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Selecting a small, high-quality subset from a large corpus for fine-tuning is increasingly important as corpora grow to tens of millions of datapoints, making full fine-tuning expensive and often unnecessary. We propose CRAFT (Clustered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Parthasarathi Panda , Asheswari Swain , Subhrakanta Panda

Generalisation of deep neural networks becomes vulnerable when distribution shifts are encountered between train (source) and test (target) domain data. Few-shot domain adaptation mitigates this issue by adapting deep neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Youssef Dawoud , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

Few-shot learning has recently attracted wide interest in image classification, but almost all the current public benchmarks are focused on natural images. The few-shot paradigm is highly relevant in medical-imaging applications due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Fereshteh Shakeri , Malik Boudiaf , Sina Mohammadi , Ivaxi Sheth , Mohammad Havaei , Ismail Ben Ayed , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Few-shot text classification has important application value in low-resource environments. This paper proposes a strategy that combines adaptive fine-tuning, contrastive learning, and regularization optimization to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Xu Han , Yumeng Sun , Weiqiang Huang , Hongye Zheng , Junliang Du

Few-shot Continual Relation Extraction is a crucial challenge for enabling AI systems to identify and adapt to evolving relationships in dynamic real-world domains. Traditional memory-based approaches often overfit to limited samples,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nguyen Xuan Thanh , Anh Duc Le , Quyen Tran , Thanh-Thien Le , Linh Ngo Van , Thien Huu Nguyen

Few-shot learning often involves metric learning-based classifiers, which predict the image label by comparing the distance between the extracted feature vector and class representations. However, applying global pooling in the backend of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Inyong Koo , Minki Jeong , Changick Kim

Human beings can recognize new objects with only a few labeled examples, however, few-shot learning remains a challenging problem for machine learning systems. Most previous algorithms in few-shot learning only utilize spatial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Xiangyu Chen , Guanghui Wang

Solving mathematical problems requires advanced reasoning abilities and presents notable challenges for large language models. Previous works usually synthesize data from proprietary models to augment existing datasets, followed by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yuxuan Tong , Xiwen Zhang , Rui Wang , Ruidong Wu , Junxian He

In few-shot classification tasks (so-called episodes), a small set of labeled support samples is provided during inference to aid the classification of unlabeled query samples. Metric-based models typically operate by computing similarities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xuanyu Zhuang , Geoffroy Peeters , Gaël Richard

Zero-shot text classification remains a difficult task in domains with evolving knowledge and ambiguous category boundaries, such as ticketing systems. Large language models (LLMs) often struggle to generalize in these scenarios due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Amrit Rajeev , Udayaadithya Avadhanam , Harshula Tulapurkar , SaiBarath Sundar

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment novel-class objects in a given query image with only a few labeled support images. Most advanced solutions exploit a metric learning framework that performs segmentation through matching each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jiacheng Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Zongqing Lu , Jing-Hao Xue , Chengjie Wang , Qingmin Liao

As large language models (LLMs) are widely adopted, new safety issues and policies emerge, to which existing safety classifiers do not generalize well. If we have only observed a few examples of violations of a new safety rule, how can we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ananth Balashankar , Xiao Ma , Aradhana Sinha , Ahmad Beirami , Yao Qin , Jilin Chen , Alex Beutel

Few-shot learning and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) are crucial to overcome the challenges of data scarcity and ever growing language model sizes. This applies in particular to specialized scientific domains, where researchers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jonas Rieger , Mattes Ruckdeschel , Gregor Wiedemann

Few-shot class-incremental learning is crucial for developing scalable and adaptive intelligent systems, as it enables models to acquire new classes with minimal annotated data while safeguarding the previously accumulated knowledge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Cuiwei Liu , Siang Xu , Huaijun Qiu , Jing Zhang , Zhi Liu , Liang Zhao

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

Learning from a few examples is an important practical aspect of training classifiers. Various works have examined this aspect quite well. However, all existing approaches assume that the few examples provided are always correctly labeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri

The goal of few-shot classification is to classify new categories with few labeled examples within each class. Nowadays, the excellent performance in handling few-shot classification problems is shown by metric-based meta-learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Xu Luo , Yuxuan Chen , Liangjian Wen , Lili Pan , Zenglin Xu

Many meta-learning approaches for few-shot learning rely on simple base learners such as nearest-neighbor classifiers. However, even in the few-shot regime, discriminatively trained linear predictors can offer better generalization. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Kwonjoon Lee , Subhransu Maji , Avinash Ravichandran , Stefano Soatto

Dense retrieval (DR) converts queries and documents into dense embeddings and measures the similarity between queries and documents in vector space. One of the challenges in DR is the lack of domain-specific training data. While DR models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhiyuan Peng , Xuyang Wu , Qifan Wang , Yi Fang

Deploying dense retrieval models efficiently is becoming increasingly important across various industries. This is especially true for enterprise search services, where customizing search engines to meet the time demands of different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Chen Huang , Duanyu Feng , Wenqiang Lei , Jiancheng Lv