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Feature selection, an effective technique for dimensionality reduction, plays an important role in many machine learning systems. Supervised knowledge can significantly improve the performance. However, faced with the rapid growth of newly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zheng Wang , Qiao Wang , Tingzhang Zhao , Xiaojun Ye

Domain generalization seeks to develop models trained on a limited set of source domains that are capable of generalizing effectively to unseen target domains. While the predominant approach leverages large-scale pre-trained vision models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Bin Pan , Shiyu Shen , Zongbin Wang , Zhenwei Shi , Xia Xu

The goal of few-shot classification is to classify new categories with few labeled examples within each class. Nowadays, the excellent performance in handling few-shot classification problems is shown by metric-based meta-learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Xu Luo , Yuxuan Chen , Liangjian Wen , Lili Pan , Zenglin Xu

Out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization is critical for machine learning models deployed in the real world. However, achieving this can be fundamentally challenging, as it requires the ability to learn invariant features across different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Haoyue Bai , Yifei Ming , Julian Katz-Samuels , Yixuan Li

In this paper, we explore the use of GAN-based few-shot data augmentation as a method to improve few-shot classification performance. We perform an exploration into how a GAN can be fine-tuned for such a task (one of which is in a…

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) has thrived in recent years to learn novel object classes with limited data by transferring knowledge gained on abundant base classes. FSOD approaches commonly assume that both the scarcely provided examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Karim Guirguis , George Eskandar , Matthias Kayser , Bin Yang , Juergen Beyerer

Multi-source domain adaptation aims to reduce performance degradation when applying machine learning models to unseen domains. A fundamental challenge is devising the optimal strategy for feature selection. Existing literature is somewhat…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Ziliang Samuel Zhong , Xiang Pan , Qi Lei

We propose a Multi-level Second-order (MlSo) few-shot learning network for supervised or unsupervised few-shot image classification and few-shot action recognition. We leverage so-called power-normalized second-order base learner streams…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Hongguang Zhang , Hongdong Li , Piotr Koniusz

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 aims to transfer the knowledge acquired from training on a diverse set of tasks to unseen tasks from the same task distribution with a limited amount of labeled data. The underlying requirement for effective few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Shounak Datta , Sankha Subhra Mullick , Anish Chakrabarty , Swagatam Das

The goal of meta-learning is to train a model on a variety of learning tasks, such that it can adapt to new problems within only a few iterations. Here we propose a principled information-theoretic model that optimally partitions the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-10 Heinke Hihn , Daniel A. Braun

Few-shot learning refers to understanding new concepts from only a few examples. We propose an information retrieval-inspired approach for this problem that is motivated by the increased importance of maximally leveraging all the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Eleni Triantafillou , Richard Zemel , Raquel Urtasun

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 dataset generalization is a challenging variant of the well-studied few-shot classification problem where a diverse training set of several datasets is given, for the purpose of training an adaptable model that can then learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Eleni Triantafillou , Hugo Larochelle , Richard Zemel , Vincent Dumoulin

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) expects models trained on base classes to work on novel classes with the help of a few support images. However, when there exists a domain gap between the base and novel classes, the state-of-the-art FSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yuhang Lu , Xinyi Wu , Zhenyao Wu , Song Wang

The accuracy and robustness of image classification with supervised deep learning are dependent on the availability of large-scale, annotated training data. However, there is a paucity of annotated data available due to the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Euijoon Ahn , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a model that can recognize novel classes based on one or few training data. It is challenging mainly due to two aspects: (1) it lacks good feature representation of novel classes; (2) a few of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Canyu Le , Zhonggui Chen , Xihan Wei , Biao Wang , Lei Zhang

This paper presents a novel multi-task learning-based method for unsupervised domain adaptation. Specifically, the source and target domain classifiers are jointly learned by considering the geometry of target domain and the divergence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jing Zhang , Wanqing Li , Philip Ogunbona

Few-shot learning remains a challenging problem, with unsatisfactory 1-shot accuracies for most real-world data. Here, we present a different perspective for data distributions in the feature space of a deep network and show how to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Joseph F Comer , Philip L Jacobson , Heiko Hoffmann

Domain generalization is the problem of machine learning when the training data and the test data come from different data domains. We present a simple theoretical model of learning to generalize across domains in which there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Vikas K. Garg , Adam Kalai , Katrina Ligett , Zhiwei Steven Wu