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Few-shot meta-learning methods consider the problem of learning new tasks from a small, fixed number of examples, by meta-learning across static data from a set of previous tasks. However, in many real world settings, it is more natural to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Tianhe Yu , Xinyang Geng , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Many recent few-shot learning methods concentrate on designing novel model architectures. In this paper, we instead show that with a simple backbone convolutional network we can even surpass state-of-the-art classification accuracy. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Wei Shen , Ziqiang Shi , Jun Sun

Sound event detection is to infer the event by understanding the surrounding environmental sounds. Due to the scarcity of rare sound events, it becomes challenging for the well-trained detectors which have learned too much prior knowledge.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Chendong Zhao , Jianzong Wang , Leilai Li , Xiaoyang Qu , Jing Xiao

Few-shot learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

We present the checkpoint ensembles method that can learn ensemble models on a single training process. Although checkpoint ensembles can be applied to any parametric iterative learning technique, here we focus on neural networks. Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Hugh Chen , Scott Lundberg , Su-In Lee

In recent years, researchers pay growing attention to the few-shot learning (FSL) task to address the data-scarce problem. A standard FSL framework is composed of two components: i) Pre-train. Employ the base data to generate a CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shuai Shao , Lei Xing , Rui Xu , Weifeng Liu , Yan-Jiang Wang , Bao-Di Liu

The base learners and labeled samples (shots) in an ensemble few-shot classifier greatly affect the model performance. When the performance is not satisfactory, it is usually difficult to understand the underlying causes and make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Weikai Yang , Xi Ye , Xingxing Zhang , Lanxi Xiao , Jiazhi Xia , Zhongyuan Wang , Jun Zhu , Hanspeter Pfister , Shixia Liu

Weak feature representation problem has influenced the performance of few-shot classification task for a long time. To alleviate this problem, recent researchers build connections between support and query instances through embedding patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jinxiang Lai , Siqian Yang , Junhong Zhou , Wenlong Wu , Xiaochen Chen , Jun Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Chengjie Wang

Few-shot learning is a fundamental task in computer vision that carries the promise of alleviating the need for exhaustively labeled data. Most few-shot learning approaches to date have focused on progressively more complex neural feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Peyman Bateni , Raghav Goyal , Vaden Masrani , Frank Wood , Leonid Sigal

Ensemble techniques are powerful approaches that combine several weak learners to build a stronger one. As a meta-learning framework, ensemble techniques can easily be applied to many machine learning methods. Inspired by ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Hamideh Hajiabadi , Reza Monsefi , Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi

We investigate the use of sequence analysis for behavior modeling, emphasizing that sequential context often outweighs the value of aggregate features in understanding human behavior. We discuss framing common problems in fields like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Maxime Kawawa-Beaudan , Srijan Sood , Soham Palande , Ganapathy Mani , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

In real-world applications, data do not reflect the ones commonly used for neural networks training, since they are usually few, unlabeled and can be available as a stream. Hence many existing deep learning solutions suffer from a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Alessia Bertugli , Stefano Vincenzi , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini

The task of Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to transfer the knowledge learned from base categories with sufficient labelled data to novel categories with scarce known information. It is currently an important research question and has great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Xinwei Sun , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

In this paper, we look at the problem of few-shot classification that aims to learn a classifier for previously unseen classes and domains from few labeled samples. Recent methods use adaptation networks for aligning their features to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Wei-Hong Li , Xialei Liu , Hakan Bilen

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

The focus of recent meta-learning research has been on the development of learning algorithms that can quickly adapt to test time tasks with limited data and low computational cost. Few-shot learning is widely used as one of the standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang , Dilip Krishnan , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Phillip Isola

This paper presents several strategies to automatically obtain additional examples for in-context learning of one-shot relation extraction. Specifically, we introduce a novel strategy for example selection, in which new examples are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Aunabil Chakma , Mihai Surdeanu , Eduardo Blanco

Due to the limited availability of data, existing few-shot learning methods trained from scratch fail to achieve satisfactory performance. In contrast, large-scale pre-trained models such as CLIP demonstrate remarkable few-shot and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Kun Song , Huimin Ma , Bochao Zou , Huishuai Zhang , Weiran Huang

Few-shot image classification aims at training a model from only a few examples for each of the "novel" classes. This paper proposes the idea of associative alignment for leveraging part of the base data by aligning the novel training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Arman Afrasiyabi , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

In this paper, we study the performance of few-shot learning, specifically meta learning empowered few-shot relation networks, over supervised deep learning and conventional machine learning approaches in the problem of Sound Source…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Amirreza Sobhdel , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Vasile Palade