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Few-shot, fine-grained classification in computer vision poses significant challenges due to the need to differentiate subtle class distinctions with limited data. This paper presents a novel method that enhances the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Eric Brouwer , Jan Erik van Woerden , Gertjan Burghouts , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Marco Zullich

Intent recognition is critical for task-oriented dialogue systems. However, for emerging domains and new services, it is difficult to accurately identify the key intent of a conversation due to time-consuming data annotation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Caiyuan Chu , Ya Li , Yifan Liu , Jia-Chen Gu , Quan Liu , Yongxin Ge , Guoping Hu

Few-shot learning refers to understanding new concepts from only a few examples. We propose an information retrieval-inspired approach for this problem that is motivated by the increased importance of maximally leveraging all the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Eleni Triantafillou , Richard Zemel , Raquel Urtasun

This study harnesses state-of-the-art AI technology for detecting mental disorders through user-generated textual content. Existing studies typically rely on fully supervised machine learning, which presents challenges such as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Haoxin Liu , Wenli Zhang , Jiaheng Xie , Buomsoo Kim , Zhu Zhang , Yidong Chai , Sudha Ram

Conversational NLU providers often need to scale to thousands of intent-classification models where new customers often face the cold-start problem. Scaling to so many customers puts a constraint on storage space as well. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Soham Parikh , Quaizar Vohra , Prashil Tumbade , Mitul Tiwari

New intent discovery aims to uncover novel intent categories from user utterances to expand the set of supported intent classes. It is a critical task for the development and service expansion of a practical dialogue system. Despite its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yuwei Zhang , Haode Zhang , Li-Ming Zhan , Albert Y. S. Lam , Xiao-Ming Wu

We address the problem of few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS), which aims to segment novel class objects in a target image with a few annotated samples. Though recent advances have been made by incorporating prototype-based metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hyeongjun Kwon , Somi Jeong , Sunok Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

Existing approaches towards anomaly detection~(AD) often rely on a substantial amount of anomaly-free data to train representation and density models. However, large anomaly-free datasets may not always be available before the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jingyi Liao , Xun Xu , Manh Cuong Nguyen , Adam Goodge , Chuan Sheng Foo

Few-shot learning is the process of learning novel classes using only a few examples and it remains a challenging task in machine learning. Many sophisticated few-shot learning algorithms have been proposed based on the notion that networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Akihiro Nakamura , Tatsuya Harada

This paper presents miCSE, a mutual information-based contrastive learning framework that significantly advances the state-of-the-art in few-shot sentence embedding. The proposed approach imposes alignment between the attention pattern of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Contrastive self-supervised learning methods learn to map data points such as images into non-parametric representation space without requiring labels. While highly successful, current methods require a large amount of data in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Ali Lotfi Rezaabad , Sidharth Kumar , Sriram Vishwanath , Jonathan I. Tamir

Few-shot learning that trains image classifiers over few labeled examples per category is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose to exploit an additional big dataset with different categories to improve the accuracy of few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Liangqu Long , Wei Wang , Jun Wen , Meihui Zhang , Qian Lin , Beng Chin Ooi

Semi-supervised few-shot learning consists in training a classifier to adapt to new tasks with limited labeled data and a fixed quantity of unlabeled data. Many sophisticated methods have been developed to address the challenges this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xiu-Shen Wei , He-Yang Xu , Faen Zhang , Yuxin Peng , Wei Zhou

Few-shot learning is a promising way for reducing the label cost in new categories adaptation with the guidance of a small, well labeled support set. But for few-shot semantic segmentation, the pixel-level annotations of support images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jing Wang , Yuang Liu , Qiang Zhou , Fan Wang

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to imperceptible adversarial perturbations has attracted widespread attention. Inspired by the success of vision-language foundation models, previous efforts achieved zero-shot adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yiwei Zhou , Xiaobo Xia , Zhiwei Lin , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu

Training a neural network model that can quickly adapt to a new task is highly desirable yet challenging for few-shot learning problems. Recent few-shot learning methods mostly concentrate on developing various meta-learning strategies from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zihang Jiang , Bingyi Kang , Kuangqi Zhou , Jiashi Feng

Incremental few-shot object detection aims at detecting novel classes without forgetting knowledge of the base classes with only a few labeled training data from the novel classes. Most related prior works are on incremental object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Na Dong , Yongqiang Zhang , Mingli Ding , Gim Hee Lee

Humans are able to learn to recognize new objects even from a few examples. In contrast, training deep-learning-based object detectors requires huge amounts of annotated data. To avoid the need to acquire and annotate these huge amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Mona Köhler , Markus Eisenbach , Horst-Michael Gross

In this paper, we formulate a more realistic and difficult problem setup for the intent detection task in natural language understanding, namely Generalized Few-Shot Intent Detection (GFSID). GFSID aims to discriminate a joint label space…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Congying Xia , Chenwei Zhang , Hoang Nguyen , Jiawei Zhang , Philip Yu

Conventional methods for object detection typically require a substantial amount of training data and preparing such high-quality training data is very labor-intensive. In this paper, we propose a novel few-shot object detection network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Qi Fan , Wei Zhuo , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai