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Few-shot learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to generate a classifier using limited labeled examples. Many existing works take the meta-learning approach, constructing a few-shot learner that can learn from few-shot examples to generate a classifier.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Han-Jia Ye , Lu Ming , De-Chuan Zhan , Wei-Lun Chao

Few-shot classification is the task of predicting the category of an example from a set of few labeled examples. The number of labeled examples per category is called the number of shots (or shot number). Recent works tackle this task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tianshi Cao , Marc Law , Sanja Fidler

Meta-learning offers a promising avenue for few-shot learning (FSL), enabling models to glean a generalizable feature embedding through episodic training on synthetic FSL tasks in a source domain. Yet, in practical scenarios where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Fei Zhou , Peng Wang , Lei Zhang , Zhenghua Chen , Wei Wei , Chen Ding , Guosheng Lin , Yanning Zhang

We propose an adaptation of the curriculum training framework, applicable to state-of-the-art meta learning techniques for few-shot classification. Curriculum-based training popularly attempts to mimic human learning by progressively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Emmanouil Stergiadis , Priyanka Agrawal , Oliver Squire

Training a neural network model that can quickly adapt to a new task is highly desirable yet challenging for few-shot learning problems. Recent few-shot learning methods mostly concentrate on developing various meta-learning strategies from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zihang Jiang , Bingyi Kang , Kuangqi Zhou , Jiashi Feng

Few-shot image classification remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training examples. Augmenting them with synthetic data has emerged as a promising way to alleviate this issue, but models trained on synthetic samples often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lan-Cuong Nguyen , Quan Nguyen-Tri , Bang Tran Khanh , Dung D. Le , Long Tran-Thanh , Khoat Than

Few-shot image classification, where the goal is to generalize to tasks with limited labeled data, has seen great progress over the years. However, the classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing a question regarding their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Akshayvarun Subramanya , Hamed Pirsiavash

Recent work has suggested that a good embedding is all we need to solve many few-shot learning benchmarks. Furthermore, other work has strongly suggested that Model Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) also works via this same method - by learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Brando Miranda , Yu-Xiong Wang , Sanmi Koyejo

As an algorithmic framework for learning to learn, meta-learning provides a promising solution for few-shot text classification. However, most existing research fail to give enough attention to class labels. Traditional basic framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Guanghua Hou , Shuhui Cao , Deqiang Ouyang , Ning Wang

Multimodal few-shot learning is challenging due to the large domain gap between vision and language modalities. Existing methods are trying to communicate visual concepts as prompts to frozen language models, but rely on hand-engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ivona Najdenkoska , Xiantong Zhen , Marcel Worring

In few-shot classification, we are interested in learning algorithms that train a classifier from only a handful of labeled examples. Recent progress in few-shot classification has featured meta-learning, in which a parameterized model for…

Few-shot classification studies the problem of quickly adapting a deep learner to understanding novel classes based on few support images. In this context, recent research efforts have been aimed at designing more and more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jun He , Richang Hong , Xueliang Liu , Mingliang Xu , Qianru Sun

Few-shot learning aims to handle previously unseen tasks using only a small amount of new training data. In preparing (or meta-training) a few-shot learner, however, massive labeled data are necessary. In the real world, unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Jun Seo , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted considerable attention recently. Among existing approaches, the metric-based method aims to train an embedding network that can make similar samples close while dissimilar samples as far as possible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Bin Xiao , Chien-Liang Liu , Wen-Hoar Hsaio

Conventional image classifiers are trained by randomly sampling mini-batches of images. To achieve state-of-the-art performance, practitioners use sophisticated data augmentation schemes to expand the amount of training data available for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Renkun Ni , Micah Goldblum , Amr Sharaf , Kezhi Kong , Tom Goldstein

Background and objective: Employing deep learning models in critical domains such as medical imaging poses challenges associated with the limited availability of training data. We present a strategy for improving the performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Eva Pachetti , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Sara Colantonio

Detecting rare objects from a few examples is an emerging problem. Prior works show meta-learning is a promising approach. But, fine-tuning techniques have drawn scant attention. We find that fine-tuning only the last layer of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xin Wang , Thomas E. Huang , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Fisher Yu

Few-shot learning aims to adapt knowledge learned from previous tasks to novel tasks with only a limited amount of labeled data. Research literature on few-shot learning exhibits great diversity, while different algorithms often excel at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chi Zhang , Henghui Ding , Guosheng Lin , Ruibo Li , Changhu Wang , Chunhua Shen

Traditional recognition methods typically require large, artificially-balanced training classes, while few-shot learning methods are tested on artificially small ones. In contrast to both extremes, real world recognition problems exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Davis Wertheimer , Bharath Hariharan