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This paper tackles the problem of few-shot learning, which aims to learn new visual concepts from a few examples. A common problem setting in few-shot classification assumes random sampling strategy in acquiring data labels, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Shipeng Yan , Songyang Zhang , Xuming He

Globalisation and colonisation have led the vast majority of the world to use only a fraction of languages, such as English and French, to communicate, excluding many others. This has severely affected the survivability of many now-deemed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Andreas Chari , Sean MacAvaney , Iadh Ounis

Recent advances in image captioning have focused on scaling the data and model size, substantially increasing the cost of pre-training and finetuning. As an alternative to large models, we present SmallCap, which generates a caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Rita Ramos , Bruno Martins , Desmond Elliott , Yova Kementchedjhieva

General purpose relation extraction has recently seen considerable gains in part due to a massively data-intensive distant supervision technique from Soares et al. (2019) that produces state-of-the-art results across many benchmarks. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Amith Ananthram , Emily Allaway , Kathleen McKeown

While text-to-image generative models can synthesize diverse and faithful content, subject variation across multiple generations limits their application to long-form content generation. Existing approaches require time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Lee Hsin-Ying , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Deep learning with noisy labels is an interesting challenge in weakly supervised learning. Despite their significant learning capacity, CNNs have a tendency to overfit in the presence of samples with noisy labels. Alleviating this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yan Han , Soumava Kumar Roy , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

Few-shot learning is an established topic in natural images for years, but few work is attended to histology images, which is of high clinical value since well-labeled datasets and rare abnormal samples are expensive to collect. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Jiawei Yang , Hanbo Chen , Jiangpeng Yan , Xiaoyu Chen , Jianhua Yao

Models prone to spurious correlations in training data often produce brittle predictions and introduce unintended biases. Addressing this challenge typically involves methods relying on prior knowledge and group annotation to remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Md Rifat Arefin , Yan Zhang , Aristide Baratin , Francesco Locatello , Irina Rish , Dianbo Liu , Kenji Kawaguchi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become popular in Graph Representation Learning (GRL). One fundamental application is few-shot node classification. Most existing methods follow the meta learning paradigm, showing the ability of fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Hao Liu , Jiarui Feng , Lecheng Kong , Dacheng Tao , Yixin Chen , Muhan Zhang

Automated animal censuses with aerial imagery are a vital ingredient towards wildlife conservation. Recent models are generally based on supervised learning and thus require vast amounts of training data. Due to their scarcity and minuscule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Xiaochen Zheng

Few-shot relation extraction (FSRE) focuses on recognizing novel relations by learning with merely a handful of annotated instances. Meta-learning has been widely adopted for such a task, which trains on randomly generated few-shot tasks to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Wei Lu

Contrastive learning has been adopted as a core method for unsupervised visual representation learning. Without human annotation, the common practice is to perform an instance discrimination task: Given a query image crop, this task labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Chen Wei , Huiyu Wang , Wei Shen , Alan Yuille

We analyze a reversed-supervision strategy that searches over labelings of a large unlabeled set \(B\) to minimize error on a small labeled set \(A\). The search space is \(2^n\), and the resulting complexity remains exponential even under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Masoud Makrehchi

When provided with sufficient explanatory context, smaller Language Models have been shown to exhibit strong reasoning ability on challenging short-answer question-answering tasks where the questions are unseen in training. We evaluate two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Tim Hartill , Diana Benavides-Prado , Michael Witbrock , Patricia J. Riddle

Few-shot learning aims to transfer information from one task to enable generalization on novel tasks given a few examples. This information is present both in the domain and the class labels. In this work we investigate the complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Orchid Majumder , Avinash Ravichandran , Subhransu Maji , Alessandro Achille , Marzia Polito , Stefano Soatto

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) stands as one of the most effective and scalable methods for training transferable vision models using paired image and text data. CLIP models are trained using contrastive loss, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lijie Fan , Dilip Krishnan , Phillip Isola , Dina Katabi , Yonglong Tian

Scientific Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of predicting the semantic relation between a pair of sentences extracted from research articles. The automatic annotation method based on distant supervision for the training set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mobashir Sadat , Cornelia Caragea

Despite the remarkable performance of large-scale generative models in open-domain conversation, they are known to be less practical for building real-time conversation systems due to high latency. On the other hand, retrieval models could…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Beomsu Kim , Seokjun Seo , Seungju Han , Enkhbayar Erdenee , Buru Chang

Standard few-shot relation classification (RC) is designed to learn a robust classifier with only few labeled data for each class. However, previous works rarely investigate the effects of a different number of classes (i.e., $N$-way) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Hongru Wang , Zhijing Jin , Jiarun Cao , Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung , Kam-Fai Wong

Few-shot Relation Extraction (FSRE) aims to extract relational facts from a sparse set of labeled corpora. Recent studies have shown promising results in FSRE by employing Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) within the framework of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Da Luo , Yanglei Gan , Rui Hou , Run Lin , Qiao Liu , Yuxiang Cai , Wannian Gao