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Recently, Transformer-based robotic manipulation methods utilize multi-view spatial representations and language instructions to learn robot motion trajectories by leveraging numerous robot demonstrations. However, the collection of robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Mingchen Song , Xiang Deng , Guoqiang Zhong , Qi Lv , Jia Wan , Yinchuan Li , Jianye Hao , Weili Guan

We introduce a curriculum learning algorithm, Variational Automatic Curriculum Learning (VACL), for solving challenging goal-conditioned cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning problems. We motivate our paradigm through a variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jiayu Chen , Yuanxin Zhang , Yuanfan Xu , Huimin Ma , Huazhong Yang , Jiaming Song , Yu Wang , Yi Wu

The great success that deep models have achieved in the past is mainly owed to large amounts of labeled training data. However, the acquisition of labeled data for new tasks aside from existing benchmarks is both challenging and costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Clemens-Alexander Brust , Christoph Käding , Joachim Denzler

Continually learning new classes from fresh data without forgetting previous knowledge of old classes is a very challenging research problem. Moreover, it is imperative that such learning must respect certain memory and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Michael Hersche , Geethan Karunaratne , Giovanni Cherubini , Luca Benini , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong few-shot learning capabilities. However, these methods typically learn holistic representations where an image's domain-invariant structure is implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hieu Dinh Trung Pham , Huy Minh Nhat Nguyen , Cuong Tuan Nguyen

The ability to incrementally learn new classes is crucial to the development of real-world artificial intelligence systems. In this paper, we focus on a challenging but practical few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) problem. FSCIL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xiaoyu Tao , Xiaopeng Hong , Xinyuan Chang , Songlin Dong , Xing Wei , Yihong Gong

Reconstructing accurate causal models of dynamic systems from time-series of sensor data is a key problem in many real-world scenarios. In this paper, we present an overview based on our experience about practical challenges that the causal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Luca Castri , Sariah Mghames , Nicola Bellotto

Few-shot Learning has been studied to mimic human visual capabilities and learn effective models without the need of exhaustive human annotation. Even though the idea of meta-learning for adaptation has dominated the few-shot learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Jiawei Ma , Hanchen Xie , Guangxing Han , Shih-Fu Chang , Aram Galstyan , Wael Abd-Almageed

Continuous/Lifelong learning of high-dimensional data streams is a challenging research problem. In fact, fully retraining models each time new data become available is infeasible, due to computational and storage issues, while na\"ive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Maltoni

Many real-world classification problems often have classes with very few labeled training samples. Moreover, all possible classes may not be initially available for training, and may be given incrementally. Deep learning models need to deal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh , Piyush Rai

Object pose estimation is crucial for robotic applications and augmented reality. Beyond instance level 6D object pose estimation methods, estimating category-level pose and shape has become a promising trend. As such, a new research field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Pengyuan Wang , HyunJun Jung , Yitong Li , Siyuan Shen , Rahul Parthasarathy Srikanth , Lorenzo Garattoni , Sven Meier , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

The goal of Few-Shot Continual Learning (FSCL) is to incrementally learn novel tasks with limited labeled samples and preserve previous capabilities simultaneously, while current FSCL methods are all for the class-incremental purpose.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yawen Cui , Zitong Yu , Rizhao Cai , Xun Wang , Alex C. Kot , Li Liu

Continual learning (or class incremental learning) is a realistic learning scenario for computer vision systems, where deep neural networks are trained on episodic data, and the data from previous episodes are generally inaccessible to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Aditya R. Bhattacharya , Debanjan Goswami , Shayok Chakraborty

Current mainstream deep learning techniques exhibit an over-reliance on extensive training data and a lack of adaptability to the dynamic world, marking a considerable disparity from human intelligence. To bridge this gap, Few-Shot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Renye Zhang , Yimin Yin , Jinghua Zhang

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn models that generalize to novel classes with limited training samples. Recent works advance FSL towards a scenario where unlabeled examples are also available and propose semi-supervised FSL methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Linglan Zhao , Dashan Guo , Yunlu Xu , Liang Qiao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Xiangzhong Fang

Even with the luxury of having abundant data, multi-label classification is widely known to be a challenging task to address. This work targets the problem of multi-label meta-learning, where a model learns to predict multiple labels within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Christian Simon , Piotr Koniusz , Mehrtash Harandi

The task of few-shot image classification and segmentation (FS-CS) requires the classification and segmentation of target objects in a query image, given only a few examples of the target classes. We introduce a method that utilises large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Tian Meng , Yang Tao , Wuliang Yin

Model agnostic meta-learning algorithms aim to infer priors from several observed tasks that can then be used to adapt to a new task with few examples. Given the inherent diversity of tasks arising in existing benchmarks, recent methods use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Rakshith Subramanyam , Mark Heimann , Jayram Thathachar , Rushil Anirudh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Consider the following problem: given a few demonstrations of a task across a few different objects, how can a robot learn to perform that same task on new, previously unseen objects? This is challenging because the large variety of objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Vitalis Vosylius , Edward Johns

Active learning (AL) strategies aim to train high-performance models with minimal labeling efforts, only selecting the most informative instances for annotation. Current approaches to evaluating data informativeness predominantly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhixuan Liang , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao , Ping Luo