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Recently, prompt-based methods have achieved significant performance in few-shot learning scenarios by bridging the gap between language model pre-training and fine-tuning for downstream tasks. However, existing prompt templates are mostly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Liwen Wang , Rumei Li , Yang Yan , Yuanmeng Yan , Sirui Wang , Wei Wu , Weiran Xu

When combined with In-Context Learning, a technique that enables models to adapt to new tasks by incorporating task-specific examples or demonstrations directly within the input prompt, autoregressive language models have achieved good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Enzo Shiraishi , Raphael Y. de Camargo , Henrique L. P. Silva , Ronaldo C. Prati

Recently few-shot object detection is widely adopted to deal with data-limited situations. While most previous works merely focus on the performance on few-shot categories, we claim that detecting all classes is crucial as test samples may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Zhibo Fan , Yuchen Ma , Zeming Li , Jian Sun

Few-shot image classification aims to classify novel classes with few labeled samples. Recent research indicates that deep local descriptors have better representational capabilities. These studies recognize the impact of background noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Qian Qiao , Yu Xie , Shaoyao Huang , Fanzhang Li

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) targets generalizing to unseen labels and/or domains with few labeled examples. Existing metric learning methods compute token-level similarities between query and support sets, but are not able to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yanru Chen , Yanan Zheng , Zhilin Yang

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) systems aim at recognizing novel-class named entities based on only a few labeled examples. In this paper, we present a decomposed meta-learning approach which addresses the problem of few-shot NER by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Tingting Ma , Huiqiang Jiang , Qianhui Wu , Tiejun Zhao , Chin-Yew Lin

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) exploits only a handful of annotations to identify and classify named entity mentions. Prototypical network shows superior performance on few-shot NER. However, existing prototypical methods fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Meihan Tong , Shuai Wang , Bin Xu , Yixin Cao , Minghui Liu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Named Entity Recognition (NER) in biomedical domains faces challenges due to data scarcity and imbalanced label distributions, especially with fine-grained entity types. We propose ReProCon, a novel few-shot NER framework that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jeongkyun Yoo , Nela Riddle , Andrew Hoblitzell

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) has shown remarkable progress in identifying entities in low-resource domains. However, few-shot NER methods still struggle with out-of-domain (OOD) examples due to their reliance on manual labeling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zihan Wang , Ziqi Zhao , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Despite the recent success achieved by several two-stage prototypical networks in few-shot named entity recognition (NER) task, the overdetected false spans at the span detection stage and the inaccurate and unstable prototypes at the type…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yongqi Li , Yu Yu , Tieyun Qian

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and recognise named entities. Despite recent achievements, we still face limitations in correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Diego Esteves

We present a novel approach to named entity recognition (NER) in the presence of scarce data that we call example-based NER. Our train-free few-shot learning approach takes inspiration from question-answering to identify entity spans in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Morteza Ziyadi , Yuting Sun , Abhishek Goswami , Jade Huang , Weizhu Chen

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to identify named entities with very little annotated data. Previous methods solve this problem based on token-wise classification, which ignores the information of entity boundaries, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jianing Wang , Chengcheng Han , Chengyu Wang , Chuanqi Tan , Minghui Qiu , Songfang Huang , Jun Huang , Ming Gao

Few-shot classification consists of learning a predictive model that is able to effectively adapt to a new class, given only a few annotated samples. To solve this challenging problem, meta-learning has become a popular paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

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

Few-shot classification and meta-learning methods typically struggle to generalize across diverse domains, as most approaches focus on a single dataset, failing to transfer knowledge across various seen and unseen domains. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kristi Topollai , Anna Choromanska

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) detects named entities within text using only a few annotated examples. One promising line of research is to leverage natural language descriptions of each entity type: the common label PER might, for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jonas Golde , Felix Hamborg , Alan Akbik

Most few-shot learning works rely on the same domain assumption between the base and the target tasks, hindering their practical applications. This paper proposes an adaptive transformer network (ADAPTER), a simple but effective solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Naeem Paeedeh , Mahardhika Pratama , Muhammad Anwar Ma'sum , Wolfgang Mayer , Zehong Cao , Ryszard Kowlczyk

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to classify and detect few images of novel categories. Existing meta-learning methods insufficiently exploit features between support and query images owing to structural limitations. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Dongwoo Park , Jong-Min Lee

Few-shot recognition involves training an image classifier to distinguish novel concepts at test time using few examples (shot). Existing approaches generally assume that the shot number at test time is known in advance. This is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Davis Wertheimer , Luming Tang , Bharath Hariharan