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Few-shot relation extraction (FSRE) focuses on recognizing novel relations by learning with merely a handful of annotated instances. Meta-learning has been widely adopted for such a task, which trains on randomly generated few-shot tasks to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Wei Lu

Detecting novel objects from few examples has become an emerging topic in computer vision recently. However, these methods need fully annotated training images to learn new object categories which limits their applicability in real world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Amirreza Shaban , Amir Rahimi , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Byron Boots , Richard Hartley

We explore Few-Shot Learning (FSL) for Relation Classification (RC). Focusing on the realistic scenario of FSL, in which a test instance might not belong to any of the target categories (none-of-the-above, aka NOTA), we first revisit the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ofer Sabo , Yanai Elazar , Yoav Goldberg , Ido Dagan

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 image classification requires the classifier to robustly cope with unseen classes even if there are only a few samples for each class. Recent advances benefit from the meta-learning process where episodic tasks are formed to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Da Chen , Yongliang Yang , Zunlei Feng , Xiang Wu , Mingli Song , Wenbin Li , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Feng Mao

To mitigate the detection performance drop caused by domain shift, we aim to develop a novel few-shot adaptation approach that requires only a few target domain images with limited bounding box annotations. To this end, we first observe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Tao Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Li Yuan , Jiashi Feng

Sound event detection is to infer the event by understanding the surrounding environmental sounds. Due to the scarcity of rare sound events, it becomes challenging for the well-trained detectors which have learned too much prior knowledge.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Chendong Zhao , Jianzong Wang , Leilai Li , Xiaoyang Qu , Jing Xiao

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

In few-shot learning, classifiers are expected to generalize to unseen classes given only a small number of instances of each new class. One of the popular solutions to few-shot learning is metric-based meta-learning. However, it highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qiuhao Zeng

Few-shot learning remains a challenging problem, with unsatisfactory 1-shot accuracies for most real-world data. Here, we present a different perspective for data distributions in the feature space of a deep network and show how to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Joseph F Comer , Philip L Jacobson , Heiko Hoffmann

In this paper, we tackle the new Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning benchmark proposed by the CVPR 2020 Challenge. To this end, we build upon state-of-the-art methods in domain adaptation and few-shot learning to create a system that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 John Cai , Sheng Mei Shen

Few-shot learning with $N$-way $K$-shot scheme is an open challenge in machine learning. Many metric-based approaches have been proposed to tackle this problem, e.g., the Matching Networks and CLIP-Adapter. Despite that these approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Guoliang Lin , Yongheng Xu , Hanjiang Lai , Jian Yin

This paper tackles the problem of few-shot learning, which aims to learn new visual concepts from a few examples. A common problem setting in few-shot classification assumes random sampling strategy in acquiring data labels, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Shipeng Yan , Songyang Zhang , Xuming He

Due to the scarcity of annotated data in the medical domain, few-shot learning may be useful for medical image analysis tasks. We design a few-shot learning method using an ensemble of random subspaces for the diagnosis of chest x-rays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Kshitiz , Garvit Garg , Angshuman Paul

Humans are capable of learning new concepts from small numbers of examples. In contrast, supervised deep learning models usually lack the ability to extract reliable predictive rules from limited data scenarios when attempting to classify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Zhongjie Yu , Sebastian Raschka

In image classification, it is common practice to train deep networks to extract a single feature vector per input image. Few-shot classification methods also mostly follow this trend. In this work, we depart from this established direction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Arman Afrasiyabi , Hugo Larochelle , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

The objective of Few-shot learning is to fully leverage the limited data resources for exploring the latent correlations within the data by applying algorithms and training a model with outstanding performance that can adequately meet the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Wenqing Zhao , Guojia Xie , Han Pan , Biao Yang , Weichuan Zhang

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) requires vision models to quickly adapt to brand-new classification tasks with a shift in task distribution. Understanding the difficulties posed by this task distribution shift is central to FSL. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Xu Luo , Jing Xu , Zenglin Xu

We are interested in developing a unified machine learning model over many mobile devices for practical learning tasks, where each device only has very few training data. This is a commonly encountered situation in mobile computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Chenyou Fan , Jianwei Huang

Few-shot learning is proposed to tackle the problem of scarce training data in novel classes. However, prior works in instance-level few-shot learning have paid less attention to effectively utilizing the relationship between categories. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Thanh-Toan Do , Nhat-Duy Nguyen , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Thanh Duc Ngo , Tam V. Nguyen