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Few-shot learning aims to learn a new concept when only a few training examples are available, which has been extensively explored in recent years. However, most of the current works heavily rely on a large-scale labeled auxiliary set to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Tiexin Qin , Wenbin Li , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

This article focuses on large language models (LLMs) fine-tuning in the scarce data regime (also known as the "few-shot" learning setting). We propose a method to increase the generalization capabilities of LLMs based on neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Louis Falissard , Vincent Guigue , Laure Soulier

Recent state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods use a combination of image-based transformations and consistency regularization as core components. Such methods, however, are limited to simple transformations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Chia-Wen Kuo , Chih-Yao Ma , Jia-Bin Huang , Zsolt Kira

Image segmentation techniques are predominately based on parameter-laden optimization. The objective function typically involves weights for balancing competing image fidelity and segmentation regularization cost terms. Setting these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-24 Josna Rao , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Abugharbieh

MR imaging is a valuable diagnostic tool allowing to non-invasively visualize patient anatomy and pathology with high soft-tissue contrast. However, MRI acquisition is typically time-consuming, leading to patient discomfort and increased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Matthias Hein , Christian F. Baumgartner

Medical image segmentation models are often trained on curated datasets, leading to performance degradation when deployed in real-world clinical settings due to mismatches between training and test distributions. While data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Puru Vaish , Felix Meister , Tobias Heimann , Christoph Brune , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Vision foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM), pretrained on large-scale natural image datasets, often struggle in medical image segmentation due to a lack of domain-specific adaptation. In clinical practice, fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zelin Liu , Sicheng Dong , Bocheng Li , Yixuan Yang , Jiacheng Ruan , Chenxu Zhou , Suncheng Xiang

Medical vision foundation models remain limited in downstream tasks, particularly volumetric medical image segmentation. While fine-tuning on labeled target-domain data improves performance, existing approaches typically rely on randomly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Jin Yang , Daniel S. Marcus , Aristeidis Sotiras

Logo retrieval is a challenging problem since the definition of similarity is more subjective compared to image retrieval tasks and the set of known similarities is very scarce. To tackle this challenge, in this paper, we propose a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Feyza Yavuz , Sinan Kalkan

Few-shot prompting and step-by-step reasoning have enhanced the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in tackling complex tasks including code generation. In this paper, we introduce a prompt selection and augmentation algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 On Tai Wu , Frodo Kin Sun Chan , Zunhao Zhang , Yan Nei Law , Benny Drescher , Edmond Shiao Bun Lai

Deep learning models have become the mainstream method for medical image segmentation, but they require a large manually labeled dataset for training and are difficult to extend to unseen categories. Few-shot segmentation(FSS) has the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Yao Huang , Jianming Liu

Conventional image classifiers are trained by randomly sampling mini-batches of images. To achieve state-of-the-art performance, practitioners use sophisticated data augmentation schemes to expand the amount of training data available for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Renkun Ni , Micah Goldblum , Amr Sharaf , Kezhi Kong , Tom Goldstein

Pixel-wise segmentation is one of the most data and annotation hungry tasks in our field. Providing representative and accurate annotations is often mission-critical especially for challenging medical applications. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Simon Reiß , Constantin Seibold , Alexander Freytag , Erik Rodner , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Large datasets' availability is catalyzing a rapid expansion of deep learning in general and computer vision in particular. At the same time, in many domains, a sufficient amount of training data is lacking, which may become an obstacle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Sergey Nesteruk , Dmitrii Shadrin , Mariia Pukalchik

The success of neural networks on medical image segmentation tasks typically relies on large labeled datasets for model training. However, acquiring and manually labeling a large medical image set is resource-intensive, expensive, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Chen Chen , Chen Qin , Cheng Ouyang , Zeju Li , Shuo Wang , Huaqi Qiu , Liang Chen , Giacomo Tarroni , Wenjia Bai , Daniel Rueckert

Image segmentation is an important component of many image understanding systems. It aims to group pixels in a spatially and perceptually coherent manner. Typically, these algorithms have a collection of parameters that control the degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marc Bosch , Christopher M. Gifford , Austin G. Dress , Clare W. Lau , Jeffrey G. Skibo , Gordon A. Christie

Data augmentation has emerged as a powerful technique for improving the performance of deep neural networks and led to state-of-the-art results in computer vision. However, state-of-the-art data augmentation strongly distorts training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Amil Merchant , Barret Zoph , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

We improve the recently-proposed "MixMatch" semi-supervised learning algorithm by introducing two new techniques: distribution alignment and augmentation anchoring. Distribution alignment encourages the marginal distribution of predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 David Berthelot , Nicholas Carlini , Ekin D. Cubuk , Alex Kurakin , Kihyuk Sohn , Han Zhang , Colin Raffel

Despite their recent successes in tackling many NLP tasks, large-scale pre-trained language models do not perform as well in few-shot settings where only a handful of training examples are available. To address this shortcoming, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Tu Vu , Minh-Thang Luong , Quoc V. Le , Grady Simon , Mohit Iyyer

Few-shot learning and self-supervised learning address different facets of the same problem: how to train a model with little or no labeled data. Few-shot learning aims for optimization methods and models that can learn efficiently to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Nikos Komodakis , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord