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Few-shot semantic segmentation models aim to segment images after learning from only a few annotated examples. A key challenge for them is how to avoid overfitting because limited training data is available. While prior works usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yinan Zhao , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Danna Gurari

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

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

Transformer-based language models have achieved remarkable success in few-shot in-context learning and drawn a lot of research interest. However, these models' performance greatly depends on the choice of the example prompts and also has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Genta Indra Winata , Liang-Kang Huang , Soumya Vadlamannati , Yash Chandarana

In this paper, we propose to tackle the challenging few-shot learning (FSL) problem by learning global class representations using both base and novel class training samples. In each training episode, an episodic class mean computed from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Tiange Luo , Aoxue Li , Tao Xiang , Weiran Huang , Liwei Wang

This paper studies few-shot segmentation, which is a task of predicting foreground mask of unseen classes by a few of annotations only, aided by a set of rich annotations already existed. The existing methods mainly focus the task on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Yuwei Yang , Fanman Meng , Hongliang Li , King N. Ngan , Qingbo Wu

The goal of few-shot learning is to recognize new visual concepts with just a few amount of labeled samples in each class. Recent effective metric-based few-shot approaches employ neural networks to learn a feature similarity comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Chi-Wing Fu , Meng Fang , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

Traditional recognition methods typically require large, artificially-balanced training classes, while few-shot learning methods are tested on artificially small ones. In contrast to both extremes, real world recognition problems exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Davis Wertheimer , Bharath Hariharan

State-of-the-art deep learning algorithms yield remarkable results in many visual recognition tasks. However, they still fail to provide satisfactory results in scarce data regimes. To a certain extent this lack of data can be compensated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Frederik Pahde , Oleksiy Ostapenko , Patrick Jähnichen , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

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

Deep neural networks are highly effective when a large number of labeled samples are available but fail with few-shot classification tasks. Recently, meta-learning methods have received much attention, which train a meta-learner on massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yucan Zhou , Yu Wang , Jianfei Cai , Yu Zhou , Qinghua Hu , Weiping Wang

Few-shot image classification is challenging due to the lack of ample samples in each class. Such a challenge becomes even tougher when the number of classes is very large, i.e., the large-class few-shot scenario. In this novel scenario,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Bingcong Li , Bo Han , Zhuowei Wang , Jing Jiang , Guodong Long

Labeling data is often expensive and time-consuming, especially for tasks such as object detection and instance segmentation, which require dense labeling of the image. While few-shot object detection is about training a model on novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Gabriel Huang , Issam Laradji , David Vazquez , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Pau Rodriguez

Popular approaches for few-shot classification consist of first learning a generic data representation based on a large annotated dataset, before adapting the representation to new classes given only a few labeled samples. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

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

We consider the few-shot classification task with an unbalanced dataset, in which some classes have sufficient training samples while other classes only have limited training samples. Recent works have proposed to solve this task by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Vivek Roy , Yan Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang , Kris Kitani , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Martial Hebert

Adapting pre-trained representations has become the go-to recipe for learning new downstream tasks with limited examples. While literature has demonstrated great successes via representation learning, in this work, we show that substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Xiao Lin , Meng Ye , Yunye Gong , Giedrius Buracas , Nikoletta Basiou , Ajay Divakaran , Yi Yao

In this paper, we propose a simple but effective method for training neural networks with a limited amount of training data. Our approach inherits the idea of knowledge distillation that transfers knowledge from a deep or wide reference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-06 Akisato Kimura , Zoubin Ghahramani , Koh Takeuchi , Tomoharu Iwata , Naonori Ueda

Meta learning is a promising technique for solving few-shot fault prediction problems, which have attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. Existing meta-learning methods for time series prediction, which predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Hai Su , Jiajun Hu , Songsen Yu