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Most existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods require a large amount of labeled data in meta-training, which is a major limit. To reduce the requirement of labels, a semi-supervised meta-training (SSMT) setting has been proposed for FSL,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xingping Dong , Tianran Ouyang , Shengcai Liao , Bo Du , Ling Shao

Few-shot learning is a central problem in meta-learning, where learners must quickly adapt to new tasks given limited training data. Recently, feature pre-training has become a ubiquitous component in state-of-the-art meta-learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Ruohan Wang , Massimiliano Pontil , Carlo Ciliberto

Meta-learning has emerged as a prominent technology for few-shot text classification and has achieved promising performance. However, existing methods often encounter difficulties in drawing accurate class prototypes from support set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinyue Liu , Yunlong Gao , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Few-shot learning (FSL) has shown promise in vision but remains largely unexplored for \emph{industrial} time-series data, where annotating every new defect is prohibitively expensive. We present a systematic FSL study on screw-fastening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xinyuan Tu

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem where the goal is to achieve generalization from only few examples. Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) tackles the problem by formulating prior knowledge as a common initialization across tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Sungyong Baik , Seokil Hong , Kyoung Mu Lee

Neural networks are known to suffer from catastrophic forgetting when trained on sequential datasets. While there have been numerous attempts to solve this problem in large-scale supervised classification, little has been done to overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Pauching Yap , Hippolyt Ritter , David Barber

Majority of the modern meta-learning methods for few-shot classification tasks operate in two phases: a meta-training phase where the meta-learner learns a generic representation by solving multiple few-shot tasks sampled from a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Qing Liu , Orchid Majumder , Alessandro Achille , Avinash Ravichandran , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

In recent years, model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) has become a popular research area. However, the stochastic optimization of MAML is still underdeveloped. Existing MAML algorithms rely on the ``episode'' idea by sampling a few tasks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Bokun Wang , Zhuoning Yuan , Yiming Ying , Tianbao Yang

The use of meta-learning and transfer learning in the task of few-shot image classification is a well researched area with many papers showcasing the advantages of transfer learning over meta-learning in cases where data is plentiful and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Joshua Ball

Few-shot learning aims to train models that can be generalized to novel classes with only a few samples. Recently, a line of works are proposed to enhance few-shot learning with accessible semantic information from class names. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zihao Jiang , Yunkai Dang , Dong Pang , Huishuai Zhang , Weiran Huang

Few-shot learning (FSL) is a central problem in meta-learning, where learners must efficiently learn from few labeled examples. Within FSL, feature pre-training has recently become an increasingly popular strategy to significantly improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ruohan Wang , Isak Falk , Massimiliano Pontil , Carlo Ciliberto

Building models of natural language processing (NLP) is challenging in low-resource scenarios where only limited data are available. Optimization-based meta-learning algorithms achieve promising results in low-resource scenarios by adapting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Yingxiu Zhao , Zhiliang Tian , Huaxiu Yao , Yinhe Zheng , Dongkyu Lee , Yiping Song , Jian Sun , Nevin L. Zhang

Even with the luxury of having abundant data, multi-label classification is widely known to be a challenging task to address. This work targets the problem of multi-label meta-learning, where a model learns to predict multiple labels within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Christian Simon , Piotr Koniusz , Mehrtash Harandi

Although few-shot learning and one-class classification (OCC), i.e., learning a binary classifier with data from only one class, have been separately well studied, their intersection remains rather unexplored. Our work addresses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Ahmed Frikha , Denis Krompaß , Hans-Georg Köpken , Volker Tresp

The significant amount of training data required for training Convolutional Neural Networks has become a bottleneck for applications like semantic segmentation. Few-shot semantic segmentation algorithms address this problem, with an aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Ayyappa Kumar Pambala , Titir Dutta , Soma Biswas

Meta-training, which fine-tunes the language model (LM) on various downstream tasks by maximizing the likelihood of the target label given the task instruction and input instance, has improved the zero-shot task generalization performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Seonghyeon Ye , Doyoung Kim , Joel Jang , Joongbo Shin , Minjoon Seo

Meta-learning has been the most common framework for few-shot learning in recent years. It learns the model from collections of few-shot classification tasks, which is believed to have a key advantage of making the training objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Yinbo Chen , Zhuang Liu , Huijuan Xu , Trevor Darrell , Xiaolong Wang

Currently, the state-of-the-art methods treat few-shot semantic segmentation task as a conditional foreground-background segmentation problem, assuming each class is independent. In this paper, we introduce the concept of meta-class, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhonghua Wu , Xiangxi Shi , Guosheng lin , Jianfei Cai

Meta-learning approaches have been proposed to tackle the few-shot learning problem.Typically, a meta-learner is trained on a variety of tasks in the hopes of being generalizable to new tasks. However, the generalizability on new tasks of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Muhammad Abdullah Jamal , Guo-Jun Qi , Mubarak Shah

Meta learning is a promising technique for solving few-shot fault prediction problems, which have attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. Existing meta-learning methods for time series prediction, which predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Hai Su , Jiajun Hu , Songsen Yu