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Few-shot classification aims to recognize unseen classes with few labeled samples from each class. Many meta-learning models for few-shot classification elaborately design various task-shared inductive bias (meta-knowledge) to solve such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Haoqing Wang , Zhi-Hong Deng

Conventional training of deep neural networks usually requires a substantial amount of data with expensive human annotations. In this paper, we utilize the idea of meta-learning to explain two very different streams of few-shot learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Shaobo Lin , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao

Knowledge distillation has been successfully applied to Continual Learning Named Entity Recognition (CLNER) tasks, by using a teacher model trained on old-class data to distill old-class entities present in new-class data as a form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhe Ren

Few-shot learning is a relatively new technique that specializes in problems where we have little amounts of data. The goal of these methods is to classify categories that have not been seen before with just a handful of samples. Recent…

Recently, prompt-based methods have achieved significant performance in few-shot learning scenarios by bridging the gap between language model pre-training and fine-tuning for downstream tasks. However, existing prompt templates are mostly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Liwen Wang , Rumei Li , Yang Yan , Yuanmeng Yan , Sirui Wang , Wei Wu , Weiran Xu

Much recent research on information retrieval has focused on how to transfer from one task (typically with abundant supervised data) to various other tasks where supervision is limited, with the implicit assumption that it is possible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Zhuyun Dai , Vincent Y. Zhao , Ji Ma , Yi Luan , Jianmo Ni , Jing Lu , Anton Bakalov , Kelvin Guu , Keith B. Hall , Ming-Wei Chang

To mitigate the detection performance drop caused by domain shift, we aim to develop a novel few-shot adaptation approach that requires only a few target domain images with limited bounding box annotations. To this end, we first observe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Tao Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Li Yuan , Jiashi Feng

Fine-grained object retrieval aims to learn discriminative representation to retrieve visually similar objects. However, existing top-performing works usually impose pairwise similarities on the semantic embedding spaces or design a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shijie Wang , Jianlong Chang , Zhihui Wang , Haojie Li , Wanli Ouyang , Qi Tian

Few-shot Learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Existing meta-learning or metric-learning based few-shot learning approaches are limited in handling diverse domains with various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yu Cheng , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Bowen Zhou

Few-shot classification consists of a training phase where a model is learned on a relatively large dataset and an adaptation phase where the learned model is adapted to previously-unseen tasks with limited labeled samples. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xu Luo , Hao Wu , Ji Zhang , Lianli Gao , Jing Xu , Jingkuan Song

Over the past few years, there has been a significant improvement in the domain of few-shot learning. This learning paradigm has shown promising results for the challenging problem of anomaly detection, where the general task is to deal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Soumyajit Karmakar , Abeer Banerjee , Prashant Sadashiv Gidde , Sumeet Saurav , Sanjay Singh

Learning to generate a task-aware base learner proves a promising direction to deal with few-shot learning (FSL) problem. Existing methods mainly focus on generating an embedding model utilized with a fixed metric (eg, cosine distance) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Lei Zhang , Fei Zhou , Wei Wei , Yanning Zhang

Few-shot learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Most existing few-shot learning approaches belong to either metric-based meta-learning or optimization-based meta-learning category,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Duo Wang , Yu Cheng , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Tao Zhang

Few-shot classification which aims to recognize unseen classes using very limited samples has attracted more and more attention. Usually, it is formulated as a metric learning problem. The core issue of few-shot classification is how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xixi Wang , Xiao Wang , Bo Jiang , Bin Luo

Visually-rich document entity retrieval (VDER), which extracts key information (e.g. date, address) from document images like invoices and receipts, has become an important topic in industrial NLP applications. The emergence of new document…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jiayi Chen , Hanjun Dai , Bo Dai , Aidong Zhang , Wei Wei

As an algorithmic framework for learning to learn, meta-learning provides a promising solution for few-shot text classification. However, most existing research fail to give enough attention to class labels. Traditional basic framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Guanghua Hou , Shuhui Cao , Deqiang Ouyang , Ning Wang

We propose an adaptation of the curriculum training framework, applicable to state-of-the-art meta learning techniques for few-shot classification. Curriculum-based training popularly attempts to mimic human learning by progressively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Emmanouil Stergiadis , Priyanka Agrawal , Oliver Squire

Few-shot image classification is the task of classifying unseen images to one of N mutually exclusive classes, using only a small number of training examples for each class. The limited availability of these examples (denoted as K) presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Hangfei Lin , Li Miao , Amir Ziai

While dense retrieval models, which embed queries and documents into a shared low-dimensional space, have gained widespread popularity, they were shown to exhibit important theoretical limitations and considerably lag behind traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Adrian Bracher , Svitlana Vakulenko

Few-shot learning allows machines to classify novel classes using only a few labeled samples. Recently, few-shot segmentation aiming at semantic segmentation on low sample data has also seen great interest. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Jun Seo , Young-Hyun Park , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon