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We present a meta-learning based generative model for zero-shot learning (ZSL) towards a challenging setting when the number of training examples from each \emph{seen} class is very few. This setup contrasts with the conventional ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Vinay Kumar Verma , Ashish Mishra , Anubha Pandey , Hema A. Murthy , Piyush Rai

Few-shot learners aim to recognize new object classes based on a small number of labeled training examples. To prevent overfitting, state-of-the-art few-shot learners use meta-learning on convolutional-network features and perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yan Wang , Wei-Lun Chao , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Laurens van der Maaten

Few-shot learning is challenging due to its very limited data and labels. Recent studies in big transfer (BiT) show that few-shot learning can greatly benefit from pretraining on large scale labeled dataset in a different domain. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Suichan Li , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at recognizing classes for which no visual sample is available at training time. To address this issue, one can rely on a semantic description of each class. A typical ZSL model learns a mapping between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Celina Hanouti , Hervé Le Borgne

Language models (LMs) trained on large amounts of data have shown impressive performance on many NLP tasks under the zero-shot and few-shot setup. Here we aim to better understand the extent to which such models learn commonsense knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Xiang Lorraine Li , Adhiguna Kuncoro , Jordan Hoffmann , Cyprien de Masson d'Autume , Phil Blunsom , Aida Nematzadeh

Although adapting pre-trained language models with few examples has shown promising performance on text classification, there is a lack of understanding of where the performance gain comes from. In this work, we propose to answer this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hanjie Chen , Guoqing Zheng , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Yangfeng Ji

Deep learning is a data-hungry approach, which requires massive training data. However, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to collect abundant fully-annotated training data for all categories. Assuming the existence of base categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Li Niu

Training data for text classification is often limited in practice, especially for applications with many output classes or involving many related classification problems. This means classifiers must generalize from limited evidence, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Abhijit Mahabal , Jason Baldridge , Burcu Karagol Ayan , Vincent Perot , Dan Roth

In few-shot classification, we are interested in learning algorithms that train a classifier from only a handful of labeled examples. Recent progress in few-shot classification has featured meta-learning, in which a parameterized model for…

Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have opened the door to in-depth investigation of their potential in tabular data modeling. However, effectively utilizing advanced LLMs in few-shot and even zero-shot scenarios is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Peng Wang , Dongsheng Wang , He Zhao , Hangting Ye , Dandan Guo , Yi Chang

In some of object recognition problems, labeled data may not be available for all categories. Zero-shot learning utilizes auxiliary information (also called signatures) describing each category in order to find a classifier that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Seyed Mohsen Shojaee , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

In zero-shot learning (ZSL), a classifier is trained to recognize visual classes without any image samples. Instead, it is given semantic information about the class, like a textual description or a set of attributes. Learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Yuval Atzmon , Gal Chechik

Few-shot classification aims to carry out classification given only few labeled examples for the categories of interest. Though several approaches have been proposed, most existing few-shot learning (FSL) models assume that base and novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Ci-Siang Lin , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

The rapid expansion of the digital world has propelled sentiment analysis into a critical tool across diverse sectors such as marketing, politics, customer service, and healthcare. While there have been significant advancements in sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Md. Arid Hasan , Shudipta Das , Afiyat Anjum , Firoj Alam , Anika Anjum , Avijit Sarker , Sheak Rashed Haider Noori

Popular approaches for few-shot classification consist of first learning a generic data representation based on a large annotated dataset, before adapting the representation to new classes given only a few labeled samples. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

Many tasks related to Computational Social Science and Web Content Analysis involve classifying pieces of text based on the claims they contain. State-of-the-art approaches usually involve fine-tuning models on large annotated datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Sandrine Chausson , Björn Ross

In this paper, we analyze zero-shot taxonomy learning methods which are based on distilling knowledge from language models via prompting and sentence scoring. We show that, despite their simplicity, these methods outperform some supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Devansh Jain , Luis Espinosa Anke

While neural networks have shown impressive performance on large datasets, applying these models to tasks where little data is available remains a challenging problem. In this paper we propose to use feature transfer in a zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Javid Dadashkarimi , Alexander Fabbri , Sekhar Tatikonda , Dragomir R. Radev

Few-Shot Learning refers to the problem of learning the underlying pattern in the data just from a few training samples. Requiring a large number of data samples, many deep learning solutions suffer from data hunger and extensively high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Archit Parnami , Minwoo Lee

Pretrained language models (LMs) perform well on many tasks even when learning from a few examples, but prior work uses many held-out examples to tune various aspects of learning, such as hyperparameters, training objectives, and natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ethan Perez , Douwe Kiela , Kyunghyun Cho