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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

Few-shot learning in remote sensing remains challenging due to three factors: the scarcity of labeled data, substantial domain shifts, and the multi-scale nature of geospatial objects. To address these issues, we introduce Adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Anurag Kaushish , Ayan Sar , Sampurna Roy , Sudeshna Chakraborty , Prashant Trivedi , Tanupriya Choudhury , Kanav Gupta

In few-shot classification tasks (so-called episodes), a small set of labeled support samples is provided during inference to aid the classification of unlabeled query samples. Metric-based models typically operate by computing similarities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xuanyu Zhuang , Geoffroy Peeters , Gaël Richard

Meta-learning has emerged as a prominent technology for few-shot text classification and has achieved promising performance. However, existing methods often encounter difficulties in drawing accurate class prototypes from support set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinyue Liu , Yunlong Gao , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Episodic training is a core ingredient of few-shot learning to train models on tasks with limited labelled data. Despite its success, episodic training remains largely understudied, prompting us to ask the question: what is the best way to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Sébastien M. R. Arnold , Guneet S. Dhillon , Avinash Ravichandran , Stefano Soatto

In this work, we propose a novel meta-learning approach for few-shot classification, which learns transferable prior knowledge across tasks and directly produces network parameters for similar unseen tasks with training samples. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Huaiyu Li , Weiming Dong , Xing Mei , Chongyang Ma , Feiyue Huang , Bao-Gang Hu

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel queries with limited support samples by learning from base knowledge. Recent progress in this setting assumes that the base knowledge and novel query samples are distributed in the same domains,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yifan Zhao , Tong Zhang , Jia Li , Yonghong Tian

Although prototypical network (ProtoNet) has proved to be an effective method for few-shot sound event detection, two problems still exist. Firstly, the small-scaled support set is insufficient so that the class prototypes may not represent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Dongchao Yang , Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou , Zhongjie Ye , Wenwu Wang

Most few-shot learning works rely on the same domain assumption between the base and the target tasks, hindering their practical applications. This paper proposes an adaptive transformer network (ADAPTER), a simple but effective solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Naeem Paeedeh , Mahardhika Pratama , Muhammad Anwar Ma'sum , Wolfgang Mayer , Zehong Cao , Ryszard Kowlczyk

In task-based few-shot learning paradigms, it is commonly assumed that different tasks are independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.). However, in real-world scenarios, the distribution encountered in few-shot learning can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiajun Chen , Hongpeng Yin , Yifu Yang

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

Meta-learning for few-shot learning entails acquiring a prior over previous tasks and experiences, such that new tasks be learned from small amounts of data. However, a critical challenge in few-shot learning is task ambiguity: even when a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Chelsea Finn , Kelvin Xu , Sergey Levine

Few-shot classification consists of a training phase where a model is learned on a relatively large dataset and an adaptation phase where the learned model is adapted to previously-unseen tasks with limited labeled samples. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xu Luo , Hao Wu , Ji Zhang , Lianli Gao , Jing Xu , Jingkuan Song

To address the annotation scarcity issue in some cases of semantic segmentation, there have been a few attempts to develop the segmentation model in the few-shot learning paradigm. However, most existing methods only focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Pinzhuo Tian , Zhangkai Wu , Lei Qi , Lei Wang , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Meta-learning approaches have been proposed to tackle the few-shot learning problem.Typically, a meta-learner is trained on a variety of tasks in the hopes of being generalizable to new tasks. However, the generalizability on new tasks of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Muhammad Abdullah Jamal , Guo-Jun Qi , Mubarak Shah

Few-shot learning aims to learn representations that can tackle novel tasks given a small number of examples. Recent studies show that cross-modal learning can improve representations for few-shot classification. More specifically, language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Jordi Armengol-Estapé , Vincent Michalski , Ramnath Kumar , Pierre-Luc St-Charles , Doina Precup , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Viewpoint estimation for known categories of objects has been improved significantly thanks to deep networks and large datasets, but generalization to unknown categories is still very challenging. With an aim towards improving performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Hung-Yu Tseng , Shalini De Mello , Jonathan Tremblay , Sifei Liu , Stan Birchfield , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

Meta-learning algorithms are able to learn a new task using previously learned knowledge, but they often require a large number of meta-training tasks which may not be readily available. To address this issue, we propose a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Xiantong Zhen , Fan Wang , Ling Wang , Cees G. M. Snoek

Transfer-learning and meta-learning are two effective methods to apply knowledge learned from large data sources to new tasks. In few-class, few-shot target task settings (i.e. when there are only a few classes and training examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , David Eigen , Massoud Pedram