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Despite achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot performance, existing vision-language models still fall short of few-shot transfer ability on domain-specific problems. Classical fine-tuning often fails to prevent highly expressive models from…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Zhenhailong Wang , Hang Yu , Manling Li , Han Zhao , Heng Ji

Few-shot recognition aims to recognize novel categories under low-data regimes. Some recent few-shot recognition methods introduce auxiliary semantic modality, i.e., category attribute information, into representation learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Incremental Learning (IL) aims to learn new tasks while preserving previously acquired knowledge. Integrating the zero-shot learning capabilities of pre-trained vision-language models into IL methods has marked a significant advancement.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Haihua Luo , Xuming Ran , Jiangrong Shen , Timo Hämäläinen , Zhonghua Chen , Qi Xu , Fengyu Cong

Vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled strong zero-shot classification through image-text alignment. Yet, their purely visual inference capabilities remain under-explored. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Illia Volkov , Nikita Kisel , Klara Janouskova , Jiri Matas

Few-shot image classification aims to classify unseen classes with limited labelled samples. Recent works benefit from the meta-learning process with episodic tasks and can fast adapt to class from training to testing. Due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Da Chen , Yuefeng Chen , Yuhong Li , Feng Mao , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to generalize to novel categories with only a few samples. Recent approaches incorporate large language models (LLMs) to enrich visual representations with semantic embeddings derived from class names. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Wenhao Li , Xianjing Meng , Qiangchang Wang , Zhongyi Han , Zhibin Wu , Yilong Yin

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive zero-shot generalization through large-scale image-text pretraining, yet their performance can drop once the deployment distribution diverges from the training distribution. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaozhen Qiao , Jingkai Zhao , Yuqiu Jiang , Xianda Guo , Zhe Sun , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have rapidly advanced alongside Large Language Models (LLMs). This study evaluates the capabilities of prominent generative VLMs, such as GPT-4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro, accessed via APIs, for histopathology image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Samarth Singhal , Sandeep Singhal

Humans recognize objects after observing only a few examples, a remarkable capability enabled by their inherent language understanding of the real-world environment. Developing verbalized and interpretable representation can significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Cheng-Fu Yang , Da Yin , Wenbo Hu , Heng Ji , Nanyun Peng , Bolei Zhou , Kai-Wei Chang

Semi-supervised few-shot learning consists in training a classifier to adapt to new tasks with limited labeled data and a fixed quantity of unlabeled data. Many sophisticated methods have been developed to address the challenges this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xiu-Shen Wei , He-Yang Xu , Faen Zhang , Yuxin Peng , Wei Zhou

Few-shot recognition (FSR) aims to train a classification model with only a few labeled examples of each concept concerned by a downstream task, where data annotation cost can be prohibitively high. We develop methods to solve FSR by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Tian Liu , Huixin Zhang , Shubham Parashar , Shu Kong

In the context of noisy partial label learning (NPLL), each training sample is associated with a set of candidate labels annotated by multiple noisy annotators. With the emergence of high-performance pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Qian-Wei Wang , Yaguang Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Vision-language models (VLMs) are gaining attention in medical image analysis. These are pre-trained on large, heterogeneous data sources, yielding rich and transferable representations. Notably, the combination of modality-specialized VLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Fereshteh Shakeri , Houda Bahig , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed

We consider the problem of zero-shot one-class visual classification, extending traditional one-class classification to scenarios where only the label of the target class is available. This method aims to discriminate between positive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yassir Bendou , Giulia Lioi , Bastien Pasdeloup , Lukas Mauch , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Fabien Cardinaux , Vincent Gripon

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), particularly CLIP, have revolutionized anomaly detection by enabling zero-shot and few-shot defect identification without extensive labeled datasets. By learning aligned representations of images and text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohit Kakda , Mirudula Shri Muthukumaran , Uttapreksha Patel , Lawrence Swaminathan Xavier Prince

Few-shot learning is a fundamental and challenging problem since it requires recognizing novel categories from only a few examples. The objects for recognition have multiple variants and can locate anywhere in images. Directly comparing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Congqi Cao , Yanning Zhang

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has boosted the use of Few-Shot Learning (FSL) methods in natural language processing, achieving acceptable performance even when working with limited training data. The goal of FSL is to effectively…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as the dominant approach for zero-shot recognition, adept at handling diverse scenarios and significant distribution changes. However, their deployment in risk-sensitive areas requires a deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Weijie Tu , Weijian Deng , Dylan Campbell , Stephen Gould , Tom Gedeon

Few-shot learning has recently emerged as a new challenge in the deep learning field: unlike conventional methods that train the deep neural networks (DNNs) with a large number of labeled data, it asks for the generalization of DNNs on new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Yukuan Yang , Fangyun Wei , Miaojing Shi , Guoqi Li

Text classification tends to be difficult when data are deficient or when it is required to adapt to unseen classes. In such challenging scenarios, recent studies have often used meta-learning to simulate the few-shot task, thus negating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Zhanlin Sun , Jiaoyan Chen , Huajun Chen