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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

This paper considers the problem of inferring image labels from images when only a few annotated examples are available at training time. This setup is often referred to as low-shot learning, where a standard approach is to re-train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Matthijs Douze , Arthur Szlam , Bharath Hariharan , Hervé Jégou

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

A variety of machine learning applications expect to achieve rapid learning from a limited number of labeled data. However, the success of most current models is the result of heavy training on big data. Meta-learning addresses this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Lu Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Lina Yao , Chengqi Zhang

Transductive inference is widely used in few-shot learning, as it leverages the statistics of the unlabeled query set of a few-shot task, typically yielding substantially better performances than its inductive counterpart. The current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Olivier Veilleux , Malik Boudiaf , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed

Proprietary and closed APIs are becoming increasingly common to process natural language, and are impacting the practical applications of natural language processing, including few-shot classification. Few-shot classification involves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pierre Colombo , Victor Pellegrain , Malik Boudiaf , Victor Storchan , Myriam Tami , Ismail Ben Ayed , Celine Hudelot , Pablo Piantanida

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

We study the few-shot learning (FSL) problem, where a model learns to recognize new objects with extremely few labeled training data per category. Most of previous FSL approaches resort to the meta-learning paradigm, where the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Zejiang Hou , Sun-Yuan Kung

The successful application of deep learning to many visual recognition tasks relies heavily on the availability of a large amount of labeled data which is usually expensive to obtain. The few-shot learning problem has attracted increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Zhongjie Yu , Lin Chen , Zhongwei Cheng , Jiebo Luo

Modern deep learning requires large-scale extensively labelled datasets for training. Few-shot learning aims to alleviate this issue by learning effectively from few labelled examples. In previously proposed few-shot visual classifiers, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Peyman Bateni , Jarred Barber , Raghav Goyal , Vaden Masrani , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Leonid Sigal , Frank Wood

Few-shot learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Partial-label learning (PLL) generally focuses on inducing a noise-tolerant multi-class classifier by training on overly-annotated samples, each of which is annotated with a set of labels, but only one is the valid label. A basic promise of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yunfeng Zhao , Guoxian Yu , Lei Liu , Zhongmin Yan , Lizhen Cui , Carlotta Domeniconi

Most approaches in few-shot learning rely on costly annotated data related to the goal task domain during (pre-)training. Recently, unsupervised meta-learning methods have exchanged the annotation requirement for a reduction in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Carlos Medina , Arnout Devos , Matthias Grossglauser

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel classes with few examples. Pre-training based methods effectively tackle the problem by pre-training a feature extractor and then fine-tuning it through the nearest centroid based meta-learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Baoquan Zhang , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Shanshan Feng

One-shot learning focuses on adapting pretrained models to recognize newly introduced and unseen classes based on a single labeled image. While variations of few-shot and zero-shot learning exist, one-shot learning remains a challenging yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kyle Stein , Andrew A. Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

Deep graph generative modeling has gained enormous attraction in recent years due to its impressive ability to directly learn the underlying hidden graph distribution. Despite their initial success, these techniques, like much of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Sahil Manchanda , Shubham Gupta , Sayan Ranu , Srikanta Bedathur

Meta-learning performs adaptation through a limited amount of support set, which may cause a sample bias problem. To solve this problem, transductive meta-learning is getting more and more attention, going beyond the conventional inductive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Sanghyuk Lee , Seunghyun Lee , Byung Cheol Song

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a model that can recognize novel classes based on one or few training data. It is challenging mainly due to two aspects: (1) it lacks good feature representation of novel classes; (2) a few of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Canyu Le , Zhonggui Chen , Xihan Wei , Biao Wang , Lei Zhang

The challenges of training and inference in few-shot environments persist in the area of graph representation learning. The quality and quantity of labels are often insufficient due to the extensive expert knowledge required to annotate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chao Chen , Xujia Li , Dongsheng Hong , Shanshan Lin , Xiangwen Liao , Chuanyi Liu , Lei Chen

Meta-learning has emerged as a powerful training strategy for few-shot node classification, demonstrating its effectiveness in the transductive setting. However, the existing literature predominantly focuses on transductive few-shot node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hirthik Mathavan , Zhen Tan , Nivedh Mudiam , Huan Liu