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Large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success across diverse tasks, and fine-tuning is sometimes needed to further enhance generation quality. Most existing methods rely on human supervision or parameter retraining, both of which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhen-Yu Zhang , Jiandong Zhang , Huaxiu Yao , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Prompt engineering has emerged as an indispensable technique for extending the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs). This approach leverages task-specific instructions, known as prompts, to enhance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Pranab Sahoo , Ayush Kumar Singh , Sriparna Saha , Vinija Jain , Samrat Mondal , Aman Chadha

This paper surveys and organizes research works in a new paradigm in natural language processing, which we dub "prompt-based learning". Unlike traditional supervised learning, which trains a model to take in an input x and predict an output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Pengfei Liu , Weizhe Yuan , Jinlan Fu , Zhengbao Jiang , Hiroaki Hayashi , Graham Neubig

Annotation of medical images has been a major bottleneck for the development of accurate and robust machine learning models. Annotation is costly and time-consuming and typically requires expert knowledge, especially in the medical domain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Holger Roth , Ling Zhang , Dong Yang , Fausto Milletari , Ziyue Xu , Xiaosong Wang , Daguang Xu

Large-scale datasets have driven the rapid development of deep neural networks for visual recognition. However, annotating a massive dataset is expensive and time-consuming. Web images and their labels are, in comparison, much easier to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Bohan Zhuang , Lingqiao Liu , Yao Li , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Promptable segmentation models such as SAM have established a powerful paradigm, enabling strong generalization to unseen objects and domains with minimal user input, including points, bounding boxes, and text prompts. Among these, bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Andrey Moskalenko , Danil Kuznetsov , Irina Dudko , Anastasiia Iasakova , Nikita Boldyrev , Denis Shepelev , Andrei Spiridonov , Andrey Kuznetsov , Vlad Shakhuro

Semi-weakly supervised semantic segmentation (SWSSS) aims to train a model to identify objects in images based on a small number of images with pixel-level labels, and many more images with only image-level labels. Most existing SWSSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Wonho Bae , Junhyug Noh , Milad Jalali Asadabadi , Danica J. Sutherland

Weak supervision (WS) is a popular approach for label-efficient learning, leveraging diverse sources of noisy but inexpensive weak labels to automatically annotate training data. Despite its wide usage, WS and its practical value are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Tianyi Zhang , Linrong Cai , Jeffrey Li , Nicholas Roberts , Neel Guha , Jinoh Lee , Frederic Sala

Weakly-supervised learning is a paradigm for alleviating the scarcity of labeled data by leveraging lower-quality but larger-scale supervision signals. While existing work mainly focuses on utilizing a certain type of weak supervision, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Yivan Zhang , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Masashi Sugiyama

Surveillance footage can catch a wide range of realistic anomalies. This research suggests using a weakly supervised strategy to avoid annotating anomalous segments in training videos, which is time consuming. In this approach only video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Kapil Deshpande , Narinder Singh Punn , Sanjay Kumar Sonbhadra , Sonali Agarwal

A system capturing the association between video frames and textual queries offer great potential for better video analysis. However, training such a system in a fully supervised way inevitably demands a meticulously curated video dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zhiyuan Fang , Shu Kong , Zhe Wang , Charless Fowlkes , Yezhou Yang

Recently, CLIP-based approaches have exhibited remarkable performance on generalization and few-shot learning tasks, fueled by the power of contrastive language-vision pre-training. In particular, prompt tuning has emerged as an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Balamurali Murugesan , Rukhshanda Hussain , Rajarshi Bhattacharya , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Large scale datasets created from crowdsourced labels or openly available data have become crucial to provide training data for large scale learning algorithms. While these datasets are easier to acquire, the data are frequently noisy and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Rodrigo Caye Daudt , Bertrand Le Saux , Alexandre Boulch , Yann Gousseau

A critical bottleneck in supervised machine learning is the need for large amounts of labeled data which is expensive and time consuming to obtain. However, it has been shown that a small amount of labeled data, while insufficient to…

In many machine learning applications, labeling datasets can be an arduous and time-consuming task. Although research has shown that semi-supervised learning techniques can achieve high accuracy with very few labels within the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Evelyn J. Mannix , Howard D. Bondell

As machine learning for images becomes democratized in the Software 2.0 era, one of the serious bottlenecks is securing enough labeled data for training. This problem is especially critical in a manufacturing setting where smart factories…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Geon Heo , Yuji Roh , Seonghyeon Hwang , Dayun Lee , Steven Euijong Whang

In this paper, we study the problem of procedure planning in instructional videos. Here, an agent must produce a plausible sequence of actions that can transform the environment from a given start to a desired goal state. When learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 He Zhao , Isma Hadji , Nikita Dvornik , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Richard P. Wildes , Allan D. Jepson

Prompt-based learning is a new language model training paradigm that adapts the Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to downstream tasks, which revitalizes the performance benchmarks across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yue Xu , Wenjie Wang

Solving math word problems (MWPs) is an important and challenging problem in natural language processing. Existing approaches to solve MWPs require full supervision in the form of intermediate equations. However, labeling every MWP with its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Oishik Chatterjee , Isha Pandey , Aashish Waikar , Vishwajeet Kumar , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Large language models are increasingly used for vulnerability detection, yet their reliability under different prompt formulations remains uncharacterized. We present PromptAudit, a controlled evaluation framework that isolates prompt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Steffen J. Camarato , Yahya Hmaiti , Mandana Ghadamian , David Mohaisen