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Exponential models of distributions are widely used in machine learning for classiffication and modelling. It is well known that they can be interpreted as maximum entropy models under empirical expectation constraints. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Amir Globerson , Naftali Tishby

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

Convolutional neural networks and supervised learning have achieved remarkable success in various fields but are limited by the need for large annotated datasets. Few-shot learning (FSL) addresses this limitation by enabling models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yang Liu , Feixiang Liu , Jiale Du , Xinbo Gao , Jungong Han

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem due to the uncertainty caused by using few labelled samples. In the past few years, many methods have been proposed with the common aim of transferring knowledge acquired on a previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yuqing Hu , Vincent Gripon , Stéphane Pateux

We tackle the Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition (FSOSR) problem, i.e. classifying instances among a set of classes for which we only have few labeled samples, while simultaneously detecting instances that do not belong to any known class.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Malik Boudiaf , Etienne Bennequin , Myriam Tami , Celine Hudelot , Antoine Toubhans , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed

Few-shot learning deals with problems such as image classification using very few training examples. Recent vision foundation models show excellent few-shot transfer abilities, but are large and slow at inference. Using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Erik Landolsi , Fredrik Kahl

We propose SAM-IF, a novel method for incremental few-shot instance segmentation leveraging the Segment Anything Model (SAM). SAM-IF addresses the challenges of class-agnostic instance segmentation by introducing a multi-class classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xudong Zhou , Wenhao He

Few-shot image classification remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training examples. Augmenting them with synthetic data has emerged as a promising way to alleviate this issue, but models trained on synthetic samples often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lan-Cuong Nguyen , Quan Nguyen-Tri , Bang Tran Khanh , Dung D. Le , Long Tran-Thanh , Khoat Than

We develop a transductive meta-learning method that uses unlabelled instances to improve few-shot image classification performance. Our approach combines a regularized Mahalanobis-distance-based soft k-means clustering procedure with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Peyman Bateni , Jarred Barber , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Frank Wood

Few-shot learning refers to understanding new concepts from only a few examples. We propose an information retrieval-inspired approach for this problem that is motivated by the increased importance of maximally leveraging all the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Eleni Triantafillou , Richard Zemel , Raquel Urtasun

Few-shot relation classification seeks to classify incoming query instances after meeting only few support instances. This ability is gained by training with large amount of in-domain annotated data. In this paper, we tackle an even harder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaoqing Geng , Xiwen Chen , Kenny Q. Zhu , Libin Shen , Yinggong Zhao

Few-shot Learning aims to learn and distinguish new categories with a very limited number of available images, presenting a significant challenge in the realm of deep learning. Recent researchers have sought to leverage the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chunpeng Zhou , Haishuai Wang , Xilu Yuan , Zhi Yu , Jiajun Bu

Few-shot learning problem focuses on recognizing unseen classes given a few labeled images. In recent effort, more attention is paid to fine-grained feature embedding, ignoring the relationship among different distance metrics. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jinxiang Lai , Siqian Yang , Guannan Jiang , Xi Wang , Yuxi Li , Zihui Jia , Xiaochen Chen , Jun Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Wei Zhang , Yuan Xie , Chengjie Wang

This work addresses the challenge of achieving zero-shot adversarial robustness while preserving zero-shot generalization in large-scale foundation models, with a focus on the popular Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP). Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Fengji Ma , Li Liu , Hei Victor Cheng

The difficulty of the fine-grained image classification mainly comes from a shared overall appearance across classes. Thus, recognizing discriminative details, such as eyes and beaks for birds, is a key in the task. However, this is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 SuBeen Lee , WonJun Moon , Hyun Seok Seong , Jae-Pil Heo

As an algorithmic framework for learning to learn, meta-learning provides a promising solution for few-shot text classification. However, most existing research fail to give enough attention to class labels. Traditional basic framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Guanghua Hou , Shuhui Cao , Deqiang Ouyang , Ning Wang

Recognizing discriminative details such as eyes and beaks is important for distinguishing fine-grained classes since they have similar overall appearances. In this regard, we introduce Task Discrepancy Maximization (TDM), a simple module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 SuBeen Lee , WonJun Moon , Jae-Pil Heo

Modern deep learning systems are increasingly deployed in situations such as personalization and federated learning where it is necessary to support i) learning on small amounts of data, and ii) communication efficient distributed training…

Few-shot classification aims to recognize unseen classes with few labeled samples from each class. Many meta-learning models for few-shot classification elaborately design various task-shared inductive bias (meta-knowledge) to solve such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Haoqing Wang , Zhi-Hong Deng

Given the success with in-context learning of large pre-trained language models, we introduce in-context learning distillation to transfer in-context few-shot learning ability from large models to smaller models. We propose to combine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yukun Huang , Yanda Chen , Zhou Yu , Kathleen McKeown