks as it explicitly deals with large imbalances in the class frequencies of the training data. While uncommon in engineered datasets, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Marc-Antoine Lavoie , Steven Waslander

Humans are capable of learning a new fine-grained concept with very little supervision, \emph{e.g.}, few exemplary images for a species of bird, yet our best deep learning systems need hundreds or thousands of labeled examples. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xiu-Shen Wei , Peng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Jianxin Wu

Few-shot classification aims to adapt classifiers to novel classes with a few training samples. However, the insufficiency of training data may cause a biased estimation of feature distribution in a certain class. To alleviate this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jing Xu , Xinglin Pan , Xu Luo , Wenjie Pei , Zenglin Xu

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have shown impressive generalization capabilities, yet their potential for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) remains underexplored, where the model needs to transfer source-domain information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shuai Yi , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) is a topic of rapidly growing interest. Typically, in FSL a model is trained on a dataset consisting of many small tasks (meta-tasks) and learns to adapt to novel tasks that it will encounter during test time. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Sivan Doveh , Eli Schwartz , Chao Xue , Rogerio Feris , Alex Bronstein , Raja Giryes , Leonid Karlinsky

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

In this work, we introduce a novel strategy for long-tail recognition that addresses the tail classes' few-shot problem via training-free knowledge transfer. Our objective is to transfer knowledge acquired from information-rich common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Sarah Parisot , Pedro M. Esperanca , Steven McDonagh , Tamas J. Madarasz , Yongxin Yang , Zhenguo Li

Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) aims to recognize objects from both seen and unseen classes, when only the labeled examples from seen classes are provided. Recent feature generation methods learn a generative model that can synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Zongyan Han , Zhenyong Fu , Shuo Chen , Jian Yang

Metric learning aims to build a distance metric typically by learning an effective embedding function that maps similar objects into nearby points in its embedding space. Despite recent advances in deep metric learning, it remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Deunsol Jung , Dahyun Kang , Suha Kwak , Minsu Cho

The ability to detect and classify rare occurrences in images has important applications - for example, counting rare and endangered species when studying biodiversity, or detecting infrequent traffic scenarios that pose a danger to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Sara Beery , Yang Liu , Dan Morris , Jim Piavis , Ashish Kapoor , Markus Meister , Neel Joshi , Pietro Perona

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) models aim to incrementally learn new classes with scarce samples while preserving knowledge of old ones. Existing FSCIL methods usually fine-tune the entire backbone, leading to overfitting and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chenxi Liu , Zhenyi Wang , Tianyi Xiong , Ruibo Chen , Yihan Wu , Junfeng Guo , Heng Huang

Generalized few-shot semantic segmentation was introduced to move beyond only evaluating few-shot segmentation models on novel classes to include testing their ability to remember base classes. While the current state-of-the-art approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Josh Myers-Dean , Yinan Zhao , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Danna Gurari

Humans exhibit a remarkable ability to learn quickly from a limited number of labeled samples, a capability that starkly contrasts with that of current machine learning systems. Unsupervised Few-Shot Learning (U-FSL) seeks to bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhenyu Zhang , Guangyao Chen , Yixiong Zou , Zhimeng Huang , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

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