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We study the problem of event extraction from text data, which requires both detecting target event types and their arguments. Typically, both the event detection and argument detection subtasks are formulated as supervised sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Rui Feng , Jie Yuan , Chao Zhang

Detecting rare objects from a few examples is an emerging problem. Prior works show meta-learning is a promising approach. But, fine-tuning techniques have drawn scant attention. We find that fine-tuning only the last layer of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xin Wang , Thomas E. Huang , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Fisher Yu

Few-shot classification refers to learning a classifier for new classes given only a few examples. While a plethora of models have emerged to tackle it, we find the procedure and datasets that are used to assess their progress lacking. To…

Real-world object detection is highly desired to be equipped with the learning expandability that can enlarge its detection classes incrementally. Moreover, such learning from only few annotated training samples further adds the flexibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

Few-shot Continual Event Detection (FCED) poses the dual challenges of learning from limited data and mitigating catastrophic forgetting across sequential tasks. Existing approaches often suffer from severe forgetting due to the full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bao-Ngoc Dao , Quang Nguyen , Luyen Ngo Dinh , Minh Le , Linh Ngo Van

Incorporating auxiliary modalities such as images into event detection models has attracted increasing interest over the last few years. The complexity of natural language in describing situations has motivated researchers to leverage the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Farhad Moghimifar , Fatemeh Shiri , Van Nguyen , Reza Haffari , Yuan-Fang Li

Intent Detection is one of the core tasks of dialog systems. Few-shot Intent Detection is challenging due to limited number of annotated utterances for novel classes. Generalized Few-shot intent detection is more realistic but challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ayush Kumar , Vijit Malik , Jithendra Vepa

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn models that generalize to novel classes with limited training samples. Recent works advance FSL towards a scenario where unlabeled examples are also available and propose semi-supervised FSL methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Linglan Zhao , Dashan Guo , Yunlu Xu , Liang Qiao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Xiangzhong Fang

Recently, the field of few-shot detection within remote sensing imagery has witnessed significant advancements. Despite these progresses, the capacity for continuous conceptual learning still poses a significant challenge to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wuzhou Li , Jiawei Zhou , Xiang Li , Yi Cao , Guang Jin , Xuemin Zhang

We compare various forms of prompts to represent event types and develop a unified framework to incorporate the event type specific prompts for supervised, few-shot, and zero-shot event detection. The experimental results demonstrate that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Sijia Wang , Mo Yu , Lifu Huang

Few-shot object detection, learning to adapt to the novel classes with a few labeled data, is an imperative and long-lasting problem due to the inherent long-tail distribution of real-world data and the urgent demands to cut costs of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Leng Jiaxu , Chen Taiyue , Gao Xinbo , Yu Yongtao , Wang Ye , Gao Feng , Wang Yue

Humans are able to learn to recognize new objects even from a few examples. In contrast, training deep-learning-based object detectors requires huge amounts of annotated data. To avoid the need to acquire and annotate these huge amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Mona Köhler , Markus Eisenbach , Horst-Michael Gross

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

Few-shot learning is a type of classification through which predictions are made based on a limited number of samples for each class. This type of classification is sometimes referred to as a meta-learning problem, in which the model learns…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Leah Chowenhill , Gaurav Satyanath , Shubhranshu Singh , Madhav Mahendra Wagh

We propose P4E, an identify-and-localize event detection framework that integrates the best of few-shot prompting and structured prediction. Our framework decomposes event detection into an identification task and a localization task. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sha Li , Liyuan Liu , Yiqing Xie , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Few-shot bioacoustic event detection is a task that detects the occurrence time of a novel sound given a few examples. Previous methods employ metric learning to build a latent space with the labeled part of different sound classes, also…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Haohe Liu , Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Existing approaches on zero-shot event detection usually train models on datasets annotated with known event types, and prompt them with unseen event definitions. These approaches yield sporadic successes, yet generally fall short of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zefan Cai , Po-Nien Kung , Ashima Suvarna , Mingyu Derek Ma , Hritik Bansal , Baobao Chang , P. Jeffrey Brantingham , Wei Wang , Nanyun Peng

Few-shot event detection (ED) has been widely studied, while this brings noticeable discrepancies, e.g., various motivations, tasks, and experimental settings, that hinder the understanding of models for future progress.This paper presents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Yubo Ma , Zehao Wang , Yixin Cao , Aixin Sun

New classes arise frequently in our ever-changing world, e.g., emerging topics in social media and new types of products in e-commerce. A model should recognize new classes and meanwhile maintain discriminability over old classes. Under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Da-Wei Zhou , Han-Jia Ye , Liang Ma , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , De-Chuan Zhan

Few-shot class-incremental learning is to recognize the new classes given few samples and not forget the old classes. It is a challenging task since representation optimization and prototype reorganization can only be achieved under little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Kai Zhu , Yang Cao , Wei Zhai , Jie Cheng , Zheng-Jun Zha