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Few shot learning is an important problem in machine learning as large labelled datasets take considerable time and effort to assemble. Most few-shot learning algorithms suffer from one of two limitations- they either require the design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shakti Kumar , Hussain Zaidi

Aiming at recognizing the samples from novel categories with few reference samples, few-shot learning (FSL) is a challenging problem. We found that the existing works often build their few-shot model based on the image-level feature by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Junying Huang , Fan Chen , Keze Wang , Liang Lin , Dongyu Zhang

Few-shot deep learning is a topical challenge area for scaling visual recognition to open ended growth of unseen new classes with limited labeled examples. A promising approach is based on metric learning, which trains a deep embedding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Xueting Zhang , Yuting Qiang , Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

Graph representation learning, a critical step in graph-centric tasks, has seen significant advancements. Earlier techniques often operate in an end-to-end setting, which heavily rely on the availability of ample labeled data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xingtong Yu , Yuan Fang , Zemin Liu , Yuxia Wu , Zhihao Wen , Jianyuan Bo , Xinming Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Humans recognize objects after observing only a few examples, a remarkable capability enabled by their inherent language understanding of the real-world environment. Developing verbalized and interpretable representation can significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Cheng-Fu Yang , Da Yin , Wenbo Hu , Heng Ji , Nanyun Peng , Bolei Zhou , Kai-Wei Chang

Few-shot models aim at making predictions using a minimal number of labeled examples from a given task. The main challenge in this area is the one-shot setting where only one element represents each class. We propose HyperShot - the fusion…

In this study, we investigate the performance of few-shot classification models across different domains, specifically natural images and histopathological images. We first train several few-shot classification models on natural images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ardhendu Sekhar , Aditya Bhattacharya , Vinayak Goyal , Vrinda Goel , Aditya Bhangale , Ravi Kant Gupta , Amit Sethi

In recent years, self-supervised learning has excelled for its capacity to learn robust feature representations from unlabelled data. Networks pretrained through self-supervision serve as effective feature extractors for downstream tasks,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Calum Heggan , Sam Budgett , Timothy Hospedales , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

This paper considers the problem of inferring image labels from images when only a few annotated examples are available at training time. This setup is often referred to as low-shot learning, where a standard approach is to re-train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Matthijs Douze , Arthur Szlam , Bharath Hariharan , Hervé Jégou

In image classification, it is common practice to train deep networks to extract a single feature vector per input image. Few-shot classification methods also mostly follow this trend. In this work, we depart from this established direction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Arman Afrasiyabi , Hugo Larochelle , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

Few-shot learning aims to classify unseen classes with only a limited number of labeled data. Recent works have demonstrated that training models with a simple transfer learning strategy can achieve competitive results in few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Jingquan Wang , Jing Xu , Yu Pan , Zenglin Xu

In this paper, we are interested in the few-shot learning problem. In particular, we focus on a challenging scenario where the number of categories is large and the number of examples per novel category is very limited, e.g. 1, 2, or 3.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Siyuan Qiao , Chenxi Liu , Wei Shen , Alan Yuille

We present a technique to improve the transferability of deep representations learned on small labeled datasets by introducing self-supervised tasks as auxiliary loss functions. While recent approaches for self-supervised learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Jong-Chyi Su , Subhransu Maji , Bharath Hariharan

Single image-level annotations only correctly describe an often small subset of an image's content, particularly when complex real-world scenes are depicted. While this might be acceptable in many classification scenarios, it poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Markus Hiller , Rongkai Ma , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond

In this paper, we explore contrastive learning for few-shot classification, in which we propose to use it as an additional auxiliary training objective acting as a data-dependent regularizer to promote more general and transferable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami

Learning novel classes from a very few labeled samples has attracted increasing attention in machine learning areas. Recent research on either meta-learning based or transfer-learning based paradigm demonstrates that gaining information on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Bingbin Li , Elvis Han Cui , Yanan Li , Donghui Wang , Weng Kee Wong

While deep learning excels in computer vision tasks with abundant labeled data, its performance diminishes significantly in scenarios with limited labeled samples. To address this, Few-shot learning (FSL) enables models to perform the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Huali Xu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Shuzhou Sun , Vishal M. Patel , Li Liu

Few-shot learning has been proposed and rapidly emerging as a viable means for completing various tasks. Many few-shot models have been widely used for relation learning tasks. However, each of these models has a shortage of capturing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Qing Lin , Yongbin Liu , Wen Wen , Zhihua Tao

We propose prototypical networks for the problem of few-shot classification, where a classifier must generalize to new classes not seen in the training set, given only a small number of examples of each new class. Prototypical networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Jake Snell , Kevin Swersky , Richard S. Zemel

Few-shot image classification aims to accurately classify unlabeled images using only a few labeled samples. The state-of-the-art solutions are built by deep learning, which focuses on designing increasingly complex deep backbones.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Na Chen , Xianming Kuang , Feiyu Liu , Kehao Wang , Qun Chen