English
Related papers

Related papers: Interventional Few-Shot Learning

200 papers

Few-shot learning (FSL) is a central problem in meta-learning, where learners must efficiently learn from few labeled examples. Within FSL, feature pre-training has recently become an increasingly popular strategy to significantly improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ruohan Wang , Isak Falk , Massimiliano Pontil , Carlo Ciliberto

Building image classification models remains cumbersome in data-scarce domains, where collecting large labeled datasets is impractical. In-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for few-shot image classification (FSIC),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Lukas Schiesser , Cornelius Wolff , Sophie Haas , Simon Pukrop

Transductive Few-Shot Learning (TFSL) has recently attracted increasing attention since it typically outperforms its inductive peer by leveraging statistics of query samples. However, previous TFSL methods usually encode uniform prior that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Long Tian , Jingyi Feng , Wenchao Chen , Xiaoqiang Chai , Liming Wang , Xiyang Liu , Bo Chen

Automatic classification of pests and plants (both healthy and diseased) is of paramount importance in agriculture to improve yield. Conventional deep learning models based on convolutional neural networks require thousands of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Sai Vidyaranya Nuthalapati , Anirudh Tunga

Recently, several works have been conducted on jailbreaking Large Language Models (LLMs) with few-shot malicious demos. In particular, Zheng et al. focus on improving the efficiency of Few-Shot Jailbreaking (FSJ) by injecting special tokens…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jiaqi Hua , Wanxu Wei

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) requires vision models to quickly adapt to brand-new classification tasks with a shift in task distribution. Understanding the difficulties posed by this task distribution shift is central to FSL. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Xu Luo , Jing Xu , Zenglin Xu

Data scarcity significantly complicates the continual learning problem, i.e., how a deep neural network learns in dynamic environments with very few samples. However, the latest progress of few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 M. Anwar Ma'sum , Mahardhika Pratama , Igor Skrjanc

The use of a few examples for each class to train a predictive model that can be generalized to novel classes is a crucial and valuable research direction in artificial intelligence. This work addresses this problem by proposing a few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Bin Xiao , Chien-Liang Liu , Wen-Hoar Hsaio

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) adapts models trained with large-scale general data (source domain) to downstream target domains with only scarce training data, where the research on vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) is still in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yaze Zhao , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

New classes arise frequently in our ever-changing world, e.g., emerging topics in social media and new types of products in e-commerce. A model should recognize new classes and meanwhile maintain discriminability over old classes. Under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Da-Wei Zhou , Han-Jia Ye , Liang Ma , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , De-Chuan Zhan

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is proposed to continually learn from novel classes with only a few samples after the (pre-)training on base classes with sufficient data. However, this remains a challenge. In contrast, humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yixiong Zou , Shanghang Zhang , Haichen Zhou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Generative zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods typically synthesize visual features for unseen classes using predefined semantic attributes, followed by training a fully supervised classification model. While effective, these methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Md Shakil Ahamed Shohag , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Farhad Pourpanah

Feature quality is paramount for classification performance, particularly in few-shot scenarios. Contrastive learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing feature quality, leverages sample relations to extract intrinsic features that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Guowei Yin , Sheng Huang , Luwen Huangfu , Yi Zhang , Xiaohong Zhang

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

Training semantic segmentation models requires a large amount of finely annotated data, making it hard to quickly adapt to novel classes not satisfying this condition. Few-Shot Segmentation (FS-Seg) tackles this problem with many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Zhuotao Tian , Xin Lai , Li Jiang , Shu Liu , Michelle Shu , Hengshuang Zhao , Jiaya Jia

Federated self-supervised learning (FSSL) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm that enables the exploitation of clients' vast amounts of unlabeled data while preserving data privacy. While FSSL offers advantages, its susceptibility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yuwen Qian , Shuchi Wu , Kang Wei , Ming Ding , Di Xiao , Tao Xiang , Chuan Ma , Song Guo

The existing few-shot video classification methods often employ a meta-learning paradigm by designing customized temporal alignment module for similarity calculation. While significant progress has been made, these methods fail to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhenxi Zhu , Limin Wang , Sheng Guo , Gangshan Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great performance in few-shot In-Context Learning (ICL) for a variety of generative and discriminative chemical design tasks. The newly expanded context windows of LLMs can further improve ICL…

Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (SF-CDFSL) focuses on fine-tuning with limited training data from target domains (e.g., medical or satellite images), where Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP and SigLIP have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhenyu Zhang , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li , Guangyao Chen

State-of-the-art few-shot learning (FSL) methods leverage prompt-based fine-tuning to obtain remarkable results for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks. While much of the prior FSL methods focus on improving downstream task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Venkata Prabhakara Sarath Nookala , Gaurav Verma , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Srijan Kumar