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For many natural language processing (NLP) tasks the amount of annotated data is limited. This urges a need to apply semi-supervised learning techniques, such as transfer learning or meta-learning. In this work we tackle Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Alexander Fritzler , Varvara Logacheva , Maksim Kretov

Recent advances in meta-learning has led to remarkable performances on several few-shot learning benchmarks. However, such success often ignores the similarity between training and testing tasks, resulting in a potential bias evaluation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Cuong Nguyen , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

Neural text matching models have been used in a range of applications such as question answering and natural language inference, and have yielded a good performance. However, these neural models are of a limited adaptability, resulting in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Bo Zhang , Chen Zhang , Fang Ma , Dawei Song

Few-shot classification is the task of predicting the category of an example from a set of few labeled examples. The number of labeled examples per category is called the number of shots (or shot number). Recent works tackle this task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tianshi Cao , Marc Law , Sanja Fidler

Recently, meta-learning has been shown as a promising way to solve few-shot learning. In this paper, inspired by the human cognition process which utilizes both prior-knowledge and vision attention in learning new knowledge, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yunxiao Qin , Weiguo Zhang , Chenxu Zhao , Zezheng Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Guojun Qi , Jingping Shi , Zhen Lei

Depicting novel classes with language descriptions by observing few-shot samples is inherent in human-learning systems. This lifelong learning capability helps to distinguish new knowledge from old ones through the increase of open-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Zeyin Song , Yonghong Tian

Meta reinforcement learning aims to develop policies that generalize to unseen tasks sampled from a task distribution. While context-based meta-RL methods improve task representation using task latents, they often struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jeongmo Kim , Yisak Park , Minung Kim , Seungyul Han

In this paper, we explore how to utilize pre-trained language model to perform few-shot text classification where only a few annotated examples are given for each class. Since using traditional cross-entropy loss to fine-tune language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Liwen Sun , Jiawei Han

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) remains a challenging problem to date, largely due to the varying writing styles that exist amongst us. Prior works however generally operate with the assumption that there is a limited number of styles,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Shuvozit Ghose , Amandeep Kumar , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Aneeshan Sain , Yi-Zhe Song

While tasks could come with varying the number of instances and classes in realistic settings, the existing meta-learning approaches for few-shot classification assume that the number of instances per task and class is fixed. Due to such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hae Beom Lee , Hayeon Lee , Donghyun Na , Saehoon Kim , Minseop Park , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

In this paper, we introduce Target-Aware Weighted Training (TAWT), a weighted training algorithm for cross-task learning based on minimizing a representation-based task distance between the source and target tasks. We show that TAWT is easy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Shuxiao Chen , Koby Crammer , Hangfeng He , Dan Roth , Weijie J. Su

We introduce a generic visual descriptor, termed as distribution aware retinal transform (DART), that encodes the structural context using log-polar grids for event cameras. The DART descriptor is applied to four different problems, namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Bharath Ramesh , Hong Yang , Garrick Orchard , Ngoc Anh Le Thi , Shihao Zhang , Cheng Xiang

The great majority of languages in the world are considered under-resourced for the successful application of deep learning methods. In this work, we propose a meta-learning approach to document classification in limited-resource setting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Niels van der Heijden , Helen Yannakoudakis , Pushkar Mishra , Ekaterina Shutova

Few-shot visual recognition refers to recognize novel visual concepts from a few labeled instances. Many few-shot visual recognition methods adopt the metric-based meta-learning paradigm by comparing the query representation with class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Mengya Han , Yibing Zhan , Yong Luo , Bo Du , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Meta-learning is a popular framework for learning with limited data in which an algorithm is produced by training over multiple few-shot learning tasks. For classification problems, these tasks are typically constructed by sampling a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Amrith Setlur , Oscar Li , Virginia Smith

Few-shot classification aims to learn to classify new object categories well using only a few labeled examples. Transferring feature representations from other models is a popular approach for solving few-shot classification problems. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chun-Nam Yu , Yi Xie

Few-shot text classification is a fundamental NLP task in which a model aims to classify text into a large number of categories, given only a few training examples per category. This paper explores data augmentation -- a technique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jason Wei , Chengyu Huang , Soroush Vosoughi , Yu Cheng , Shiqi Xu

Few-shot classification and meta-learning methods typically struggle to generalize across diverse domains, as most approaches focus on a single dataset, failing to transfer knowledge across various seen and unseen domains. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kristi Topollai , Anna Choromanska

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

We study the problem of few-shot graph classification across domains with nonequivalent feature spaces by introducing three new cross-domain benchmarks constructed from publicly available datasets. We also propose an attention-based graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Kaveh Hassani