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We study few-shot learning in natural language domains. Compared to many existing works that apply either metric-based or optimization-based meta-learning to image domain with low inter-task variance, we consider a more realistic setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Jinfeng Yi , Shiyu Chang , Saloni Potdar , Yu Cheng , Gerald Tesauro , Haoyu Wang , Bowen Zhou

Few-shot detection and classification have advanced significantly in recent years. Yet, detection approaches require strong annotation (bounding boxes) both for pre-training and for adaptation to novel classes, and classification approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Leonid Karlinsky , Joseph Shtok , Amit Alfassy , Moshe Lichtenstein , Sivan Harary , Eli Schwartz , Sivan Doveh , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rogerio Feris , Alexander Bronstein , Raja Giryes

Few-shot NER aims to identify entities of target types with only limited number of illustrative instances. Unfortunately, few-shot NER is severely challenged by the intrinsic precise generalization problem, i.e., it is hard to accurately…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiawei Chen , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Yaojie Lu , Shanshan Jiang , Bin Dong , Le Sun

Few-shot classification aims to carry out classification given only few labeled examples for the categories of interest. Though several approaches have been proposed, most existing few-shot learning (FSL) models assume that base and novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Ci-Siang Lin , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Retrieving specific information from a large corpus of documents is a prevalent industrial use case of modern AI, notably due to the popularity of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Although neural document retrieval models have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Paul Teiletche , Quentin Macé , Max Conti , Antonio Loison , Gautier Viaud , Pierre Colombo , Manuel Faysse

Meta-learning represents a strong class of approaches for solving few-shot learning tasks. Nonetheless, recent research suggests that simply pre-training a generic encoder can potentially surpass meta-learning algorithms. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Wei Cui , Tongzi Wu , Jesse C. Cresswell , Yi Sui , Keyvan Golestan

Few-shot learning aims to handle previously unseen tasks using only a small amount of new training data. In preparing (or meta-training) a few-shot learner, however, massive labeled data are necessary. In the real world, unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Jun Seo , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

Multimodal few-shot learning is challenging due to the large domain gap between vision and language modalities. Existing methods are trying to communicate visual concepts as prompts to frozen language models, but rely on hand-engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ivona Najdenkoska , Xiantong Zhen , Marcel Worring

Labeling data is often expensive and time-consuming, especially for tasks such as object detection and instance segmentation, which require dense labeling of the image. While few-shot object detection is about training a model on novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Gabriel Huang , Issam Laradji , David Vazquez , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Pau Rodriguez

Meta-learning has become a practical approach towards few-shot image classification, where "a strategy to learn a classifier" is meta-learned on labeled base classes and can be applied to tasks with novel classes. We remove the requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Han-Jia Ye , Lu Han , De-Chuan Zhan

Visual Relation Detection (VRD) aims to detect relationships between objects for image understanding. Most existing VRD methods rely on thousands of training samples of each relationship to achieve satisfactory performance. Some recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Tianyu Yu , Yangning Li , Jiaoyan Chen , Yinghui Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Xi Chen , Qingbin Liu , Wenqiang Liu , Dongxiao Huang , Bei Wu , Yexin Wang

Despite the huge and continuous advances in computational linguistics, the lack of annotated data for Named Entity Recognition (NER) is still a challenging issue, especially in low-resource languages and when domain knowledge is required…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Valerio La Gatta , Vincenzo Moscato , Marco Postiglione , Giancarlo Sperlì

Medical professionals frequently work in a data constrained setting to provide insights across a unique demographic. A few medical observations, for instance, informs the diagnosis and treatment of a patient. This suggests a unique setting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Pankaj Sharma , Imran Qureshi , Minh Tran

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) has shown remarkable progress in identifying entities in low-resource domains. However, few-shot NER methods still struggle with out-of-domain (OOD) examples due to their reliance on manual labeling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zihan Wang , Ziqi Zhao , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Few-shot classification and meta-learning methods typically struggle to generalize across diverse domains, as most approaches focus on a single dataset, failing to transfer knowledge across various seen and unseen domains. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kristi Topollai , Anna Choromanska

Few-shot object detection aims to detect instances of specific categories in a query image with only a handful of support samples. Although this takes less effort than obtaining enough annotated images for supervised object detection, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Hojun Lee , Myunggi Lee , Nojun Kwak

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to detect never-seen objects using few examples. This field sees recent improvement owing to the meta-learning techniques by learning how to match between the query image and few-shot class examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Guangxing Han , Yicheng He , Shiyuan Huang , Jiawei Ma , Shih-Fu Chang

Different from static images, videos contain additional temporal and spatial information for better object detection. However, it is costly to obtain a large number of videos with bounding box annotations that are required for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Zhongjie Yu , Gaoang Wang , Lin Chen , Sebastian Raschka , Jiebo Luo

Named entity recognition (NER), a task that identifies and categorizes named entities such as persons or organizations from text, is traditionally framed as a multi-class classification problem. However, this approach often overlooks the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Ngoc Dang Nguyen , Wei Tan , Lan Du , Wray Buntine , Richard Beare , Changyou Chen

Few-shot learning deals with the fundamental and challenging problem of learning from a few annotated samples, while being able to generalize well on new tasks. The crux of few-shot learning is to extract prior knowledge from related tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yingjun Du , Haoliang Sun , Xiantong Zhen , Jun Xu , Yilong Yin , Ling Shao , Cees G. M. Snoek