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Meta-learning has emerged as a powerful training strategy for few-shot node classification, demonstrating its effectiveness in the transductive setting. However, the existing literature predominantly focuses on transductive few-shot node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hirthik Mathavan , Zhen Tan , Nivedh Mudiam , Huan Liu

Learning with few samples is a major challenge for parameter-rich models like deep networks. In contrast, people learn complex new concepts even from very few examples, suggesting that the sample complexity of learning can often be reduced.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Roman Visotsky , Yuval Atzmon , Gal Chechik

Few-shot action recognition aims to recognize action classes with few training samples. Most existing methods adopt a meta-learning approach with episodic training. In each episode, the few samples in a meta-training task are split into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiatian Zhu , Antoine Toisoul , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Li Zhang , Brais Martinez , Tao Xiang

Few-shot learning focuses on learning a new visual concept with very limited labelled examples. A successful approach to tackle this problem is to compare the similarity between examples in a learned metric space based on convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heda Song , Mercedes Torres Torres , Ender Özcan , Isaac Triguero

We present a meta-learning based generative model for zero-shot learning (ZSL) towards a challenging setting when the number of training examples from each \emph{seen} class is very few. This setup contrasts with the conventional ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Vinay Kumar Verma , Ashish Mishra , Anubha Pandey , Hema A. Murthy , Piyush Rai

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

Metric-based few-shot learning methods try to overcome the difficulty due to the lack of training examples by learning embedding to make comparison easy. We propose a novel algorithm to generate class representatives for few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Junyoung Park , Subin Yi , Yongseok Choi , Dong-Yeon Cho , Jiwon Kim

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

With the continuous development of natural language processing (NLP) technology, text classification tasks have been widely used in multiple application fields. However, obtaining labeled data is often expensive and difficult, especially in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jia Gao , Shuangquan Lyu , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao

The goal of few-shot learning is to classify unseen categories with few labeled samples. Recently, the low-level information metric-learning based methods have achieved satisfying performance, since local representations (LRs) are more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Few-shot learning has become essential for producing models that generalize from few examples. In this work, we identify that metric scaling and metric task conditioning are important to improve the performance of few-shot algorithms. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Boris N. Oreshkin , Pau Rodriguez , Alexandre Lacoste

Few-shot learning is an important area of research. Conceptually, humans are readily able to understand new concepts given just a few examples, while in more pragmatic terms, limited-example training situations are common in practice.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Hongyang Li , David Eigen , Samuel Dodge , Matthew Zeiler , Xiaogang Wang

Few-shot learning is a rapidly evolving area of research in machine learning where the goal is to classify unlabeled data with only one or "a few" labeled exemplary samples. Neural networks are typically trained to minimize a distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Samuel Hess , Gregory Ditzler

The training of deep-learning-based text classification models relies heavily on a huge amount of annotation data, which is difficult to obtain. When the labeled data is scarce, models tend to struggle to achieve satisfactory performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Dianbo Sui , Yubo Chen , Binjie Mao , Delai Qiu , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Metric-based few-shot learning methods concentrate on learning transferable feature embedding that generalizes well from seen categories to unseen categories under the supervision of limited number of labelled instances. However, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Jun He , Richang Hong , Xueliang Liu , Mingliang Xu , Zhengjun Zha , Meng Wang

Meta-learning is a powerful paradigm for tackling few-shot tasks. However, recent studies indicate that models trained with the whole-class training strategy can achieve comparable performance to those trained with meta-learning in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunchuan Guan , Yu Liu , Ke Zhou , Zhiqi Shen , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Serge Belongie , Lei Li

We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and general framework for few-shot learning, where a classifier must learn to recognise new classes given only few examples from each. Our method, called the Relation Network (RN), is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Li Zhang , Tao Xiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Timothy M. Hospedales

Humans are capable of learning new concepts from small numbers of examples. In contrast, supervised deep learning models usually lack the ability to extract reliable predictive rules from limited data scenarios when attempting to classify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Zhongjie Yu , Sebastian Raschka

Artificial intelligence nowadays plays an increasingly prominent role in our life since decisions that were once made by humans are now delegated to automated systems. A machine learning algorithm trained based on biased data, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Chen Zhao , Changbin Li , Jincheng Li , Feng Chen

Generalizing across robot embodiments and tasks is crucial for adaptive robotic systems. Modular policy learning approaches adapt to new embodiments but are limited to specific tasks, while few-shot imitation learning (IL) approaches often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Seongwoong Cho , Donggyun Kim , Jinwoo Lee , Seunghoon Hong