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Convolutional neural networks and supervised learning have achieved remarkable success in various fields but are limited by the need for large annotated datasets. Few-shot learning (FSL) addresses this limitation by enabling models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yang Liu , Feixiang Liu , Jiale Du , Xinbo Gao , Jungong Han

The challenge in few-shot learning is that available data is not enough to capture the underlying distribution. To mitigate this, two emerging directions are (a) using local image representations, essentially multiplying the amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Yann Lifchitz , Yannis Avrithis , Sylvaine Picard

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

Meta-learning has emerged as a powerful training strategy for few-shot node classification, demonstrating its effectiveness in the transductive setting. However, the existing literature predominantly focuses on transductive few-shot node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hirthik Mathavan , Zhen Tan , Nivedh Mudiam , Huan Liu

Few-shot learning arises in important practical scenarios, such as when a natural language understanding system needs to learn new semantic labels for an emerging, resource-scarce domain. In this paper, we explore retrieval-based methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Dian Yu , Luheng He , Yuan Zhang , Xinya Du , Panupong Pasupat , Qi Li

We propose a method for learning embeddings for few-shot learning that is suitable for use with any number of ways and any number of shots (shot-free). Rather than fixing the class prototypes to be the Euclidean average of sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Avinash Ravichandran , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

Transductive few-shot learning algorithms have showed substantially superior performance over their inductive counterparts by leveraging the unlabeled queries. However, the vast majority of such methods are evaluated on perfectly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Michalis Lazarou , Yannis Avrithis , Tania Stathaki

Few-shot classification studies the problem of quickly adapting a deep learner to understanding novel classes based on few support images. In this context, recent research efforts have been aimed at designing more and more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jun He , Richang Hong , Xueliang Liu , Mingliang Xu , Qianru Sun

Most existing Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods have the strong bias problem, in which instances of unseen (target) classes tend to be categorized as one of the seen (source) classes. So they yield poor performance after being deployed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Jie Song , Chengchao Shen , Yezhou Yang , Yang Liu , Mingli Song

Few-shot learning (FSL) methods typically assume clean support sets with accurately labeled samples when training on novel classes. This assumption can often be unrealistic: support sets, no matter how small, can still include mislabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kevin J Liang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Vladan Petrovic , Tal Hassner

Few-shot learning benchmarks are critical for evaluating modern NLP techniques. It is possible, however, that benchmarks favor methods which easily make use of unlabeled text, because researchers can use unlabeled text from the test set to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Kush Dubey

Few-shot learning is a challenging task since only few instances are given for recognizing an unseen class. One way to alleviate this problem is to acquire a strong inductive bias via meta-learning on similar tasks. In this paper, we show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Transformer-based language models have achieved remarkable success in few-shot in-context learning and drawn a lot of research interest. However, these models' performance greatly depends on the choice of the example prompts and also has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Genta Indra Winata , Liang-Kang Huang , Soumya Vadlamannati , Yash Chandarana

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

Few-shot segmentation aims at assigning a category label to each image pixel with few annotated samples. It is a challenging task since the dense prediction can only be achieved under the guidance of latent features defined by sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Kai Zhu , Wei Zhai , Zheng-Jun Zha , Yang Cao

Inductive learning is based on inferring a general rule from a finite data set and using it to label new data. In transduction one attempts to solve the problem of using a labeled training set to label a set of unlabeled points, which are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-04 P. Derbeko , R. El-Yaniv , R. Meir

A common problem with most zero and few-shot learning approaches is they suffer from bias towards seen classes resulting in sub-optimal performance. Existing efforts aim to utilize unlabeled images from unseen classes (i.e transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Gaurav Bhatt , Shivam Chandhok , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Transductive learning is a supervised machine learning task in which, unlike in traditional inductive learning, the unlabelled data that require labelling are a finite set and are available at training time. Similarly to inductive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Lorenzo Volpi , Alejandro Moreo , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Self-supervised pre-training of transformer models has shown enormous success in improving performance on a number of downstream tasks. However, fine-tuning on a new task still requires large amounts of task-specific labelled data to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Trapit Bansal , Rishikesh Jha , Andrew McCallum

Few-shot classification requires adapting knowledge learned from a large annotated base dataset to recognize novel unseen classes, each represented by few labeled examples. In such a scenario, pretraining a network with high capacity on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yiren Jian , Lorenzo Torresani