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Integrating image and text data through multi-modal learning has emerged as a new approach in medical imaging research, following its successful deployment in computer vision. While considerable efforts have been dedicated to establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Fereshteh Shakeri , Yunshi Huang , Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Houda Bahig , An Tang , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed

Large pre-trained vision-language (VL) models have shown significant promise in adapting to various downstream tasks. However, fine-tuning the entire network is challenging due to the massive number of model parameters. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jingchen Sun , Jiayu Qin , Zihao Lin , Changyou Chen

Pretrained multilingual contextual representations have shown great success, but due to the limits of their pretraining data, their benefits do not apply equally to all language varieties. This presents a challenge for language varieties…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ethan C. Chau , Lucy H. Lin , Noah A. Smith

We study few-shot learning in natural language domains. Compared to many existing works that apply either metric-based or optimization-based meta-learning to image domain with low inter-task variance, we consider a more realistic setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Jinfeng Yi , Shiyu Chang , Saloni Potdar , Yu Cheng , Gerald Tesauro , Haoyu Wang , Bowen Zhou

When adapting large language models (LLMs) to a specific downstream task, two primary approaches are commonly employed: (1) prompt engineering, often with in-context few-shot learning, leveraging the model's inherent generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Jorg Bornschein , Clare Lyle , Yazhe Li , Amal Rannen-Triki , Xu Owen He , Razvan Pascanu

Meta-learning algorithms are widely used for few-shot learning. For example, image recognition systems that readily adapt to unseen classes after seeing only a few labeled examples. Despite their success, we show that modern meta-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Mayank Agarwal , Mikhail Yurochkin , Yuekai Sun

Graph few-shot learning, which aims to classify nodes from novel classes with only a few labeled examples, is a widely studied problem in graph learning. However, existing methods often face two key limitations. First, the predominant graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Renchu Guan , Yajun Wang , Chunli Guo , Bowen Cao , Fausto Giunchiglia , Wei Pang , Yonghao Liu , Xiaoyue Feng

With the increasing attention to pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), \eg, CLIP, substantial efforts have been devoted to many downstream tasks, especially in test-time adaptation (TTA). However, previous works focus on learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xingyu Zhu , Shuo Wang , Beier Zhu , Miaoge Li , Yunfan Li , Junfeng Fang , Zhicai Wang , Dongsheng Wang , Hanwang Zhang

Conventional text style transfer approaches focus on sentence-level style transfer without considering contextual information, and the style is described with attributes (e.g., formality). When applying style transfer in conversations such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Shamik Roy , Raphael Shu , Nikolaos Pappas , Elman Mansimov , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour , Dan Roth

Inspired by the concept of preconditioning, we propose a novel method to increase adaptation speed for gradient-based meta-learning methods without incurring extra parameters. We demonstrate that recasting the optimization problem to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Markus Hiller , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond

Few-shot video classification aims to learn new video categories with only a few labeled examples, alleviating the burden of costly annotation in real-world applications. However, it is particularly challenging to learn a class-invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Songyang Zhang , Jiale Zhou , Xuming He

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

Image-text multimodal representation learning aligns data across modalities and enables important medical applications, e.g., image classification, visual grounding, and cross-modal retrieval. In this work, we establish a connection between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Peiqi Wang , William M. Wells , Seth Berkowitz , Steven Horng , Polina Golland

In recent years, domains such as natural language processing and image recognition have popularized the paradigm of using large datasets to pretrain representations that can be effectively transferred to downstream tasks. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 David Brandfonbrener , Ofir Nachum , Joan Bruna

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in real-world applications. However, adapting LLMs to novel tasks via fine-tuning often requires substantial training data and computational resources that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Boyan Gao , Xin Wang , Yibo Yang , David Clifton

Recent advances in learning aligned multimodal representations have been primarily driven by training large neural networks on massive, noisy paired-modality datasets. In this work, we ask whether it is possible to achieve similar results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Elan Rosenfeld , Preetum Nakkiran , Hadi Pouransari , Oncel Tuzel , Fartash Faghri

Pretrained language models have shown success in various areas of natural language processing, including reading comprehension tasks. However, when applying machine learning methods to new domains, labeled data may not always be available.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Xiang Pan , Alex Sheng , David Shimshoni , Aditya Singhal , Sara Rosenthal , Avirup Sil

Pretrained multilingual models enable zero-shot learning even for unseen languages, and that performance can be further improved via adaptation prior to finetuning. However, it is unclear how the number of pretraining languages influences a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yoshinari Fujinuma , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Katharina Kann

Vision-language models (VLMs) have revolutionized machine learning by leveraging large pre-trained models to tackle various downstream tasks. Although label, training, and data efficiency have improved, many state-of-the-art VLMs still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yushu Li , Yongyi Su , Adam Goodge , Kui Jia , Xun Xu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable image-language capabilities, but their widespread use faces challenges in cost-effective training and adaptation. Existing approaches often necessitate expensive language model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Sayna Ebrahimi , Sercan O. Arik , Tejas Nama , Tomas Pfister