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Few-shot natural language processing (NLP) refers to NLP tasks that are accompanied with merely a handful of labeled examples. This is a real-world challenge that an AI system must learn to handle. Usually we rely on collecting more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenpeng Yin

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) systems aim at recognizing novel-class named entities based on only a few labeled examples. In this paper, we present a decomposed meta-learning approach which addresses the problem of few-shot NER by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Tingting Ma , Huiqiang Jiang , Qianhui Wu , Tiejun Zhao , Chin-Yew Lin

A major problem of machine-learning approaches in structural dynamics is the frequent lack of structural data. Inspired by the recently-emerging field of population-based structural health monitoring (PBSHM), and the use of transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 G. Tsialiamanis , N. Dervilis , D. J. Wagg , K. Worden

A common challenge in personalized user preference prediction is the cold-start problem. Due to the lack of user-item interactions, directly learning from the new users' log data causes serious over-fitting problem. Recently, many existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Runsheng Yu , Yu Gong , Xu He , Bo An , Yu Zhu , Qingwen Liu , Wenwu Ou

Meta-learning has been proposed as a framework to address the challenging few-shot learning setting. The key idea is to leverage a large number of similar few-shot tasks in order to learn how to adapt a base-learner to a new task for which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Zhaozheng Chen , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Prompt tuning, a recently emerging paradigm, enables the powerful vision-language pre-training models to adapt to downstream tasks in a parameter -- and data -- efficient way, by learning the ``soft prompts'' to condition frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Juncheng Li , Minghe Gao , Longhui Wei , Siliang Tang , Wenqiao Zhang , Mengze Li , Wei Ji , Qi Tian , Tat-Seng Chua , Yueting Zhuang

Despite its popularity, several recent works question the effectiveness of MAML when test tasks are different from training tasks, thus suggesting various task-conditioned methodology to improve the initialization. Instead of searching for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Sungyong Baik , Myungsub Choi , Janghoon Choi , Heewon Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

In this paper, we address the problem of reference tracking for uncertain nonlinear systems. Since collecting data from the target system (i.e., the system of interest) is often challenging, our objective is to design optimal controllers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiaqi Yan , Ankush Chakrabarty , Niklas Schmid , John Lygeros , Alisa Rupenyan

Software refactoring is the process of changing the structure of software without any alteration in its behavior and functionality. Presuming it is carried out in appropriate opportunities, refactoring enhances software quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Hanieh Khosravi , Abbas Rasoolzadegan

In this paper, we propose Domain Agnostic Meta Score-based Learning (DAMSL), a novel, versatile and highly effective solution that delivers significant out-performance over state-of-the-art methods for cross-domain few-shot learning. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 John Cai , Bill Cai , Shengmei Shen

A precise incident wave angle estimation in aerial communication is a key enabler in sixth-generation wireless communication network. With this goal, a generic 3-dimensional (3D) channel model is analyzed for air-to-air (A2A) networks under…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Eray Guven , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

Graph Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (GFSCIL) enables models to continually learn from limited samples of novel tasks after initial training on a large base dataset. Existing GFSCIL approaches typically utilize Prototypical Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jinhui Pang , Changqing Lin , Hao Lin , Zhihui Zhang , Weiping Ding , Yu Liu , Xiaoshuai Hao

Recent studies have revealed the intriguing few-shot learning ability of pretrained language models (PLMs): They can quickly adapt to a new task when fine-tuned on a small amount of labeled data formulated as prompts, without requiring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yu Meng , Martin Michalski , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Zhang , Tarek Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

Transfer-learning and meta-learning are two effective methods to apply knowledge learned from large data sources to new tasks. In few-class, few-shot target task settings (i.e. when there are only a few classes and training examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , David Eigen , Massoud Pedram

Optimization-based meta-learning offers a promising direction for few-shot learning that is essential for many real-world computer vision applications. However, learning from few samples introduces uncertainty, and quantifying model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Deep Pandey , Qi Yu

Learning from multiple modalities often suffers from imbalance, where information-rich modalities dominate optimization while weaker or partially missing modalities contribute less. This imbalance becomes severe in realistic settings with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Phuong-Anh Nguyen , Tien Anh Pham , Duc-Trong Le , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen

Theoretical computation of cosmological observables is an intensive process, restricting the speed at which cosmological data can be analysed and cosmological models constrained, and therefore limiting research access to those with high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Charlie MacMahon-Gellér , C. Danielle Leonard , Philip Bull , Markus Michael Rau

In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of applying few-shot learning algorithms to a speech task. We formulate a user-defined scenario of spoken term classification as a few-shot learning problem. In most few-shot learning studies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yangbin Chen , Tom Ko , Lifeng Shang , Xiao Chen , Xin Jiang , Qing Li

Few-shot meta-learning methods consider the problem of learning new tasks from a small, fixed number of examples, by meta-learning across static data from a set of previous tasks. However, in many real world settings, it is more natural to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Tianhe Yu , Xinyang Geng , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Few-shot learning aims to adapt knowledge learned from previous tasks to novel tasks with only a limited amount of labeled data. Research literature on few-shot learning exhibits great diversity, while different algorithms often excel at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chi Zhang , Henghui Ding , Guosheng Lin , Ruibo Li , Changhu Wang , Chunhua Shen