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Few-shot image generation aims to effectively adapt a source generative model to a target domain using very few training images. Most existing approaches introduce consistency constraints-typically through instance-level or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Chenghao Xu , Qi Liu , Jiexi Yan , Muli Yang , Cheng Deng

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

Knowledge graphs (KGs) are ubiquitous and widely used in various applications. However, most real-world knowledge graphs are incomplete, which significantly degrades their performance on downstream tasks. Additionally, the relationships in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Lihui Liu , Zihao Wang , Dawei Zhou , Ruijie Wang , Yuchen Yan , Bo Xiong , Sihong He , Kai Shu , Hanghang Tong

Existing Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) architectures are hungry for annotated data, which make them costly and time-consuming to deploy. We introduce the problem of few-shot transfer learning for KBQA, where the target domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Mayur Patidar , Riya Sawhney , Avinash Singh , Biswajit Chatterjee , Mausam , Indrajit Bhattacharya

Few-shot learning deals with problems such as image classification using very few training examples. Recent vision foundation models show excellent few-shot transfer abilities, but are large and slow at inference. Using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Erik Landolsi , Fredrik Kahl

Generalized few-shot semantic segmentation (GFSS) aims to segment objects of both base and novel classes, using sufficient samples of base classes and few samples of novel classes. Representative GFSS approaches typically employ a two-phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xinyue Chen , Miaojing Shi , Zijian Zhou , Lianghua He , Sophia Tsoka

Few-shot learning is a challenging task that aims at training a classifier for unseen classes with only a few training examples. The main difficulty of few-shot learning lies in the lack of intra-class diversity within insufficient training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Mengting Chen , Yuxin Fang , Xinggang Wang , Heng Luo , Yifeng Geng , Xinyu Zhang , Chang Huang , Wenyu Liu , Bo Wang

The training of deep-learning-based text classification models relies heavily on a huge amount of annotation data, which is difficult to obtain. When the labeled data is scarce, models tend to struggle to achieve satisfactory performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Dianbo Sui , Yubo Chen , Binjie Mao , Delai Qiu , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem due to the uncertainty caused by using few labelled samples. In the past few years, many methods have been proposed to solve few-shot classification, among which transfer-based methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Yuqing Hu , Vincent Gripon , Stéphane Pateux

Most few-shot learning techniques are pre-trained on a large, labeled "base dataset". In problem domains where such large labeled datasets are not available for pre-training (e.g., X-ray, satellite images), one must resort to pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Cheng Perng Phoo , Bharath Hariharan

We address the problem of learning new classes for semantic segmentation models from few examples, which is challenging because of the following two reasons. Firstly, it is difficult to learn from limited novel data to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chengjia Jiang , Tao Wang , Sien Li , Jinyang Wang , Shirui Wang , Antonios Antoniou

Performing knowledge transfer from a large teacher network to a smaller student is a popular task in modern deep learning applications. However, due to growing dataset sizes and stricter privacy regulations, it is increasingly common not to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Paul Micaelli , Amos Storkey

In the field of Few-Shot Image Generation (FSIG) using Deep Generative Models (DGMs), accurately estimating the distribution of target domain with minimal samples poses a significant challenge. This requires a method that can both capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yu Cao , Shaogang Gong

Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) aims to learn class-agnostic segmentation on few classes to segment arbitrary classes, but at the risk of overfitting. To address this, some methods use the well-learned knowledge of foundation models (e.g., SAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Qianxiong Xu , Lanyun Zhu , Xuanyi Liu , Guosheng Lin , Cheng Long , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao

Metric-based few-shot fine-grained image classification (FSFGIC) aims to learn a transferable feature embedding network by estimating the similarities between query images and support classes from very few examples. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Weichuan Zhang , Xuefang Liu , Zhe Xue , Yongsheng Gao , Changming Sun

Generating images from text has become easier because of the scaling of diffusion models and advancements in the field of vision and language. These models are trained using vast amounts of data from the Internet. Hence, they often contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Masane Fuchi , Tomohiro Takagi

The human visual system has the remarkably ability to be able to effortlessly learn novel concepts from only a few examples. Mimicking the same behavior on machine learning vision systems is an interesting and very challenging research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Few-shot image generation aims to train generative models using a small number of training images. When there are few images available for training (e.g. 10 images), Learning From Scratch (LFS) methods often generate images that closely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Ziqiang Li , Chaoyue Wang , Xue Rui , Chao Xue , Jiaxu Leng , Bin Li

Synthetic image source attribution is a challenging task, especially in data scarcity conditions requiring few-shot or zero-shot classification capabilities. We present a new training-free one-shot attribution method based on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Pietro Bongini , Valentina Molinari , Andrea Costanzo , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

Conventional detection networks usually need abundant labeled training samples, while humans can learn new concepts incrementally with just a few examples. This paper focuses on a more challenging but realistic class-incremental few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Pengyang Li , Yanan Li , Han Cui , Donghui Wang