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While neural networks have shown impressive performance on large datasets, applying these models to tasks where little data is available remains a challenging problem. In this paper we propose to use feature transfer in a zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Javid Dadashkarimi , Alexander Fabbri , Sekhar Tatikonda , Dragomir R. Radev

Teaching machines to recognize a new category based on few training samples especially only one remains challenging owing to the incomprehensive understanding of the novel category caused by the lack of data. However, human can learn new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Fengyuan Yang , Ruiping Wang , Xilin Chen

We study the problem of few-shot learning-based denoising where the training set contains just a handful of clean and noisy samples. A solution to mitigate the small training set issue is to pre-train a denoising model with small training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Leslie Casas , Attila Klimmek , Gustavo Carneiro , Nassir Navab , Vasileios Belagiannis

Few-Shot Learning is the challenge of training a model with only a small amount of data. Many solutions to this problem use meta-learning algorithms, i.e. algorithms that learn to learn. By sampling few-shot tasks from a larger dataset, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Etienne Bennequin

Semantic sparsity is a common challenge in structured visual classification problems; when the output space is complex, the vast majority of the possible predictions are rarely, if ever, seen in the training set. This paper studies semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Mark Yatskar , Vicente Ordonez , Luke Zettlemoyer , Ali Farhadi

Few-shot learning aims to identify novel categories from only a handful of labeled samples, where prototypes estimated from scarce data are often biased and generalize poorly. Semantic-based methods alleviate this by introducing coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jiaying Wu , Can Gao , Jinglu Hu , Hui Li , Xiaofeng Cao , Jingcai Guo

In this work, we focus on a more challenging few-shot intent detection scenario where many intents are fine-grained and semantically similar. We present a simple yet effective few-shot intent detection schema via contrastive pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jianguo Zhang , Trung Bui , Seunghyun Yoon , Xiang Chen , Zhiwei Liu , Congying Xia , Quan Hung Tran , Walter Chang , Philip Yu

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

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn models that generalize to novel classes with limited training samples. Recent works advance FSL towards a scenario where unlabeled examples are also available and propose semi-supervised FSL methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Linglan Zhao , Dashan Guo , Yunlu Xu , Liang Qiao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Xiangzhong Fang

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has received substantial attention in English, yet challenges remain for low-resource languages due to the scarcity of labelled data. Current cross-lingual ABSA approaches often rely on external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jakub Šmíd , Pavel Přibáň , Pavel Král

Few-shot learning aims to classify unseen classes with only a limited number of labeled data. Recent works have demonstrated that training models with a simple transfer learning strategy can achieve competitive results in few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Jingquan Wang , Jing Xu , Yu Pan , Zenglin Xu

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly reshaped the landscape of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Among the various prompting techniques, few-shot prompting has gained considerable attention for its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Deshan Sumanathilaka , Nicholas Micallef , Julian Hough

Semantic parsing aims at translating natural language (NL) utterances onto machine-interpretable programs, which can be executed against a real-world environment. The expensive annotation of utterance-program pairs has long been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Bailin Wang , Mirella Lapata , Ivan Titov

Inspired by the concept of preconditioning, we propose a novel method to increase adaptation speed for gradient-based meta-learning methods without incurring extra parameters. We demonstrate that recasting the optimization problem to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Markus Hiller , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond

Current methods for few-shot fine-tuning of pretrained masked language models (PLMs) require carefully engineered prompts and verbalizers for each new task to convert examples into a cloze-format that the PLM can score. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi , Luke Zettlemoyer , James Henderson , Marzieh Saeidi , Lambert Mathias , Veselin Stoyanov , Majid Yazdani

We tackle a novel few-shot learning challenge, which we call few-shot semantic edge detection, aiming to localize crisp boundaries of novel categories using only a few labeled samples. We also present a Class-Agnostic Few-shot Edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Young-Hyun Park , Jun Seo , Jaekyun Moon

Over the past few years, there has been a significant improvement in the domain of few-shot learning. This learning paradigm has shown promising results for the challenging problem of anomaly detection, where the general task is to deal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Soumyajit Karmakar , Abeer Banerjee , Prashant Sadashiv Gidde , Sumeet Saurav , Sanjay Singh

Learning from a few examples remains a key challenge in machine learning. Despite recent advances in important domains such as vision and language, the standard supervised deep learning paradigm does not offer a satisfactory solution for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Oriol Vinyals , Charles Blundell , Timothy Lillicrap , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Daan Wierstra

We evaluate the character-level translation method for neural semantic parsing on a large corpus of sentences annotated with Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs). Using a sequence-to-sequence model, and some trivial preprocessing and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Rik van Noord , Johan Bos

Best-performing speech models are trained on large amounts of data in the language they are meant to work for. However, most languages have sparse data, making training models challenging. This shortage of data is even more prevalent in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 David-Gabriel Ion , Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop , Mihaela-Claudia Cercel