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This paper tackles the problem of few-shot learning, which aims to learn new visual concepts from a few examples. A common problem setting in few-shot classification assumes random sampling strategy in acquiring data labels, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Shipeng Yan , Songyang Zhang , Xuming He

Object recognition in the real-world requires handling long-tailed or even open-ended data. An ideal visual system needs to recognize the populated head visual concepts reliably and meanwhile efficiently learn about emerging new tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Han-Jia Ye , Hexiang Hu , De-Chuan Zhan

Due to the scarcity of sampling data in reality, few-shot object detection (FSOD) has drawn more and more attention because of its ability to quickly train new detection concepts with less data. However, there are still failure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zeyu Shangguan , Lian Huai , Tong Liu , Xingqun Jiang

Few-shot learning remains challenging for meta-learning that learns a learning algorithm (meta-learner) from many related tasks. In this work, we argue that this is due to the lack of a good representation for meta-learning, and propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Fengwei Zhou , Bin Wu , Zhenguo Li

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

Few-shot image classification, where the goal is to generalize to tasks with limited labeled data, has seen great progress over the years. However, the classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing a question regarding their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Akshayvarun Subramanya , Hamed Pirsiavash

Few-shot learning is a fundamental and challenging problem since it requires recognizing novel categories from only a few examples. The objects for recognition have multiple variants and can locate anywhere in images. Directly comparing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Congqi Cao , Yanning Zhang

Detecting rare objects from a few examples is an emerging problem. Prior works show meta-learning is a promising approach. But, fine-tuning techniques have drawn scant attention. We find that fine-tuning only the last layer of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xin Wang , Thomas E. Huang , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Fisher Yu

Difficult few-shot image recognition has significant application prospects, yet remaining the substantial technical gaps with the conventional large-scale image recognition. In this paper, we have proposed an efficient original method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaofei Qi , Zhitai Liu , Jianbin Qiu

Few-shot classification and meta-learning methods typically struggle to generalize across diverse domains, as most approaches focus on a single dataset, failing to transfer knowledge across various seen and unseen domains. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kristi Topollai , Anna Choromanska

The performance of meta-learning approaches for few-shot learning generally depends on three aspects: features suitable for comparison, the classifier ( base learner ) suitable for low-data scenarios, and valuable information from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Haoqing Wang , Zhi-Hong Deng

Humans exhibit a remarkable ability to learn quickly from a limited number of labeled samples, a capability that starkly contrasts with that of current machine learning systems. Unsupervised Few-Shot Learning (U-FSL) seeks to bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhenyu Zhang , Guangyao Chen , Yixiong Zou , Zhimeng Huang , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

In many practical few-shot learning problems, even though labeled examples are scarce, there are abundant auxiliary datasets that potentially contain useful information. We propose the problem of extended few-shot learning to study these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Reza Esfandiarpoor , Amy Pu , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Stephen H. Bach

Few-shot text classification has recently been promoted by the meta-learning paradigm which aims to identify target classes with knowledge transferred from source classes with sets of small tasks named episodes. Despite their success,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Junfan Chen , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao , Jie Xu

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

Few-shot dataset generalization is a challenging variant of the well-studied few-shot classification problem where a diverse training set of several datasets is given, for the purpose of training an adaptable model that can then learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Eleni Triantafillou , Hugo Larochelle , Richard Zemel , Vincent Dumoulin

Few-shot class incremental learning implies the model to learn new classes while retaining knowledge of previously learned classes with a small number of training instances. Existing frameworks typically freeze the parameters of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Parinita Nema , Vinod K Kurmi

Few-shot learning has attracted intensive research attention in recent years. Many methods have been proposed to generalize a model learned from provided base classes to novel classes, but no previous work studies how to select base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Linjun Zhou , Peng Cui , Xu Jia , Shiqiang Yang , Qi Tian

Conventional training of deep neural networks usually requires a substantial amount of data with expensive human annotations. In this paper, we utilize the idea of meta-learning to explain two very different streams of few-shot learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Shaobo Lin , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao

Few-shot classification (FSC) is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision that involves recognizing novel classes from limited data. While previous methods have focused on enhancing visual features or incorporating additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Fan Liu , Wenwen Cai , Jian Huo , Chuanyi Zhang , Delong Chen , Jun Zhou