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Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to generalize to novel categories with only a few samples. Recent approaches incorporate large language models (LLMs) to enrich visual representations with semantic embeddings derived from class names. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Wenhao Li , Xianjing Meng , Qiangchang Wang , Zhongyi Han , Zhibin Wu , Yilong Yin

ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) is one of the most authoritative academic competitions in the field of Computer Vision (CV) in recent years. But applying ILSVRC's annual champion directly to fine-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Fan Zhang , Meng Li , Guisheng Zhai , Yizhao Liu

Metric-based few-shot learning methods concentrate on learning transferable feature embedding that generalizes well from seen categories to unseen categories under the supervision of limited number of labelled instances. However, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Jun He , Richang Hong , Xueliang Liu , Mingliang Xu , Zhengjun Zha , Meng Wang

Recent progress in the few-shot adaptation of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has further pushed their generalization capabilities, at the expense of just a few labeled samples within the target downstream task. However, this promising,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Maxime Zanella , Ismail Ben Ayed

Although few-shot learning and one-class classification (OCC), i.e., learning a binary classifier with data from only one class, have been separately well studied, their intersection remains rather unexplored. Our work addresses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Ahmed Frikha , Denis Krompaß , Hans-Georg Köpken , Volker Tresp

The goal of few-shot classification is to learn a model that can classify novel classes using only a few training examples. Despite the promising results shown by existing meta-learning algorithms in solving the few-shot classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Shuman Peng , Weilian Song , Martin Ester

We explore Few-Shot Learning (FSL) for Relation Classification (RC). Focusing on the realistic scenario of FSL, in which a test instance might not belong to any of the target categories (none-of-the-above, aka NOTA), we first revisit the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ofer Sabo , Yanai Elazar , Yoav Goldberg , Ido Dagan

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a weak supervision learning paradigm that allows modeling of machine learning problems in which labels are available only for groups of examples called bags. A positive bag may contain one or more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Amina Asif , Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas

The goal of few-shot image recognition (FSIR) is to identify novel categories with a small number of annotated samples by exploiting transferable knowledge from training data (base categories). Most current studies assume that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Shuqiang Jiang , Yaohui Zhu , Chenlong Liu , Xinhang Song , Xiangyang Li , Weiqing Min

Few-shot learning with $N$-way $K$-shot scheme is an open challenge in machine learning. Many metric-based approaches have been proposed to tackle this problem, e.g., the Matching Networks and CLIP-Adapter. Despite that these approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Guoliang Lin , Yongheng Xu , Hanjiang Lai , Jian 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

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

Few-shot learning is a relatively new technique that specializes in problems where we have little amounts of data. The goal of these methods is to classify categories that have not been seen before with just a handful of samples. Recent…

With the increasing ability of large language models (LLMs), in-context learning (ICL) has evolved as a new paradigm for natural language processing (NLP), where instead of fine-tuning the parameters of an LLM specific to a downstream task…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Andrew Parry , Debasis Ganguly , Manish Chandra

Neural net classifiers trained on data with annotated class labels can also capture apparent visual similarity among categories without being directed to do so. We study whether this observation can be extended beyond the conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Zhirong Wu , Yuanjun Xiong , Stella Yu , Dahua Lin

In this paper, we explore meta-learning for few-shot text classification. Meta-learning has shown strong performance in computer vision, where low-level patterns are transferable across learning tasks. However, directly applying this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yujia Bao , Menghua Wu , Shiyu Chang , Regina Barzilay

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced transfer learning across diverse tasks. However, adapting these models with limited few-shot data often leads to overfitting, undermining their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yuncheng Guo , Xiaodong Gu

Few-shot object detection aims to detect instances of specific categories in a query image with only a handful of support samples. Although this takes less effort than obtaining enough annotated images for supervised object detection, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Hojun Lee , Myunggi Lee , Nojun Kwak

We investigate cross-domain few-shot learning under the constraint that fine-tuning of backbones (i.e., feature extractors) is impossible or infeasible -- a scenario that is increasingly common in practical use cases. Handling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xin Xu , Eibe Frank , Geoffrey Holmes

We study the few-shot learning (FSL) problem, where a model learns to recognize new objects with extremely few labeled training data per category. Most of previous FSL approaches resort to the meta-learning paradigm, where the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Zejiang Hou , Sun-Yuan Kung