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Learning with few samples is a major challenge for parameter-rich models like deep networks. In contrast, people learn complex new concepts even from very few examples, suggesting that the sample complexity of learning can often be reduced.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Roman Visotsky , Yuval Atzmon , Gal Chechik

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize new objects with extremely limited training data for each category. Previous efforts are made by either leveraging meta-learning paradigm or novel principles in data augmentation to alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Yikai Wang , Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu

Due to the advantages of leveraging unlabeled data and learning meaningful representations, semi-supervised learning and contrastive learning have been progressively combined to achieve better performances in popular applications with few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bowen Tao , Lan Li , Xin-Chun Li , De-Chuan Zhan

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes given only a few annotated samples. Encouraging progress has been made for FSS by leveraging semantic features learned from base classes with sufficient training samples to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zewen Zheng , Guoheng Huang , Xiaochen Yuan , Chi-Man Pun , Hongrui Liu , Wing-Kuen Ling

This study introduces the Multi-Scale Weight-Based Pairwise Coarsening and Contrastive Learning (MPCCL) model, a novel approach for attributed graph clustering that effectively bridges critical gaps in existing methods, including long-range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Binxiong Li , Yuefei Wang , Binyu Zhao , Heyang Gao , Benhan Yang , Quanzhou Luo , Xue Li , Xu Xiang , Yujie Liu , Huijie Tang

This paper considers contrastive training for cross-modal 0-shot transfer wherein a pre-trained model in one modality is used for representation learning in another domain using pairwise data. The learnt models in the latter domain can then…

Commit Classification (CC) is an important task in software maintenance, which helps software developers classify code changes into different types according to their nature and purpose. It allows developers to understand better how their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Jiajun Tong , Zhixiao Wang , Xiaobin Rui

Understanding how objects relate to each other in space is fundamental to scene understanding, yet most contrastive pre-training approaches only model pairwise relationships, leaving richer compositional and multi-hop interactions largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sheikh Tanvir Ahmed , Md. Tanvir Raihan

Few-shot classification of hyperspectral images (HSI) faces the challenge of scarce labeled samples. Self-Supervised learning (SSL) and Few-Shot Learning (FSL) offer promising avenues to address this issue. However, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Wenchen Chen , Yanmei Zhang , Zhongwei Xiao , Jianping Chu , Xingbo Wang

The learn-to-compare paradigm of contrastive representation learning (CRL), which compares positive samples with negative ones for representation learning, has achieved great success in a wide range of domains, including natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Lanling Xu , Jianxun Lian , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Daxin Jiang , Xing Xie , Ji-Rong Wen

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has gained significant popularity since it relies only on weak labels such as image level annotations rather than pixel level annotations required by supervised semantic segmentation (SSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kunhao Yuan , Gerald Schaefer , Yu-Kun Lai , Yifan Wang , Xiyao Liu , Lin Guan , Hui Fang

Transferring learned models to novel tasks is a challenging problem, particularly if only very few labeled examples are available. Although this few-shot learning setup has received a lot of attention recently, most proposed methods focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Xiahan Shi , Leonard Salewski , Martin Schiegg , Zeynep Akata , Max Welling

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to generate a classifier using limited labeled examples. Many existing works take the meta-learning approach, constructing a few-shot learner that can learn from few-shot examples to generate a classifier.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Han-Jia Ye , Lu Ming , De-Chuan Zhan , Wei-Lun Chao

Self-supervised learning algorithms based on instance discrimination train encoders to be invariant to pre-defined transformations of the same instance. While most methods treat different views of the same image as positives for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Debidatta Dwibedi , Yusuf Aytar , Jonathan Tompson , Pierre Sermanet , Andrew Zisserman

Contrastive learning (CL) aims to learn useful representation without relying on expert annotations in the context of medical image segmentation. Existing approaches mainly contrast a single positive vector (i.e., an augmentation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Chenyu You , Ruihan Zhao , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

The effectiveness of contrastive learning methods has been widely recognized in the field of graph learning, especially in contexts where graph data often lack labels or are difficult to label. However, the application of these methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Qiang Yu , Xinran Cheng , Shiqiang Xu , Chuanyi Liu

Jamming devices pose a significant threat by disrupting signals from the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), compromising the robustness of accurate positioning. Detecting anomalies in frequency snapshots is crucial to counteract…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Felix Ott , Lucas Heublein , Nisha Lakshmana Raichur , Tobias Feigl , Jonathan Hansen , Alexander Rügamer , Christopher Mutschler

Knowledge graphs (KGs) serve as useful resources for various natural language processing applications. Previous KG completion approaches require a large number of training instances (i.e., head-tail entity pairs) for every relation. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Chuxu Zhang , Huaxiu Yao , Chao Huang , Meng Jiang , Zhenhui Li , Nitesh V. Chawla

Due to the limited availability of data, existing few-shot learning methods trained from scratch fail to achieve satisfactory performance. In contrast, large-scale pre-trained models such as CLIP demonstrate remarkable few-shot and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Kun Song , Huimin Ma , Bochao Zou , Huishuai Zhang , Weiran Huang

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize novel concepts from only a few labeled support samples. Recent studies enhance support features by incorporating additional semantic information or designing complex semantic fusion modules.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenhao Li , Qiangchang Wang , Xianjing Meng , Zhibin Wu , Yilong Yin