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Few-shot classification is a challenging task which aims to formulate the ability of humans to learn concepts from limited prior data and has drawn considerable attention in machine learning. Recent progress in few-shot classification has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Meiyu Huang , Xueshuang Xiang , Yao Xu

The ability to incrementally learn new classes is crucial to the development of real-world artificial intelligence systems. In this paper, we focus on a challenging but practical few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) problem. FSCIL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xiaoyu Tao , Xiaopeng Hong , Xinyuan Chang , Songlin Dong , Xing Wei , Yihong Gong

Incremental Learning scenarios do not always represent real-world inference use-cases, which tend to have less strict task boundaries, and exhibit repetition of common classes and concepts in their continual data stream. To better represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Benedikt Tscheschner , Eduardo Veas , Marc Masana

The pre-trained foundation models (PFMs) have become essential for facilitating large-scale multimodal learning. Researchers have effectively employed the ``pre-train, prompt, and predict'' paradigm through prompt learning to induce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Xiang Chen , Yixin Ou , Quan Feng , Lei Li , Piji Li , Haibo Ye , Sheng-Jun Huang , Shuofei Qiao , Shumin Deng , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Most approaches in few-shot learning rely on costly annotated data related to the goal task domain during (pre-)training. Recently, unsupervised meta-learning methods have exchanged the annotation requirement for a reduction in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Carlos Medina , Arnout Devos , Matthias Grossglauser

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

Incremental few-shot learning is highly expected for practical robotics applications. On one hand, robot is desired to learn new tasks quickly and flexibly using only few annotated training samples; on the other hand, such new additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Sichao Tian , Fan Feng , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

Episodic self-imitation learning, a novel self-imitation algorithm with a trajectory selection module and an adaptive loss function, is proposed to speed up reinforcement learning. Compared to the original self-imitation learning algorithm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Tianhong Dai , Hengyan Liu , Anil Anthony Bharath

Few-shot learning features the capability of generalizing from a few examples. In this paper, we first identify that a discriminative feature space, namely a rectified metric space, that is learned to maintain the metric consistency from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Yang Zhao , Chunyuan Li , Ping Yu , Changyou Chen

Exemplar-Free Class Incremental Learning is a highly challenging setting where replay memory is unavailable. Methods relying on frozen feature extractors have drawn attention recently in this setting due to their impressive performances and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Quentin Jodelet , Xin Liu , Yin Jun Phua , Tsuyoshi Murata

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to incrementally fine-tune a model (trained on base classes) for a novel set of classes using a few examples without forgetting the previous training. Recent efforts address this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Townim Chowdhury , Ali Cheraghian , Sameera Ramasinghe , Sahar Ahmadi , Morteza Saberi , Shafin Rahman

Few-shot deep learning is a topical challenge area for scaling visual recognition to open ended growth of unseen new classes with limited labeled examples. A promising approach is based on metric learning, which trains a deep embedding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Xueting Zhang , Yuting Qiang , Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

The FungiCLEF 2025 competition addresses the challenge of automatic fungal species recognition using realistic, field-collected observational data. Accurate identification tools support both mycologists and citizen scientists, greatly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Abdarahmane Traore , Éric Hervet , Andy Couturier

Real-world scenarios are usually accompanied by continuously appearing classes with scare labeled samples, which require the machine learning model to incrementally learn new classes and maintain the knowledge of base classes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Qi-Wei Wang , Da-Wei Zhou , Yi-Kai Zhang , De-Chuan Zhan , Han-Jia Ye

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) has addressed challenging real-world scenarios where unseen novel classes continually arrive with few samples. In these scenarios, it is required to develop a model that recognizes the novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

Few-shot learning has attracted intensive research attention in recent years. Many methods have been proposed to generalize a model learned from provided base classes to novel classes, but no previous work studies how to select base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Linjun Zhou , Peng Cui , Xu Jia , Shiqiang Yang , Qi Tian

Any-shot image classification allows to recognize novel classes with only a few or even zero samples. For the task of zero-shot learning, visual attributes have been shown to play an important role, while in the few-shot regime, the effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Wenjia Xu , Yongqin Xian , Jiuniu Wang , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Although prototypical network (ProtoNet) has proved to be an effective method for few-shot sound event detection, two problems still exist. Firstly, the small-scaled support set is insufficient so that the class prototypes may not represent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Dongchao Yang , Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou , Zhongjie Ye , Wenwu Wang

The main challenge for fine-grained few-shot image classification is to learn feature representations with higher inter-class and lower intra-class variations, with a mere few labelled samples. Conventional few-shot learning methods however…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jijie Wu , Dongliang Chang , Aneeshan Sain , Xiaoxu Li , Zhanyu Ma , Jie Cao , Jun Guo , Yi-Zhe Song

Over the past few years, there has been a significant improvement in the domain of few-shot learning. This learning paradigm has shown promising results for the challenging problem of anomaly detection, where the general task is to deal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Soumyajit Karmakar , Abeer Banerjee , Prashant Sadashiv Gidde , Sumeet Saurav , Sanjay Singh