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Self-supervised learning has significantly improved the performance of many NLP tasks. However, how can self-supervised learning discover useful representations, and why is it better than traditional approaches such as probabilistic models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Zeping Luo , Shiyou Wu , Cindy Weng , Mo Zhou , Rong Ge

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT), supervised instruction tuning (SIT) and in-context learning (ICL) are three alternative, de facto standard approaches to few-shot learning. ICL has gained popularity recently with the advent of LLMs due to its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Evgeniia Razumovskaia , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen

Despite impressive progress in deep learning, generalizing far beyond the training distribution is an important open challenge. In this work, we consider few-shot classification, and aim to shed light on what makes some novel classes easier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Mengye Ren , Eleni Triantafillou , Kuan-Chieh Wang , James Lucas , Jake Snell , Xaq Pitkow , Andreas S. Tolias , Richard Zemel

Meta-learning has been the most common framework for few-shot learning in recent years. It learns the model from collections of few-shot classification tasks, which is believed to have a key advantage of making the training objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Yinbo Chen , Zhuang Liu , Huijuan Xu , Trevor Darrell , Xiaolong Wang

In real-world applications, data do not reflect the ones commonly used for neural networks training, since they are usually few, unlabeled and can be available as a stream. Hence many existing deep learning solutions suffer from a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Alessia Bertugli , Stefano Vincenzi , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini

Few-shot image classification aims to classify unseen classes with limited labelled samples. Recent works benefit from the meta-learning process with episodic tasks and can fast adapt to class from training to testing. Due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Da Chen , Yuefeng Chen , Yuhong Li , Feng Mao , Yuan He , Hui Xue

In recent years, self-supervised learning has excelled for its capacity to learn robust feature representations from unlabelled data. Networks pretrained through self-supervision serve as effective feature extractors for downstream tasks,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Calum Heggan , Sam Budgett , Timothy Hospedales , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

Few-shot fine-tuning and in-context learning are two alternative strategies for task adaptation of pre-trained language models. Recently, in-context learning has gained popularity over fine-tuning due to its simplicity and improved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Marius Mosbach , Tiago Pimentel , Shauli Ravfogel , Dietrich Klakow , Yanai Elazar

Even though large pre-trained multilingual models (e.g. mBERT, XLM-R) have led to significant performance gains on a wide range of cross-lingual NLP tasks, success on many downstream tasks still relies on the availability of sufficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 M Saiful Bari , Batool Haider , Saab Mansour

The existing few-shot video classification methods often employ a meta-learning paradigm by designing customized temporal alignment module for similarity calculation. While significant progress has been made, these methods fail to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhenxi Zhu , Limin Wang , Sheng Guo , Gangshan Wu

Few-shot Learning aims to learn and distinguish new categories with a very limited number of available images, presenting a significant challenge in the realm of deep learning. Recent researchers have sought to leverage the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chunpeng Zhou , Haishuai Wang , Xilu Yuan , Zhi Yu , Jiajun Bu

When adapting large language models (LLMs) to a specific downstream task, two primary approaches are commonly employed: (1) prompt engineering, often with in-context few-shot learning, leveraging the model's inherent generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Jorg Bornschein , Clare Lyle , Yazhe Li , Amal Rannen-Triki , Xu Owen He , Razvan Pascanu

Recent advances in deep learning, in particular enabled by hardware advances and big data, have provided impressive results across a wide range of computational problems such as computer vision, natural language, or reinforcement learning.…

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Data labeling in supervised learning is considered an expensive and infeasible tool in some conditions. The self-supervised learning method is proposed to tackle the learning effectiveness with fewer labeled data, however, there is a lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Hilal AlQuabeh , Ameera Bawazeer , Abdulateef Alhashmi

Recent work has shown that self-supervised pre-training leads to improvements over supervised learning on challenging visual recognition tasks. CLIP, an exciting new approach to learning with language supervision, demonstrates promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Norman Mu , Alexander Kirillov , David Wagner , Saining Xie

Existing solutions to image editing tasks suffer from several issues. Though achieving remarkably satisfying generated results, some supervised methods require huge amounts of paired training data, which greatly limits their usages. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jinshu Chen , Bingchuan Li , Miao Hua , Panpan Xu , Qian He

Self-supervised pre-training of transformer models has shown enormous success in improving performance on a number of downstream tasks. However, fine-tuning on a new task still requires large amounts of task-specific labelled data to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Trapit Bansal , Rishikesh Jha , Andrew McCallum

We investigate the role of self-supervised learning (SSL) in the context of few-shot learning. Although recent research has shown the benefits of SSL on large unlabeled datasets, its utility on small datasets is relatively unexplored. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Jong-Chyi Su , Subhransu Maji , Bharath Hariharan

Instruction tuning of language models has demonstrated the ability to enhance model generalization to unseen tasks via in-context learning using a few examples. However, typical supervised learning still requires a plethora of downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Himanshu Gupta , Saurabh Arjun Sawant , Swaroop Mishra , Mutsumi Nakamura , Arindam Mitra , Santosh Mashetty , Chitta Baral

Current literature demonstrates that Large Language Models (LLMs) are great few-shot learners, and prompting significantly increases their performance on a range of downstream tasks in a few-shot learning setting. An attempt to automate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Yulin Zhou , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert Mullins , Yarin Gal