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Recent research put a big effort in the development of deep learning architectures and optimizers obtaining impressive results in areas ranging from vision to language processing. However little attention has been addressed to the need of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Daniele Della Latta , Nicola Martini , Gianmarco Santini , Dante Chiappino , Emiliano Ricciardi

Meta-learning seeks to learn a well-generalized model initialization from training tasks to solve unseen tasks. From the "learning to learn" perspective, the quality of the initialization is modeled with one-step gradient decent in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jingyao Wang , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Hui Xiong , Gang Hua

Recently, cross domain transfer has been applied for unsupervised image restoration tasks. However, directly applying existing frameworks would lead to domain-shift problems in translated images due to lack of effective supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Hongyu Yang

Learning from small data sets is critical in many practical applications where data collection is time consuming or expensive, e.g., robotics, animal experiments or drug design. Meta learning is one way to increase the data efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Steindór Sæmundsson , Katja Hofmann , Marc Peter Deisenroth

We present a new approach, called meta-meta classification, to learning in small-data settings. In this approach, one uses a large set of learning problems to design an ensemble of learners, where each learner has high bias and low variance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Arkabandhu Chowdhury , Dipak Chaudhari , Swarat Chaudhuri , Chris Jermaine

The field of meta-learning, or learning-to-learn, has seen a dramatic rise in interest in recent years. Contrary to conventional approaches to AI where tasks are solved from scratch using a fixed learning algorithm, meta-learning aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Timothy Hospedales , Antreas Antoniou , Paul Micaelli , Amos Storkey

Ensemble learning, the machine learning paradigm where multiple algorithms are combined, has exhibited promising perfomance in a variety of tasks. The present work focuses on unsupervised ensemble classification. The term unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Panagiotis A. Traganitis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Deep neural networks often struggle to learn robust representations in the presence of dataset biases, leading to suboptimal generalization on unbiased datasets. This limitation arises because the models heavily depend on peripheral and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Carlo Alberto Barbano , Enzo Tartaglione , Marco Grangetto

In-context learning, a capability that enables a model to learn from input examples on the fly without necessitating weight updates, is a defining characteristic of large language models. In this work, we follow the setting proposed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Kartik Ahuja , David Lopez-Paz

In many real-world scenarios, data to train machine learning models becomes available over time. Unfortunately, these models struggle to continually learn new concepts without forgetting what has been learnt in the past. This phenomenon is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Beyza Ermis , Giovanni Zappella , Martin Wistuba , Aditya Rawal , Cedric Archambeau

Utilizing task-invariant prior knowledge extracted from related tasks, meta-learning is a principled framework that empowers learning a new task especially when data records are limited. A fundamental challenge in meta-learning is how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yilang Zhang , Bingcong Li , Georgios B. Giannakis

Few-shot learning aims to handle previously unseen tasks using only a small amount of new training data. In preparing (or meta-training) a few-shot learner, however, massive labeled data are necessary. In the real world, unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Jun Seo , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

Although unsupervised feature learning has demonstrated its advantages to reducing the workload of data labeling and network design in many fields, existing unsupervised 3D learning methods still cannot offer a generic network for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Peng-Shuai Wang , Yu-Qi Yang , Qian-Fang Zou , Zhirong Wu , Yang Liu , Xin Tong

Large language models are capable of in-context learning, the ability to perform new tasks at test time using a handful of input-output examples, without parameter updates. We develop a universal approximation theory to elucidate how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Gen Li , Yuchen Jiao , Yu Huang , Yuting Wei , Yuxin Chen

Understanding the 3D world without supervision is currently a major challenge in computer vision as the annotations required to supervise deep networks for tasks in this domain are expensive to obtain on a large scale. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Octave Mariotti , Oisin Mac Aodha , Hakan Bilen

The Transformer architecture has become prominent in developing large causal language models. However, mechanisms to explain its capabilities are not well understood. Focused on the training process, here we establish a meta-learning view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xinbo Wu , Lav R. Varshney

Unsupervised representation learning aims at describing raw data efficiently to solve various downstream tasks. It has been approached with many techniques, such as manifold learning, diffusion maps, or more recently self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Vivien Cabannes , Alberto Bietti , Randall Balestriero

In human learning, it is common to use multiple sources of information jointly. However, most existing feature learning approaches learn from only a single task. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-task deep network to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Zhongzheng Ren , Yong Jae Lee

Data scarcity poses a serious threat to modern machine learning and artificial intelligence, as their practical success typically relies on the availability of big datasets. One effective strategy to mitigate the issue of insufficient data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chaozhi Zhang , Lin Liu , Xiaoqun Zhang

Self-supervised learning has become a popular approach in recent years for its ability to learn meaningful representations without the need for data annotation. This paper proposes a novel image augmentation technique, overlaying images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yinheng Li , Han Ding , Shaofei Wang