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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

In this paper, we explore meta-learning for few-shot text classification. Meta-learning has shown strong performance in computer vision, where low-level patterns are transferable across learning tasks. However, directly applying this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yujia Bao , Menghua Wu , Shiyu Chang , Regina Barzilay

Autonomous agents interacting with the real world need to learn new concepts efficiently and reliably. This requires learning in a low-data regime, which is a highly challenging problem. We address this task by introducing a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ardhendu Shekhar Tripathi , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Few-shot transfer has been revolutionized by stronger pre-trained models and improved adaptation algorithms.However, there lacks a unified, rigorous evaluation protocol that is both challenging and realistic for real-world usage. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xu Luo , Ji Zhang , Lianli Gao , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song

Graph few-shot learning has garnered significant attention for its ability to rapidly adapt to downstream tasks with limited labeled data, sparking considerable interest among researchers. Recent advancements in graph few-shot learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yonghao Liu , Fausto Giunchiglia , Ximing Li , Lan Huang , Xiaoyue Feng , Renchu Guan

The performance of meta-learning approaches for few-shot learning generally depends on three aspects: features suitable for comparison, the classifier ( base learner ) suitable for low-data scenarios, and valuable information from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Haoqing Wang , Zhi-Hong Deng

Advancements in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics have paved the way for transformative solutions in various domains, particularly in agriculture. For example, accurate identification and segmentation of fruits from field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jordan A. James , Heather K. Manching , Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp , William J. Beksi

Few shot learning aims to solve the data scarcity problem. If there is a domain shift between the test set and the training set, their performance will decrease a lot. This setting is called Cross-domain few-shot learning. However, this is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Fupin Yao

Few-shot classification is a challenge in machine learning where the goal is to train a classifier using a very limited number of labeled examples. This scenario is likely to occur frequently in real life, for example when data acquisition…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Lyes Khacef , Vincent Gripon , Benoit Miramond

Few-shot classification aims to adapt classifiers to novel classes with a few training samples. However, the insufficiency of training data may cause a biased estimation of feature distribution in a certain class. To alleviate this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jing Xu , Xinglin Pan , Xu Luo , Wenjie Pei , Zenglin Xu

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel classes with few examples. Pre-training based methods effectively tackle the problem by pre-training a feature extractor and then fine-tuning it through the nearest centroid based meta-learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Baoquan Zhang , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Shanshan Feng

Few-shot classification consists of a training phase where a model is learned on a relatively large dataset and an adaptation phase where the learned model is adapted to previously-unseen tasks with limited labeled samples. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xu Luo , Hao Wu , Ji Zhang , Lianli Gao , Jing Xu , Jingkuan Song

The ability to infer the intentions of others, predict their goals, and deduce their plans are critical features for intelligent agents. For a long time, several approaches investigated the use of symbolic representations and inferences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Thibault Duhamel , Mariane Maynard , Froduald Kabanza

Metric-based few-shot learning methods try to overcome the difficulty due to the lack of training examples by learning embedding to make comparison easy. We propose a novel algorithm to generate class representatives for few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Junyoung Park , Subin Yi , Yongseok Choi , Dong-Yeon Cho , Jiwon Kim

This paper studies few-shot segmentation, which is a task of predicting foreground mask of unseen classes by a few of annotations only, aided by a set of rich annotations already existed. The existing methods mainly focus the task on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Yuwei Yang , Fanman Meng , Hongliang Li , King N. Ngan , Qingbo Wu

Few-shot object detection, learning to adapt to the novel classes with a few labeled data, is an imperative and long-lasting problem due to the inherent long-tail distribution of real-world data and the urgent demands to cut costs of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Leng Jiaxu , Chen Taiyue , Gao Xinbo , Yu Yongtao , Wang Ye , Gao Feng , Wang Yue

Few-shot image classification learns to recognize new categories from limited labelled data. Metric learning based approaches have been widely investigated, where a query sample is classified by finding the nearest prototype from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Zhizheng Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Zhibo Chen , Shih-Fu Chang

In many practical few-shot learning problems, even though labeled examples are scarce, there are abundant auxiliary datasets that potentially contain useful information. We propose the problem of extended few-shot learning to study these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Reza Esfandiarpoor , Amy Pu , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Stephen H. Bach

Aiming at recognizing the samples from novel categories with few reference samples, few-shot learning (FSL) is a challenging problem. We found that the existing works often build their few-shot model based on the image-level feature by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Junying Huang , Fan Chen , Keze Wang , Liang Lin , Dongyu Zhang

Traditional semantic segmentation tasks require a large number of labels and are difficult to identify unlearned categories. Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to use limited labeled support images to identify the segmentation of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xianglin Wang , Xiaoliu Luo , Taiping Zhang