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Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), like CLIP, exhibit strong generalization ability to downstream tasks but struggle in few-shot scenarios. Existing prompting techniques primarily focus on global text and image representations, yet…

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Human learning benefits from multi-modal inputs that often appear as rich semantics (e.g., description of an object's attributes while learning about it). This enables us to learn generalizable concepts from very limited visual examples.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Mohamed Afham , Salman Khan , Muhammad Haris Khan , Muzammal Naseer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

To tackle the issues of catastrophic forgetting and overfitting in few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL), previous work has primarily concentrated on preserving the memory of old knowledge during the incremental phase. The role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Wenhao Jiang , Duo Li , Menghan Hu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Xiao-Ping Zhang

A two-stage training paradigm consisting of sequential pre-training and meta-training stages has been widely used in current few-shot learning (FSL) research. Many of these methods use self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhanyuan Yang , Jinghua Wang , Yingying Zhu

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

We propose Sym-Net, a novel framework for Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) that addresses the critical issue of intra-class variation by jointly learning both query and support prototypes in a symmetrical manner. Unlike previous methods that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Qun Li , Baoquan Sun , Fu Xiao , Yonggang Qi , Bir Bhanu

Image-point class incremental learning helps the 3D-points-vision robots continually learn category knowledge from 2D images, improving their perceptual capability in dynamic environments. However, some incremental learning methods address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Chao Qi , Jianqin Yin , Ren Zhang

The ability to incrementally learn new classes from limited samples is crucial to the development of artificial intelligence systems for real clinical application. Although existing incremental learning techniques have attempted to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Hao Yang , Weijian Huang , Jiarun Liu , Cheng Li , Shanshan Wang

Learning quickly from very few labeled samples is a fundamental attribute that separates machines and humans in the era of deep representation learning. Unsupervised few-shot learning (U-FSL) aspires to bridge this gap by discarding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Stylianos Poulakakis-Daktylidis , Hadi Jamali-Rad

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) can be particularly susceptible to acquisition contexts with only a few labeled samples. A typical scenario is tactile sensing, where the acquisition context ({\it e.g.}, diverse devices, contact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yifeng Lin , Aiping Huang , Wenxi Liu , Si Wu , Tiesong Zhao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment novel-class objects in a given query image with only a few labeled support images. Most advanced solutions exploit a metric learning framework that performs segmentation through matching each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jiacheng Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Zongqing Lu , Jing-Hao Xue , Chengjie Wang , Qingmin Liao

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn a classifier that can be easily adapted to recognize novel classes with only a few labeled examples. Some recent work about FSL has yielded promising classification performance, where the image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jianpeng Yang , Yuhang Niu , Xuemei Xie , Guangming Shi

This study aims to address the problem of multi-domain task incremental learning~(MTIL), which requires that vision-language models~(VLMs) continuously acquire new knowledge while maintaining their inherent zero-shot recognition capability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Songlin Dong , Chenhao Ding , Jiangyang Li , Jizhou Han , Qiang Wang , Yuhang He , Yihong Gong

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) enables models to continuously integrate new knowledge while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Driven by the remarkable generalization of CLIP, leveraging pre-trained vision-language models has become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hao Sun , Zi-Jun Ding , Da-Wei Zhou

Few-shot learning is a fundamental task in computer vision that carries the promise of alleviating the need for exhaustively labeled data. Most few-shot learning approaches to date have focused on progressively more complex neural feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Peyman Bateni , Raghav Goyal , Vaden Masrani , Frank Wood , Leonid Sigal

Humans are capable of learning new concepts from only a few (labeled) exemplars, incrementally and continually. This happens within the context that we can differentiate among the exemplars, and between the exemplars and large amounts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Daniel T. Chang

Learning from large-scale contrastive language-image pre-training like CLIP has shown remarkable success in a wide range of downstream tasks recently, but it is still under-explored on the challenging few-shot action recognition (FSAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Jun Cen , Changxin Gao , Yingya Zhang , Deli Zhao , Nong Sang

Pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP show promise in continual learning, but existing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) methods assume homogeneous domains and balanced data distributions, limiting real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Eunju Lee , MiHyeon Kim , JuneHyoung Kwon , Yoonji Lee , JiHyun Kim , Soojin Jang , YoungBin Kim

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem since only a few examples are provided to recognize a new class. Several recent studies exploit additional semantic information, e.g. text embeddings of class names, to address the issue of rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan