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Labelled data are limited and self-supervised learning is one of the most important approaches for reducing labelling requirements. While it has been extensively explored in the image domain, it has so far not received the same amount of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jingyong Liang , Bernd Meyer , Isaac Ning Lee , Thanh-Toan Do

Few-shot learning focuses on learning a new visual concept with very limited labelled examples. A successful approach to tackle this problem is to compare the similarity between examples in a learned metric space based on convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heda Song , Mercedes Torres Torres , Ender Özcan , Isaac Triguero

Convolutional neural networks and supervised learning have achieved remarkable success in various fields but are limited by the need for large annotated datasets. Few-shot learning (FSL) addresses this limitation by enabling models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yang Liu , Feixiang Liu , Jiale Du , Xinbo Gao , Jungong Han

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a classifier that can recognize unseen classes from limited support data with labels. A common practice for this task is to train a model on the base set first and then transfer to novel classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Jie Qin , Marios Savvides , Kwang-Ting Cheng

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) methods typically assume clean support sets with accurately labeled samples when training on novel classes. This assumption can often be unrealistic: support sets, no matter how small, can still include mislabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kevin J Liang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Vladan Petrovic , Tal Hassner

This paper investigates the effectiveness of pre-training for few-shot intent classification. While existing paradigms commonly further pre-train language models such as BERT on a vast amount of unlabeled corpus, we find it highly effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haode Zhang , Yuwei Zhang , Li-Ming Zhan , Jiaxin Chen , Guangyuan Shi , Albert Y. S. Lam , Xiao-Ming Wu

Training a neural network with a large labeled dataset is still a dominant paradigm in computational histopathology. However, obtaining such exhaustive manual annotations is often expensive, laborious, and prone to inter and Intra-observer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Chetan L. Srinidhi , Seung Wook Kim , Fu-Der Chen , Anne L. Martel

Few-shot learning or meta-learning leverages the data scarcity problem in machine learning. Traditionally, training data requires a multitude of samples and labeling for supervised learning. To address this issue, we propose a one-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Atik Faysal , Mohammad Rostami , Huaxia Wang , Avimanyu Sahoo , Ryan Antle

Few-shot learning aims to train models that can be generalized to novel classes with only a few samples. Recently, a line of works are proposed to enhance few-shot learning with accessible semantic information from class names. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zihao Jiang , Yunkai Dang , Dong Pang , Huishuai Zhang , Weiran Huang

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

Unsupervised models can provide supplementary soft constraints to help classify new, "target" data since similar instances in the target set are more likely to share the same class label. Such models can also help detect possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Ayan Acharya , Eduardo R. Hruschka , Joydeep Ghosh , Sreangsu Acharyya

In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

Most existing studies on few-shot learning focus on unimodal settings, where models are trained to generalize to unseen data using a limited amount of labeled examples from a single modality. However, real-world data are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhengwei Yang , Yuke Li , Qiang Sun , Basura Fernando , Heng Huang , Zheng Wang

Self-supervised learning has demonstrated considerable potential in hyperspectral representation, yet its application in cross-domain transfer scenarios remains under-explored. Existing methods, however, still rely on source domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jianshu Chao , Tianhua Lv , Qiqiong Ma , Yunfei Qiu , Li Fang , Huifang Shen , Wei Yao

Meta-learning is a powerful paradigm for tackling few-shot tasks. However, recent studies indicate that models trained with the whole-class training strategy can achieve comparable performance to those trained with meta-learning in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunchuan Guan , Yu Liu , Ke Zhou , Zhiqi Shen , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Serge Belongie , Lei Li

We consider the few-shot classification task with an unbalanced dataset, in which some classes have sufficient training samples while other classes only have limited training samples. Recent works have proposed to solve this task by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Vivek Roy , Yan Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang , Kris Kitani , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Martial Hebert

Partial-label learning (PLL) generally focuses on inducing a noise-tolerant multi-class classifier by training on overly-annotated samples, each of which is annotated with a set of labels, but only one is the valid label. A basic promise of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yunfeng Zhao , Guoxian Yu , Lei Liu , Zhongmin Yan , Lizhen Cui , Carlotta Domeniconi

Few-shot image classification requires the classifier to robustly cope with unseen classes even if there are only a few samples for each class. Recent advances benefit from the meta-learning process where episodic tasks are formed to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Da Chen , Yongliang Yang , Zunlei Feng , Xiang Wu , Mingli Song , Wenbin Li , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Feng Mao

In this paper, we explore contrastive learning for few-shot classification, in which we propose to use it as an additional auxiliary training objective acting as a data-dependent regularizer to promote more general and transferable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami