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Active learning (AL) is a training paradigm for selecting unlabeled samples for annotation to improve model performance on a test set, which is useful when only a limited number of samples can be annotated. These algorithms often work by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Lorenzo Jaime Yu Flores , Cesare Spinoso di-Piano , Ori Ernst , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

We propose a shared task on training instance selection for few-shot neural text generation. Large-scale pretrained language models have led to dramatic improvements in few-shot text generation. Nonetheless, almost all previous work simply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Ernie Chang , Xiaoyu Shen , Alex Marin , Vera Demberg

Large language models have shown impressive few-shot results on a wide range of tasks. However, when knowledge is key for such results, as is the case for tasks such as question answering and fact checking, massive parameter counts to store…

Image-based visual-language (I-VL) pre-training has shown great success for learning joint visual-textual representations from large-scale web data, revealing remarkable ability for zero-shot generalisation. This paper presents a simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Chen Ju , Tengda Han , Kunhao Zheng , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Metric learning is a widely used method for few shot learning in which the quality of prototypes plays a key role in the algorithm. In this paper we propose the trainable prototypes for distance measure instead of the artificial ones within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

The Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model has been widely used in various downstream vision tasks. The few-shot learning paradigm has been widely adopted to augment its capacity for these tasks. However, current paradigms may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jintao Rong , Hao Chen , Linlin Ou , Tianxiao Chen , Xinyi Yu , Yifan Liu

Few-shot classification (FSC) is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision that involves recognizing novel classes from limited data. While previous methods have focused on enhancing visual features or incorporating additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Fan Liu , Wenwen Cai , Jian Huo , Chuanyi Zhang , Delong Chen , Jun Zhou

Active learning is designed to minimize annotation efforts by prioritizing instances that most enhance learning. However, many active learning strategies struggle with a `cold-start' problem, needing substantial initial data to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Markus Bayer , Justin Lutz , Christian Reuter

Few-shot action recognition in videos is challenging for its lack of supervision and difficulty in generalizing to unseen actions. To address this task, we propose a simple yet effective method, called knowledge prompting, which leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Yuheng Shi , Xinxiao Wu , Hanxi Lin

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

Pre-trained masked language models successfully perform few-shot learning by formulating downstream tasks as text infilling. However, as a strong alternative in full-shot settings, discriminative pre-trained models like ELECTRA do not fit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Mengzhou Xia , Mikel Artetxe , Jingfei Du , Danqi Chen , Ves Stoyanov

The ability to learn from limited data, or few-shot learning, is a desirable and often critical requirement for NLP systems. While many existing methods do poorly at learning from a handful of examples, large pretrained language models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Sawan Kumar , Partha Talukdar

Foundation vision or vision-language models are trained on large unlabeled or noisy data and learn robust representations that can achieve impressive zero- or few-shot performance on diverse tasks. Given these properties, they are a natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sanket Rajan Gupte , Josiah Aklilu , Jeffrey J. Nirschl , Serena Yeung-Levy

Visual relations are complex, multimodal concepts that play an important role in the way humans perceive the world. As a result of their complexity, high-quality, diverse and large scale datasets for visual relations are still absent. In an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Sotiris Karapiperis , Markos Diomataris , Vassilis Pitsikalis

Recent studies on few-shot classification using transfer learning pose challenges to the effectiveness and efficiency of episodic meta-learning algorithms. Transfer learning approaches are a natural alternative, but they are restricted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Kuilin Chen , Chi-Guhn Lee

When trained at sufficient scale, auto-regressive language models exhibit the notable ability to learn a new language task after being prompted with just a few examples. Here, we present a simple, yet effective, approach for transferring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Maria Tsimpoukelli , Jacob Menick , Serkan Cabi , S. M. Ali Eslami , Oriol Vinyals , Felix Hill

Few-shot learning aims to recognize new categories using very few labeled samples. Although few-shot learning has witnessed promising development in recent years, most existing methods adopt an average operation to calculate prototypes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Minglei Yuan , Wenhai Wang , Tao Wang , Chunhao Cai , Qian Xu , Tong Lu

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

Few-shot classification requires deep neural networks to learn generalized representations only from limited training images, which is challenging but significant in low-data regimes. Recently, CLIP-based methods have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Renrui Zhang , Bohao Li , Wei Zhang , Hao Dong , Hongsheng Li , Peng Gao , Yu Qiao

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