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The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has advanced the benchmark in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, large amounts of labelled training data are required to train LLMs. Furthermore, data annotation and training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Sargam Yadav , Abhishek Kaushik , Kevin McDaid

A common problem with most zero and few-shot learning approaches is they suffer from bias towards seen classes resulting in sub-optimal performance. Existing efforts aim to utilize unlabeled images from unseen classes (i.e transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Gaurav Bhatt , Shivam Chandhok , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on NLP classification tasks. However, they typically rely on aggregated labels-often via majority voting-which can obscure the human disagreement inherent in subjective annotations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Benedetta Muscato , Yue Li , Gizem Gezici , Zhixue Zhao , Fosca Giannotti

Few-shot learning (FSL) has emerged as an effective learning method and shows great potential. Despite the recent creative works in tackling FSL tasks, learning valid information rapidly from just a few or even zero samples still remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yisheng Song , Ting Wang , Subrota K Mondal , Jyoti Prakash Sahoo

We explore an ASR-free method for isolated word reading assessment in low-resource settings. Our few-shot approach compares input child speech to a small set of adult-provided reference templates. Inputs and templates are encoded using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Reuben Smit , Retief Louw , Herman Kamper

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

Pre-trained vision-language models learn massive data to model unified representations of images and natural languages, which can be widely applied to downstream machine learning tasks. In addition to zero-shot inference, in order to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qian-Wei Wang , Yuqiu Xie , Letian Zhang , Zimo Liu , Shu-Tao Xia

Vision-language foundation models pretrained on large-scale data provide a powerful tool for many visual understanding tasks. Notably, many vision-language models build two encoders (visual and textual) that can map two modalities into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Taihong Xiao , Zirui Wang , Liangliang Cao , Jiahui Yu , Shengyang Dai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Large language models have shown impressive few-shot results on a wide range of tasks. However, when knowledge is key for such results, as is the case for tasks such as question answering and fact checking, massive parameter counts to store…

End-to-end approaches have recently become popular as a means of simplifying the training and deployment of speech recognition systems. However, they often require large amounts of data to perform well on large vocabulary tasks. With the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Bertrand Higy , Peter Bell

Few-shot methods for accurate modeling under sparse label-settings have improved significantly. However, the applications of few-shot modeling in natural language processing remain solely in the field of document classification. With recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Anton Thielmann , Christoph Weisser , Benjamin Säfken

The claim matching (CM) task can benefit an automated fact-checking pipeline by putting together claims that can be resolved with the same fact-check. In this work, we are the first to explore zero-shot and few-shot learning approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Dina Pisarevskaya , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Zero-shot recognition (ZSR) deals with the problem of predicting class labels for target domain instances based on source domain side information (e.g. attributes) of unseen classes. We formulate ZSR as a binary prediction problem. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects of novel classes without any training samples of specific classes, which is achieved by exploiting the semantic information and auxiliary datasets. Recently most ZSL approaches focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Huajie Jiang , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

In this work, we explore the novel idea of employing dependency parsing information in the context of few-shot learning, the task of learning the meaning of a rare word based on a limited amount of context sentences. Firstly, we use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Stefania Preda , Guy Emerson

Few-shot classification tasks aim to classify images in query sets based on only a few labeled examples in support sets. Most studies usually assume that each image in a task has a single and unique class association. Under these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Lu Yin , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

This work improves the quality of automated machine learning (AutoML) systems by using dataset and function descriptions while significantly decreasing computation time from minutes to milliseconds by using a zero-shot approach. Given a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Nikhil Singh , Brandon Kates , Jeff Mentch , Anant Kharkar , Madeleine Udell , Iddo Drori

General purpose relation extraction has recently seen considerable gains in part due to a massively data-intensive distant supervision technique from Soares et al. (2019) that produces state-of-the-art results across many benchmarks. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Amith Ananthram , Emily Allaway , Kathleen McKeown

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted considerable attention recently. Among existing approaches, the metric-based method aims to train an embedding network that can make similar samples close while dissimilar samples as far as possible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Bin Xiao , Chien-Liang Liu , Wen-Hoar Hsaio

Single image-level annotations only correctly describe an often small subset of an image's content, particularly when complex real-world scenes are depicted. While this might be acceptable in many classification scenarios, it poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Markus Hiller , Rongkai Ma , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond