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Deep learning has shown great success in settings with massive amounts of data but has struggled when data is limited. Few-shot learning algorithms, which seek to address this limitation, are designed to generalize well to new tasks with…

We introduce Mixture-based Feature Space Learning (MixtFSL) for obtaining a rich and robust feature representation in the context of few-shot image classification. Previous works have proposed to model each base class either with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Arman Afrasiyabi , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to continuously recognize novel classes under limited data, which suffers from the key stability-plasticity dilemma: balancing the retention of old knowledge with the acquisition of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Kexin Bao , Daichi Zhang , Yong Li , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

Few-Shot Classification(FSC) aims to generalize from base classes to novel classes given very limited labeled samples, which is an important step on the path toward human-like machine learning. State-of-the-art solutions involve learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xiongkun Linghu , Yan Bai , Yihang Lou , Shengsen Wu , Jinze Li , Jianzhong He , Tao Bai

We study many-class few-shot (MCFS) problem in both supervised learning and meta-learning settings. Compared to the well-studied many-class many-shot and few-class few-shot problems, the MCFS problem commonly occurs in practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Lu Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Few-shot learning (FSL) is an important and topical problem in computer vision that has motivated extensive research into numerous methods spanning from sophisticated meta-learning methods to simple transfer learning baselines. We seek to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Shell Xu Hu , Da Li , Jan Stühmer , Minyoung Kim , Timothy M. Hospedales

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

Machine learning classifiers are often trained to recognize a set of pre-defined classes. However, in many applications, it is often desirable to have the flexibility of learning additional concepts, with limited data and without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Mengye Ren , Renjie Liao , Ethan Fetaya , Richard S. Zemel

The success of deep learning models is heavily tied to the use of massive amount of labeled data and excessively long training time. With the emergence of intelligent edge applications that use these models, the critical challenge is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Mohammad Ghasemzadeh , Fang Lin , Bita Darvish Rouhani , Farinaz Koushanfar , Ke Huang

We uncover an ever-overlooked deficiency in the prevailing Few-Shot Learning (FSL) methods: the pre-trained knowledge is indeed a confounder that limits the performance. This finding is rooted from our causal assumption: a Structural Causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Zhongqi Yue , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun , Xian-Sheng Hua

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) aims to continuously learn new classes from a limited set of training samples without forgetting knowledge of previously learned classes. Conventional FSCIL methods typically build a robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Linhao Li , Yongzhang Tan , Siyuan Yang , Hao Cheng , Yongfeng Dong , Liang Yang

Incremental learning remains a critical challenge in machine learning, as models often struggle with catastrophic forgetting -the tendency to lose previously acquired knowledge when learning new information. These challenges are even more…

Novel classes frequently arise in our dynamically changing world, e.g., new users in the authentication system, and a machine learning model should recognize new classes without forgetting old ones. This scenario becomes more challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Da-Wei Zhou , Fu-Yun Wang , Han-Jia Ye , Liang Ma , Shiliang Pu , De-Chuan Zhan

Learning from a few examples is an important practical aspect of training classifiers. Various works have examined this aspect quite well. However, all existing approaches assume that the few examples provided are always correctly labeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) has recently attracted extensive attention in various areas. Existing FSCIL methods highly depend on the robustness of the feature backbone pre-trained on base classes. In recent years, different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Wenhao Qiu , Sichao Fu , Jingyi Zhang , Chengxiang Lei , Qinmu Peng

Low-shot learning methods for image classification support learning from sparse data. We extend these techniques to support dense semantic image segmentation. Specifically, we train a network that, given a small set of annotated images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Amirreza Shaban , Shray Bansal , Zhen Liu , Irfan Essa , Byron Boots

We introduce the integrative task of few-shot classification and segmentation (FS-CS) that aims to both classify and segment target objects in a query image when the target classes are given with a few examples. This task combines two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn a classifier that can be easily adapted to accommodate new tasks not seen during training, given only a few examples. To handle the limited-data problem in few-shot regimes, recent methods tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Yang Liu , Weifeng Zhang , Chao Xiang , Tu Zheng , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

The human visual system has the remarkably ability to be able to effortlessly learn novel concepts from only a few examples. Mimicking the same behavior on machine learning vision systems is an interesting and very challenging research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Recent deepfake detection studies often treat unseen sample detection as a ``zero-shot" task, training on images generated by known models but generalizing to unknown ones. A key real-world challenge arises when a model performs poorly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shibo Yao , Renshuai Tao , Xiaolong Zheng , Chao Liang , Chunjie Zhang