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A meta-model is trained on a distribution of similar tasks such that it learns an algorithm that can quickly adapt to a novel task with only a handful of labeled examples. Most of current meta-learning methods assume that the meta-training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Minseop Park , Jungtaek Kim , Saehoon Kim , Yanbin Liu , Seungjin Choi

Selecting an appropriate pre-trained source model is a critical, yet computationally expensive, task in transfer learning. Model Transferability Estimation (MTE) methods address this by providing efficient proxy metrics to rank models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuhang Liu , Wenjie Zhao , Yunhui Guo

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) networks have emerged as a promising method for transferring learned knowledge across different tasks. However, MTL must deal with challenges such as: overfitting to low resource tasks, catastrophic forgetting, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Jonathan Pilault , Amine Elhattami , Christopher Pal

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in image-to-image translation for attribute transfer applications. However, most of existing approaches are based on deep learning and require an abundant amount of labeled data to produce good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Ricard Durall , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper

Few-shot classification aims to learn to classify new object categories well using only a few labeled examples. Transferring feature representations from other models is a popular approach for solving few-shot classification problems. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chun-Nam Yu , Yi Xie

Recent advancements in the NLP field showed that transfer learning helps with achieving state-of-the-art results for new tasks by tuning pre-trained models instead of starting from scratch. Transformers have made a significant improvement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Aysu Ezen-Can

Recently, meta-learning has been shown as a promising way to solve few-shot learning. In this paper, inspired by the human cognition process which utilizes both prior-knowledge and vision attention in learning new knowledge, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yunxiao Qin , Weiguo Zhang , Chenxu Zhao , Zezheng Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Guojun Qi , Jingping Shi , Zhen Lei

We introduce a novel method that enables parameter-efficient transfer and multi-task learning with deep neural networks. The basic approach is to learn a model patch - a small set of parameters - that will specialize to each task, instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Mark Sandler , Andrey Zhmoginov , Andrew Howard

Deep Learning shows very good performance when trained on large labeled data sets. The problem of training a deep net on a few or one sample per class requires a different learning approach which can generalize to unseen classes using only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Jinchao Liu , Stuart J. Gibson , Margarita Osadchy

Transfer learning has achieved promising results by leveraging knowledge from the source domain to annotate the target domain which has few or none labels. Existing methods often seek to minimize the distribution divergence between domains,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Shuji Hao , Wenjie Feng , Zhiqi Shen

The transfer learning paradigm of model pre-training and subsequent fine-tuning produces high-accuracy models. While most studies recommend scaling the pre-training size to benefit most from transfer learning, a question remains: what data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Rahim Entezari , Mitchell Wortsman , Olga Saukh , M. Moein Shariatnia , Hanie Sedghi , Ludwig Schmidt

Meta-learning methods aim to build learning algorithms capable of quickly adapting to new tasks in low-data regime. One of the most difficult benchmarks of such algorithms is a one-shot learning problem. In this setting many algorithms face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Andrei Boiarov , Kostiantyn Khabarlak , Igor Yastrebov

Transfer learning from supervised ImageNet models has been frequently used in medical image analysis. Yet, no large-scale evaluation has been conducted to benchmark the efficacy of newly-developed pre-training techniques for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher , Fatemeh Haghighi , Ruibin Feng , Michael B. Gotway , Jianming Liang

Few-shot learning aims to fast adapt a deep model from a few examples. While pre-training and meta-training can create deep models powerful for few-shot generalization, we find that pre-training and meta-training focuses respectively on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yang Shu , Zhangjie Cao , Jinghan Gao , Jianmin Wang , Philip S. Yu , Mingsheng Long

Few-shot learning aims to generalize to novel classes with only a few samples with class labels. Research in few-shot learning has borrowed techniques from transfer learning, metric learning, meta-learning, and Bayesian methods. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu , Eric bunch , Glenn fung

In the context of few-shot learning, it is currently believed that a fixed pre-trained (PT) model, along with fine-tuning the final layer during evaluation, outperforms standard meta-learning algorithms. We re-evaluate these claims under an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Brando Miranda , Patrick Yu , Saumya Goyal , Yu-Xiong Wang , Sanmi Koyejo

Learning with limited data is a key challenge for visual recognition. Many few-shot learning methods address this challenge by learning an instance embedding function from seen classes and apply the function to instances from unseen classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Han-Jia Ye , Hexiang Hu , De-Chuan Zhan , Fei Sha

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

In the research field of few-shot learning, the main difference between image-based and video-based is the additional temporal dimension. In recent years, some works have used the Transformer to deal with frames, then get the attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Fei Guo , Li Zhu , YiWang Wang , Jing Sun

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