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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

In this paper, we consider the framework of multi-task representation (MTR) learning where the goal is to use source tasks to learn a representation that reduces the sample complexity of solving a target task. We start by reviewing recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Quentin Bouniot , Ievgen Redko , Romaric Audigier , Angélique Loesch , Amaury Habrard

Recently, a race towards the simplification of deep networks has begun, showing that it is effectively possible to reduce the size of these models with minimal or no performance loss. However, there is a general lack in understanding why…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Enzo Tartaglione , Andrea Bragagnolo , Marco Grangetto

For many natural language processing (NLP) tasks the amount of annotated data is limited. This urges a need to apply semi-supervised learning techniques, such as transfer learning or meta-learning. In this work we tackle Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Alexander Fritzler , Varvara Logacheva , Maksim Kretov

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel concepts by leveraging prior knowledge learned from a few samples. However, for visually intensive tasks such as few-shot semantic segmentation, pixel-level annotations are time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiaqi Ma , Guo-Sen Xie , Fang Zhao , Zechao Li

Despite the great progress made by deep CNNs in image semantic segmentation, they typically require a large number of densely-annotated images for training and are difficult to generalize to unseen object categories. Few-shot segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Kaixin Wang , Jun Hao Liew , Yingtian Zou , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng

Relation classification (RC) task is one of fundamental tasks of information extraction, aiming to detect the relation information between entity pairs in unstructured natural language text and generate structured data in the form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yan Xiao , Yaochu Jin , Kuangrong Hao

Few-shot semantic segmentation is vital for deep learning-based infrastructure inspection applications, where labeled training examples are scarce and expensive. Although existing deep learning frameworks perform well, the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Christina Thrainer , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Christian Guetl , Steven Sloan , Kendall N. Niles , Ken Pathak

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

The task of segmentation of multispectral images, which are images with numerous channels or bands, each capturing a specific range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, has been previously explored in contexts with large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Dilith Jayakody , Thanuja Ambegoda

Few-shot text classification has recently been promoted by the meta-learning paradigm which aims to identify target classes with knowledge transferred from source classes with sets of small tasks named episodes. Despite their success,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Junfan Chen , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao , Jie Xu

AI-assisted molecular property prediction has become a promising technique in early-stage drug discovery and materials design in recent years. However, due to high-cost and complex wet-lab experiments, real-world molecules usually…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zeyu Wang , Tianyi Jiang , Huanchang Ma , Yao Lu , Xiaoze Bao , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan , Shirui Pan , Xin Zheng

Controlling the generative model to adapt a new domain with limited samples is a difficult challenge and it is receiving increasing attention. Recently, methods based on meta-learning have shown promising results for few-shot domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Pengsen Cheng , Jinqiao Dai , Jiamiao Liu , Jiayong Liu , Peng Jia

Although Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful in node classification tasks, their performance heavily relies on the availability of a sufficient number of labeled nodes per class. In real-world situations, not all classes have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Sungwon Kim , Junseok Lee , Namkyeong Lee , Wonjoong Kim , Seungyoon Choi , Chanyoung Park

Current machine learning has made great progress on computer vision and many other fields attributed to the large amount of high-quality training samples, while it does not work very well on genomic data analysis, since they are notoriously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Ziyi Yang , Jun Shu , Yong Liang , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

Providing pretrained language models with simple task descriptions in natural language enables them to solve some tasks in a fully unsupervised fashion. Moreover, when combined with regular learning from examples, this idea yields…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Timo Schick , Hinrich Schütze

With the continuous development of natural language processing (NLP) technology, text classification tasks have been widely used in multiple application fields. However, obtaining labeled data is often expensive and difficult, especially in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jia Gao , Shuangquan Lyu , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao

Learning from a few examples remains a key challenge in machine learning. Despite recent advances in important domains such as vision and language, the standard supervised deep learning paradigm does not offer a satisfactory solution for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Oriol Vinyals , Charles Blundell , Timothy Lillicrap , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Daan Wierstra

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are one of the most promising bio-inspired neural networks models and have drawn increasing attention in recent years. The event-driven communication mechanism of SNNs allows for sparse and theoretically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Andrea Castagnetti , Alain Pegatoquet , Benoît Miramond

While state-of-the-art models that rely upon massively multilingual pretrained encoders achieve sample efficiency in downstream applications, they still require abundant amounts of unlabelled text. Nevertheless, most of the world's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Yaoyiran Li , Edoardo M. Ponti , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen