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Feature quality is paramount for classification performance, particularly in few-shot scenarios. Contrastive learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing feature quality, leverages sample relations to extract intrinsic features that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Guowei Yin , Sheng Huang , Luwen Huangfu , Yi Zhang , Xiaohong Zhang

Few-shot learning aims to transfer information from one task to enable generalization on novel tasks given a few examples. This information is present both in the domain and the class labels. In this work we investigate the complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Orchid Majumder , Avinash Ravichandran , Subhransu Maji , Alessandro Achille , Marzia Polito , Stefano Soatto

New objects are continuously emerging in the dynamically changing world and a real-world artificial intelligence system should be capable of continual and effectual adaptation to new emerging classes without forgetting old ones. In view of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Xuejun Han , Yuhong Guo

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to continually fit new classes with limited training data, while maintaining the performance of previously learned classes. The main challenges are overfitting the rare new training samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Mingli Zhu , Zihao Zhu , Sihong Chen , Chen Chen , Baoyuan Wu

Contrastive learning applied to self-supervised representation learning has seen a resurgence in recent years, leading to state of the art performance in the unsupervised training of deep image models. Modern batch contrastive approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Prannay Khosla , Piotr Teterwak , Chen Wang , Aaron Sarna , Yonglong Tian , Phillip Isola , Aaron Maschinot , Ce Liu , Dilip Krishnan

Methods based on supervised learning using annotations in an end-to-end fashion have been the state-of-the-art for classification problems. However, they may be limited in their generalization capability, especially in the low data regime.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ilyass Moummad , Nicolas Farrugia

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to incrementally learn models from a small amount of novel data, which requires strong representation and adaptation ability of models learned under few-example supervision to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kexin Bao , Yong Li , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

Robust radio signal recognition is fundamental to spectrum management, electromagnetic space security, and intelligent wireless applications, yet existing deep-learning methods rely heavily on large labeled datasets and struggle to capture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shilian Zheng , Jie Chen , Luxin Zhang , Xiaoniu Yang

Several automatic approaches for objective music performance assessment (MPA) have been proposed in the past, however, existing systems are not yet capable of reliably predicting ratings with the same accuracy as professional judges. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Pavan Seshadri , Alexander Lerch

Few-shot learning is a challenging task since only few instances are given for recognizing an unseen class. One way to alleviate this problem is to acquire a strong inductive bias via meta-learning on similar tasks. In this paper, we show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Sound event detection is to infer the event by understanding the surrounding environmental sounds. Due to the scarcity of rare sound events, it becomes challenging for the well-trained detectors which have learned too much prior knowledge.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Chendong Zhao , Jianzong Wang , Leilai Li , Xiaoyang Qu , Jing Xiao

Few-shot learning aims to train models that can recognize novel classes given just a handful of labeled examples, known as the support set. While the field has seen notable advances in recent years, they have often focused on multi-class…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yu Wang , Nicholas J. Bryan , Justin Salamon , Mark Cartwright , Juan Pablo Bello

To extract robust deep representations from long sequential modeling of speech data, we propose a self-supervised learning approach, namely Contrastive Separative Coding (CSC). Our key finding is to learn such representations by separating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Jun Wang , Max W. Y. Lam , Dan Su , Dong Yu

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

Recent advances suggest the advantage of multi-modal training in comparison with single-modal methods. In contrast to this view, in our work we find that similar gain can be obtained from training with different formats of a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Luyu Wang , Aaron van den Oord

Few-shot learning is a type of classification through which predictions are made based on a limited number of samples for each class. This type of classification is sometimes referred to as a meta-learning problem, in which the model learns…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Leah Chowenhill , Gaurav Satyanath , Shubhranshu Singh , Madhav Mahendra Wagh

Contrastive learning enables learning useful audio and speech representations without ground-truth labels by maximizing the similarity between latent representations of similar signal segments. In this framework various data augmentation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Salah Zaiem , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid

Contrastive learning has been shown to produce generalizable representations of audio and visual data by maximizing the lower bound on the mutual information (MI) between different views of an instance. However, obtaining a tight lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

Contrastive learning is a popular form of self-supervised learning that encourages augmentations (views) of the same input to have more similar representations compared to augmentations of different inputs. Recent attempts to theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikunj Saunshi , Jordan Ash , Surbhi Goel , Dipendra Misra , Cyril Zhang , Sanjeev Arora , Sham Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy

Few-shot segmentation enables the model to recognize unseen classes with few annotated examples. Most existing methods adopt prototype learning architecture, where support prototype vectors are expanded and concatenated with query features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xiaoyu Zhao , Xiaoqian Chen , Zhiqiang Gong , Wen Yao , Yunyang Zhang , Xiaohu Zheng