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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

Distance-based classification is frequently used in transductive few-shot learning (FSL). However, due to the high-dimensionality of image representations, FSL classifiers are prone to suffer from the hubness problem, where a few points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Daniel J. Trosten , Rwiddhi Chakraborty , Sigurd Løkse , Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm , Robert Jenssen , Michael C. Kampffmeyer

Metric-based meta-learning techniques have successfully been applied to few-shot classification problems. In this paper, we propose to leverage cross-modal information to enhance metric-based few-shot learning methods. Visual and semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chen Xing , Negar Rostamzadeh , Boris N. Oreshkin , Pedro O. Pinheiro

Text classification tends to struggle when data is deficient or when it needs to adapt to unseen classes. In such challenging scenarios, recent studies have used meta-learning to simulate the few-shot task, in which new queries are compared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Ruiying Geng , Binhua Li , Yongbin Li , Xiaodan Zhu , Ping Jian , Jian Sun

Fine-tuning a deep network trained with the standard cross-entropy loss is a strong baseline for few-shot learning. When fine-tuned transductively, this outperforms the current state-of-the-art on standard datasets such as Mini-ImageNet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Guneet S. Dhillon , Pratik Chaudhari , Avinash Ravichandran , Stefano Soatto

One of the main purposes of deep metric learning is to construct an embedding space that has well-generalized embeddings on both seen (training) classes and unseen (test) classes. Most existing works have tried to achieve this using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Geonmo Gu , Byungsoo Ko , Han-Gyu Kim

Time-series forecasting is important for many applications. Forecasting models are usually trained using time-series data in a specific target task. However, sufficient data in the target task might be unavailable, which leads to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-01 Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai

We show that the way inference is performed in few-shot segmentation tasks has a substantial effect on performances -- an aspect often overlooked in the literature in favor of the meta-learning paradigm. We introduce a transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Malik Boudiaf , Hoel Kervadec , Ziko Imtiaz Masud , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been used to tackle the few-shot learning (FSL) problem and shown great potentials under the transductive setting. However under the inductive setting, existing GNN based methods are less competitive. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Tianyuan Yu , Sen He , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang

Few-shot learning is devoted to training a model on few samples. Most of these approaches learn a model based on a pixel-level or global-level feature representation. However, using global features may lose local information, and using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

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

The use of meta-learning and transfer learning in the task of few-shot image classification is a well researched area with many papers showcasing the advantages of transfer learning over meta-learning in cases where data is plentiful and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Joshua Ball

Few-shot learning that trains image classifiers over few labeled examples per category is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose to exploit an additional big dataset with different categories to improve the accuracy of few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Liangqu Long , Wei Wang , Jun Wen , Meihui Zhang , Qian Lin , Beng Chin Ooi

Existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods usually assume base classes and novel classes are from the same domain (in-domain setting). However, in practice, it may be infeasible to collect sufficient training samples for some special domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yixiong Zou , Shanghang Zhang , JianPeng Yu , Yonghong Tian , José M. F. Moura

Few-shot segmentation aims to segment unseen-class objects given only a handful of densely labeled samples. Prototype learning, where the support feature yields a singleor several prototypes by averaging global and local object information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ehtesham Iqbal , Sirojbek Safarov , Seongdeok Bang

In this paper, we investigate few-shot joint learning for dialogue language understanding. Most existing few-shot models learn a single task each time with only a few examples. However, dialogue language understanding contains two closely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yutai Hou , Yongkui Lai , Cheng Chen , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

Few-shot learning with $N$-way $K$-shot scheme is an open challenge in machine learning. Many metric-based approaches have been proposed to tackle this problem, e.g., the Matching Networks and CLIP-Adapter. Despite that these approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Guoliang Lin , Yongheng Xu , Hanjiang Lai , Jian Yin

One-shot image classification aims to train image classifiers over the dataset with only one image per category. It is challenging for modern deep neural networks that typically require hundreds or thousands of images per class. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Wanqi Xue , Wei Wang

In the few-shot scenario, a learner must effectively generalize to unseen classes given a small support set of labeled examples. While a relatively large amount of research has gone into few-shot learning for image classification, little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Chris Careaga , Brian Hutchinson , Nathan Hodas , Lawrence Phillips