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In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

Few-shot learning is a relatively new technique that specializes in problems where we have little amounts of data. The goal of these methods is to classify categories that have not been seen before with just a handful of samples. Recent…

The ability to infer the intentions of others, predict their goals, and deduce their plans are critical features for intelligent agents. For a long time, several approaches investigated the use of symbolic representations and inferences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Thibault Duhamel , Mariane Maynard , Froduald Kabanza

Although providing exceptional results for many computer vision tasks, state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms catastrophically struggle in low data scenarios. However, if data in additional modalities exist (e.g. text) this can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Frederik Pahde , Mihai Puscas , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

We study few-shot learning in natural language domains. Compared to many existing works that apply either metric-based or optimization-based meta-learning to image domain with low inter-task variance, we consider a more realistic setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Jinfeng Yi , Shiyu Chang , Saloni Potdar , Yu Cheng , Gerald Tesauro , Haoyu Wang , Bowen Zhou

In this work, we perform unsupervised learning of representations by maximizing mutual information between an input and the output of a deep neural network encoder. Importantly, we show that structure matters: incorporating knowledge about…

Mutual Information (MI) is a powerful statistical measure that quantifies shared information between random variables, particularly valuable in high-dimensional data analysis across fields like genomics, natural language processing, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Andre O. Falcao

In the past few years, a considerable amount of research has been dedicated to the exploitation of previous learning experiences and the design of Few-shot and Meta Learning approaches, in problem domains ranging from Computer Vision to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Achkan Salehi , Alexandre Coninx , Stephane Doncieux

Due to the fact that fully supervised semantic segmentation methods require sufficient fully-labeled data to work well and can not generalize to unseen classes, few-shot segmentation has attracted lots of research attention. Previous arts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Jingyun Liang , Luc Van Gool

Meta-learning (ML) has emerged as a promising learning method under resource constraints such as few-shot learning. ML approaches typically propose a methodology to learn generalizable models. In this work-in-progress paper, we put the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Aroof Aimen , Sahil Sidheekh , Vineet Madan , Narayanan C. Krishnan

Few-shot learning, especially few-shot image classification, has received increasing attention and witnessed significant advances in recent years. Some recent studies implicitly show that many generic techniques or ``tricks'', such as data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Wenbin Li , Ziyi , Wang , Xuesong Yang , Chuanqi Dong , Pinzhuo Tian , Tiexin Qin , Jing Huo , Yinghuan Shi , Lei Wang , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

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

We consider a new problem of few-shot learning of compact models. Meta-learning is a popular approach for few-shot learning. Previous work in meta-learning typically assumes that the model architecture during meta-training is the same as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yong Wu , Shekhor Chanda , Mehrdad Hosseinzadeh , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

In many practical few-shot learning problems, even though labeled examples are scarce, there are abundant auxiliary datasets that potentially contain useful information. We propose the problem of extended few-shot learning to study these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Reza Esfandiarpoor , Amy Pu , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Stephen H. Bach

Few-shot classification refers to learning a classifier for new classes given only a few examples. While a plethora of models have emerged to tackle it, we find the procedure and datasets that are used to assess their progress lacking. To…

Transduction is a powerful paradigm that leverages the structure of unlabeled data to boost predictive accuracy. We present TransCLIP, a novel and computationally efficient transductive approach designed for Vision-Language Models (VLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Maxime Zanella , Benoît Gérin , Ismail Ben Ayed

Optimization-based meta-learning offers a promising direction for few-shot learning that is essential for many real-world computer vision applications. However, learning from few samples introduces uncertainty, and quantifying model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Deep Pandey , Qi Yu

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…

Deep neural networks have been able to outperform humans in some cases like image recognition and image classification. However, with the emergence of various novel categories, the ability to continuously widen the learning capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Nihar Bendre , Hugo Terashima Marín , Peyman Najafirad

When experience is scarce, models may have insufficient information to adapt to a new task. In this case, auxiliary information - such as a textual description of the task - can enable improved task inference and adaptation. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Matthew T. Jackson , Shreshth A. Malik , Michael T. Matthews , Yousuf Mohamed-Ahmed