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Few-shot learning (FSL) techniques seek to learn the underlying patterns in data using fewer samples, analogous to how humans learn from limited experience. In this limited-data scenario, the challenges associated with deep neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Deepan Chakravarthi Padmanabhan , Shruthi Gowda , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Few-shot classifiers have been shown to exhibit promising results in use cases where user-provided labels are scarce. These models are able to learn to predict novel classes simply by training on a non-overlapping set of classes. This can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yi Xiang Marcus Tan , Penny Chong , Jiamei Sun , Ngai-man Cheung , Yuval Elovici , Alexander Binder

Few-shot learning, especially few-shot image classification, has received increasing attention and witnessed significant advances in recent years. Some recent studies implicitly show that many generic techniques or ``tricks'', such as data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Wenbin Li , Ziyi , Wang , Xuesong Yang , Chuanqi Dong , Pinzhuo Tian , Tiexin Qin , Jing Huo , Yinghuan Shi , Lei Wang , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

Few-shot classification has made great strides due to foundation models that, through priming and prompting, are highly effective few-shot learners. However, this approach has high variance both across different sets of few shots (data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Abdullatif Köksal , Timo Schick , Hinrich Schütze

This paper investigates a new challenging problem called defensive few-shot learning in order to learn a robust few-shot model against adversarial attacks. Simply applying the existing adversarial defense methods to few-shot learning cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Wenbin Li , Lei Wang , Xingxing Zhang , Lei Qi , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

In this paper, we propose an approach to improve few-shot classification performance using a composite rotation based auxiliary task. Few-shot classification methods aim to produce neural networks that perform well for classes with a large…

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

State-of-the-art deep learning algorithms yield remarkable results in many visual recognition tasks. However, they still fail to provide satisfactory results in scarce data regimes. To a certain extent this lack of data can be compensated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Frederik Pahde , Oleksiy Ostapenko , Patrick Jähnichen , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Few-shot classification is the task of predicting the category of an example from a set of few labeled examples. The number of labeled examples per category is called the number of shots (or shot number). Recent works tackle this task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tianshi Cao , Marc Law , Sanja Fidler

The performance of meta-learning approaches for few-shot learning generally depends on three aspects: features suitable for comparison, the classifier ( base learner ) suitable for low-data scenarios, and valuable information from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Haoqing Wang , Zhi-Hong Deng

The core idea of metric-based few-shot image classification is to directly measure the relations between query images and support classes to learn transferable feature embeddings. Previous work mainly focuses on image-level feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Wenbin Li , Lei Wang , Jing Huo , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

Few-shot visual recognition refers to recognize novel visual concepts from a few labeled instances. Many few-shot visual recognition methods adopt the metric-based meta-learning paradigm by comparing the query representation with class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Mengya Han , Yibing Zhan , Yong Luo , Bo Du , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Humans have a remarkable ability to quickly and effectively learn new concepts in a continuous manner without forgetting old knowledge. Though deep learning has made tremendous successes on various computer vision tasks, it faces challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Kun Wu , Chengxiang Yin , Jian Tang , Zhiyuan Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Dejun Yang

Few-shot Continual Relation Extraction is a crucial challenge for enabling AI systems to identify and adapt to evolving relationships in dynamic real-world domains. Traditional memory-based approaches often overfit to limited samples,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nguyen Xuan Thanh , Anh Duc Le , Quyen Tran , Thanh-Thien Le , Linh Ngo Van , Thien Huu Nguyen

A major limitation of machine learning (ML) prediction models is that they recover associational, rather than causal, predictive relationships between variables. In high-stakes automation applications of ML this is problematic, as the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jianqiao Mao , Max A. Little

Few-shot algorithms aim at learning new tasks provided only a handful of training examples. In this work we investigate few-shot learning in the setting where the data points are sequences of tokens and propose an efficient learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Lajanugen Logeswaran , Ann Lee , Myle Ott , Honglak Lee , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Arthur Szlam

People easily recognize new visual categories that are new combinations of known components. This compositional generalization capacity is critical for learning in real-world domains like vision and language because the long tail of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yuval Atzmon , Felix Kreuk , Uri Shalit , Gal Chechik

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn a classifier that can be easily adapted to recognize novel classes with only a few labeled examples. Some recent work about FSL has yielded promising classification performance, where the image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jianpeng Yang , Yuhang Niu , Xuemei Xie , Guangming Shi

The goal of few-shot learning is to generalize and achieve high performance on new unseen learning tasks, where each task has only a limited number of examples available. Gradient-based meta-learning attempts to address this challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Christian Raymond , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Few-shot learning, which aims at extracting new concepts rapidly from extremely few examples of novel classes, has been featured into the meta-learning paradigm recently. Yet, the key challenge of how to learn a generalizable classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Limeng Qiao , Yemin Shi , Jia Li , Yaowei Wang , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Computer vision-based methods have valuable use cases in precision medicine, and recognizing facial phenotypes of genetic disorders is one of them. Many genetic disorders are known to affect faces' visual appearance and geometry. Automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Ömer Sümer , Fabio Hellmann , Alexander Hustinx , Tzung-Chien Hsieh , Elisabeth André , Peter Krawitz