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Few-shot classification consists of learning a predictive model that is able to effectively adapt to a new class, given only a few annotated samples. To solve this challenging problem, meta-learning has become a popular paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

State-of-the-art audio classification often employs a zero-shot approach, which involves comparing audio embeddings with embeddings from text describing the respective audio class. These embeddings are usually generated by neural networks…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 James Taylor , Wolfgang Mack

Few-shot learning problem focuses on recognizing unseen classes given a few labeled images. In recent effort, more attention is paid to fine-grained feature embedding, ignoring the relationship among different distance metrics. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jinxiang Lai , Siqian Yang , Guannan Jiang , Xi Wang , Yuxi Li , Zihui Jia , Xiaochen Chen , Jun Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Wei Zhang , Yuan Xie , Chengjie Wang

Event detection (ED) is aimed to identify the key trigger words in unstructured text and predict the event types accordingly. Traditional ED models are too data-hungry to accommodate real applications with scarce labeled data. Besides,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Siyuan Wang , Jianming Zheng , Xuejun Hu , Fei Cai , Chengyu Song , Xueshan Luo

Few-shot learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Most existing few-shot learning approaches belong to either metric-based meta-learning or optimization-based meta-learning category,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Duo Wang , Yu Cheng , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Tao Zhang

Meta-learning has emerged as a trending technique to tackle few-shot text classification and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, existing solutions heavily rely on the exploitation of lexical features and their distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 ChengCheng Han , Zeqiu Fan , Dongxiang Zhang , Minghui Qiu , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

This paper proposes an active learning system for sound event detection (SED). It aims at maximizing the accuracy of a learned SED model with limited annotation effort. The proposed system analyzes an initially unlabeled audio dataset, from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Shuyang Zhao , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

Few-shot learning aims to recognize new categories using very few labeled samples. Although few-shot learning has witnessed promising development in recent years, most existing methods adopt an average operation to calculate prototypes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Minglei Yuan , Wenhai Wang , Tao Wang , Chunhao Cai , Qian Xu , Tong Lu

In-context learning has become an important approach for few-shot learning in Large Language Models because of its ability to rapidly adapt to new tasks without fine-tuning model parameters. However, it is restricted to applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Christopher Fifty , Jure Leskovec , Sebastian Thrun

Meta-learning methods have been extensively studied and applied in computer vision, especially for few-shot classification tasks. The key idea of meta-learning for few-shot classification is to mimic the few-shot situations faced at test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Chenghao Liu , Zhihao Wang , Doyen Sahoo , Yuan Fang , Kun Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Few-shot adaptation is a challenging problem in the context of simulation-to-real transfer in robotics, requiring safe and informative data collection. In physical systems, additional challenge may be posed by domain noise, which is present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Karol Arndt , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Murtaza Hazara , Ville Kyrki

Few-shot learning is a rapidly evolving area of research in machine learning where the goal is to classify unlabeled data with only one or "a few" labeled exemplary samples. Neural networks are typically trained to minimize a distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Samuel Hess , Gregory Ditzler

Few-shot Learning (FSL) aims to classify new concepts from a small number of examples. While there have been an increasing amount of work on few-shot object classification in the last few years, most current approaches are limited to images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mathieu Pagé Fortin , Brahim Chaib-draa

Few-shot segmentation aims at assigning a category label to each image pixel with few annotated samples. It is a challenging task since the dense prediction can only be achieved under the guidance of latent features defined by sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Kai Zhu , Wei Zhai , Zheng-Jun Zha , Yang Cao

Few-shot learning aims to train models that can be generalized to novel classes with only a few samples. Recently, a line of works are proposed to enhance few-shot learning with accessible semantic information from class names. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zihao Jiang , Yunkai Dang , Dong Pang , Huishuai Zhang , Weiran Huang

Most existing methods for audio classification assume that the vocabulary of audio classes to be classified is fixed. When novel (unseen) audio classes appear, audio classification systems need to be retrained with abundant labeled samples…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Yanxiong Li , Wenchang Cao , Wei Xie , Jialong Li , Emmanouil Benetos

Few-shot detection is a major task in pattern recognition which seeks to localize objects using models trained with few labeled data. One of the mainstream few-shot methods is transfer learning which consists in pretraining a detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Jie Mei , Mingyuan Jiu , Hichem Sahbi , Xiaoheng Jiang , Mingliang Xu

Text-to-image retrieval is a critical task for managing diverse visual content, but common benchmarks for the task rely on small, single-domain datasets that fail to capture real-world complexity. Pre-trained vision-language models tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Muhammad Huzaifa , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Few-shot learning is the process of learning novel classes using only a few examples and it remains a challenging task in machine learning. Many sophisticated few-shot learning algorithms have been proposed based on the notion that networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Akihiro Nakamura , Tatsuya Harada

We address the problem of anomaly detection in videos. The goal is to identify unusual behaviours automatically by learning exclusively from normal videos. Most existing approaches are usually data-hungry and have limited generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yiwei Lu , Frank Yu , Mahesh Kumar Krishna Reddy , Yang Wang