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To accelerate learning process with few samples, meta-learning resorts to prior knowledge from previous tasks. However, the inconsistent task distribution and heterogeneity is hard to be handled through a global sharing model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Geng Li , Boyuan Ren , Hongzhi Wang

Equipping a deep model the abaility of few-shot learning, i.e., learning quickly from only few examples, is a core challenge for artificial intelligence. Gradient-based meta-learning approaches effectively address the challenge by learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Baoquan Zhang , Chuyao Luo , Demin Yu , Huiwei Lin , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Bowen Zhang

One major obstacle towards AI is the poor ability of models to solve new problems quicker, and without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. To better understand this issue, we study the problem of continual learning, where the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 David Lopez-Paz , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in image processing. It consist in classify the pixels into two or more groups depending on their intensity levels and a threshold value. The quality of the segmentation depends on the method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Diego Oliva , Erik Cuevas , Gonzalo Pajares , Daniel Zaldivar , Valentin Osuna

In this paper we study consensus-based optimization (CBO), a versatile, flexible and customizable optimization method suitable for performing nonconvex and nonsmooth global optimizations in high dimensions. CBO is a multi-particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Konstantin Riedl

Episodic self-imitation learning, a novel self-imitation algorithm with a trajectory selection module and an adaptive loss function, is proposed to speed up reinforcement learning. Compared to the original self-imitation learning algorithm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Tianhong Dai , Hengyan Liu , Anil Anthony Bharath

Stochastic min-max optimization has gained interest in the machine learning community with the advancements in GANs and adversarial training. Although game optimization is fairly well understood in the deterministic setting, some issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Juan Ramirez , Rohan Sukumaran , Quentin Bertrand , Gauthier Gidel

Training a neural network model that can quickly adapt to a new task is highly desirable yet challenging for few-shot learning problems. Recent few-shot learning methods mostly concentrate on developing various meta-learning strategies from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zihang Jiang , Bingyi Kang , Kuangqi Zhou , Jiashi Feng

Few-shot learning aims to learn a classifier using a few labelled instances for each class. Metric-learning approaches for few-shot learning embed instances into a high-dimensional space and conduct classification based on distances among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Fangbing Liu , Qing Wang

Meta-learning is a powerful paradigm for tackling few-shot tasks. However, recent studies indicate that models trained with the whole-class training strategy can achieve comparable performance to those trained with meta-learning in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunchuan Guan , Yu Liu , Ke Zhou , Zhiqi Shen , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Serge Belongie , Lei Li

Best-performing speech models are trained on large amounts of data in the language they are meant to work for. However, most languages have sparse data, making training models challenging. This shortage of data is even more prevalent in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 David-Gabriel Ion , Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop , Mihaela-Claudia Cercel

We introduce a novel training procedure for policy gradient methods wherein episodic memory is used to optimize the hyperparameters of reinforcement learning algorithms on-the-fly. Unlike other hyperparameter searches, we formulate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Hung Le , Majid Abdolshah , Thommen K. George , Kien Do , Dung Nguyen , Svetha Venkatesh

Few-shot learning aims to generalize unseen classes that appear during testing but are unavailable during training. Prototypical networks incorporate few-shot metric learning, by constructing a class prototype in the form of a mean vector…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Swapnil Bhosale , Rupayan Chakraborty , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Transductive few-shot learning has recently triggered wide attention in computer vision. Yet, current methods introduce key hyper-parameters, which control the prediction statistics of the test batches, such as the level of class balance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Long Zhou , Fereshteh Shakeri , Aymen Sadraoui , Mounir Kaaniche , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Ismail Ben Ayed

Reinforcement learning methods can achieve significant performance but require a large amount of training data collected on the same robotic platform. A policy trained with expensive data is rendered useless after making even a minor change…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ali Ghadirzadeh , Xi Chen , Petra Poklukar , Chelsea Finn , Mårten Björkman , Danica Kragic

The goal of few-shot learning is to generalize and achieve high performance on new unseen learning tasks, where each task has only a limited number of examples available. Gradient-based meta-learning attempts to address this challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Christian Raymond , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

In continual learning, the learner faces a stream of data whose distribution changes over time. Modern neural networks are known to suffer under this setting, as they quickly forget previously acquired knowledge. To address such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Arslan Chaudhry , Albert Gordo , Puneet K. Dokania , Philip Torr , David Lopez-Paz

Decomposition has become an increasingly popular technique for evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO). A decomposition-based EMO algorithm is usually designed to approximate a whole Pareto-optimal front (PF). However, in practice,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Ke Li , Renzhi Chen , Dragan Savic , Xin Yao

Few-shot learning aims to adapt knowledge learned from previous tasks to novel tasks with only a limited amount of labeled data. Research literature on few-shot learning exhibits great diversity, while different algorithms often excel at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chi Zhang , Henghui Ding , Guosheng Lin , Ruibo Li , Changhu Wang , Chunhua Shen

Event detection (ED) is aimed to identify the key trigger words in unstructured text and predict the event types accordingly. Traditional ED models are too data-hungry to accommodate real applications with scarce labeled data. Besides,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Siyuan Wang , Jianming Zheng , Xuejun Hu , Fei Cai , Chengyu Song , Xueshan Luo