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As a prominent challenge in addressing real-world issues within a dynamic environment, label shift, which refers to the learning setting where the source (training) and target (testing) label distributions do not match, has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ruidong Fan , Xiao Ouyang , Hong Tao , Yuhua Qian , Chenping Hou

The goal of Cross-Domain Few-Shot Classification (CDFSC) is to accurately classify a target dataset with limited labelled data by exploiting the knowledge of a richly labelled auxiliary dataset, despite the differences between the domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Huali Xu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Li Liu

We study the open-set label shift problem, where the test data may include a novel class absent from training. This setting is challenging because both the class proportions and the distribution of the novel class are not identifiable…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-19 Siyan Liu , Yukun Liu , Qinglong Tian , Pengfei Li , Jing Qin

Unsupervised pretraining has achieved great success and many recent works have shown unsupervised pretraining can achieve comparable or even slightly better transfer performance than supervised pretraining on downstream target datasets. But…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Suichan Li , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Qi Chu , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu

Few-Shot classification aims at solving problems that only a few samples are available in the training process. Due to the lack of samples, researchers generally employ a set of training tasks from other domains to assist the target task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Renjie Xu , Xinghao Yang , Baodi Liu , Kai Zhang , Weifeng Liu

This paper considers the problem of regression over distributions, which is becoming increasingly important in machine learning. Existing approaches often ignore the geometry of the probability space or are computationally expensive. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Maksim Maslov , Alexander Kugaevskikh , Matthew Ivanov

Few-shot classification (FSC) is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training data (e.g. only one labeled data point per class). Meta-learning has shown to achieve promising results by learning to initialize a classification model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xinzhe Li , Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Shibao Zheng , Qin Zhou , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Deep Learning (DL) based methods for object detection achieve remarkable performance at the cost of computationally expensive training and extensive data labeling. Robots embodiment can be exploited to mitigate this burden by acquiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Elisa Maiettini , Andrea Maracani , Raffaello Camoriano , Giulia Pasquale , Vadim Tikhanoff , Lorenzo Rosasco , Lorenzo Natale

We propose a novel adaptive transfer learning framework, learning to transfer learn (L2TL), to improve performance on a target dataset by careful extraction of the related information from a source dataset. Our framework considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Linchao Zhu , Sercan O. Arik , Yi Yang , Tomas Pfister

Few-shot learning often involves metric learning-based classifiers, which predict the image label by comparing the distance between the extracted feature vector and class representations. However, applying global pooling in the backend of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Inyong Koo , Minki Jeong , Changick Kim

Deep learning models usually require a large amount of labeled data to achieve satisfactory performance. In multimedia analysis, domain adaptation studies the problem of cross-domain knowledge transfer from a label rich source domain to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Lei Zhu , Zhaojing Luo , Wei Wang , Meihui Zhang , Gang Chen , Kaiping Zheng

We propose a learning problem involving adapting a pre-trained source model to the target domain for classifying all classes that appeared in the source data, using target data that covers only a partial label space. This problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Cheng-Hao Tu , Hong-You Chen , Zheda Mai , Jike Zhong , Vardaan Pahuja , Tanya Berger-Wolf , Song Gao , Charles Stewart , Yu Su , Wei-Lun Chao

Transfer learning, which is to improve the learning performance in the target domain by leveraging useful knowledge from the source domain, often requires that those two domains are very close, which limits its application scope. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Qiao Xiao , Yu Zhang

In real-world applications, it is often expensive and time-consuming to obtain labeled examples. In such cases, knowledge transfer from related domains, where labels are abundant, could greatly reduce the need for extensive labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Marouan Belhaj , Pavlos Protopapas , Weiwei Pan

Many decision problems in science, engineering and economics are affected by uncertain parameters whose distribution is only indirectly observable through samples. The goal of data-driven decision-making is to learn a decision from finitely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-05 Daniel Kuhn , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Viet Anh Nguyen , Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh

Advancements in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics have paved the way for transformative solutions in various domains, particularly in agriculture. For example, accurate identification and segmentation of fruits from field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jordan A. James , Heather K. Manching , Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp , William J. Beksi

Existing approaches to few-shot learning in NLP rely on large language models (LLMs) and/or fine-tuning of these to generalise on out-of-distribution data. In this work, we propose a novel few-shot learning approach based on soft-label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Avyav Kumar Singh , Ekaterina Shutova , Helen Yannakoudakis

Human learners have the natural ability to use knowledge gained in one setting for learning in a different but related setting. This ability to transfer knowledge from one task to another is essential for effective learning. In this paper,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-10 T. Tony Cai , Hongji Wei

Partial domain adaptation (PDA) is a challenging task in real-world machine learning scenarios. It aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to a related unlabeled target domain, where the support set of the source label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Cheng-Jun Guo , Chuan-Xian Ren , You-Wei Luo , Xiao-Lin Xu , Hong Yan

Transductive inference is widely used in few-shot learning, as it leverages the statistics of the unlabeled query set of a few-shot task, typically yielding substantially better performances than its inductive counterpart. The current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Olivier Veilleux , Malik Boudiaf , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed