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Wearable technologies enable continuous monitoring of various health metrics, such as physical activity, heart rate, sleep, and stress levels. A key challenge with wearable data is obtaining quality labels. Unlike modalities like video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Aaqib Saeed , Dimitris Spathis , Jungwoo Oh , Edward Choi , Ali Etemad

Few-shot learning (FSL) has shown promise in vision but remains largely unexplored for \emph{industrial} time-series data, where annotating every new defect is prohibitively expensive. We present a systematic FSL study on screw-fastening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xinyuan Tu

Partial-label learning (PLL) is a weakly supervised learning problem in which each example is associated with multiple candidate labels and only one is the true label. In recent years, many deep PLL algorithms have been developed to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Wei Wang , Dong-Dong Wu , Jindong Wang , Gang Niu , Min-Ling Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

Few-shot classification (FSC) is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training data (e.g. only one labeled data point per class). Meta-learning has shown to achieve promising results by learning to initialize a classification model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xinzhe Li , Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Shibao Zheng , Qin Zhou , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Semi-supervised few-shot learning (SSFSL) formulates real-world applications like ''auto-annotation'', as it aims to learn a model over a few labeled and abundant unlabeled examples to annotate the unlabeled ones. Despite the availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Tian Liu , Anwesha Basu , James Caverlee , Shu Kong

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has boosted the use of Few-Shot Learning (FSL) methods in natural language processing, achieving acceptable performance even when working with limited training data. The goal of FSL is to effectively…

Few-shot learning (FSL) enables object detection models to recognize novel classes given only a few annotated examples, thereby reducing expensive manual data labeling. This survey examines recent FSL advances for video and 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Kendall N. Niles , Joe Tom , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Elias Ioup

Few-shot Learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Existing meta-learning or metric-learning based few-shot learning approaches are limited in handling diverse domains with various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yu Cheng , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Bowen Zhou

In few-shot classification, we are interested in learning algorithms that train a classifier from only a handful of labeled examples. Recent progress in few-shot classification has featured meta-learning, in which a parameterized model for…

In this paper, we propose to tackle the challenging few-shot learning (FSL) problem by learning global class representations using both base and novel class training samples. In each training episode, an episodic class mean computed from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Tiange Luo , Aoxue Li , Tao Xiang , Weiran Huang , Liwei Wang

Partial Multi-label Learning (PML) is a type of weakly supervised learning where each training instance corresponds to a set of candidate labels, among which only some are true. In this paper, we introduce \our{}, a novel probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Łukasz Struski , Adam Pardyl , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

Partial Label Learning (PLL) aims to learn from the data where each training example is associated with a set of candidate labels, among which only one is correct. The key to deal with such problem is to disambiguate the candidate label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Gengyu Lyu , Songhe Feng , Tao Wang , Congyan Lang , Yidong Li

Recent studies have revealed the intriguing few-shot learning ability of pretrained language models (PLMs): They can quickly adapt to a new task when fine-tuned on a small amount of labeled data formulated as prompts, without requiring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yu Meng , Martin Michalski , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Zhang , Tarek Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have exhibited impressive zero-shot performance and transferability, allowing them to adapt to downstream tasks in a data-efficient manner. However, when only a few labeled samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ce Zhang , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

As unlabeled data carry rich task-relevant information, they are proven useful for few-shot learning of language model. The question is how to effectively make use of such data. In this work, we revisit the self-training technique for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Yiming Chen , Yan Zhang , Chen Zhang , Grandee Lee , Ran Cheng , Haizhou Li

Existing approaches to lifelong language learning rely on plenty of labeled data for learning a new task, which is hard to obtain in most real scenarios. Considering that humans can continually learn new tasks from a handful of examples, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chengwei Qin , Shafiq Joty

Few-shot learning (FSL) is popular due to its ability to adapt to novel classes. Compared with inductive few-shot learning, transductive models typically perform better as they leverage all samples of the query set. The two existing classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Hao Zhu , Piotr Koniusz

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a model that can recognize novel classes based on one or few training data. It is challenging mainly due to two aspects: (1) it lacks good feature representation of novel classes; (2) a few of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Canyu Le , Zhonggui Chen , Xihan Wei , Biao Wang , Lei Zhang

In partial label learning (PLL), each instance is associated with a set of candidate labels among which only one is ground-truth. The majority of the existing works focuses on constructing robust classifiers to estimate the labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Chongjie Si , Xuehui Wang , Yan Wang , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen