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In this paper, we explore meta-learning for few-shot text classification. Meta-learning has shown strong performance in computer vision, where low-level patterns are transferable across learning tasks. However, directly applying this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yujia Bao , Menghua Wu , Shiyu Chang , Regina Barzilay

We propose a method that can perform one-class classification given only a small number of examples from the target class and none from the others. We formulate the learning of meaningful features for one-class classification as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Gabriel Dahia , Maurício Pamplona Segundo

Few-shot learning aims to train a classifier that can generalize well when just a small number of labeled examples per class are given. We introduce a transductive maximum margin classifier for few-shot learning (FS-TMMC). The basic idea of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Fei Pan , Chunlei Xu , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Few-shot learning aims to correctly recognize query samples from unseen classes given a limited number of support samples, often by relying on global embeddings of images. In this paper, we propose to equip the backbone network with an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Jie Hong , Pengfei Fang , Weihao Li , Tong Zhang , Christian Simon , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

Learning and generalizing to novel concepts with few samples (Few-Shot Learning) is still an essential challenge to real-world applications. A principle way of achieving few-shot learning is to realize a model that can rapidly adapt to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Rongkai Ma , Pengfei Fang , Gil Avraham , Yan Zuo , Tianyu Zhu , Tom Drummond , Mehrtash Harandi

Few-shot classification is a challenging task which aims to formulate the ability of humans to learn concepts from limited prior data and has drawn considerable attention in machine learning. Recent progress in few-shot classification has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Meiyu Huang , Xueshuang Xiang , Yao Xu

The ability to learn from a small number of examples has been a difficult problem in machine learning since its inception. While methods have succeeded with large amounts of training data, research has been underway in how to accomplish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Nathan Hilliard , Nathan O. Hodas , Courtney D. Corley

Few-shot classification aims to learn a classifier to recognize unseen classes during training with limited labeled examples. While significant progress has been made, the growing complexity of network designs, meta-learning algorithms, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Wei-Yu Chen , Yen-Cheng Liu , Zsolt Kira , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Jia-Bin Huang

Few-shot learning addresses problems for which a limited number of training examples are available. So far, the field has been mostly driven by applications in computer vision. Here, we are interested in adapting recently introduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Myriam Bontonou , Giulia Lioi , Nicolas Farrugia , Vincent Gripon

In few-shot learning, classifiers are expected to generalize to unseen classes given only a small number of instances of each new class. One of the popular solutions to few-shot learning is metric-based meta-learning. However, it highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qiuhao Zeng

Few-shot learning aims to build classifiers for new classes from a small number of labeled examples and is commonly facilitated by access to examples from a distinct set of 'base classes'. The difference in data distribution between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Zitian Chen , Subhransu Maji , Erik Learned-Miller

In this paper, we propose an approach to improve few-shot classification performance using a composite rotation based auxiliary task. Few-shot classification methods aim to produce neural networks that perform well for classes with a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Few-shot learning is a relatively new technique that specializes in problems where we have little amounts of data. The goal of these methods is to classify categories that have not been seen before with just a handful of samples. Recent…

The field of visual few-shot classification aims at transferring the state-of-the-art performance of deep learning visual systems onto tasks where only a very limited number of training samples are available. The main solution consists in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yassir Bendou , Lucas Drumetz , Vincent Gripon , Giulia Lioi , Bastien Pasdeloup

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

Few-shot text classification has important application value in low-resource environments. This paper proposes a strategy that combines adaptive fine-tuning, contrastive learning, and regularization optimization to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Xu Han , Yumeng Sun , Weiqiang Huang , Hongye Zheng , Junliang Du

In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

Modern deep learning requires large-scale extensively labelled datasets for training. Few-shot learning aims to alleviate this issue by learning effectively from few labelled examples. In previously proposed few-shot visual classifiers, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Peyman Bateni , Jarred Barber , Raghav Goyal , Vaden Masrani , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Leonid Sigal , Frank Wood

Most previous few-shot learning algorithms are based on meta-training with fake few-shot tasks as training samples, where large labeled base classes are required. The trained model is also limited by the type of tasks. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

Deep learning has made remarkable achievement in many fields. However, learning the parameters of neural networks usually demands a large amount of labeled data. The algorithms of deep learning, therefore, encounter difficulties when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Bowen Zhang , Xifan Zhang , Fan Cheng , Deli Zhao