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Fine-tuning a deep network trained with the standard cross-entropy loss is a strong baseline for few-shot learning. When fine-tuned transductively, this outperforms the current state-of-the-art on standard datasets such as Mini-ImageNet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Guneet S. Dhillon , Pratik Chaudhari , Avinash Ravichandran , Stefano Soatto

Currently, the state-of-the-art methods treat few-shot semantic segmentation task as a conditional foreground-background segmentation problem, assuming each class is independent. In this paper, we introduce the concept of meta-class, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhonghua Wu , Xiangxi Shi , Guosheng lin , Jianfei Cai

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

Just like other few-shot learning problems, few-shot segmentation aims to minimize the need for manual annotation, which is particularly costly in segmentation tasks. Even though the few-shot setting reduces this cost for novel test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Mustafa Sercan Amac , Ahmet Sencan , Orhun Bugra Baran , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

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 method for learning embeddings for few-shot learning that is suitable for use with any number of ways and any number of shots (shot-free). Rather than fixing the class prototypes to be the Euclidean average of sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Avinash Ravichandran , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

Few-shot learning is a relatively new technique that specializes in problems where we have little amounts of data. The goal of these methods is to classify categories that have not been seen before with just a handful of samples. Recent…

Effective image classification hinges on discerning relevant features from both foreground and background elements, with the foreground typically holding the critical information. While humans adeptly classify images with limited exposure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Weihao Jiang , Haoyang Cui , Kun He

Recent work on few-shot learning \cite{tian2020rethinking} showed that quality of learned representations plays an important role in few-shot classification performance. On the other hand, the goal of self-supervised learning is to recover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Nathaniel Simard , Guillaume Lagrange

Few-shot classification aims to learn to classify new object categories well using only a few labeled examples. Transferring feature representations from other models is a popular approach for solving few-shot classification problems. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chun-Nam Yu , Yi Xie

Semi-supervised few-shot learning (SSFSL) formulates real-world applications like ''auto-annotation'', as it aims to learn a model over a few labeled and abundant unlabeled examples to annotate the unlabeled ones. Despite the availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Tian Liu , Anwesha Basu , James Caverlee , Shu Kong

The critical challenge of Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) is how to effectively leverage the limited labeled data and massive unlabeled data to improve the model's generalization performance. In this paper, we first revisit the popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Hao Chen , Ran Tao , Yue Fan , Yidong Wang , Jindong Wang , Bernt Schiele , Xing Xie , Bhiksha Raj , Marios Savvides

Most existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods require a large amount of labeled data in meta-training, which is a major limit. To reduce the requirement of labels, a semi-supervised meta-training (SSMT) setting has been proposed for FSL,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xingping Dong , Tianran Ouyang , Shengcai Liao , Bo Du , Ling Shao

Empirical science of neural scaling laws is a rapidly growing area of significant importance to the future of machine learning, particularly in the light of recent breakthroughs achieved by large-scale pre-trained models such as GPT-3, CLIP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Gabriele Prato , Simon Guiroy , Ethan Caballero , Irina Rish , Sarath Chandar

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) is a crucial challenge in computer vision, driving extensive research into a diverse range of methods, from advanced meta-learning techniques to simple transfer learning baselines. With the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Reda Bensaid , Vincent Gripon , François Leduc-Primeau , Lukas Mauch , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Fabien Cardinaux

Few-shot learning has been used to tackle the problem of label scarcity in text classification, of which meta-learning based methods have shown to be effective, such as the prototypical networks (PROTO). Despite the success of PROTO, there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Chengcheng Han , Yuhe Wang , Yingnan Fu , Xiang Li , Minghui Qiu , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

Although providing exceptional results for many computer vision tasks, state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms catastrophically struggle in low data scenarios. However, if data in additional modalities exist (e.g. text) this can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Frederik Pahde , Mihai Puscas , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

The success of self-supervised learning (SSL) has mostly been attributed to the availability of unlabeled yet large-scale datasets. However, in a specialized domain such as medical imaging which is a lot different from natural images, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Soham Ganguly , Sreejit Chaudhury , Sayan Nag , Samiran Chattopadhyay

Few-shot learning has been extensively explored to address problems where the amount of labeled samples is very limited for some classes. In the semi-supervised few-shot learning setting, substantial quantities of unlabeled samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Souvik Maji , Rhythm Baghel , Pratik Mazumder

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