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Few-shot learning has been extensively explored to address problems where the amount of labeled samples is very limited for some classes. In the semi-supervised few-shot learning setting, substantial quantities of unlabeled samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Souvik Maji , Rhythm Baghel , Pratik Mazumder

Large-scale generative language models such as GPT-3 are competitive few-shot learners. While these models are known to be able to jointly represent many different languages, their training data is dominated by English, potentially limiting…

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have exhibited remarkable few-shot learning capabilities when provided a few examples in a natural language prompt as demonstrations of test instances, i.e., in-context learning. However, the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Feng Nie , Meixi Chen , Zhirui Zhang , Xu Cheng

Recent work has demonstrated that pre-trained language models (PLMs) are zero-shot learners. However, most existing zero-shot methods involve heavy human engineering or complicated self-training pipelines, hindering their application to new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yu Fei , Ping Nie , Zhao Meng , Roger Wattenhofer , Mrinmaya Sachan

Few-shot learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training models with limited labeled data, addressing challenges in scenarios where large-scale annotation is impractical. While extensive research has been conducted in the image…

We address the problem of few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS), which aims to segment novel class objects in a target image with a few annotated samples. Though recent advances have been made by incorporating prototype-based metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hyeongjun Kwon , Somi Jeong , Sunok Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

As an algorithmic framework for learning to learn, meta-learning provides a promising solution for few-shot text classification. However, most existing research fail to give enough attention to class labels. Traditional basic framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Guanghua Hou , Shuhui Cao , Deqiang Ouyang , Ning Wang

Few-shot image classification, where the goal is to generalize to tasks with limited labeled data, has seen great progress over the years. However, the classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing a question regarding their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Akshayvarun Subramanya , Hamed Pirsiavash

Few-shot learning is a challenging task, which aims to learn a classifier for novel classes with few examples. Pre-training based meta-learning methods effectively tackle the problem by pre-training a feature extractor and then fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Baoquan Zhang , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Zhichao Huang , Lisai Zhang

Existing approaches to lifelong language learning rely on plenty of labeled data for learning a new task, which is hard to obtain in most real scenarios. Considering that humans can continually learn new tasks from a handful of examples, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chengwei Qin , Shafiq Joty

Contrastive learning is widely used in clustering tasks due to its discriminative representation. However, the conflict problem between classes is difficult to solve effectively. Existing methods try to solve this problem through prototype…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Shihao Dong , Xiaotong Zhou , Yuhui Zheng , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu

Constructing new and more challenging tasksets is a fruitful methodology to analyse and understand few-shot classification methods. Unfortunately, existing approaches to building those tasksets are somewhat unsatisfactory: they either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Sébastien M. R. Arnold , Fei Sha

Zero-shot text classification remains a difficult task in domains with evolving knowledge and ambiguous category boundaries, such as ticketing systems. Large language models (LLMs) often struggle to generalize in these scenarios due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Amrit Rajeev , Udayaadithya Avadhanam , Harshula Tulapurkar , SaiBarath Sundar

Generalized Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (GFSS) aims to segment each image pixel into either base classes with abundant training examples or novel classes with only a handful of (e.g., 1-5) training images per class. Compared to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Zhihe Lu , Sen He , Da Li , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang

Few-shot segmentation enables the model to recognize unseen classes with few annotated examples. Most existing methods adopt prototype learning architecture, where support prototype vectors are expanded and concatenated with query features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xiaoyu Zhao , Xiaoqian Chen , Zhiqiang Gong , Wen Yao , Yunyang Zhang , Xiaohu Zheng

Deep clustering as an important branch of unsupervised representation learning focuses on embedding semantically similar samples into the identical feature space. This core demand inspires the exploration of contrastive learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haifeng Xia , Hai Huang , Zhengming Ding

Text classification tends to be difficult when data are deficient or when it is required to adapt to unseen classes. In such challenging scenarios, recent studies have often used meta-learning to simulate the few-shot task, thus negating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Zhanlin Sun , Jiaoyan Chen , Huajun Chen

Few-shot classification consists of a training phase where a model is learned on a relatively large dataset and an adaptation phase where the learned model is adapted to previously-unseen tasks with limited labeled samples. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xu Luo , Hao Wu , Ji Zhang , Lianli Gao , Jing Xu , Jingkuan Song

Recent prompt-based approaches allow pretrained language models to achieve strong performances on few-shot finetuning by reformulating downstream tasks as a language modeling problem. In this work, we demonstrate that, despite its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Prasetya Ajie Utama , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Victor Sanh , Iryna Gurevych

We propose a novel framework for few-shot learning by leveraging large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP. Motivated by unimodal prototypical networks for few-shot learning, we introduce Proto-CLIP which utilizes image prototypes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jishnu Jaykumar P , Kamalesh Palanisamy , Yu-Wei Chao , Xinya Du , Yu Xiang