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Few-shot learning is a challenging problem that has attracted more and more attention recently since abundant training samples are difficult to obtain in practical applications. Meta-learning has been proposed to address this issue, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Xian Zhong , Cheng Gu , Wenxin Huang , Lin Li , Shuqin Chen , Chia-Wen Lin

Matrix factorization (MF) discovers latent features from observations, which has shown great promises in the fields of collaborative filtering, data compression, feature extraction, word embedding, etc. While many problem-specific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Wei Tan , Shiyu Chang , Liana Fong , Cheng Li , Zijun Wang , Liangliang Cao

This paper presents FusionShot, a focal diversity optimized few-shot ensemble learning approach for boosting the robustness and generalization performance of pre-trained few-shot models. The paper makes three original contributions. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Selim Furkan Tekin , Fatih Ilhan , Tiansheng Huang , Sihao Hu , Ka-Ho Chow , Margaret L. Loper , Ling Liu

Few-shot learning focuses on learning a new visual concept with very limited labelled examples. A successful approach to tackle this problem is to compare the similarity between examples in a learned metric space based on convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heda Song , Mercedes Torres Torres , Ender Özcan , Isaac Triguero

Few-shot learning (FSL) presents a challenging learning problem in which only a few samples are available for each class. Decision interpretation is more important in few-shot classification due to a greater chance of error compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Mohammad Reza Zarei , Majid Komeili

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to adapt the model to new classes from very few data (5 samples) without forgetting the previously learned classes. Recent works in many-shot CIL (MSCIL) (using all available training data)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Dipam Goswami , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Joost van de Weijer

Deep learning-based fault diagnosis (FD) approaches require a large amount of training data, which are difficult to obtain since they are located across different entities. Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jixuan Cui , Jun Li , Zhen Mei , Kang Wei , Sha Wei , Ming Ding , Wen Chen , Song Guo

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

Existing object localization methods are tailored to locate specific classes of objects, relying heavily on abundant labeled data for model optimization. However, acquiring large amounts of labeled data is challenging in many real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yunhan Ren , Bo Li , Chengyang Zhang , Yong Zhang , Baocai Yin

Feature quality is paramount for classification performance, particularly in few-shot scenarios. Contrastive learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing feature quality, leverages sample relations to extract intrinsic features that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Guowei Yin , Sheng Huang , Luwen Huangfu , Yi Zhang , Xiaohong Zhang

In few-shot learning, classifiers are expected to generalize to unseen classes given only a small number of instances of each new class. One of the popular solutions to few-shot learning is metric-based meta-learning. However, it highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qiuhao Zeng

The promise of active learning (AL) is to reduce labelling costs by selecting the most valuable examples to annotate from a pool of unlabelled data. Identifying these examples is especially challenging with high-dimensional data (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Amin Parvaneh , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damien Teney , Reza Haffari , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Few-shot classification of hyperspectral images (HSI) faces the challenge of scarce labeled samples. Self-Supervised learning (SSL) and Few-Shot Learning (FSL) offer promising avenues to address this issue. However, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Wenchen Chen , Yanmei Zhang , Zhongwei Xiao , Jianping Chu , Xingbo Wang

Embedding learning (EL) and feature synthesizing (FS) are two of the popular categories of fine-grained GZSL methods. EL or FS using global features cannot discriminate fine details in the absence of local features. On the other hand, EL or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Tasfia Shermin , Shyh Wei Teng , Ferdous Sohel , Manzur Murshed , Guojun Lu

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

This work focuses on tackling the challenging but realistic visual task of Incremental Few-Shot Learning (IFSL), which requires a model to continually learn novel classes from only a few examples while not forgetting the base classes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Xijia Feng , Zilong Cheng , Jun Ma , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims at learning a detector that can fast adapt to previously unseen objects with scarce annotated examples, which is challenging and demanding. Existing methods solve this problem by performing subtasks of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Longyao Liu , Bo Ma , Yulin Zhang , Xin Yi , Haozhi Li

Real-world contains an overwhelmingly large number of object classes, learning all of which at once is infeasible. Few shot learning is a promising learning paradigm due to its ability to learn out of order distributions quickly with only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Few-shot image generation aims to effectively adapt a source generative model to a target domain using very few training images. Most existing approaches introduce consistency constraints-typically through instance-level or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Chenghao Xu , Qi Liu , Jiexi Yan , Muli Yang , Cheng Deng

In this paper, we study the problem of training large-scale face identification model with imbalanced training data. This problem naturally exists in many real scenarios including large-scale celebrity recognition, movie actor annotation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Yandong Guo , Lei Zhang