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Few-shot algorithms aim at learning new tasks provided only a handful of training examples. In this work we investigate few-shot learning in the setting where the data points are sequences of tokens and propose an efficient learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Lajanugen Logeswaran , Ann Lee , Myle Ott , Honglak Lee , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Arthur Szlam

Image segmentation is often ambiguous at the level of individual image patches and requires contextual information to reach label consensus. In this paper we introduce Segmenter, a transformer model for semantic segmentation. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Robin Strudel , Ricardo Garcia , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

An old-school recipe for training a classifier is to (i) learn a good feature extractor and (ii) optimize a linear layer atop. When only a handful of samples are available per category, as in Few-Shot Adaptation (FSA), data are insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Matteo Farina , Massimiliano Mancini , Giovanni Iacca , Elisa Ricci

Few-shot object detection is a challenging but realistic scenario, where only a few annotated training images are available for training detectors. A popular approach to handle this problem is transfer learning, i.e., fine-tuning a detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Ze Yang , Yali Wang , Xianyu Chen , Jianzhuang Liu , Yu Qiao

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

Single image-level annotations only correctly describe an often small subset of an image's content, particularly when complex real-world scenes are depicted. While this might be acceptable in many classification scenarios, it poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Markus Hiller , Rongkai Ma , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond

The performance of meta-learning approaches for few-shot learning generally depends on three aspects: features suitable for comparison, the classifier ( base learner ) suitable for low-data scenarios, and valuable information from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Haoqing Wang , Zhi-Hong Deng

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Recently few-shot segmentation (FSS) has been extensively developed. Most previous works strive to achieve generalization through the meta-learning framework derived from classification tasks; however, the trained models are biased towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Chunbo Lang , Gong Cheng , Binfei Tu , Junwei Han

Most recent semantic segmentation methods adopt a fully-convolutional network (FCN) with an encoder-decoder architecture. The encoder progressively reduces the spatial resolution and learns more abstract/semantic visual concepts with larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Sixiao Zheng , Jiachen Lu , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiatian Zhu , Zekun Luo , Yabiao Wang , Yanwei Fu , Jianfeng Feng , Tao Xiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Li Zhang

Few-shot segmentation aims to train a segmentation model that can fast adapt to novel classes with few exemplars. The conventional training paradigm is to learn to make predictions on query images conditioned on the features from support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Gengwei Zhang , Guoliang Kang , Yi Yang , Yunchao Wei

Deep Learning shows very good performance when trained on large labeled data sets. The problem of training a deep net on a few or one sample per class requires a different learning approach which can generalize to unseen classes using only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Jinchao Liu , Stuart J. Gibson , Margarita Osadchy

In visual recognition tasks, few-shot learning requires the ability to learn object categories with few support examples. Its re-popularity in light of the deep learning development is mainly in image classification. This work focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Miao Zhang , Miaojing Shi , Li Li

In this paper, we aim to tackle the challenging few-shot segmentation task from a new perspective. Typical methods follow the paradigm to firstly learn prototypical features from support images and then match query features in pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Siyu Jiao , Gengwei Zhang , Shant Navasardyan , Ling Chen , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

Resembling the rapid learning capability of human, few-shot learning empowers vision systems to understand new concepts by training with few samples. Leading approaches derived from meta-learning on images with a single visual object.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xiaopeng Yan , Ziliang Chen , Anni Xu , Xiaoxi Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

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

Meta-learning aims at learning quickly on novel tasks with limited data by transferring generic experience learned from previous tasks. Naturally, few-shot learning has been one of the most popular applications for meta-learning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yudong Chen , Chaoyu Guan , Zhikun Wei , Xin Wang , Wenwu Zhu

In image classification, it is common practice to train deep networks to extract a single feature vector per input image. Few-shot classification methods also mostly follow this trend. In this work, we depart from this established direction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Arman Afrasiyabi , Hugo Larochelle , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

Metric-based meta-learning techniques have successfully been applied to few-shot classification problems. In this paper, we propose to leverage cross-modal information to enhance metric-based few-shot learning methods. Visual and semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chen Xing , Negar Rostamzadeh , Boris N. Oreshkin , Pedro O. Pinheiro

In computer vision applications, such as domain adaptation (DA), few shot learning (FSL) and zero-shot learning (ZSL), we encounter new objects and environments, for which insufficient examples exist to allow for training "models from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Pengkai Zhu , Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama