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The domain shift between the source and target domain is the main challenge in Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CD-FSL). However, the target domain is absolutely unknown during the training on the source domain, which results in lacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Xiyao Liu , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) aims to classify and locate actions in the long untrimmed action sequence. With the success of deep learning, many deep models for action segmentation have emerged. However, few-shot TAS is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Leiyang Xu , Qiang Wang , Xiaotian Lin , Lin Yuan

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn novel visual categories from very few samples, which is a challenging problem in real-world applications. Many methods of few-shot classification work well on general images to learn global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaojian He , Jinfu Lin , Junming Shen

Existing meta-learning based few-shot learning (FSL) methods typically adopt an episodic training strategy whereby each episode contains a meta-task. Across episodes, these tasks are sampled randomly and their relationships are ignored. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Nanyi Fei , Zhiwu Lu , Yizhao Gao , Jia Tian , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen

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 learning for neural networks (NNs) is an important problem that aims to train NNs with a few data. The main challenge is how to avoid overfitting since over-parameterized NNs can easily overfit to such small dataset. Previous work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Daiki Chijiwa , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Atsutoshi Kumagai , Yasutoshi Ida

Episodic training is a mainstream training strategy for few-shot learning. In few-shot scenarios, however, this strategy is often inferior to some non-episodic training strategy, e. g., Neighbourhood Component Analysis (NCA), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Tao Zhang

Few-shot algorithms aim at learning new tasks provided only a handful of training examples. In this work we investigate few-shot learning in the setting where the data points are sequences of tokens and propose an efficient learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Lajanugen Logeswaran , Ann Lee , Myle Ott , Honglak Lee , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Arthur Szlam

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

In recent years, numerous domain adaptive strategies have been proposed to help deep learning models overcome the challenges posed by domain shift. However, even unsupervised domain adaptive strategies still require a large amount of target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-11 Sumayya Inayat , Nimra Dilawar , Waqas Sultani , Mohsen Ali

Few-shot segmentation performance declines substantially when facing images from a domain different than the training domain, effectively limiting real-world use cases. To alleviate this, recently cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jonas Herzog

Few-shot image classification aims at training a model from only a few examples for each of the "novel" classes. This paper proposes the idea of associative alignment for leveraging part of the base data by aligning the novel training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Arman Afrasiyabi , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

Incremental Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (iFSS) tackles a task that requires a model to continually expand its segmentation capability on novel classes using only a few annotated examples. Typical incremental approaches encounter a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Wenbo Xu , Yanan Wu , Haoran Jiang , Yang Wang , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang

When faced with learning a set of inter-related tasks from a limited amount of usable data, learning each task independently may lead to poor generalization performance. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) exploits the latent relations between tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Niloofar Yousefi , Michael Georgiopoulos , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

MetaDL Challenge 2020 focused on image classification tasks in few-shot settings. This paper describes second best submission in the competition. Our meta learning approach modifies the distribution of classes in a latent space produced by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Tomáš Chobola , Daniel Vašata , Pavel Kordík

Few-shot learning aims to learn a new concept when only a few training examples are available, which has been extensively explored in recent years. However, most of the current works heavily rely on a large-scale labeled auxiliary set to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Tiexin Qin , Wenbin Li , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Large pretrained language models (LMs) like BERT have improved performance in many disparate natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, fine tuning such models requires a large number of training examples for each target task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Jixuan Wang , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Frank Rudzicz , Michael Brudno

We study few-shot learning in natural language domains. Compared to many existing works that apply either metric-based or optimization-based meta-learning to image domain with low inter-task variance, we consider a more realistic setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Jinfeng Yi , Shiyu Chang , Saloni Potdar , Yu Cheng , Gerald Tesauro , Haoyu Wang , Bowen Zhou

Few-shot learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique in machine learning, graphics, and vision that aligns two distributions or datasets using their relative geometry. In symmetry-rich settings, however, OT alignments based solely on pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Annabel Ma , Kaiying Hou , David Alvarez-Melis , Melanie Weber