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Few-shot learners aim to recognize new categories given only a small number of training samples. The core challenge is to avoid overfitting to the limited data while ensuring good generalization to novel classes. Existing literature makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Aditya Bharti , N. B. Vineeth , C. V. Jawahar

The goal of few-shot classification is to classify new categories with few labeled examples within each class. Nowadays, the excellent performance in handling few-shot classification problems is shown by metric-based meta-learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Xu Luo , Yuxuan Chen , Liangjian Wen , Lili Pan , Zenglin Xu

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

Learning to classify new categories based on just one or a few examples is a long-standing challenge in modern computer vision. In this work, we proposes a simple yet effective method for few-shot (and one-shot) object recognition. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Eli Schwartz , Leonid Karlinsky , Joseph Shtok , Sivan Harary , Mattias Marder , Rogerio Feris , Abhishek Kumar , Raja Giryes , Alex M. Bronstein

Popular approaches for few-shot classification consist of first learning a generic data representation based on a large annotated dataset, before adapting the representation to new classes given only a few labeled samples. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

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

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem since only a few examples are provided to recognize a new class. Several recent studies exploit additional semantic information, e.g. text embeddings of class names, to address the issue of rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

The aim of few-shot learning (FSL) is to learn how to recognize image categories from a small number of training examples. A central challenge is that the available training examples are normally insufficient to determine which visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

We propose an asymmetric affinity score for representing the complexity of utilizing the knowledge of one task for learning another one. Our method is based on the maximum bipartite matching algorithm and utilizes the Fisher Information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Cat P. Le , Juncheng Dong , Mohammadreza Soltani , Vahid Tarokh

In few-shot learning, the selection of samples has a significant impact on the performance of the model. While effective sample selection strategies are well-established in supervised settings, research on large language models largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Branislav Pecher , Ivan Srba , Maria Bielikova , Joaquin Vanschoren

Supervised object detection has been proven to be successful in many benchmark datasets achieving human-level performances. However, acquiring a large amount of labeled image samples for supervised detection training is tedious,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Bishwo Adhikari , Esa Rahtu , Heikki Huttunen

Precise ischemic lesion segmentation plays an essential role in improving diagnosis and treatment planning for ischemic stroke, one of the prevalent diseases with the highest mortality rate. While numerous deep neural network approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Luca Tomasetti , Stine Hansen , Mahdieh Khanmohammadi , Kjersti Engan , Liv Jorunn Høllesli , Kathinka Dæhli Kurz , Michael Kampffmeyer

Constructing new and more challenging tasksets is a fruitful methodology to analyse and understand few-shot classification methods. Unfortunately, existing approaches to building those tasksets are somewhat unsatisfactory: they either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Sébastien M. R. Arnold , Fei Sha

The unsupervised anomaly localization task faces the challenge of missing anomaly sample training, detecting multiple types of anomalies, and dealing with the proportion of the area of multiple anomalies. A separate teacher-student feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Chao Hu , Shengxin Lai

Two sampling strategies are investigated to enhance efficiency in training a deep learning object detection model. These sampling strategies are employed under the assumption of Lipschitz continuity of deep learning models. The first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Gefei Shen , Yung-Hong Sun , Yu Hen Hu , Hongrui Jiang

Autonomous agents interacting with the real world need to learn new concepts efficiently and reliably. This requires learning in a low-data regime, which is a highly challenging problem. We address this task by introducing a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ardhendu Shekhar Tripathi , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

The key issue of few-shot learning is learning to generalize. This paper proposes a large margin principle to improve the generalization capacity of metric based methods for few-shot learning. To realize it, we develop a unified framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yong Wang , Xiao-Ming Wu , Qimai Li , Jiatao Gu , Wangmeng Xiang , Lei Zhang , Victor O. K. Li

In continual learning (CL), an agent learns from a stream of tasks leveraging prior experience to transfer knowledge to future tasks. It is an ideal framework to decrease the amount of supervision in the existing learning algorithms. But…

Few-shot methods for accurate modeling under sparse label-settings have improved significantly. However, the applications of few-shot modeling in natural language processing remain solely in the field of document classification. With recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Anton Thielmann , Christoph Weisser , Benjamin Säfken

Few-shot learning has been extensively explored to address problems where the amount of labeled samples is very limited for some classes. In the semi-supervised few-shot learning setting, substantial quantities of unlabeled samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Souvik Maji , Rhythm Baghel , Pratik Mazumder