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Few-shot classification aims to recognize unlabeled samples from unseen classes given only few labeled samples. The unseen classes and low-data problem make few-shot classification very challenging. Many existing approaches extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Variational inference (VI) is a popular method for approximating intractable posterior distributions in Bayesian inference and probabilistic machine learning. In this paper, we introduce a general framework for quantifying the statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Chenyang Zhong , Sumit Mukherjee , Bodhisattva Sen

AI-assisted molecular property prediction has become a promising technique in early-stage drug discovery and materials design in recent years. However, due to high-cost and complex wet-lab experiments, real-world molecules usually…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zeyu Wang , Tianyi Jiang , Huanchang Ma , Yao Lu , Xiaoze Bao , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan , Shirui Pan , Xin Zheng

Few-shot learning requires to recognize novel classes with scarce labeled data. Prototypical network is useful in existing researches, however, training on narrow-size distribution of scarce data usually tends to get biased prototypes. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jinlu Liu , Liang Song , Yongqiang Qin

Existing few-shot segmentation methods have achieved great progress based on the support-query matching framework. But they still heavily suffer from the limited coverage of intra-class variations from the few-shot supports provided.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Qi Fan , Wenjie Pei , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Humans possess remarkable ability to accurately classify new, unseen images after being exposed to only a few examples. Such ability stems from their capacity to identify common features shared between new and previously seen images while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Weihao Jiang , Chang Liu , Kun He

This paper tackles the problem of few-shot learning, which aims to learn new visual concepts from a few examples. A common problem setting in few-shot classification assumes random sampling strategy in acquiring data labels, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Shipeng Yan , Songyang Zhang , Xuming He

This study is concerned with few-shot segmentation, i.e., segmenting the region of an unseen object class in a query image, given support image(s) of its instances. The current methods rely on the pretrained CNN features of the support and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zhijie Wang , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

The Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) aims to accomplish the novel class segmentation task with a few annotated images. Current FSS research based on meta-learning focus on designing a complex interaction mechanism between the query and support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jing Wang , Jinagyun Li , Chen Chen , Yisi Zhang , Haoran Shen , Tianxiang Zhang

Few-shot segmentation is a challenging task that aims to segment objects of new classes given scarce support images. In the inductive setting, existing prototype-based methods focus on extracting prototypes from the support images; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Jinlu Liu , Liang Song , Yongqiang Qin

Few-shot segmentation is a challenging task, requiring the extraction of a generalizable representation from only a few annotated samples, in order to segment novel query images. A common approach is to model each class with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Joakim Johnander , Johan Edstedt , Martin Danelljan , Michael Felsberg , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Few-shot segmentation has been attracting a lot of attention due to its effectiveness to segment unseen object classes with a few annotated samples. Most existing approaches use masked Global Average Pooling (GAP) to encode an annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Terry Qin

Learning from a few examples is an important practical aspect of training classifiers. Various works have examined this aspect quite well. However, all existing approaches assume that the few examples provided are always correctly labeled.…

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

Few-shot learning allows pre-trained language models to adapt to downstream tasks while using a limited number of training examples. However, practical applications are limited when all model parameters must be optimized. In this work we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ethan Kim , Jerry Yang

Few-shot segmentation is challenging because objects within the support and query images could significantly differ in appearance and pose. Using a single prototype acquired directly from the support image to segment the query image causes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Boyu Yang , Chang Liu , Bohao Li , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Multi-label few-shot image classification (ML-FSIC) is the task of assigning descriptive labels to previously unseen images, based on a small number of training examples. A key feature of the multi-label setting is that images often have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Kun Yan , Chenbin Zhang , Jun Hou , Ping Wang , Zied Bouraoui , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Variational inference (VI) combined with data subsampling enables approximate posterior inference over large data sets, but suffers from poor local optima. We first formulate a deterministic annealing approach for the generic class of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-31 Stephan Mandt , James McInerney , Farhan Abrol , Rajesh Ranganath , David Blei

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment unseen class objects with the guidance of only a few support images. Most previous methods rely on the pixel-level label of support images. In this paper, we focus on a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Haohan Wang , Liang Liu , Wuhao Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Zhenye Gan , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Haoqian Wang

Few-shot Learning has been studied to mimic human visual capabilities and learn effective models without the need of exhaustive human annotation. Even though the idea of meta-learning for adaptation has dominated the few-shot learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Jiawei Ma , Hanchen Xie , Guangxing Han , Shih-Fu Chang , Aram Galstyan , Wael Abd-Almageed

Pedestrian attribute recognition has received increasing attention due to its important role in video surveillance applications. However, most existing methods are designed for a fixed set of attributes. They are unable to handle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Liuyu Xiang , Xiaoming Jin , Guiguang Ding , Jungong Han , Leida Li