English
Related papers

Related papers: TAFSSL: Task-Adaptive Feature Sub-Space Learning f…

200 papers

Text classification tends to be difficult when data are deficient or when it is required to adapt to unseen classes. In such challenging scenarios, recent studies have often used meta-learning to simulate the few-shot task, thus negating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Zhanlin Sun , Jiaoyan Chen , Huajun Chen

Natural language processing (NLP) sees rich mobile applications. To support various language understanding tasks, a foundation NLP model is often fine-tuned in a federated, privacy-preserving setting (FL). This process currently relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Dongqi Cai , Shangguang Wang , Yaozong Wu , Felix Xiaozhu Lin , Mengwei Xu

Few shot learning aims to solve the data scarcity problem. If there is a domain shift between the test set and the training set, their performance will decrease a lot. This setting is called Cross-domain few-shot learning. However, this is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Fupin Yao

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn a classifier that can be easily adapted to accommodate new tasks not seen during training, given only a few examples. To handle the limited-data problem in few-shot regimes, recent methods tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Yang Liu , Weifeng Zhang , Chao Xiang , Tu Zheng , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

In this paper, we propose to tackle the challenging few-shot learning (FSL) problem by learning global class representations using both base and novel class training samples. In each training episode, an episodic class mean computed from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Tiange Luo , Aoxue Li , Tao Xiang , Weiran Huang , Liwei Wang

In machine learning applications, it is common practice to feed as much information as possible. In most cases, the model can handle large data sets that allow to predict more accurately. In the presence of data scarcity, a Few-Shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Saad Bin Ahmed , Umaid M. Zaffar , Marium Aslam , Muhammad Imran Malik

While many deep learning methods have seen significant success in tackling the problem of domain adaptation and few-shot learning separately, far fewer methods are able to jointly tackle both problems in Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 John Cai , Bill Cai , Sheng Mei Shen

Automatic classification of pests and plants (both healthy and diseased) is of paramount importance in agriculture to improve yield. Conventional deep learning models based on convolutional neural networks require thousands of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Sai Vidyaranya Nuthalapati , Anirudh Tunga

The field of few-shot learning (FSL) has shown promising results in scenarios where training data is limited, but its vulnerability to backdoor attacks remains largely unexplored. We first explore this topic by first evaluating the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xinwei Liu , Xiaojun Jia , Jindong Gu , Yuan Xun , Siyuan Liang , Xiaochun Cao

Few-shot video action recognition is an effective approach to recognizing new categories with only a few labeled examples, thereby reducing the challenges associated with collecting and annotating large-scale video datasets. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Sarinda Samarasinghe , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Navid Kardan , Mubarak Shah

As unlabeled data carry rich task-relevant information, they are proven useful for few-shot learning of language model. The question is how to effectively make use of such data. In this work, we revisit the self-training technique for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Yiming Chen , Yan Zhang , Chen Zhang , Grandee Lee , Ran Cheng , Haizhou Li

Few shot segmentation (FSS) aims to learn pixel-level classification of a target object in a query image using only a few annotated support samples. This is challenging as it requires modeling appearance variations of target objects and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Soopil Kim , Philip Chikontwe , Sang Hyun Park

Few-shot Learning (FSL), which endeavors to develop the generalization ability for recognizing novel classes using only a few images, faces significant challenges due to data scarcity. Recent CLIP-like methods based on contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wei Zhuo , Runjie Luo , Wufeng Xue , Linlin Shen

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

Few-shot Learning (FSL) which aims to learn from few labeled training data is becoming a popular research topic, due to the expensive labeling cost in many real-world applications. One kind of successful FSL method learns to compare the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Baoming Yan , Chen Zhou , Bo Zhao , Kan Guo , Jiang Yang , Xiaobo Li , Ming Zhang , Yizhou Wang

Few-shot learning aims to train a classifier that can generalize well when just a small number of labeled examples per class are given. We introduce a transductive maximum margin classifier for few-shot learning (FS-TMMC). The basic idea of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Fei Pan , Chunlei Xu , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Large deep learning models are impressive, but they struggle when real-time data is not available. Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) poses a significant challenge for deep neural networks to learn new tasks from just a few labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Songsong Tian , Lusi Li , Weijun Li , Hang Ran , Xin Ning , Prayag Tiwari

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize novel concepts from only a few labeled support samples. Recent studies enhance support features by incorporating additional semantic information or designing complex semantic fusion modules.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenhao Li , Qiangchang Wang , Xianjing Meng , Zhibin Wu , Yilong Yin

Few-shot slot tagging is an emerging research topic in the field of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). With sufficient annotated data from source domains, the key challenge is how to train and adapt the model to another target domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zezhong Wang , Hongru Wang , Kwan Wai Chung , Jia Zhu , Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung , Kam-Fai Wong

Learning to generate a task-aware base learner proves a promising direction to deal with few-shot learning (FSL) problem. Existing methods mainly focus on generating an embedding model utilized with a fixed metric (eg, cosine distance) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Lei Zhang , Fei Zhou , Wei Wei , Yanning Zhang