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Few-shot learning is a rapidly evolving area of research in machine learning where the goal is to classify unlabeled data with only one or "a few" labeled exemplary samples. Neural networks are typically trained to minimize a distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Samuel Hess , Gregory Ditzler

Popular approaches for few-shot classification consist of first learning a generic data representation based on a large annotated dataset, before adapting the representation to new classes given only a few labeled samples. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

Few-shot learning (FSL) presents a challenging learning problem in which only a few samples are available for each class. Decision interpretation is more important in few-shot classification due to a greater chance of error compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Mohammad Reza Zarei , Majid Komeili

In-context learning refers to the ability of a model to condition on a prompt sequence consisting of in-context examples (input-output pairs corresponding to some task) along with a new query input, and generate the corresponding output.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shivam Garg , Dimitris Tsipras , Percy Liang , Gregory Valiant

The training of deep-learning-based text classification models relies heavily on a huge amount of annotation data, which is difficult to obtain. When the labeled data is scarce, models tend to struggle to achieve satisfactory performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Dianbo Sui , Yubo Chen , Binjie Mao , Delai Qiu , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

In this paper, we are interested in the few-shot learning problem. In particular, we focus on a challenging scenario where the number of categories is large and the number of examples per novel category is very limited, e.g. 1, 2, or 3.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Siyuan Qiao , Chenxi Liu , Wei Shen , Alan Yuille

The ability to quickly learn a new task with minimal instruction - known as few-shot learning - is a central aspect of intelligent agents. Classical few-shot benchmarks make use of few-shot samples from a single modality, but such samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhiqiu Lin , Samuel Yu , Zhiyi Kuang , Deepak Pathak , Deva Ramanan

Predicting the activities of compounds against protein-based or phenotypic assays using only a few known compounds and their activities is a common task in target-free drug discovery. Existing few-shot learning approaches are limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Peter Eckmann , Jake Anderson , Michael K. Gilson , Rose Yu

Language Models (LMs) can perform new tasks by adapting to a few in-context examples. For humans, explanations that connect examples to task principles can improve learning. We therefore investigate whether explanations of few-shot examples…

Few-shot object detection, the problem of modelling novel object detection categories with few training instances, is an emerging topic in the area of few-shot learning and object detection. Contemporary techniques can be divided into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Berkan Demirel , Orhun Buğra Baran , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

We propose a few-shot learning method for spatial regression. Although Gaussian processes (GPs) have been successfully used for spatial regression, they require many observations in the target task to achieve a high predictive performance.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-12 Tomoharu Iwata , Yusuke Tanaka

While few-shot learning as a transfer learning paradigm has gained significant traction for scenarios with limited data, it has primarily been explored in the context of building unimodal and unilingual models. Furthermore, a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Aman Chadha , Vinija Jain

LLMs are typically trained in high-resource languages, and tasks in lower-resourced languages tend to underperform the higher-resource language counterparts for in-context learning. Despite the large body of work on prompting settings, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Christopher Toukmaji , Jeffrey Flanigan

Few-shot learning with $N$-way $K$-shot scheme is an open challenge in machine learning. Many metric-based approaches have been proposed to tackle this problem, e.g., the Matching Networks and CLIP-Adapter. Despite that these approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Guoliang Lin , Yongheng Xu , Hanjiang Lai , Jian Yin

Collecting and annotating task-oriented dialogues is time-consuming and costly; thus, zero and few shot learning could greatly benefit dialogue state tracking (DST). In this work, we propose an in-context learning (ICL) framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yushi Hu , Chia-Hsuan Lee , Tianbao Xie , Tao Yu , Noah A. Smith , Mari Ostendorf

Few-shot learning has made impressive strides in addressing the crucial challenges of recognizing unknown samples from novel classes in target query sets and managing visual shifts between domains. However, existing techniques fall short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Debabrata Pal , Deeptej More , Sai Bhargav , Dipesh Tamboli , Vaneet Aggarwal , Biplab Banerjee

In-context learning (ICL) has proven to be a significant capability with the advancement of Large Language models (LLMs). By instructing LLMs using few-shot demonstrative examples, ICL enables them to perform a wide range of tasks without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Quanyu Long , Jianda Chen , Wenya Wang , Sinno Jialin Pan

Meta-learning has emerged as a trending technique to tackle few-shot text classification and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, existing solutions heavily rely on the exploitation of lexical features and their distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 ChengCheng Han , Zeqiu Fan , Dongxiang Zhang , Minghui Qiu , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate proficiency across diverse tasks but often require targeted adaptations for specific applications. Various methods have been proposed to facilitate this adaptation, including fewshot fine-tuning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Rajesh Upadhayaya , Manish Raj Osti , Zachary Smith , Chritopher Kottmyer

The goal of few-shot classification is to learn a model that can classify novel classes using only a few training examples. Despite the promising results shown by existing meta-learning algorithms in solving the few-shot classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Shuman Peng , Weilian Song , Martin Ester