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In few-shot learning, classifiers are expected to generalize to unseen classes given only a small number of instances of each new class. One of the popular solutions to few-shot learning is metric-based meta-learning. However, it highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qiuhao Zeng

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…

Few-shot learning, a challenging task in machine learning, aims to learn a classifier adaptable to recognize new, unseen classes with limited labeled examples. Meta-learning has emerged as a prominent framework for few-shot learning. Its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Weihao Jiang , Guodong Liu , Di He , Kun He

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) aims to improve a model's generalization capability in low data regimes. Recent FSL works have made steady progress via metric learning, meta learning, representation learning, etc. However, FSL remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Meng Ye , Xiao Lin , Giedrius Burachas , Ajay Divakaran , Yi Yao

Most previous few-shot learning algorithms are based on meta-training with fake few-shot tasks as training samples, where large labeled base classes are required. The trained model is also limited by the type of tasks. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

Existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods rely on training with a large labeled dataset, which prevents them from leveraging abundant unlabeled data. From an information-theoretic perspective, we propose an effective unsupervised FSL method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yuning Lu , Liangjian Wen , Jianzhuang Liu , Yajing Liu , Xinmei Tian

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

Contemporary state-of-the-art approaches to Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) train generative nets to synthesize examples conditioned on the provided metadata. Thereafter, classifiers are trained on these synthetic data in a supervised manner. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Georgios Chochlakis , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos

The existing few-shot video classification methods often employ a meta-learning paradigm by designing customized temporal alignment module for similarity calculation. While significant progress has been made, these methods fail to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhenxi Zhu , Limin Wang , Sheng Guo , Gangshan Wu

Few-shot learning (FSL) commonly requires a model to identify images (queries) that belong to classes unseen during training, based on a few labelled samples of the new classes (support set) as reference. So far, plenty of algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yunwei Bai , Ying Kiat Tan , Shiming Chen , Yao Shu , Tsuhan Chen

Few-shot learning (FSL), which aims to recognise new classes by adapting the learned knowledge with extremely limited few-shot (support) examples, remains an important open problem in computer vision. Most of the existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Li Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Partial-label learning (PLL) generally focuses on inducing a noise-tolerant multi-class classifier by training on overly-annotated samples, each of which is annotated with a set of labels, but only one is the valid label. A basic promise of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yunfeng Zhao , Guoxian Yu , Lei Liu , Zhongmin Yan , Lizhen Cui , Carlotta Domeniconi

Few-shot learners aim to recognize new object classes based on a small number of labeled training examples. To prevent overfitting, state-of-the-art few-shot learners use meta-learning on convolutional-network features and perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yan Wang , Wei-Lun Chao , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Laurens van der Maaten

Few-shot learning is proposed to tackle the problem of scarce training data in novel classes. However, prior works in instance-level few-shot learning have paid less attention to effectively utilizing the relationship between categories. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Thanh-Toan Do , Nhat-Duy Nguyen , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Thanh Duc Ngo , Tam V. Nguyen

Human intelligence is characterized by our ability to absorb and apply knowledge from the world around us, especially in rapidly acquiring new concepts from minimal examples, underpinned by prior knowledge. Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Hui Xue , Yuexuan An , Yongchun Qin , Wenqian Li , Yixin Wu , Yongjuan Che , Pengfei Fang , Minling Zhang

We propose an adaptation of the curriculum training framework, applicable to state-of-the-art meta learning techniques for few-shot classification. Curriculum-based training popularly attempts to mimic human learning by progressively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Emmanouil Stergiadis , Priyanka Agrawal , Oliver Squire

Existing meta-learning based few-shot learning (FSL) methods typically adopt an episodic training strategy whereby each episode contains a meta-task. Across episodes, these tasks are sampled randomly and their relationships are ignored. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Nanyi Fei , Zhiwu Lu , Yizhao Gao , Jia Tian , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen

Metric learning is a widely used method for few shot learning in which the quality of prototypes plays a key role in the algorithm. In this paper we propose the trainable prototypes for distance measure instead of the artificial ones within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

We propose a method that can perform one-class classification given only a small number of examples from the target class and none from the others. We formulate the learning of meaningful features for one-class classification as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Gabriel Dahia , Maurício Pamplona Segundo

Meta-learning is a popular framework for learning with limited data in which an algorithm is produced by training over multiple few-shot learning tasks. For classification problems, these tasks are typically constructed by sampling a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Amrith Setlur , Oscar Li , Virginia Smith