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Few-shot learning (FSL) is an emergent paradigm of learning that attempts to learn to reason with low sample complexity to mimic the way humans learn, generalise and extrapolate from only a few seen examples. While FSL attempts to mimic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jaron Mar , Jiamou Liu

Few-shot classification requires adapting knowledge learned from a large annotated base dataset to recognize novel unseen classes, each represented by few labeled examples. In such a scenario, pretraining a network with high capacity on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yiren Jian , Lorenzo Torresani

Few-shot classification and meta-learning methods typically struggle to generalize across diverse domains, as most approaches focus on a single dataset, failing to transfer knowledge across various seen and unseen domains. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kristi Topollai , Anna Choromanska

Few-Shot Learning is the challenge of training a model with only a small amount of data. Many solutions to this problem use meta-learning algorithms, i.e. algorithms that learn to learn. By sampling few-shot tasks from a larger dataset, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Etienne Bennequin

With the continuous development of natural language processing (NLP) technology, text classification tasks have been widely used in multiple application fields. However, obtaining labeled data is often expensive and difficult, especially in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jia Gao , Shuangquan Lyu , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao

Recently, meta-learning has been shown as a promising way to solve few-shot learning. In this paper, inspired by the human cognition process which utilizes both prior-knowledge and vision attention in learning new knowledge, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yunxiao Qin , Weiguo Zhang , Chenxu Zhao , Zezheng Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Guojun Qi , Jingping Shi , Zhen Lei

In real-world applications, data do not reflect the ones commonly used for neural networks training, since they are usually few, unlabeled and can be available as a stream. Hence many existing deep learning solutions suffer from a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Alessia Bertugli , Stefano Vincenzi , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini

Annotated images and ground truth for the diagnosis of rare and novel diseases are scarce. This is expected to prevail, considering the small number of affected patient population and limited clinical expertise to annotate images. Further,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Karthik Desingu , Mirunalini P. , Aravindan Chandrabose

We consider a new problem of few-shot learning of compact models. Meta-learning is a popular approach for few-shot learning. Previous work in meta-learning typically assumes that the model architecture during meta-training is the same as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yong Wu , Shekhor Chanda , Mehrdad Hosseinzadeh , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

In few-shot classification, the primary goal is to learn representations from a few samples that generalize well for novel classes. In this paper, we propose an efficient low displacement rank (LDR) regularization strategy termed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Uche Osahor , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

The successful application of deep learning to many visual recognition tasks relies heavily on the availability of a large amount of labeled data which is usually expensive to obtain. The few-shot learning problem has attracted increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Zhongjie Yu , Lin Chen , Zhongwei Cheng , Jiebo Luo

Contrastive learning is a discriminative approach that aims at grouping similar samples closer and diverse samples far from each other. It it an efficient technique to train an encoder generating distinguishable and informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qing Chen , Jian Zhang

Metric-based meta-learning techniques have successfully been applied to few-shot classification problems. In this paper, we propose to leverage cross-modal information to enhance metric-based few-shot learning methods. Visual and semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chen Xing , Negar Rostamzadeh , Boris N. Oreshkin , Pedro O. Pinheiro

Few-shot classification aims to adapt classifiers to novel classes with a few training samples. However, the insufficiency of training data may cause a biased estimation of feature distribution in a certain class. To alleviate this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jing Xu , Xinglin Pan , Xu Luo , Wenjie Pei , Zenglin Xu

Few-shot classification aims to recognize unlabeled samples from unseen classes given only few labeled samples. The unseen classes and low-data problem make few-shot classification very challenging. Many existing approaches extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Few-shot learning has drawn researchers' attention to overcome the problem of data scarcity. Recently, large pre-trained language models have shown great performance in few-shot learning for various downstream tasks, such as question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Nayeon Lee , Yejin Bang , Andrea Madotto , Madian Khabsa , Pascale Fung

We investigate a general formulation for clustering and transductive few-shot learning, which integrates prototype-based objectives, Laplacian regularization and supervision constraints from a few labeled data points. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Imtiaz Masud Ziko , Malik Boudiaf , Jose Dolz , Eric Granger , Ismail Ben Ayed

Meta-learning has been proposed as a framework to address the challenging few-shot learning setting. The key idea is to leverage a large number of similar few-shot tasks in order to learn how to adapt a base-learner to a new task for which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Many modern deep-learning techniques do not work without enormous datasets. At the same time, several fields demand methods working in scarcity of data. This problem is even more complex when the samples have varying structures, as in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Donato Crisostomi , Simone Antonelli , Valentino Maiorca , Luca Moschella , Riccardo Marin , Emanuele Rodolà

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