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Few-shot learning (FSL) aims at recognizing novel classes given only few training samples, which still remains a great challenge for deep learning. However, humans can easily recognize novel classes with only few samples. A key component of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Yixiong Zou , Shanghang Zhang , Ke Chen , Yonghong Tian , Yaowei Wang , José M. F. Moura

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) faces a critical challenge: balancing the retention of prior knowledge with the acquisition of new classes. Existing methods either freeze the backbone to prevent catastrophic forgetting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Xiaojie Li , Jianlong Wu , Yue Yu , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

Deep neural network-based medical image classifications often use "hard" labels for training, where the probability of the correct category is 1 and those of others are 0. However, these hard targets can drive the networks over-confident…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Dong Wei , Shilei Cao , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Over the past few years, state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms are based on deep convolutional neural networks. To render a deep network with the ability to understand a concept, humans need to collect a large amount of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Weide Liu , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Fayao Liu

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to mitigate the catastrophic forgetting issue when a model is incrementally trained on limited data. However, many of these works lack effective exploration of prior knowledge, rendering them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Wan Xu , Tianyu Huang , Tianyu Qu , Guanglei Yang , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo

Few-shot relation classification seeks to classify incoming query instances after meeting only few support instances. This ability is gained by training with large amount of in-domain annotated data. In this paper, we tackle an even harder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaoqing Geng , Xiwen Chen , Kenny Q. Zhu , Libin Shen , Yinggong Zhao

Intent classification (IC) and slot filling (SF) are core components in most goal-oriented dialogue systems. Current IC/SF models perform poorly when the number of training examples per class is small. We propose a new few-shot learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Jason Krone , Yi Zhang , Mona Diab

Most few-shot learning models utilize only one modality of data. We would like to investigate qualitatively and quantitatively how much will the model improve if we add an extra modality (i.e. text description of the image), and how it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Zilun Zhang , Shihao Ma , Yichun Zhang

Few-shot segmentation aims to segment unseen-class objects given only a handful of densely labeled samples. Prototype learning, where the support feature yields a singleor several prototypes by averaging global and local object information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ehtesham Iqbal , Sirojbek Safarov , Seongdeok Bang

Deep learning models have demonstrated exceptional performance in a variety of real-world applications. These successes are often attributed to strong base models that can generalize to novel tasks with limited supporting data while keeping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chenqi Li , Boyan Gao , Gabriel Jones , Timothy Denison , Tingting Zhu

Few-shot classification of hyperspectral images (HSI) faces the challenge of scarce labeled samples. Self-Supervised learning (SSL) and Few-Shot Learning (FSL) offer promising avenues to address this issue. However, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Wenchen Chen , Yanmei Zhang , Zhongwei Xiao , Jianping Chu , Xingbo Wang

Deep neural networks require large training sets but suffer from high computational cost and long training times. Training on much smaller training sets while maintaining nearly the same accuracy would be very beneficial. In the few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Ilia Sucholutsky , Matthias Schonlau

Few-shot classification (FSC) is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training data (e.g. only one labeled data point per class). Meta-learning has shown to achieve promising results by learning to initialize a classification model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xinzhe Li , Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Shibao Zheng , Qin Zhou , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

Class-incremental learning in the context of limited personal labeled samples (few-shot) is critical for numerous real-world applications, such as smart home devices. A key challenge in these scenarios is balancing the trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kirill Paramonov , Mete Ozay , Eunju Yang , Jijoong Moon , Umberto Michieli

Few-shot learning (FSL) is an emergent paradigm of learning that attempts to learn to reason with low sample complexity to mimic the way humans learn, generalise and extrapolate from only a few seen examples. While FSL attempts to mimic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jaron Mar , Jiamou Liu

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in object recognition tasks through the availability of large scale datasets like ImageNet. However, deep learning systems suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning incrementally without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn novel visual categories from very few samples, which is a challenging problem in real-world applications. Many methods of few-shot classification work well on general images to learn global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaojian He , Jinfu Lin , Junming Shen

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

In this article, we consider the problem of few-shot learning for classification. We assume a network trained for base categories with a large number of training examples, and we aim to add novel categories to it that have only a few, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee