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Few-shot in-context learning (ICL) enables pre-trained language models to perform a previously-unseen task without any gradient-based training by feeding a small number of training examples as part of the input. ICL incurs substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Haokun Liu , Derek Tam , Mohammed Muqeeth , Jay Mohta , Tenghao Huang , Mohit Bansal , Colin Raffel

Language Models (LMs) can perform new tasks by adapting to a few in-context examples. For humans, explanations that connect examples to task principles can improve learning. We therefore investigate whether explanations of few-shot examples…

LLMs are typically trained in high-resource languages, and tasks in lower-resourced languages tend to underperform the higher-resource language counterparts for in-context learning. Despite the large body of work on prompting settings, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Christopher Toukmaji , Jeffrey Flanigan

The task of learning from only a few examples (called a few-shot setting) is of key importance and relevance to a real-world setting. For question answering (QA), the current state-of-the-art pre-trained models typically need fine-tuning on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Rakesh Chada , Pradeep Natarajan

Traditional recognition methods typically require large, artificially-balanced training classes, while few-shot learning methods are tested on artificially small ones. In contrast to both extremes, real world recognition problems exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Davis Wertheimer , Bharath Hariharan

Few-shot object detection, the problem of modelling novel object detection categories with few training instances, is an emerging topic in the area of few-shot learning and object detection. Contemporary techniques can be divided into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Berkan Demirel , Orhun Buğra Baran , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Recent foundational language models have shown state-of-the-art performance in many NLP tasks in zero- and few-shot settings. An advantage of these models over more standard approaches based on fine-tuning is the ability to understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Aleksandra Edwards , Jose Camacho-Collados

We investigate the generalization capabilities of small language models under two popular adaptation paradigms: few-shot prompting and supervised fine-tuning. While prompting is often favored for its parameter efficiency and flexibility, it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Rahul Raja , Arpita Vats

The spread of fake news, polarizing, politically biased, and harmful content on online platforms has been a serious concern. With large language models becoming a promising approach, however, no study has properly benchmarked their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Michele Joshua Maggini , Dhia Merzougui , Rabiraj Bandyopadhyay , Gaël Dias , Fabrice Maurel , Pablo Gamallo

Vision-language models have recently shown great potential on many tasks in computer vision. Meanwhile, prior work demonstrates prompt tuning designed for vision-language models could acquire superior performance on few-shot image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kun Ding , Ying Wang , Pengzhang Liu , Qiang Yu , Haojian Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Few-shot classification aims at classifying categories of a novel task by learning from just a few (typically, 1 to 5) labelled examples. An effective approach to few-shot classification involves a prior model trained on a large-sample base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Rajshekhar Das , Yu-Xiong Wang , JoséM. F. Moura

In this paper we explore few-shot imitation learning for control problems, which involves learning to imitate a target policy by accessing a limited set of offline rollouts. This setting has been relatively under-explored despite its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Massimiliano Patacchiola , Mingfei Sun , Katja Hofmann , Richard E. Turner

In this paper, we tackle the new Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning benchmark proposed by the CVPR 2020 Challenge. To this end, we build upon state-of-the-art methods in domain adaptation and few-shot learning to create a system that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 John Cai , Sheng Mei Shen

Commonsense reasoning benchmarks have been largely solved by fine-tuning language models. The downside is that fine-tuning may cause models to overfit to task-specific data and thereby forget their knowledge gained during pre-training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Kaixin Ma , Filip Ilievski , Jonathan Francis , Satoru Ozaki , Eric Nyberg , Alessandro Oltramari

Few-shot Learning (FSL) aims to classify new concepts from a small number of examples. While there have been an increasing amount of work on few-shot object classification in the last few years, most current approaches are limited to images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mathieu Pagé Fortin , Brahim Chaib-draa

We applied few-shot in-context learning on the OPT-1.3B model for the natural language inference task and employed knowledge distillation to internalize the context information, reducing model parameter from 1.3B to 125M and achieving a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Yifei Duan , Liu Li , Zirui Zhai , Jinxia Yao

The emergent ability of Large Language Models to use a small number of examples to learn to perform in novel domains and tasks, also called in-context learning (ICL). In this work, we show that a much smaller model can be trained to perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Raphael Reinauer , Patrick Simianer , Kaden Uhlig , Johannes E. M. Mosig , Joern Wuebker

Due to the limited availability of data, existing few-shot learning methods trained from scratch fail to achieve satisfactory performance. In contrast, large-scale pre-trained models such as CLIP demonstrate remarkable few-shot and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Kun Song , Huimin Ma , Bochao Zou , Huishuai Zhang , Weiran Huang

Motivated by the recent success of time-series foundation models for zero-shot forecasting, we present a methodology for $\textit{in-context fine-tuning}$ of a time-series foundation model. In particular, we design a pretrained foundation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Abhimanyu Das , Matthew Faw , Rajat Sen , Yichen Zhou

Few-shot Learning aims to learn and distinguish new categories with a very limited number of available images, presenting a significant challenge in the realm of deep learning. Recent researchers have sought to leverage the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chunpeng Zhou , Haishuai Wang , Xilu Yuan , Zhi Yu , Jiajun Bu