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We introduce Mixture-based Feature Space Learning (MixtFSL) for obtaining a rich and robust feature representation in the context of few-shot image classification. Previous works have proposed to model each base class either with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Arman Afrasiyabi , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

Few-shot learning aims to recognize new categories using very few labeled samples. Although few-shot learning has witnessed promising development in recent years, most existing methods adopt an average operation to calculate prototypes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Minglei Yuan , Wenhai Wang , Tao Wang , Chunhao Cai , Qian Xu , Tong Lu

Few-shot learning (FSL) enables object detection models to recognize novel classes given only a few annotated examples, thereby reducing expensive manual data labeling. This survey examines recent FSL advances for video and 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Kendall N. Niles , Joe Tom , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Elias Ioup

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

Few-shot image classification aims to classify unseen classes with limited labelled samples. Recent works benefit from the meta-learning process with episodic tasks and can fast adapt to class from training to testing. Due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Da Chen , Yuefeng Chen , Yuhong Li , Feng Mao , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Few-shot classification tasks aim to classify images in query sets based on only a few labeled examples in support sets. Most studies usually assume that each image in a task has a single and unique class association. Under these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Lu Yin , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Few-shot learning is a type of classification through which predictions are made based on a limited number of samples for each class. This type of classification is sometimes referred to as a meta-learning problem, in which the model learns…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Leah Chowenhill , Gaurav Satyanath , Shubhranshu Singh , Madhav Mahendra Wagh

By describing the features and abstractions of our world, language is a crucial tool for human learning and a promising source of supervision for machine learning models. We use language to improve few-shot visual classification in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jesse Mu , Percy Liang , Noah Goodman

In machine learning applications, it is common practice to feed as much information as possible. In most cases, the model can handle large data sets that allow to predict more accurately. In the presence of data scarcity, a Few-Shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Saad Bin Ahmed , Umaid M. Zaffar , Marium Aslam , Muhammad Imran Malik

Objective: Few-shot learning (FSL) methods require small numbers of labeled instances for training. As many medical topics have limited annotated textual data in practical settings, FSL-based natural language processing (NLP) methods hold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Yao Ge , Yuting Guo , Yuan-Chi Yang , Mohammed Ali Al-Garadi , Abeed Sarker

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in everyday applications, ensuring their alignment with the diverse preferences of individual users has become a critical challenge. Currently deployed approaches typically assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Katarzyna Kobalczyk , Claudio Fanconi , Hao Sun , Mihaela van der Schaar

There has been a remarkable progress in learning a model which could recognise novel classes with only a few labeled examples in the last few years. Few-shot learning (FSL) for action recognition is a challenging task of recognising novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Neeraj Kumar , Siddhansh Narang

Aiming at recognizing the samples from novel categories with few reference samples, few-shot learning (FSL) is a challenging problem. We found that the existing works often build their few-shot model based on the image-level feature by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Junying Huang , Fan Chen , Keze Wang , Liang Lin , Dongyu Zhang

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

Popular approaches for few-shot classification consist of first learning a generic data representation based on a large annotated dataset, before adapting the representation to new classes given only a few labeled samples. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

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

In many real-world problems, collecting a large number of labeled samples is infeasible. Few-shot learning (FSL) is the dominant approach to address this issue, where the objective is to quickly adapt to novel categories in presence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have led to strong text classification models for many tasks. However, still often thousands of examples are needed to train models with good quality. This makes it challenging to quickly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Thomas Müller , Guillermo Pérez-Torró , Angelo Basile , Marc Franco-Salvador

Self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques have recently been integrated into the few-shot learning (FSL) framework and have shown promising results in improving the few-shot image classification performance. However, existing SSL approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yi Rong , Xiongbo Lu , Zhaoyang Sun , Yaxiong Chen , Shengwu Xiong

Interpretable machine learning offers insights into what factors drive a certain prediction of a black-box system. A large number of interpreting methods focus on identifying explanatory input features, which generally fall into two main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Vy Vo , Van Nguyen , Trung Le , Quan Hung Tran , Gholamreza Haffari , Seyit Camtepe , Dinh Phung