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The task of Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to transfer the knowledge learned from base categories with sufficient labelled data to novel categories with scarce known information. It is currently an important research question and has great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Xinwei Sun , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

We uncover an ever-overlooked deficiency in the prevailing Few-Shot Learning (FSL) methods: the pre-trained knowledge is indeed a confounder that limits the performance. This finding is rooted from our causal assumption: a Structural Causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Zhongqi Yue , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun , Xian-Sheng Hua

Recently, few-shot object detection~(FSOD) has received much attention from the community, and many methods are proposed to address this problem from a knowledge transfer perspective. Though promising results have been achieved, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Zhiyuan Zhao , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Few-shot class-incremental learning is crucial for developing scalable and adaptive intelligent systems, as it enables models to acquire new classes with minimal annotated data while safeguarding the previously accumulated knowledge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Cuiwei Liu , Siang Xu , Huaijun Qiu , Jing Zhang , Zhi Liu , Liang Zhao

The performance of supervised semantic segmentation methods highly relies on the availability of large-scale training data. To alleviate this dependence, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) is introduced to leverage the model trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xinyue Chen , Miaojing Shi

Existing continual relation learning (CRL) methods rely on plenty of labeled training data for learning a new task, which can be hard to acquire in real scenario as getting large and representative labeled data is often expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Chengwei Qin , Shafiq Joty

In class-incremental learning, the objective is to learn a number of classes sequentially without having access to the whole training data. However, due to a problem known as catastrophic forgetting, neural networks suffer substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Sobirdzhon Bobiev , Adil Khan , Syed Muhammad Ahsan Raza Kazmi

Few-shot learning (FSL) addresses the challenge of classifying novel classes with limited training samples. While some methods leverage semantic knowledge from smaller-scale models to mitigate data scarcity, these approaches often introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hao Tang , Shengfeng He , Jing Qin

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) can be particularly susceptible to acquisition contexts with only a few labeled samples. A typical scenario is tactile sensing, where the acquisition context ({\it e.g.}, diverse devices, contact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yifeng Lin , Aiping Huang , Wenxi Liu , Si Wu , Tiesong Zhao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Incremental few-shot learning is highly expected for practical robotics applications. On one hand, robot is desired to learn new tasks quickly and flexibly using only few annotated training samples; on the other hand, such new additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Sichao Tian , Fan Feng , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

We tackle the problem of class incremental learning (CIL) in the realm of landcover classification from optical remote sensing (RS) images in this paper. The paradigm of CIL has recently gained much prominence given the fact that data are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 S Divakar Bhat , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Avik Bhattacharya

We address the problem of learning new classes for semantic segmentation models from few examples, which is challenging because of the following two reasons. Firstly, it is difficult to learn from limited novel data to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chengjia Jiang , Tao Wang , Sien Li , Jinyang Wang , Shirui Wang , Antonios Antoniou

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) introduces a paradigm in which the problem space expands with limited data. FSCIL methods inherently face the challenge of catastrophic forgetting as data arrives incrementally, making models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Noor Ahmed , Anna Kukleva , Bernt Schiele

Deep learning models have demonstrated exceptional performance in a variety of real-world applications. These successes are often attributed to strong base models that can generalize to novel tasks with limited supporting data while keeping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chenqi Li , Boyan Gao , Gabriel Jones , Timothy Denison , Tingting Zhu

In Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) an image classification system is exposed to new classes in each learning session and must be updated incrementally. Methods approaching this problem have updated both the classification head and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Aristeidis Panos , Yuriko Kobe , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Rahaf Aljundi , Richard E. Turner

Class-incremental learning (CIL) is typically evaluated under predefined schedules with equal-sized tasks, leaving more realistic and complex cases unexplored. However, a practical CIL system should learns immediately when any number of new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhiming Xu , Baile Xu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen , Suorong Yang

Knowledge distillation, aimed at transferring the knowledge from a heavy teacher network to a lightweight student network, has emerged as a promising technique for compressing neural networks. However, due to the capacity gap between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Xuewei Li , Songyuan Li , Bourahla Omar , Fei Wu , Xi Li

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes given only a few annotated samples. Existing methods suffer the problem of feature undermining, i.e. potential novel classes are treated as background during training phase. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lihe Yang , Wei Zhuo , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Exemplar-Free Class Incremental Learning (efCIL) aims to continuously incorporate the knowledge from new classes while retaining previously learned information, without storing any old-class exemplars (i.e., samples). For this purpose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Libo Huang , Zhulin An , Yan Zeng , Chuanguang Yang , Xinqiang Yu , Yongjun Xu

Model fine-tuning is a widely used transfer learning approach in person Re-identification (ReID) applications, which fine-tuning a pre-trained feature extraction model into the target scenario instead of training a model from scratch. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Zhengxu Yu , Dong Shen , Zhongming Jin , Jianqiang Huang , Deng Cai , Xian-Sheng Hua