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Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) provide a probabilistic interpretation for deep learning models by imposing a prior distribution over model parameters and inferring a posterior distribution based on observed data. The model sampled from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Van-Anh Nguyen , Tung-Long Vuong , Hoang Phan , Thanh-Toan Do , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

The focus of recent meta-learning research has been on the development of learning algorithms that can quickly adapt to test time tasks with limited data and low computational cost. Few-shot learning is widely used as one of the standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang , Dilip Krishnan , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Phillip Isola

In visual recognition tasks, few-shot learning requires the ability to learn object categories with few support examples. Its re-popularity in light of the deep learning development is mainly in image classification. This work focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Miao Zhang , Miaojing Shi , Li Li

Few-shot fine-tuning and in-context learning are two alternative strategies for task adaptation of pre-trained language models. Recently, in-context learning has gained popularity over fine-tuning due to its simplicity and improved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Marius Mosbach , Tiago Pimentel , Shauli Ravfogel , Dietrich Klakow , Yanai Elazar

Few-shot learning (FSL) has emerged as an effective learning method and shows great potential. Despite the recent creative works in tackling FSL tasks, learning valid information rapidly from just a few or even zero samples still remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yisheng Song , Ting Wang , Subrota K Mondal , Jyoti Prakash Sahoo

Traditional recognition methods typically require large, artificially-balanced training classes, while few-shot learning methods are tested on artificially small ones. In contrast to both extremes, real world recognition problems exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Davis Wertheimer , Bharath Hariharan

In this paper, we propose to tackle the challenging few-shot learning (FSL) problem by learning global class representations using both base and novel class training samples. In each training episode, an episodic class mean computed from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Tiange Luo , Aoxue Li , Tao Xiang , Weiran Huang , Liwei Wang

There has been a remarkable progress in learning a model which could recognise novel classes with only a few labeled examples in the last few years. Few-shot learning (FSL) for action recognition is a challenging task of recognising novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Neeraj Kumar , Siddhansh Narang

Few-shot segmentation aims to segment unseen-class objects given only a handful of densely labeled samples. Prototype learning, where the support feature yields a singleor several prototypes by averaging global and local object information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ehtesham Iqbal , Sirojbek Safarov , Seongdeok Bang

Few-shot learning presents a critical solution for cancer diagnosis in computational pathology (CPath), addressing fundamental limitations in data availability, particularly the scarcity of expert annotations and patient privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zhengrui Guo , Conghao Xiong , Jiabo Ma , Qichen Sun , Lishuang Feng , Jinzhuo Wang , Hao Chen

Aiming at recognizing the samples from novel categories with few reference samples, few-shot learning (FSL) is a challenging problem. We found that the existing works often build their few-shot model based on the image-level feature by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Junying Huang , Fan Chen , Keze Wang , Liang Lin , Dongyu Zhang

In this paper, we propose an approach to improve few-shot classification performance using a composite rotation based auxiliary task. Few-shot classification methods aim to produce neural networks that perform well for classes with a large…

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

Many Few-Shot Learning research works have two stages: pre-training base model and adapting to novel model. In this paper, we propose to use closed-form base learner, which constrains the adapting stage with pre-trained base model to get…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Liang Song , Jinlu Liu , Yongqiang Qin

Empirical science of neural scaling laws is a rapidly growing area of significant importance to the future of machine learning, particularly in the light of recent breakthroughs achieved by large-scale pre-trained models such as GPT-3, CLIP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Gabriele Prato , Simon Guiroy , Ethan Caballero , Irina Rish , Sarath Chandar

Few-shot image classification aims at training a model from only a few examples for each of the "novel" classes. This paper proposes the idea of associative alignment for leveraging part of the base data by aligning the novel training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Arman Afrasiyabi , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

Few-shot node classification aims at classifying nodes with limited labeled nodes as references. Recent few-shot node classification methods typically learn from classes with abundant labeled nodes (i.e., meta-training classes) and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Song Wang , Yushun Dong , Kaize Ding , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) is a topic of rapidly growing interest. Typically, in FSL a model is trained on a dataset consisting of many small tasks (meta-tasks) and learns to adapt to novel tasks that it will encounter during test time. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Sivan Doveh , Eli Schwartz , Chao Xue , Rogerio Feris , Alex Bronstein , Raja Giryes , Leonid Karlinsky

Cross-Domain Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to train generalized models that can segment classes from different domains with a few labeled images. Previous works have proven the effectiveness of feature transformation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jiayi Chen , Rong Quan , Jie Qin

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

Irrelevant features can significantly degrade few-shot learn ing performance. This problem is used to match queries and support images based on meaningful similarities despite the limited data. However, in this process, non-relevant fea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Javier Rodenas , Eduardo Aguilar , Petia Radeva