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The key issue of few-shot learning is learning to generalize. This paper proposes a large margin principle to improve the generalization capacity of metric based methods for few-shot learning. To realize it, we develop a unified framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yong Wang , Xiao-Ming Wu , Qimai Li , Jiatao Gu , Wangmeng Xiang , Lei Zhang , Victor O. K. Li

Convolutional neural networks and supervised learning have achieved remarkable success in various fields but are limited by the need for large annotated datasets. Few-shot learning (FSL) addresses this limitation by enabling models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yang Liu , Feixiang Liu , Jiale Du , Xinbo Gao , Jungong Han

While advances in pre-training have led to dramatic improvements in few-shot learning of NLP tasks, there is limited understanding of what drives successful few-shot adaptation in datasets. In particular, given a new dataset and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Xinran Zhao , Shikhar Murty , Christopher D. Manning

Semi-supervised few-shot learning consists in training a classifier to adapt to new tasks with limited labeled data and a fixed quantity of unlabeled data. Many sophisticated methods have been developed to address the challenges this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xiu-Shen Wei , He-Yang Xu , Faen Zhang , Yuxin Peng , Wei Zhou

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) aims to improve a model's generalization capability in low data regimes. Recent FSL works have made steady progress via metric learning, meta learning, representation learning, etc. However, FSL remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Meng Ye , Xiao Lin , Giedrius Burachas , Ajay Divakaran , Yi Yao

Deep learning becomes an elevated context regarding disposing of many machine learning tasks and has shown a breakthrough upliftment to extract features from unstructured data. Though this flourishing context is developing in the medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Jannatul Nayem , Sayed Sahriar Hasan , Noshin Amina , Bristy Das , Md Shahin Ali , Md Manjurul Ahsan , Shivakumar Raman

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize new objects with extremely limited training data for each category. Previous efforts are made by either leveraging meta-learning paradigm or novel principles in data augmentation to alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Yikai Wang , Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu

Few-Shot Learning refers to the problem of learning the underlying pattern in the data just from a few training samples. Requiring a large number of data samples, many deep learning solutions suffer from data hunger and extensively high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Archit Parnami , Minwoo Lee

Transductive inference is an effective means of tackling the data deficiency problem in few-shot learning settings. A popular transductive inference technique for few-shot metric-based approaches, is to update the prototype of each class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Seong Min Kye , Hae Beom Lee , Hoirin Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

Few-shot classification consists of learning a predictive model that is able to effectively adapt to a new class, given only a few annotated samples. To solve this challenging problem, meta-learning has become a popular paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

Few-shot learning (FSL) has emerged as an effective learning method and shows great potential. Despite the recent creative works in tackling FSL tasks, learning valid information rapidly from just a few or even zero samples still remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yisheng Song , Ting Wang , Subrota K Mondal , Jyoti Prakash Sahoo

In task-based few-shot learning paradigms, it is commonly assumed that different tasks are independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.). However, in real-world scenarios, the distribution encountered in few-shot learning can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiajun Chen , Hongpeng Yin , Yifu Yang

Learning from a few examples is an important practical aspect of training classifiers. Various works have examined this aspect quite well. However, all existing approaches assume that the few examples provided are always correctly labeled.…

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

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

Training a neural network model that can quickly adapt to a new task is highly desirable yet challenging for few-shot learning problems. Recent few-shot learning methods mostly concentrate on developing various meta-learning strategies from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zihang Jiang , Bingyi Kang , Kuangqi Zhou , Jiashi Feng

Few-shot learning is devoted to training a model on few samples. Most of these approaches learn a model based on a pixel-level or global-level feature representation. However, using global features may lose local information, and using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Learning from limited exemplars (few-shot learning) is a fundamental, unsolved problem that has been laboriously explored in the machine learning community. However, current few-shot learners are mostly supervised and rely heavily on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Zilong Ji , Xiaolong Zou , Tiejun Huang , Si Wu

Distribution alignment has many applications in deep learning, including domain adaptation and unsupervised image-to-image translation. Most prior work on unsupervised distribution alignment relies either on minimizing simple non-parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ben Usman , Avneesh Sud , Nick Dufour , Kate Saenko

Deep learning based models have excelled in many computer vision tasks and appear to surpass humans' performance. However, these models require an avalanche of expensive human labeled training data and many iterations to train their large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yikai Wang , Li Zhang , Yuan Yao , Yanwei Fu

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