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Few-shot learning is a challenging task since only few instances are given for recognizing an unseen class. One way to alleviate this problem is to acquire a strong inductive bias via meta-learning on similar tasks. In this paper, we show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

In recent years, few-shot segmentation (FSS) models have emerged as a promising approach in medical imaging analysis, offering remarkable adaptability to segment novel classes with limited annotated data. Existing approaches to few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mohammad Mozafari , Hosein Hasani , Reza Vahidimajd , Mohamadreza Fereydooni , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Multi-label few-shot image classification (ML-FSIC) is the task of assigning descriptive labels to previously unseen images, based on a small number of training examples. A key feature of the multi-label setting is that images often have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Kun Yan , Chenbin Zhang , Jun Hou , Ping Wang , Zied Bouraoui , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Few-shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) presents a unique challenge in Machine Learning (ML), as it necessitates the Incremental Learning (IL) of new classes from sparsely labeled training samples without forgetting previous knowledge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Jinghua Zhang , Li Liu , Olli Silvén , Matti Pietikäinen , Dewen Hu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown powerful zero-shot learning performance. Few-shot learning aims to further enhance the transfer capability of CLIP by giving few images in each class, aka 'few shots'. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yaohui Li , Qifeng Zhou , Haoxing Chen , Jianbing Zhang , Xinyu Dai , Hao Zhou

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 field of Few-Shot Learning (FSL), or learning from very few (typically $1$ or $5$) examples per novel class (unseen during training), has received a lot of attention and significant performance advances in the recent literature. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Moshe Lichtenstein , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rogerio Feris , Raja Giryes , Leonid Karlinsky

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

Humans are capable of learning new concepts from only a few (labeled) exemplars, incrementally and continually. This happens within the context that we can differentiate among the exemplars, and between the exemplars and large amounts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Daniel T. Chang

Few-shot learning (FSL) techniques seek to learn the underlying patterns in data using fewer samples, analogous to how humans learn from limited experience. In this limited-data scenario, the challenges associated with deep neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Deepan Chakravarthi Padmanabhan , Shruthi Gowda , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Proprietary and closed APIs are becoming increasingly common to process natural language, and are impacting the practical applications of natural language processing, including few-shot classification. Few-shot classification involves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pierre Colombo , Victor Pellegrain , Malik Boudiaf , Victor Storchan , Myriam Tami , Ismail Ben Ayed , Celine Hudelot , Pablo Piantanida

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

This paper considers the problem of inferring image labels from images when only a few annotated examples are available at training time. This setup is often referred to as low-shot learning, where a standard approach is to re-train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Matthijs Douze , Arthur Szlam , Bharath Hariharan , Hervé Jégou

Few-shot learners aim to recognize new categories given only a small number of training samples. The core challenge is to avoid overfitting to the limited data while ensuring good generalization to novel classes. Existing literature makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Aditya Bharti , N. B. Vineeth , C. V. Jawahar

Few-shot learning arises in important practical scenarios, such as when a natural language understanding system needs to learn new semantic labels for an emerging, resource-scarce domain. In this paper, we explore retrieval-based methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Dian Yu , Luheng He , Yuan Zhang , Xinya Du , Panupong Pasupat , Qi Li

Few-shot learning is proposed to tackle the problem of scarce training data in novel classes. However, prior works in instance-level few-shot learning have paid less attention to effectively utilizing the relationship between categories. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Thanh-Toan Do , Nhat-Duy Nguyen , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Thanh Duc Ngo , Tam V. Nguyen

Few-shot visual recognition refers to recognize novel visual concepts from a few labeled instances. Many few-shot visual recognition methods adopt the metric-based meta-learning paradigm by comparing the query representation with class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Mengya Han , Yibing Zhan , Yong Luo , Bo Du , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

In-context learning (ICL) refers to the process of adding a small number of localized examples from a training set of labelled data to an LLM's prompt with an objective to effectively control the generative process seeking to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Manish Chandra , Debasis Ganguly , Iadh Ounis

Self-training provides an effective means of using an extremely small amount of labeled data to create pseudo-labels for unlabeled data. Many state-of-the-art self-training approaches hinge on different regularization methods to prevent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Hazel Kim , Jaeman Son , Yo-Sub Han

Few-shot learning (FSL) has shown promise in vision but remains largely unexplored for \emph{industrial} time-series data, where annotating every new defect is prohibitively expensive. We present a systematic FSL study on screw-fastening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xinyuan Tu