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Few-shot bioacoustic event detection is a task that detects the occurrence time of a novel sound given a few examples. Previous methods employ metric learning to build a latent space with the labeled part of different sound classes, also…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Haohe Liu , Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Foundation models have become a promising paradigm for advancing medical image analysis, particularly for segmentation tasks where downstream applications often emerge sequentially. Existing fine-tuning strategies, however, remain limited:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yiwen Ye , Yicheng Wu , Xiangde Luo , He Zhang , Ziyang Chen , Ting Dang , Yanning Zhang , Yong Xia

Limited labeled data makes it hard to train models from scratch in medical domain, and an important paradigm is pre-training and then fine-tuning. Large pre-trained models contain rich representations, which can be adapted to downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Along He , Kai Wang , Zhihong Wang , Tao Li , Huazhu Fu

The application of data-driven remaining useful life (RUL) prediction has long been constrained by the availability of large amount of degradation data. Mainstream solutions such as domain adaptation and meta-learning still rely on large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 En Fu , Yanyan Hu , Changhua Hu , Zengwang Jin , Kaixiang Peng

Transductive inference is an effective means of tackling the data deficiency problem in few-shot learning settings. A popular transductive inference technique for few-shot metric-based approaches, is to update the prototype of each class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Seong Min Kye , Hae Beom Lee , Hoirin Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

In this paper we explore few-shot imitation learning for control problems, which involves learning to imitate a target policy by accessing a limited set of offline rollouts. This setting has been relatively under-explored despite its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Massimiliano Patacchiola , Mingfei Sun , Katja Hofmann , Richard E. Turner

Few-shot in-context learning (ICL) enables pre-trained language models to perform a previously-unseen task without any gradient-based training by feeding a small number of training examples as part of the input. ICL incurs substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Haokun Liu , Derek Tam , Mohammed Muqeeth , Jay Mohta , Tenghao Huang , Mohit Bansal , Colin Raffel

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

Multi-Modal Self-Supervised Learning from videos has been shown to improve model's performance on various downstream tasks. However, such Self-Supervised pre-training requires large batch sizes and a large amount of computation resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Duo Wang , Salah Karout

Adapting pretrained language models to novel domains, such as clinical applications, traditionally involves retraining their entire set of parameters. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques for fine-tuning language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Aryo Pradipta Gema , Pasquale Minervini , Luke Daines , Tom Hope , Beatrice Alex

The existing few-shot video classification methods often employ a meta-learning paradigm by designing customized temporal alignment module for similarity calculation. While significant progress has been made, these methods fail to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhenxi Zhu , Limin Wang , Sheng Guo , Gangshan Wu

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem that aims to learn a model that can adapt to unseen classes given a few labeled samples. Recent approaches pre-train a feature extractor, and then fine-tune for episodic meta-learning. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Philip Chikontwe , Soopil Kim , Sang Hyun Park

Meta learning is a promising technique for solving few-shot fault prediction problems, which have attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. Existing meta-learning methods for time series prediction, which predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Hai Su , Jiajun Hu , Songsen Yu

We study few-shot acoustic event detection (AED) in this paper. Few-shot learning enables detection of new events with very limited labeled data. Compared to other research areas like computer vision, few-shot learning for audio recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Bowen Shi , Ming Sun , Krishna C. Puvvada , Chieh-Chi Kao , Spyros Matsoukas , Chao Wang

The goal of few-shot learning is to classify unseen categories with few labeled samples. Recently, the low-level information metric-learning based methods have achieved satisfying performance, since local representations (LRs) are more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Episodic learning is a popular practice among researchers and practitioners interested in few-shot learning. It consists of organising training in a series of learning problems (or episodes), each divided into a small training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Steinar Laenen , Luca Bertinetto

Meta-learning has emerged as a prominent technology for few-shot text classification and has achieved promising performance. However, existing methods often encounter difficulties in drawing accurate class prototypes from support set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinyue Liu , Yunlong Gao , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Few-shot learning has become essential for producing models that generalize from few examples. In this work, we identify that metric scaling and metric task conditioning are important to improve the performance of few-shot algorithms. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Boris N. Oreshkin , Pau Rodriguez , Alexandre Lacoste

Autonomous agents interacting with the real world need to learn new concepts efficiently and reliably. This requires learning in a low-data regime, which is a highly challenging problem. We address this task by introducing a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ardhendu Shekhar Tripathi , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Point cloud foundation models demonstrate strong generalization, yet adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging in low-data regimes. Full fine-tuning often leads to overfitting and significant drift from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sneha Paul , Zachary Patterson , Nizar Bouguila