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Deep autoregressive models have shown state-of-the-art performance in density estimation for natural images on large-scale datasets such as ImageNet. However, such models require many thousands of gradient-based weight updates and unique…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Scott Reed , Yutian Chen , Thomas Paine , Aäron van den Oord , S. M. Ali Eslami , Danilo Rezende , Oriol Vinyals , Nando de Freitas

In recent years, self-supervised learning has excelled for its capacity to learn robust feature representations from unlabelled data. Networks pretrained through self-supervision serve as effective feature extractors for downstream tasks,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Calum Heggan , Sam Budgett , Timothy Hospedales , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

We introduce Mixture-based Feature Space Learning (MixtFSL) for obtaining a rich and robust feature representation in the context of few-shot image classification. Previous works have proposed to model each base class either with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Arman Afrasiyabi , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

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

Pre-training general-purpose visual features with convolutional neural networks without relying on annotations is a challenging and important task. Most recent efforts in unsupervised feature learning have focused on either small or highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Julien Mairal , Armand Joulin

Few-shot learning aims to classify unseen classes with a few training examples. While recent works have shown that standard mini-batch training with a carefully designed training strategy can improve generalization ability for unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jin-Woo Seo , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

Deep neural networks demonstrate to have a high performance on image classification tasks while being more difficult to train. Due to the complexity and vanishing gradient problem, it normally takes a lot of time and more computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Mohammad Sadegh Ebrahimi , Hossein Karkeh Abadi

We present a technique to improve the transferability of deep representations learned on small labeled datasets by introducing self-supervised tasks as auxiliary loss functions. While recent approaches for self-supervised learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Jong-Chyi Su , Subhransu Maji , Bharath Hariharan

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

Few-shot learners aim to recognize new object classes based on a small number of labeled training examples. To prevent overfitting, state-of-the-art few-shot learners use meta-learning on convolutional-network features and perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yan Wang , Wei-Lun Chao , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Laurens van der Maaten

Popular approaches for few-shot classification consist of first learning a generic data representation based on a large annotated dataset, before adapting the representation to new classes given only a few labeled samples. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

Recent advances in self-supervised learning have attracted significant attention from both machine learning and neuroscience. This is primarily because self-supervised methods do not require annotated supervisory information, making them…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-05 Asaki Kataoka , Yoshihiro Nagano , Masafumi Oizumi

In few-shot classification, we are interested in learning algorithms that train a classifier from only a handful of labeled examples. Recent progress in few-shot classification has featured meta-learning, in which a parameterized model for…

Deep neural networks currently deliver promising results for microscopy image cell segmentation, but they require large-scale labelled databases, which is a costly and time-consuming process. In this work, we relax the labelling requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Youssef Dawoud , Katharina Ernst , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

Deep networks can learn to accurately recognize objects of a category by training on a large number of annotated images. However, a meta-learning challenge known as a low-shot image recognition task comes when only a few images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Mengting Chen , Xinggang Wang , Heng Luo , Yifeng Geng , Wenyu Liu

One of the greatest obstacles in the adoption of deep neural networks for new applications is that training the network typically requires a large number of manually labeled training samples. We empirically investigate the scenario where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Leslie N. Smith , Adam Conovaloff

Over the past few years, state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms are based on deep convolutional neural networks. To render a deep network with the ability to understand a concept, humans need to collect a large amount of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Weide Liu , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Fayao Liu

Learning from a few examples remains a key challenge in machine learning. Despite recent advances in important domains such as vision and language, the standard supervised deep learning paradigm does not offer a satisfactory solution for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Oriol Vinyals , Charles Blundell , Timothy Lillicrap , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Daan Wierstra

Whilst computer vision models built using self-supervised approaches are now commonplace, some important questions remain. Do self-supervised models learn highly redundant channel features? What if a self-supervised network could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Tarun Krishna , Ayush K. Rai , Yasser A. D. Djilali , Alan F. Smeaton , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor

Many meta-learning approaches for few-shot learning rely on simple base learners such as nearest-neighbor classifiers. However, even in the few-shot regime, discriminatively trained linear predictors can offer better generalization. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Kwonjoon Lee , Subhransu Maji , Avinash Ravichandran , Stefano Soatto