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While deep learning, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), has significantly advanced classification performance, its typical reliance on extensive annotated datasets presents a major obstacle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Matheus Vinícius Todescato , Joel Luís Carbonera

We consider the problem of semi-supervised few-shot classification where a classifier needs to adapt to new tasks using a few labeled examples and (potentially many) unlabeled examples. We propose a clustering approach to the problem. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Rinu Boney , Alexander Ilin

This paper considers the problem of inferring image labels from images when only a few annotated examples are available at training time. This setup is often referred to as low-shot learning, where a standard approach is to re-train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Matthijs Douze , Arthur Szlam , Bharath Hariharan , Hervé Jégou

While deep learning excels in computer vision tasks with abundant labeled data, its performance diminishes significantly in scenarios with limited labeled samples. To address this, Few-shot learning (FSL) enables models to perform the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Huali Xu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Shuzhou Sun , Vishal M. Patel , Li Liu

We propose a few-shot learning method for unsupervised feature selection, which is a task to select a subset of relevant features in unlabeled data. Existing methods usually require many instances for feature selection. However, sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

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 segmentation (FSS) expects models trained on base classes to work on novel classes with the help of a few support images. However, when there exists a domain gap between the base and novel classes, the state-of-the-art FSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yuhang Lu , Xinyi Wu , Zhenyao Wu , Song Wang

Few-shot learning is an established topic in natural images for years, but few work is attended to histology images, which is of high clinical value since well-labeled datasets and rare abnormal samples are expensive to collect. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Jiawei Yang , Hanbo Chen , Jiangpeng Yan , Xiaoyu Chen , Jianhua Yao

The goal of this paper is to bypass the need for labelled examples in few-shot video understanding at run time. While proven effective, in many practical video settings even labelling a few examples appears unrealistic. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Pengwan Yang , Yuki M. Asano , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

We address the task of weakly-supervised few-shot image classification and segmentation, by leveraging a Vision Transformer (ViT) pretrained with self-supervision. Our proposed method takes token representations from the self-supervised ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Dahyun Kang , Piotr Koniusz , Minsu Cho , Naila Murray

Recently, source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SFUDA) has emerged as a more practical and feasible approach compared to unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) which assumes that labeled source data are always accessible. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Suho Lee , Seungwon Seo , Jihyo Kim , Yejin Lee , Sangheum Hwang

Given an unlabeled dataset and an annotation budget, we study how to selectively label a fixed number of instances so that semi-supervised learning (SSL) on such a partially labeled dataset is most effective. We focus on selecting the right…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xudong Wang , Long Lian , Stella X. Yu

In microscopy image cell segmentation, it is common to train a deep neural network on source data, containing different types of microscopy images, and then fine-tune it using a support set comprising a few randomly selected and annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Youssef Dawoud , Arij Bouazizi , Katharina Ernst , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

Few-shot learning-the ability to train models with access to limited data-has become increasingly popular in the natural language processing (NLP) domain, as large language models such as GPT and T0 have been empirically shown to achieve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Robert Kraig Helmeczi , Mucahit Cevik , Savas Yıldırım

Deep learning based models have excelled in many computer vision tasks and appear to surpass humans' performance. However, these models require an avalanche of expensive human labeled training data and many iterations to train their large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yikai Wang , Li Zhang , Yuan Yao , Yanwei Fu

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

Language model pre-training has proven to be useful in many language understanding tasks. In this paper, we investigate whether it is still helpful to add the self-training method in the pre-training step and the fine-tuning step. Towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Tong Guo

Contrastive self-supervised learning methods learn to map data points such as images into non-parametric representation space without requiring labels. While highly successful, current methods require a large amount of data in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Ali Lotfi Rezaabad , Sidharth Kumar , Sriram Vishwanath , Jonathan I. Tamir

We investigate the role of self-supervised learning (SSL) in the context of few-shot learning. Although recent research has shown the benefits of SSL on large unlabeled datasets, its utility on small datasets is relatively unexplored. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Jong-Chyi Su , Subhransu Maji , Bharath Hariharan

The lack of annotated medical images limits the performance of deep learning models, which usually need large-scale labelled datasets. Few-shot learning techniques can reduce data scarcity issues and enhance medical image analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Eva Pachetti , Sara Colantonio