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Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition (FSOSR) targets a critical real-world challenge, aiming to categorize inputs into known categories, termed closed-set classes, while identifying open-set inputs that fall outside these classes. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Byeonggeun Kim , Juntae Lee , Kyuhong Shim , Simyung Chang

Intent classification (IC) and slot filling (SF) are core components in most goal-oriented dialogue systems. Current IC/SF models perform poorly when the number of training examples per class is small. We propose a new few-shot learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Jason Krone , Yi Zhang , Mona Diab

Few-shot learning (FSL), purposing to resolve the problem of data-scarce, has attracted considerable attention in recent years. A popular FSL framework contains two phases: (i) the pre-train phase employs the base data to train a CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Rui Xu , Lei Xing , Shuai Shao , Lifei Zhao , Baodi Liu , Weifeng Liu , Yicong Zhou

Few-shot class incremental learning -- the problem of updating a trained classifier to discriminate among an expanded set of classes with limited labeled data -- is a key challenge for machine learning systems deployed in non-stationary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Afra Feyza Akyürek , Ekin Akyürek , Derry Tanti Wijaya , Jacob Andreas

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) poses significant challenges for artificial neural networks due to the need to efficiently learn from limited data while retaining knowledge of previously learned tasks. Inspired by the brain's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Wanyi Li , Wei Wei , Yongkang Luo , Peng Wang

In this paper, we propose to tackle the challenging few-shot learning (FSL) problem by learning global class representations using both base and novel class training samples. In each training episode, an episodic class mean computed from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Tiange Luo , Aoxue Li , Tao Xiang , Weiran Huang , Liwei Wang

Current research on class-incremental learning primarily focuses on single-label classification tasks. However, real-world applications often involve multi-label scenarios, such as image retrieval and medical imaging. Therefore, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chenhao Ding , Songlin Dong , Zhengdong Zhou , Jizhou Han , Qiang Wang , Yuhang He , Yihong Gong

This work focuses on tackling the challenging but realistic visual task of Incremental Few-Shot Learning (IFSL), which requires a model to continually learn novel classes from only a few examples while not forgetting the base classes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Xijia Feng , Zilong Cheng , Jun Ma , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

Few-shot learning (FSL) is an emergent paradigm of learning that attempts to learn to reason with low sample complexity to mimic the way humans learn, generalise and extrapolate from only a few seen examples. While FSL attempts to mimic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jaron Mar , Jiamou Liu

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

Online Class Incremental Learning (OCIL) aims to train models incrementally, where data arrive in mini-batches, and previous data are not accessible. A major challenge in OCIL is Catastrophic Forgetting, i.e., the loss of previously learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Huiping Zhuang , Yuchen Liu , Run He , Kai Tong , Ziqian Zeng , Cen Chen , Yi Wang , Lap-Pui Chau

The aim of multi-label few-shot image classification (ML-FSIC) is to assign semantic labels to images, in settings where only a small number of training examples are available for each label. A key feature of the multi-label setting is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Fangyun Wei , Chang Xu , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

We tackle the Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition (FSOSR) problem, i.e. classifying instances among a set of classes for which we only have a few labeled samples, while simultaneously detecting instances that do not belong to any known class. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Malik Boudiaf , Etienne Bennequin , Myriam Tami , Antoine Toubhans , Pablo Piantanida , Céline Hudelot , Ismail Ben Ayed

Self-Explainable Models (SEMs) rely on Prototypical Concept Learning (PCL) to enable their visual recognition processes more interpretable, but they often struggle in data-scarce settings where insufficient training samples lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zhong Ji , Rongshuai Wei , Jingren Liu , Yanwei Pang , Jungong Han

In many applications, we are constrained to learn classifiers from very limited data (few-shot classification). The task becomes even more challenging if it is also required to identify samples from unknown categories (open-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Sayak Nag , Dripta S. Raychaudhuri , Sujoy Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Few-shot learning (FSL) has shown promise in vision but remains largely unexplored for \emph{industrial} time-series data, where annotating every new defect is prohibitively expensive. We present a systematic FSL study on screw-fastening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xinyuan Tu

As a challenging problem, few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) continually learns a sequence of tasks, confronting the dilemma between slow forgetting of old knowledge and fast adaptation to new knowledge. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Hanbin Zhao , Yongjian Fu , Mintong Kang , Qi Tian , Fei Wu , Xi Li

Incremental few-shot semantic segmentation (IFSS) targets at incrementally expanding model's capacity to segment new class of images supervised by only a few samples. However, features learned on old classes could significantly drift,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Guangchen Shi , Yirui Wu , Jun Liu , Shaohua Wan , Wenhai Wang , Tong Lu

Despite significant progress in continual learning ranging from architectural novelty to clever strategies for mitigating catastrophic forgetting most existing methods rest on a strong but unrealistic assumption the availability of labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla , K S Ananth , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Deep learning in small and imbalanced biomedical datasets remains fundamentally constrained by unstable optimization and poor generalization. We present the first biomedical implementation of FOSSIL (Flexible Optimization via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sahng-Min Han , Minjae Kim , Jinho Cha , Se-woon Choe , Eunchan Daniel Cha , Jungwon Choi , Kyudong Jung