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Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel classes from a few examples. Although significant progress has been made in the image domain, few-shot video classification is relatively unexplored. We argue that previous methods underestimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yongqin Xian , Bruno Korbar , Matthijs Douze , Lorenzo Torresani , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Meta-learning has been proved to be an effective framework to address few-shot learning problems. The key challenge is how to minimize the generalization error of base learner across tasks. In this paper, we explore the concept hierarchy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Baoquan Zhang , Ka-Cheong Leung , Yunming Ye , Xutao Li

Few-shot learning (FSL) is an emergent paradigm of learning that attempts to learn to reason with low sample complexity to mimic the way humans learn, generalise and extrapolate from only a few seen examples. While FSL attempts to mimic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jaron Mar , Jiamou Liu

Resembling the rapid learning capability of human, few-shot learning empowers vision systems to understand new concepts by training with few samples. Leading approaches derived from meta-learning on images with a single visual object.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xiaopeng Yan , Ziliang Chen , Anni Xu , Xiaoxi Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

Meta-learning has emerged as a trending technique to tackle few-shot text classification and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, existing solutions heavily rely on the exploitation of lexical features and their distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 ChengCheng Han , Zeqiu Fan , Dongxiang Zhang , Minghui Qiu , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

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

Currently available benchmarks for few-shot learning (machine learning with few training examples) are limited in the domains they cover, primarily focusing on image classification. This work aims to alleviate this reliance on image-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Calum Heggan , Sam Budgett , Timothy Hospedales , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

Just like other few-shot learning problems, few-shot segmentation aims to minimize the need for manual annotation, which is particularly costly in segmentation tasks. Even though the few-shot setting reduces this cost for novel test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Mustafa Sercan Amac , Ahmet Sencan , Orhun Bugra Baran , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

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

Learning from one or few visual examples is one of the key capabilities of humans since early infancy, but is still a significant challenge for modern AI systems. While considerable progress has been achieved in few-shot learning from a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Eli Schwartz , Leonid Karlinsky , Rogerio Feris , Raja Giryes , Alex M. Bronstein

Machine learning has been highly successful in data-intensive applications but is often hampered when the data set is small. Recently, Few-Shot Learning (FSL) is proposed to tackle this problem. Using prior knowledge, FSL can rapidly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Yaqing Wang , Quanming Yao , James Kwok , Lionel M. Ni

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

We consider a new problem of few-shot learning of compact models. Meta-learning is a popular approach for few-shot learning. Previous work in meta-learning typically assumes that the model architecture during meta-training is the same as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yong Wu , Shekhor Chanda , Mehrdad Hosseinzadeh , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

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

When training data is scarce, it is common to make use of a feature extractor that has been pre-trained on a large base dataset, either by fine-tuning its parameters on the ``target'' dataset or by directly adopting its representation as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Raphael Lafargue , Yassir Bendou , Bastien Pasdeloup , Jean-Philippe Diguet , Ian Reid , Vincent Gripon , Jack Valmadre

Few-shot classification aims to recognize novel categories with only few labeled images in each class. Existing metric-based few-shot classification algorithms predict categories by comparing the feature embeddings of query images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

Learning from a limited amount of data, namely Few-Shot Learning, stands out as a challenging computer vision task. Several works exploit semantics and design complicated semantic fusion mechanisms to compensate for rare representative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Hai Zhang , Junzhe Xu , Shanlin Jiang , Zhenan He

In low-light environments, the performance of computer vision algorithms often deteriorates significantly, adversely affecting key vision tasks such as segmentation, detection, and classification. With the rapid advancement of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Fangxue Liu , Lei Fan

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