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Aspect category detection (ACD) in sentiment analysis aims to identify the aspect categories mentioned in a sentence. In this paper, we formulate ACD in the few-shot learning scenario. However, existing few-shot learning approaches mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Mengting Hu , Shiwan Zhao , Honglei Guo , Chao Xue , Hang Gao , Tiegang Gao , Renhong Cheng , Zhong Su

Few-shot learning (FSL) enables machine learning models to generalize effectively with minimal labeled data, making it crucial for data-scarce domains such as healthcare, robotics, and natural language processing. Despite its potential, FSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Rishabh Agrawal

Few-shot classification aims to recognize unlabeled samples from unseen classes given only few labeled samples. The unseen classes and low-data problem make few-shot classification very challenging. Many existing approaches extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

The paucity of labeled data is a typical challenge in the automotive industry. Annotating time-series measurements requires solid domain knowledge and in-depth exploratory data analysis, which implies a high labeling effort. Conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yuqicheng Zhu , Mohamed-Ali Tnani , Timo Jahnz , Klaus Diepold

Labeling social-media data for custom dimensions of toxicity and social bias is challenging and labor-intensive. Existing transfer and active learning approaches meant to reduce annotation effort require fine-tuning, which suffers from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Rafal Kocielnik , Sara Kangaslahti , Shrimai Prabhumoye , Meena Hari , R. Michael Alvarez , Anima Anandkumar

Few-shot image classification is a challenging task in the field of machine learning, involving the identification of new categories using a limited number of labeled samples. In recent years, methods based on local descriptors have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Bingchen Yan

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) alleviates the data shortage challenge via embedding discriminative target-aware features among plenty seen (base) and few unseen (novel) labeled samples. Most feature embedding modules in recent FSL methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jinxiang Lai , Siqian Yang , Wenlong Liu , Yi Zeng , Zhongyi Huang , Wenlong Wu , Jun Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Chengjie Wang

Few-shot learning aims to train a classifier that can generalize well when just a small number of labeled examples per class are given. We introduce a transductive maximum margin classifier for few-shot learning (FS-TMMC). The basic idea of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Fei Pan , Chunlei Xu , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Irrelevant features can significantly degrade few-shot learn ing performance. This problem is used to match queries and support images based on meaningful similarities despite the limited data. However, in this process, non-relevant fea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Javier Rodenas , Eduardo Aguilar , Petia Radeva

Classification is an important task in many fields including biomedical research and machine learning. Traditionally, a classification rule is constructed based a bunch of labeled data. Recently, due to technological innovation and…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-19 Jing Wang , Eunsik Park , Yuan-chin Ivan Chang

Selective prediction aims to learn a reliable model that abstains from making predictions when uncertain. These predictions can then be deferred to humans for further evaluation. As an everlasting challenge for machine learning, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Jiefeng Chen , Jinsung Yoon , Sayna Ebrahimi , Sercan Arik , Somesh Jha , Tomas Pfister

Few-shot classification (FSC) is one of the most concerned hot issues in recent years. The general setting consists of two phases: (1) Pre-train a feature extraction model (FEM) with base data (has large amounts of labeled samples). (2) Use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Shuai Shao , Lei Xing , Yixin Chen , Yan-Jiang Wang , Bao-Di Liu , Yicong Zhou

The recently proposed Novel Category Discovery (NCD) adapt paradigm of transductive learning hinders its application in more real-world scenarios. In fact, few labeled data in part of new categories can well alleviate this burden, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Chunming Li , Shidong Wang , Haofeng Zhang

Conventional Few-shot classification (FSC) aims to recognize samples from novel classes given limited labeled data. Recently, domain generalization FSC (DG-FSC) has been proposed with the goal to recognize novel class samples from unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yunqing Zhao , Ngai-Man Cheung

Few-shot learning (FSL) methods typically assume clean support sets with accurately labeled samples when training on novel classes. This assumption can often be unrealistic: support sets, no matter how small, can still include mislabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kevin J Liang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Vladan Petrovic , Tal Hassner

Cross-domain few-shot classification (CD-FSC) aims to identify novel target classes with a few samples, assuming that there exists a domain shift between source and target domains. Existing state-of-the-art practices typically pre-train on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Hengchu Lu , Yuanjie Shao , Xiang Wang , Changxin Gao

Classification of functional data where observations are curves or trajectories poses unique challenges, particularly under severe class imbalance. Traditional Random Forest algorithms, while robust for tabular data, often fail to capture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-10 Fahad Mostafa , Hafiz Khan

We tackle a novel few-shot learning challenge, which we call few-shot semantic edge detection, aiming to localize crisp boundaries of novel categories using only a few labeled samples. We also present a Class-Agnostic Few-shot Edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Young-Hyun Park , Jun Seo , Jaekyun Moon

The successful application of deep learning to many visual recognition tasks relies heavily on the availability of a large amount of labeled data which is usually expensive to obtain. The few-shot learning problem has attracted increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Zhongjie Yu , Lin Chen , Zhongwei Cheng , Jiebo Luo

Distribution estimation has been demonstrated as one of the most effective approaches in dealing with few-shot image classification, as the low-level patterns and underlying representations can be easily transferred across different tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Han Liu , Feng Zhang , Xiaotong Zhang , Siyang Zhao , Fenglong Ma , Xiao-Ming Wu , Hongyang Chen , Hong Yu , Xianchao Zhang