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We investigate a general formulation for clustering and transductive few-shot learning, which integrates prototype-based objectives, Laplacian regularization and supervision constraints from a few labeled data points. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Imtiaz Masud Ziko , Malik Boudiaf , Jose Dolz , Eric Granger , Ismail Ben Ayed

Few-shot learning has been extensively explored to address problems where the amount of labeled samples is very limited for some classes. In the semi-supervised few-shot learning setting, substantial quantities of unlabeled samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Souvik Maji , Rhythm Baghel , Pratik Mazumder

Few-shot learning for image classification comes up as a hot topic in computer vision, which aims at fast learning from a limited number of labeled images and generalize over the new tasks. In this paper, motivated by the idea of Fisher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Qijun Song , Siyun Zhou , Liwei Xu

In binary classification, imbalance refers to situations in which one class is heavily under-represented. This issue is due to either a data collection process or because one class is indeed rare in a population. Imbalanced classification…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-07 Arezou Mojiri , Abbas Khalili , Ali Zeinal Hamadani

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a fundamental method for classification. Its simple linear structure facilitates interpretation, and it is naturally suited to multi-class settings. LDA is also closely connected to several classical…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-09 Xin Bing , Bingqing Li , Marten Wegkamp

The problem of complex data analysis is a central topic of modern statistical science and learning systems and is becoming of broader interest with the increasing prevalence of high-dimensional data. The challenge is to develop statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-05 Faicel Chamroukhi , Hien D. Nguyen

Given base classes with sufficient labeled samples, the target of few-shot classification is to recognize unlabeled samples of novel classes with only a few labeled samples. Most existing methods only pay attention to the relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Zeyuan Wang , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Yonghong Tian

We propose a mixture of latent trait models with common slope parameters (MCLT) for model-based clustering of high-dimensional binary data, a data type for which few established methods exist. Recent work on clustering of binary data, based…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-09 Yang Tang , Ryan P. Browne , Paul D. McNicholas

We investigate the estimation of multivariate extreme models with a discrete spectral measure using spherical clustering techniques. The primary contribution involves devising a method for selecting the order, that is, the number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-20 Shiyuan Deng , He Tang , Shuyang Bai

The goal of few-shot classification is to classify new categories with few labeled examples within each class. Nowadays, the excellent performance in handling few-shot classification problems is shown by metric-based meta-learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Xu Luo , Yuxuan Chen , Liangjian Wen , Lili Pan , Zenglin Xu

In this paper, we look at cross-domain few-shot classification which presents the challenging task of learning new classes in previously unseen domains with few labelled examples. Existing methods, though somewhat effective, encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Rashindrie Perera , Saman Halgamuge

Clustering, like covariate selection for classification, is an important step to compress and interpret the data. However, clustering of covariates is often performed independently of the classification step, which can lead to undesirable…

Computation · Statistics 2020-04-08 Daniel Andrade , Kenji Fukumizu , Yuzuru Okajima

Few-shot image classification is challenging due to the lack of ample samples in each class. Such a challenge becomes even tougher when the number of classes is very large, i.e., the large-class few-shot scenario. In this novel scenario,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Bingcong Li , Bo Han , Zhuowei Wang , Jing Jiang , Guodong Long

Quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) is a widely used classification technique. Based on a training dataset, each class in the data is characterized by an estimate of its center and shape, which can then be used to assign unseen…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-13 Iwein Vranckx , Jakob Raymaekers , Bart De Ketelaere , Peter J. Rousseeuw , Mia Hubert

Quadratic and Linear Discriminant Analysis (QDA/LDA) are the most often applied classification rules under normality. In QDA, a separate covariance matrix is estimated for each group. If there are more variables than observations in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-26 Stéphanie Aerts , Ines Wilms

Few-shot learning aims to handle previously unseen tasks using only a small amount of new training data. In preparing (or meta-training) a few-shot learner, however, massive labeled data are necessary. In the real world, unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Jun Seo , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

Few-shot classification studies the problem of quickly adapting a deep learner to understanding novel classes based on few support images. In this context, recent research efforts have been aimed at designing more and more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jun He , Richang Hong , Xueliang Liu , Mingliang Xu , Qianru Sun

Robust clustering of high-dimensional data is an important topic because clusters in real datasets are often heavy-tailed and/or asymmetric. Traditional approaches to model-based clustering often fail for high dimensional data, e.g., due to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-07 Alexa A. Sochaniwsky , Michael P. B. Gallaugher , Yang Tang , Paul D. McNicholas

In real-world applications, data do not reflect the ones commonly used for neural networks training, since they are usually few, unlabeled and can be available as a stream. Hence many existing deep learning solutions suffer from a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Alessia Bertugli , Stefano Vincenzi , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini

Mixtures of matrix Gaussian distributions provide a probabilistic framework for clustering continuous matrix-variate data, which are becoming increasingly prevalent in various fields. Despite its widespread adoption and successful…

Computation · Statistics 2023-07-21 Andrea Cappozzo , Alessandro Casa , Michael Fop