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Imitation learning enables robots to learn and replicate human behavior from training data. Recent advances in machine learning enable end-to-end learning approaches that directly process high-dimensional observation data, such as images.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Koki Yamane , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Aiming to incrementally learn new classes with only few samples while preserving the knowledge of base (old) classes, few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) faces several challenges, such as overfitting and catastrophic forgetting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junghun Oh , Sungyong Baik , Kyoung Mu Lee

Metric learning is a widely used method for few shot learning in which the quality of prototypes plays a key role in the algorithm. In this paper we propose the trainable prototypes for distance measure instead of the artificial ones within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

Few-shot classification addresses the challenge of classifying examples given only limited labeled data. A powerful approach is to go beyond data augmentation, towards data synthesis. However, most of data augmentation/synthesis methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Michalis Lazarou , Yannis Avrithis , Tania Stathaki

The challenge in few-shot learning is that available data is not enough to capture the underlying distribution. To mitigate this, two emerging directions are (a) using local image representations, essentially multiplying the amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Yann Lifchitz , Yannis Avrithis , Sylvaine Picard

Existing approaches to few-shot learning in NLP rely on large language models (LLMs) and/or fine-tuning of these to generalise on out-of-distribution data. In this work, we propose a novel few-shot learning approach based on soft-label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Avyav Kumar Singh , Ekaterina Shutova , Helen Yannakoudakis

Few-shot relation extraction (FSRE) focuses on recognizing novel relations by learning with merely a handful of annotated instances. Meta-learning has been widely adopted for such a task, which trains on randomly generated few-shot tasks to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Wei Lu

Representation learning enables us to automatically extract generic feature representations from a dataset to solve another machine learning task. Recently, extracted feature representations by a representation learning algorithm and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Kento Nozawa , Issei Sato

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning presents an extension of the Class Incremental Learning problem where a model is faced with the problem of data scarcity while addressing the catastrophic forgetting problem. This problem remains an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Naeem Paeedeh , Mahardhika Pratama , Sunu Wibirama , Wolfgang Mayer , Zehong Cao , Ryszard Kowalczyk

Generalizing to novel classes unseen during training is a key challenge of few-shot classification. Recent metric-based methods try to address this by local representations. However, they are unable to take full advantage of them due to (i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shi Tang , Guiming Luo , Xinchen Ye , Zhiyi Xia

Existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods rely on training with a large labeled dataset, which prevents them from leveraging abundant unlabeled data. From an information-theoretic perspective, we propose an effective unsupervised FSL method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yuning Lu , Liangjian Wen , Jianzhuang Liu , Yajing Liu , Xinmei Tian

We propose a few-shot learning method for spatial regression. Although Gaussian processes (GPs) have been successfully used for spatial regression, they require many observations in the target task to achieve a high predictive performance.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-12 Tomoharu Iwata , Yusuke Tanaka

The ability to learn from a small number of examples has been a difficult problem in machine learning since its inception. While methods have succeeded with large amounts of training data, research has been underway in how to accomplish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Nathan Hilliard , Nathan O. Hodas , Courtney D. Corley

Few-shot learning has been proposed and rapidly emerging as a viable means for completing various tasks. Many few-shot models have been widely used for relation learning tasks. However, each of these models has a shortage of capturing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Qing Lin , Yongbin Liu , Wen Wen , Zhihua Tao

Annotated images and ground truth for the diagnosis of rare and novel diseases are scarce. This is expected to prevail, considering the small number of affected patient population and limited clinical expertise to annotate images. Further,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Karthik Desingu , Mirunalini P. , Aravindan Chandrabose

In many practical few-shot learning problems, even though labeled examples are scarce, there are abundant auxiliary datasets that potentially contain useful information. We propose the problem of extended few-shot learning to study these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Reza Esfandiarpoor , Amy Pu , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Stephen H. Bach

To leverage the copious amount of data from source tasks and overcome the scarcity of the target task samples, representation learning based on multi-task pretraining has become a standard approach in many applications. However, up until…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yiping Wang , Yifang Chen , Kevin Jamieson , Simon S. Du

Representation learning is a powerful tool that enables learning over large multitudes of agents or domains by enforcing that all agents operate on a shared set of learned features. However, many robotics or controls applications that would…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Bruce D. Lee , Leonardo F. Toso , Thomas T. Zhang , James Anderson , Nikolai Matni

This paper studies few-shot segmentation, which is a task of predicting foreground mask of unseen classes by a few of annotations only, aided by a set of rich annotations already existed. The existing methods mainly focus the task on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Yuwei Yang , Fanman Meng , Hongliang Li , King N. Ngan , Qingbo Wu

Meta-learning methods have been extensively studied and applied in computer vision, especially for few-shot classification tasks. The key idea of meta-learning for few-shot classification is to mimic the few-shot situations faced at test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Chenghao Liu , Zhihao Wang , Doyen Sahoo , Yuan Fang , Kun Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi