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We aim to bridge the gap between typical human and machine-learning environments by extending the standard framework of few-shot learning to an online, continual setting. In this setting, episodes do not have separate training and testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Mengye Ren , Michael L. Iuzzolino , Michael C. Mozer , Richard S. Zemel

Current machine learning models have shown high efficiency in solving a wide variety of real-world problems. However, their black box character poses a major challenge for the understanding and traceability of the underlying decision-making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Srishti Gautam , Marina M. -C. Höhne , Stine Hansen , Robert Jenssen , Michael Kampffmeyer

Although having achieved great success in medical image segmentation, deep convolutional neural networks usually require a large dataset with manual annotations for training and are difficult to generalize to unseen classes. Few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Hao Tang , Xingwei Liu , Shanlin Sun , Xiangyi Yan , Xiaohui Xie

In this article, we consider the problem of few-shot learning for classification. We assume a network trained for base categories with a large number of training examples, and we aim to add novel categories to it that have only a few, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

We propose to address the problem of few-shot classification by meta-learning "what to observe" and "where to attend" in a relational perspective. Our method leverages relational patterns within and between images via self-correlational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Dahyun Kang , Heeseung Kwon , Juhong Min , Minsu Cho

In this paper, we introduce the new ideas of augmenting Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with Memory and learning to learn the network parameters for the unlabelled images on the fly in one-shot learning. Specifically, we present Memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Qi Cai , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Chenggang Yan , Tao Mei

Few-shot deep learning is a topical challenge area for scaling visual recognition to open ended growth of unseen new classes with limited labeled examples. A promising approach is based on metric learning, which trains a deep embedding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Xueting Zhang , Yuting Qiang , Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

Few-shot image classification remains a critical challenge in the field of computer vision, particularly in data-scarce environments. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained visual-language models, such as CLIP. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xi Yang , Pai Peng , Wulin Xie , Xiaohuan Lu , Jie Wen

The deep CNNs in image semantic segmentation typically require a large number of densely-annotated images for training and have difficulties in generalizing to unseen object categories. Therefore, few-shot segmentation has been developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Henghui Ding , Hui Zhang , Xudong Jiang

Few-shot learning for fine-grained image classification has gained recent attention in computer vision. Among the approaches for few-shot learning, due to the simplicity and effectiveness, metric-based methods are favorably state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xiaoxu Li , Jijie Wu , Zhuo Sun , Zhanyu Ma , Jie Cao , Jing-Hao Xue

Few-shot learners aim to recognize new object classes based on a small number of labeled training examples. To prevent overfitting, state-of-the-art few-shot learners use meta-learning on convolutional-network features and perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yan Wang , Wei-Lun Chao , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Laurens van der Maaten

Few-shot learning is a challenging task, which aims to learn a classifier for novel classes with few examples. Pre-training based meta-learning methods effectively tackle the problem by pre-training a feature extractor and then fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Baoquan Zhang , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Zhichao Huang , Lisai Zhang

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS), which focuses on segmenting new classes in images using only a limited number of annotated examples, has recently progressed in data-scarce domains. However, in this work, we show that the existing FSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhuohao Li , Zhicheng Huang , Wenchao Liu , Zhuxin Zhang , Jianming Miao

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP are trained with the objective of aligning text and image pairs. To improve CLIP-based few-shot image classification, recent works have observed that, along with text embeddings, image embeddings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Dipam Goswami , Simone Magistri , Gido M. van de Ven , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Tinne Tuytelaars , Joost van de Weijer

Few-shot models aim at making predictions using a minimal number of labeled examples from a given task. The main challenge in this area is the one-shot setting where only one element represents each class. We propose HyperShot - the fusion…

Traditional fine-grained image classification typically relies on large-scale training samples with annotated ground-truth. However, some sub-categories have few available samples in real-world applications, and current few-shot models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Hegui Zhu , Zhan Gao , Jiayi Wang , Yange Zhou , Chengqing Li

Although providing exceptional results for many computer vision tasks, state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms catastrophically struggle in low data scenarios. However, if data in additional modalities exist (e.g. text) this can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Frederik Pahde , Mihai Puscas , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Recent studies have revealed the intriguing few-shot learning ability of pretrained language models (PLMs): They can quickly adapt to a new task when fine-tuned on a small amount of labeled data formulated as prompts, without requiring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yu Meng , Martin Michalski , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Zhang , Tarek Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

Few-shot classification aims to recognize novel categories with only few labeled images in each class. Existing metric-based few-shot classification algorithms predict categories by comparing the feature embeddings of query images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Few-shot learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert