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In this paper, we aim at providing an introduction to the gradient descent based optimization algorithms for learning deep neural network models. Deep learning models involving multiple nonlinear projection layers are very challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Jiawei Zhang

Few-shot natural language processing (NLP) refers to NLP tasks that are accompanied with merely a handful of labeled examples. This is a real-world challenge that an AI system must learn to handle. Usually we rely on collecting more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenpeng Yin

This paper presents a novel approach for denoising Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) patterns using diffusion models. We propose a two-stage training process with a UNet-based architecture, incorporating an auxiliary regression head…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Nikolay Falaleev , Nikolai Orlov

We study the problem of meta-learning through the lens of online convex optimization, developing a meta-algorithm bridging the gap between popular gradient-based meta-learning and classical regularization-based multi-task transfer methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Mikhail Khodak , Maria-Florina Balcan , Ameet Talwalkar

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao

Monocular depth estimation is a challenging task that predicts the pixel-wise depth from a single 2D image. Current methods typically model this problem as a regression or classification task. We propose DiffusionDepth, a new approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yiqun Duan , Xianda Guo , Zheng Zhu

In contemporary deep learning, a prevalent and effective workflow for solving low-data problems is adapting powerful pre-trained foundation models (FMs) to new tasks via parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). However, while empirically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Fady Rezk , Royson Lee , Henry Gouk , Timothy Hospedales , Minyoung Kim

Few-shot classification consists of learning a predictive model that is able to effectively adapt to a new class, given only a few annotated samples. To solve this challenging problem, meta-learning has become a popular paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

Bayesian meta-learning enables robust and fast adaptation to new tasks with uncertainty assessment. The key idea behind Bayesian meta-learning is empirical Bayes inference of hierarchical model. In this work, we extend this framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yayi Zou , Xiaoqi Lu

Gradient-based meta-learners such as MAML are able to learn a meta-prior from similar tasks to adapt to novel tasks from the same distribution with few gradient updates. One important limitation of such frameworks is that they seek a common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Risto Vuorio , Shao-Hua Sun , Hexiang Hu , Joseph J. Lim

Meta learning aims at learning how to solve tasks, and thus it allows to estimate models that can be quickly adapted to new scenarios. This work explores distributionally robust minimization in meta learning for system identification.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Matteo Rufolo , Dario Piga , Marco Forgione

The aim of Few-Shot learning methods is to train models which can easily adapt to previously unseen tasks, based on small amounts of data. One of the most popular and elegant Few-Shot learning approaches is Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 M. Przewięźlikowski , P. Przybysz , J. Tabor , M. Zięba , P. Spurek

Self-supervised learning has proved effective for skeleton-based human action understanding. However, previous works either rely on contrastive learning that suffers false negative problems or are based on reconstruction that learns too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Lehong Wu , Lilang Lin , Jiahang Zhang , Yiyang Ma , Jiaying Liu

Utilizing task-invariant knowledge acquired from related tasks as prior information, meta-learning offers a principled approach to learning a new task with limited data records. Sample-efficient adaptation of this prior information is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yilang Zhang , Bingcong Li , Georgios B. Giannakis

Cross-modality data translation has attracted great interest in image computing. Deep generative models (\textit{e.g.}, GANs) show performance improvement in tackling those problems. Nevertheless, as a fundamental challenge in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Zihao Wang , Yingyu Yang , Maxime Sermesant , Hervé Delingette , Ona Wu

The focus of recent meta-learning research has been on the development of learning algorithms that can quickly adapt to test time tasks with limited data and low computational cost. Few-shot learning is widely used as one of the standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang , Dilip Krishnan , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Phillip Isola

Unrestricted adversarial attacks present a serious threat to deep learning models and adversarial defense techniques. They pose severe security problems for deep learning applications because they can effectively bypass defense mechanisms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xuelong Dai , Kaisheng Liang , Bin Xiao

Recent advances in diffusion models show promising potential to accelerate nonconvex problem solving by leveraging their multimodality. However, most existing diffusion-based optimization approaches rely on supervised learning and lack a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shutong Ding , Yimiao Zhou , Ke Hu , Xi Yao , Junchi Yan , Xiaoying Tang , Ye Shi

Self-conditioning has been central to the success of continuous diffusion language models, as it allows models to correct previous errors. Yet its ability degrades precisely in the regime where diffusion is most attractive for deployment:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Dat Nguyen-Cong , Tung Kieu , Hoang Thanh-Tung

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