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Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Time-series forecasting is important for many applications. Forecasting models are usually trained using time-series data in a specific target task. However, sufficient data in the target task might be unavailable, which leads to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-01 Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai

Few-shot learning focuses on learning a new visual concept with very limited labelled examples. A successful approach to tackle this problem is to compare the similarity between examples in a learned metric space based on convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heda Song , Mercedes Torres Torres , Ender Özcan , Isaac Triguero

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

In this paper, we explore meta-learning for few-shot text classification. Meta-learning has shown strong performance in computer vision, where low-level patterns are transferable across learning tasks. However, directly applying this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yujia Bao , Menghua Wu , Shiyu Chang , Regina Barzilay

Generalisation of deep neural networks becomes vulnerable when distribution shifts are encountered between train (source) and test (target) domain data. Few-shot domain adaptation mitigates this issue by adapting deep neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Youssef Dawoud , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

Self-training crowd counting has not been attentively explored though it is one of the important challenges in computer vision. In practice, the fully supervised methods usually require an intensive resource of manual annotation. In order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Pha Nguyen , Thanh-Dat Truong , Miaoqing Huang , Yi Liang , Ngan Le , Khoa Luu

Scene graph prediction --- classifying the set of objects and predicates in a visual scene --- requires substantial training data. However, most predicates only occur a handful of times making them difficult to learn. We introduce the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Apoorva Dornadula , Austin Narcomey , Ranjay Krishna , Michael Bernstein , Li Fei-Fei

Dense crowd counting is a challenging task that demands millions of head annotations for training models. Though existing self-supervised approaches could learn good representations, they require some labeled data to map these features to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Deepak Babu Sam , Abhinav Agarwalla , Jimmy Joseph , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , R. Venkatesh Babu , Vishal M. Patel

The contrastive vision-language pre-training, known as CLIP, demonstrates remarkable potential in perceiving open-world visual concepts, enabling effective zero-shot image recognition. Nevertheless, few-shot learning methods based on CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Cheng Cheng , Lin Song , Ruoyi Xue , Hang Wang , Hongbin Sun , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan

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

While developments in machine learning led to impressive performance gains on big data, many human subjects data are, in actuality, small and sparsely labeled. Existing methods applied to such data often do not easily generalize to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Julie Jiang , Kristina Lerman , Emilio Ferrara

We develop a transductive meta-learning method that uses unlabelled instances to improve few-shot image classification performance. Our approach combines a regularized Mahalanobis-distance-based soft k-means clustering procedure with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Peyman Bateni , Jarred Barber , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Frank Wood

The aim of few-shot learning (FSL) is to learn how to recognize image categories from a small number of training examples. A central challenge is that the available training examples are normally insufficient to determine which visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Nearly all existing counting methods are designed for a specific object class. Our work, however, aims to create a counting model able to count any class of object. To achieve this goal, we formulate counting as a matching problem, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Erika Lu , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

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

The goal of this paper is to bypass the need for labelled examples in few-shot video understanding at run time. While proven effective, in many practical video settings even labelling a few examples appears unrealistic. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Pengwan Yang , Yuki M. Asano , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

We address the task of unsupervised retargeting of human actions from one video to another. We consider the challenging setting where only a few frames of the target is available. The core of our approach is a conditional generative model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Jessica Lee , Deva Ramanan , Rohit Girdhar

Graph few-shot learning, which aims to classify nodes from novel classes with only a few labeled examples, is a widely studied problem in graph learning. However, existing methods often face two key limitations. First, the predominant graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Renchu Guan , Yajun Wang , Chunli Guo , Bowen Cao , Fausto Giunchiglia , Wei Pang , Yonghao Liu , Xiaoyue Feng

Pretrained machine learning models need to be adapted to distribution shifts when deployed in new target environments. When obtaining labeled data from the target distribution is expensive, few-shot adaptation with only a few examples from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yihao Xue , Ali Payani , Yu Yang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman