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Few-shot classification consists of learning a predictive model that is able to effectively adapt to a new class, given only a few annotated samples. To solve this challenging problem, meta-learning has become a popular paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

It has been shown that instead of learning actual object features, deep networks tend to exploit non-robust (spurious) discriminative features that are shared between training and test sets. Therefore, while they achieve state of the art…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-19 Devansh Arpit , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

How can models effectively detect out-of-distribution (OOD) samples in complex, multi-label settings without extensive retraining? Existing OOD detection methods struggle to capture the intricate semantic relationships and label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhendong Liu , Yi Nian , Yuehan Qin , Henry Peng Zou , Li Li , Xiyang Hu , Yue Zhao

Previous OOD detection systems only focus on the semantic gap between ID and OOD samples. Besides the semantic gap, we are faced with two additional gaps: the domain gap between source and target domains, and the class-imbalance gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Arvind Easwaran , Blaise Genest , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

This paper addresses the problem of designing reliable prediction models that abstain from predictions when faced with uncertain or out-of-distribution samples - a recently proposed problem known as Selective Classification in the presence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Vojtech Franc , Jakub Paplham , Daniel Prusa

Few-shot classification aims to recognize novel categories with only few labeled images in each class. Existing metric-based few-shot classification algorithms predict categories by comparing the feature embeddings of query images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Deep neural networks suffer from the overconfidence issue in the open world, meaning that classifiers could yield confident, incorrect predictions for out-of-distribution (OOD) samples. Thus, it is an urgent and challenging task to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Qiuyu Zhu , Guohui Zheng , Yingying Yan

In this paper, we explore meta-learning for few-shot text classification. Meta-learning has shown strong performance in computer vision, where low-level patterns are transferable across learning tasks. However, directly applying this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yujia Bao , Menghua Wu , Shiyu Chang , Regina Barzilay

Few shot learning is an important problem in machine learning as large labelled datasets take considerable time and effort to assemble. Most few-shot learning algorithms suffer from one of two limitations- they either require the design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shakti Kumar , Hussain Zaidi

Few-shot text classification aims to recognize unseen classes with limited labeled text samples. Existing approaches focus on boosting meta-learners by developing complex algorithms in the training stage. However, the labeled samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yunlong Gao , Xinyue Liu , Yingbo Wang , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is critical to ensure the safe deployment of deep learning models in critical applications. Deep learning models can often misidentify OOD samples as in-distribution (ID) samples. This vulnerability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Sudarshan Regmi

Current few-shot learning models capture visual object relations in the so-called meta-learning setting under a fixed-resolution input. However, such models have a limited generalization ability under the scale and location mismatch between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hongguang Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr , Piotr Koniusz

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to continually learn new classes from only a few samples without forgetting previous ones, requiring intelligent agents to adapt to dynamic environments. FSCIL combines the characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dunwei Tu , Huiyu Yi , Tieyi Zhang , Ruotong Li , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Object detection has achieved substantial progress in the last decade. However, detecting novel classes with only few samples remains challenging, since deep learning under low data regime usually leads to a degraded feature space. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yuhang Cao , Jiaqi Wang , Ying Jin , Tong Wu , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Dahua Lin

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

Current methods for few-shot segmentation (FSSeg) have mainly focused on improving the performance of novel classes while neglecting the performance of base classes. To overcome this limitation, the task of generalized few-shot semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Weide Liu , Zhonghua Wu , Yang Zhao , Yuming Fang , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Jun Cheng , Guosheng Lin

In recent years, as a compromise between privacy and performance, few-sample model compression has been widely adopted to deal with limited data resulting from privacy and security concerns. However, when the number of available samples is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Tian-Shuang Wu , Shen-Huan Lyu , Ning Chen , Zhihao Qu , Baoliu Ye

Few-shot classification aims to carry out classification given only few labeled examples for the categories of interest. Though several approaches have been proposed, most existing few-shot learning (FSL) models assume that base and novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Ci-Siang Lin , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for reliable deployment of machine learning systems in vision, robotics, reinforcement learning, and beyond. We introduce Score-Curvature Out-of-distribution Proximity Evaluator for Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Brett Barkley , Preston Culbertson , David Fridovich-Keil

Few-shot segmentation aims to devise a generalizing model that segments query images from unseen classes during training with the guidance of a few support images whose class tally with the class of the query. There exist two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Alper Kayabaşı , Gülin Tüfekci , İlkay Ulusoy