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Despite Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) showing promising results on general zero-shot image classification tasks, fine-grained image classification remains challenging. It demands precise attention to subtle visual details to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yunqi Hong , Sohyun An , Andrew Bai , Neil Y. C. Lin , Cho-Jui Hsieh

In order to train robust deep learning models, large amounts of labelled data is required. However, in the absence of such large repositories of labelled data, unlabeled data can be exploited for the same. Semi-Supervised learning aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Soumyadeep Ghosh , Sanjay Kumar , Janu Verma , Awanish Kumar

Existing solutions to zero-shot text classification either conduct prompting with pre-trained language models, which is sensitive to the choices of templates, or rely on large-scale annotated data of relevant tasks for meta-tuning. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Chaoqun Liu , Wenxuan Zhang , Guizhen Chen , Xiaobao Wu , Anh Tuan Luu , Chip Hong Chang , Lidong Bing

Recently, large-scale pre-trained Vision and Language (VL) models have set a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) in zero-shot visual classification enabling open-vocabulary recognition of potentially unlimited set of categories defined as simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Leonid Karlinsky , Wei Lin , Mateusz Kozinski , Horst Possegger , Rogerio Feris , Horst Bischof

Sentiment analysis is a crucial task in natural language processing that involves identifying and extracting subjective sentiment from text. Self-training has recently emerged as an economical and efficient technique for developing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Haochen Liu , Sai Krishna Rallabandi , Yijing Wu , Parag Pravin Dakle , Preethi Raghavan

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) focuses on models learning new concepts from limited data while retaining knowledge of previous classes. Recently, many studies have started to leverage unlabeled samples to assist models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Fan Lyu , Linglan Zhao , Chengyan Liu , Yinying Mei , Zhang Zhang , Jian Zhang , Fuyuan Hu , Liang Wang

Recent advances in large pretrained language models have increased attention to zero-shot text classification. In particular, models finetuned on natural language inference datasets have been widely adopted as zero-shot classifiers due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ariel Gera , Alon Halfon , Eyal Shnarch , Yotam Perlitz , Liat Ein-Dor , Noam Slonim

Few-shot learning is a challenging task since only few instances are given for recognizing an unseen class. One way to alleviate this problem is to acquire a strong inductive bias via meta-learning on similar tasks. In this paper, we show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

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

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) alleviates the cost of data labeling process by exploiting unlabeled data and has achieved promising results. Meanwhile, with the development of large foundation models, exploiting pre-trained models becomes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Song-Lin Lv , Rui Zhu , Tong Wei , Yu-Feng Li , Lan-Zhe Guo

Few-shot learning aims to handle previously unseen tasks using only a small amount of new training data. In preparing (or meta-training) a few-shot learner, however, massive labeled data are necessary. In the real world, unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Jun Seo , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

Large pre-trained language models (LMs) such as GPT-3 have acquired a surprising ability to perform zero-shot learning. For example, to classify sentiment without any training examples, we can "prompt" the LM with the review and the label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Ruiqi Zhong , Kristy Lee , Zheng Zhang , Dan Klein

The cost of data annotation is a substantial impediment for multi-label image classification: in every image, every category must be labeled as present or absent. Single positive multi-label (SPML) learning is a cost-effective solution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Julio Arroyo

Semi-supervised algorithms aim to learn prediction functions from a small set of labeled observations and a large set of unlabeled observations. Because this framework is relevant in many applications, they have received a lot of interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Massih-Reza Amini , Vasilii Feofanov , Loic Pauletto , Lies Hadjadj , Emilie Devijver , Yury Maximov

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a widely used technique in scenarios where labeled data is scarce and unlabeled data is abundant. While SSL is popular for image and text classification, it is relatively underexplored for the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Gaurav Sahu , Olga Vechtomova , Issam H. Laradji

Through prompting, large-scale pre-trained models have become more expressive and powerful, gaining significant attention in recent years. Though these big models have zero-shot capabilities, in general, labeled data are still required to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Korawat Tanwisuth , Shujian Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Pengcheng He , Mingyuan Zhou

The successful application of deep learning to many visual recognition tasks relies heavily on the availability of a large amount of labeled data which is usually expensive to obtain. The few-shot learning problem has attracted increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Zhongjie Yu , Lin Chen , Zhongwei Cheng , Jiebo Luo

The lack of labeled data is a common challenge in speech classification tasks, particularly those requiring extensive subjective assessment, such as cognitive state classification. In this work, we propose a Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Yuanchao Li , Zixing Zhang , Jing Han , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Fine-tuning pre-trained language models has recently become a common practice in building NLP models for various tasks, especially few-shot tasks. We argue that under the few-shot setting, formulating fine-tuning closer to the pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zihan Wang , Kewen Zhao , Zilong Wang , Jingbo Shang

As an algorithmic framework for learning to learn, meta-learning provides a promising solution for few-shot text classification. However, most existing research fail to give enough attention to class labels. Traditional basic framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Guanghua Hou , Shuhui Cao , Deqiang Ouyang , Ning Wang