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Few-shot learning aims to learn representations that can tackle novel tasks given a small number of examples. Recent studies show that cross-modal learning can improve representations for few-shot classification. More specifically, language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Jordi Armengol-Estapé , Vincent Michalski , Ramnath Kumar , Pierre-Luc St-Charles , Doina Precup , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

In the few-shot scenario, a learner must effectively generalize to unseen classes given a small support set of labeled examples. While a relatively large amount of research has gone into few-shot learning for image classification, little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Chris Careaga , Brian Hutchinson , Nathan Hodas , Lawrence Phillips

We propose regression networks for the problem of few-shot classification, where a classifier must generalize to new classes not seen in the training set, given only a small number of examples of each class. In high dimensional embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Arnout Devos , Matthias Grossglauser

To reduce the reliance on large-scale datasets, recent works in 3D segmentation resort to few-shot learning. Current 3D few-shot semantic segmentation methods first pre-train the models on `seen' classes, and then evaluate their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Xiangyang Zhu , Renrui Zhang , Bowei He , Ziyu Guo , Jiaming Liu , Hao Dong , Peng Gao

Few-shot or one-shot learning of classifiers requires a significant inductive bias towards the type of task to be learned. One way to acquire this is by meta-learning on tasks similar to the target task. In this paper, we propose UMTRA, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Siavash Khodadadeh , Ladislau Bölöni , Mubarak Shah

In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

Few-shot meta-learning presents a challenge for gradient descent optimization due to the limited number of training samples per task. To address this issue, we propose an episodic memory optimization for meta-learning, we call EMO, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yingjun Du , Jiayi Shen , Xiantong Zhen , Cees G. M. Snoek

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

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Few-shot learning has attracted intensive research attention in recent years. Many methods have been proposed to generalize a model learned from provided base classes to novel classes, but no previous work studies how to select base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Linjun Zhou , Peng Cui , Xu Jia , Shiqiang Yang , Qi Tian

A primary challenge faced in few-shot action recognition is inadequate video data for training. To address this issue, current methods in this field mainly focus on devising algorithms at the feature level while little attention is paid to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Huabin Liu , Weixian Lv , John See , Weiyao Lin

Few-shot learning refers to understanding new concepts from only a few examples. We propose an information retrieval-inspired approach for this problem that is motivated by the increased importance of maximally leveraging all the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Eleni Triantafillou , Richard Zemel , Raquel Urtasun

Pre-trained vision-language models have inspired much research on few-shot learning. However, with only a few training images, there exist two crucial problems: (1) the visual feature distributions are easily distracted by class-irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Runqi Wang , Hao Zheng , Xiaoyue Duan , Jianzhuang Liu , Yuning Lu , Tian Wang , Songcen Xu , Baochang Zhang

The goal of this paper is to bypass the need for labelled examples in few-shot video understanding at run time. While proven effective, in many practical video settings even labelling a few examples appears unrealistic. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Pengwan Yang , Yuki M. Asano , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

Handling previously unseen tasks after given only a few training examples continues to be a tough challenge in machine learning. We propose TapNets, neural networks augmented with task-adaptive projection for improved few-shot learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Sung Whan Yoon , Jun Seo , Jaekyun Moon

Meta-training has been empirically demonstrated to be the most effective pre-training method for few-shot learning of medical image classifiers (i.e., classifiers modeled with small training sets). However, the effectiveness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Gabriel Maicas , Cuong Nguyen , Farbod Motlagh , Jacinto C. Nascimento , Gustavo Carneiro

Text-to-image retrieval is a critical task for managing diverse visual content, but common benchmarks for the task rely on small, single-domain datasets that fail to capture real-world complexity. Pre-trained vision-language models tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Muhammad Huzaifa , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Metric-based meta-learning techniques have successfully been applied to few-shot classification problems. In this paper, we propose to leverage cross-modal information to enhance metric-based few-shot learning methods. Visual and semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chen Xing , Negar Rostamzadeh , Boris N. Oreshkin , Pedro O. Pinheiro

We consider a new problem of few-shot learning of compact models. Meta-learning is a popular approach for few-shot learning. Previous work in meta-learning typically assumes that the model architecture during meta-training is the same as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yong Wu , Shekhor Chanda , Mehrdad Hosseinzadeh , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

Few-shot learning allows pre-trained language models to adapt to downstream tasks while using a limited number of training examples. However, practical applications are limited when all model parameters must be optimized. In this work we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ethan Kim , Jerry Yang