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Few-shot learning aims at leveraging knowledge learned by one or more deep learning models, in order to obtain good classification performance on new problems, where only a few labeled samples per class are available. Recent years have seen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yassir Bendou , Yuqing Hu , Raphael Lafargue , Giulia Lioi , Bastien Pasdeloup , Stéphane Pateux , Vincent Gripon

In this paper we consider a version of the zero-shot learning problem where seen class source and target domain data are provided. The goal during test-time is to accurately predict the class label of an unseen target domain instance based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

In Few-Shot Learning (FSL), traditional metric-based approaches often rely on global metrics to compute similarity. However, in natural scenes, the spatial arrangement of key instances is often inconsistent across images. This spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hao Tang , Junhao Lu , Guoheng Huang , Ming Li , Xuhang Chen , Guo Zhong , Zhengguang Tan , Zinuo Li

We present a new algorithm which detects the maximal possible number of matched disjoint pairs satisfying a given caliper when a bipartite matching is done with respect to a scalar index (e.g., propensity score), and constructs a…

Computation · Statistics 2022-07-20 Pavel S. Ruzankin

Score matching is a recently developed parameter learning method that is particularly effective to complicated high dimensional density models with intractable partition functions. In this paper, we study two issues that have not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Siwei Lyu

Few-shot learning has recently attracted wide interest in image classification, but almost all the current public benchmarks are focused on natural images. The few-shot paradigm is highly relevant in medical-imaging applications due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Fereshteh Shakeri , Malik Boudiaf , Sina Mohammadi , Ivaxi Sheth , Mohammad Havaei , Ismail Ben Ayed , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

In neuroscience research, achieving single-neuron matching across different imaging modalities is critical for understanding the relationship between neuronal structure and function. However, modality gaps and limited annotations present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Wenwei Li , Liyi Cai , Wu Chen , Anan Li

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) models achieve strong performance in segmenting novel classes with minimal labeled examples, yet their decision-making processes remain largely opaque. While explainable AI has advanced significantly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pasquale De Marinis , Uzay Kaymak , Rogier Brussee , Gennaro Vessio , Giovanna Castellano

Few-shot learning, which aims at extracting new concepts rapidly from extremely few examples of novel classes, has been featured into the meta-learning paradigm recently. Yet, the key challenge of how to learn a generalizable classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Limeng Qiao , Yemin Shi , Jia Li , Yaowei Wang , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Few-shot learning allows machines to classify novel classes using only a few labeled samples. Recently, few-shot segmentation aiming at semantic segmentation on low sample data has also seen great interest. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Jun Seo , Young-Hyun Park , Sung-Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

Few-shot classification refers to learning a classifier for new classes given only a few examples. While a plethora of models have emerged to tackle it, we find the procedure and datasets that are used to assess their progress lacking. To…

Few-shot learning is devoted to training a model on few samples. Most of these approaches learn a model based on a pixel-level or global-level feature representation. However, using global features may lose local information, and using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

While few-shot learning (FSL) aims for rapid generalization to new concepts with little supervision, self-supervised learning (SSL) constructs supervisory signals directly computed from unlabeled data. Exploiting the complementarity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhengyu Chen , Jixie Ge , Heshen Zhan , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

The performance of many machine learning techniques depends on the choice of an appropriate similarity or distance measure on the input space. Similarity learning (or metric learning) aims at building such a measure from training data so…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Robin Vogel , Aurélien Bellet , Stéphan Clémençon

Few-shot image classification is challenging due to the lack of ample samples in each class. Such a challenge becomes even tougher when the number of classes is very large, i.e., the large-class few-shot scenario. In this novel scenario,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Bingcong Li , Bo Han , Zhuowei Wang , Jing Jiang , Guodong Long

We introduce Transductive Infomation Maximization (TIM) for few-shot learning. Our method maximizes the mutual information between the query features and their label predictions for a given few-shot task, in conjunction with a supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Malik Boudiaf , Ziko Imtiaz Masud , Jérôme Rony , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Pablo Piantanida

Learning high quality class representations from few examples is a key problem in metric-learning approaches to few-shot learning. To accomplish this, we introduce a novel architecture where class representations are conditioned for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Nathan Hilliard , Lawrence Phillips , Scott Howland , Artëm Yankov , Courtney D. Corley , Nathan O. Hodas

Few-shot classification aims at classifying categories of a novel task by learning from just a few (typically, 1 to 5) labelled examples. An effective approach to few-shot classification involves a prior model trained on a large-sample base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Rajshekhar Das , Yu-Xiong Wang , JoséM. F. Moura

Fisher score is one of the most widely used supervised feature selection methods. However, it selects each feature independently according to their scores under the Fisher criterion, which leads to a suboptimal subset of features. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Quanquan Gu , Zhenhui Li , Jiawei Han