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We propose prototypical networks for the problem of few-shot classification, where a classifier must generalize to new classes not seen in the training set, given only a small number of examples of each new class. Prototypical networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Jake Snell , Kevin Swersky , Richard S. Zemel

Few-shot text classification aims to classify the text under the few-shot scenario. Most of the previous methods adopt optimization-based meta learning to obtain task distribution. However, due to the neglect of matching between the few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Tianyi Lei , Honghui Hu , Qiaoyang Luo , Dezhong Peng , Xu Wang

Over the past few years, state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms are based on deep convolutional neural networks. To render a deep network with the ability to understand a concept, humans need to collect a large amount of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Weide Liu , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Fayao Liu

Humans are able to learn to recognize new objects even from a few examples. In contrast, training deep-learning-based object detectors requires huge amounts of annotated data. To avoid the need to acquire and annotate these huge amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Mona Köhler , Markus Eisenbach , Horst-Michael Gross

The goal of few-shot classification is to classify new categories with few labeled examples within each class. Nowadays, the excellent performance in handling few-shot classification problems is shown by metric-based meta-learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Xu Luo , Yuxuan Chen , Liangjian Wen , Lili Pan , Zenglin Xu

Few-shot natural language processing (NLP) refers to NLP tasks that are accompanied with merely a handful of labeled examples. This is a real-world challenge that an AI system must learn to handle. Usually we rely on collecting more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenpeng Yin

Event detection (ED) aims at detecting event trigger words in sentences and classifying them into specific event types. In real-world applications, ED typically does not have sufficient labelled data, thus can be formulated as a few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Shirong Shen , Tongtong Wu , Guilin Qi , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari , Sheng Bi

In this paper, we are interested in the few-shot learning problem. In particular, we focus on a challenging scenario where the number of categories is large and the number of examples per novel category is very limited, e.g. 1, 2, or 3.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Siyuan Qiao , Chenxi Liu , Wei Shen , Alan Yuille

Thanks to the availability of powerful computing resources, big data and deep learning algorithms, we have made great progress on computer vision in the last few years. Computer vision systems begin to surpass humans in some tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Fupin Yao

Developing algorithms that are able to generalize to a novel task given only a few labeled examples represents a fundamental challenge in closing the gap between machine- and human-level performance. The core of human cognition lies in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Kaidi Cao , Maria Brbic , Jure Leskovec

Few-shot classification aims to carry out classification given only few labeled examples for the categories of interest. Though several approaches have been proposed, most existing few-shot learning (FSL) models assume that base and novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Ci-Siang Lin , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Graph few-shot learning is of great importance among various graph learning tasks. Under the few-shot scenario, models are often required to conduct classification given limited labeled samples. Existing graph few-shot learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Song Wang , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Despite impressive progress in deep learning, generalizing far beyond the training distribution is an important open challenge. In this work, we consider few-shot classification, and aim to shed light on what makes some novel classes easier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Mengye Ren , Eleni Triantafillou , Kuan-Chieh Wang , James Lucas , Jake Snell , Xaq Pitkow , Andreas S. Tolias , Richard Zemel

In this work, we propose a novel meta-learning approach for few-shot classification, which learns transferable prior knowledge across tasks and directly produces network parameters for similar unseen tasks with training samples. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Huaiyu Li , Weiming Dong , Xing Mei , Chongyang Ma , Feiyue Huang , Bao-Gang Hu

Few-shot text classification aims to recognize unseen classes with limited labeled text samples. Existing approaches focus on boosting meta-learners by developing complex algorithms in the training stage. However, the labeled samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yunlong Gao , Xinyue Liu , Yingbo Wang , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Graph representation learning, a critical step in graph-centric tasks, has seen significant advancements. Earlier techniques often operate in an end-to-end setting, which heavily rely on the availability of ample labeled data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xingtong Yu , Yuan Fang , Zemin Liu , Yuxia Wu , Zhihao Wen , Jianyuan Bo , Xinming Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Imitation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm in robot manipulation, yet its generalization capability remains constrained by object-specific dependencies in limited expert demonstrations. To address this challenge, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhuochen Miao , Jun Lv , Hongjie Fang , Yang Jin , Cewu Lu

Transfer-learning and meta-learning are two effective methods to apply knowledge learned from large data sources to new tasks. In few-class, few-shot target task settings (i.e. when there are only a few classes and training examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , David Eigen , Massoud Pedram

Few-shot classification aims to adapt to new tasks with limited labeled examples. To fully use the accessible data, recent methods explore suitable measures for the similarity between the query and support images and better high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Kaihui Cheng , Chule Yang , Xiao Liu , Naiyang Guan , Zhiyuan Wang

Few-shot learning aims to generalize the recognizer from seen categories to an entirely novel scenario. With only a few support samples, several advanced methods initially introduce class names as prior knowledge for identifying novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yuyu Jia , Qing Zhou , Wei Huang , Junyu Gao , Qi Wang