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Few-shot classification consists of learning a predictive model that is able to effectively adapt to a new class, given only a few annotated samples. To solve this challenging problem, meta-learning has become a popular paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

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

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) represents a cutting-edge paradigm within the broader scope of machine learning, designed to empower models with the ability to assimilate new classes of data with limited examples while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Marinela Adam

With its powerful visual-language alignment capability, CLIP performs well in zero-shot and few-shot learning tasks. However, we found in experiments that CLIP's logits suffer from serious inter-class confusion problems in downstream tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Shuo Li , Fang Liu , Zehua Hao , Xinyi Wang , Lingling Li , Xu Liu , Puhua Chen , Wenping Ma

Labeling large image datasets with attributes such as facial age or object type is tedious and sometimes infeasible. Supervised machine learning methods provide a highly accurate solution, but require manual labels which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jonathan Kahana , Niv Cohen , Yedid Hoshen

Multimodal contrastive learning methods like CLIP train on noisy and uncurated training datasets. This is cheaper than labeling datasets manually, and even improves out-of-distribution robustness. We show that this practice makes backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Nicholas Carlini , Andreas Terzis

The emergence of large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) represents a paradigm shift in machine learning, with unprecedented results in a broad span of visual recognition tasks. CLIP, one of the most popular VLMs, has exhibited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Pablo Morales-Álvarez , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou , Pablo Piantanida , Jose Dolz

Transductive few-shot learning has triggered an abundant literature focusing on vision-only models, but is still at a nascent stage within the recent context of foundational vision-language models (VLMs). Only a few recent methods addressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ghassen Baklouti , Maxime Zanella , Ismail Ben Ayed

Pretrained models like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot classification capabilities across diverse visual domains, spanning natural images, artistic renderings, and abstract representations. However, real-world applications often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ashish Mishra , Gyanaranjan Nayak , Tarun Kumar , Arpit Shah , Suparna Bhattacharya , Martin Foltin

We introduce a simple method that employs pre-trained CLIP encoders to enhance model generalization in the ALFRED task. In contrast to previous literature where CLIP replaces the visual encoder, we suggest using CLIP as an additional module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Ye Won Byun , Cathy Jiao , Shahriar Noroozizadeh , Jimin Sun , Rosa Vitiello

Standard few-shot benchmarks are often built upon simplifying assumptions on the query sets, which may not always hold in practice. In particular, for each task at testing time, the classes effectively present in the unlabeled query set are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Ségolène Martin , Malik Boudiaf , Emilie Chouzenoux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Ismail Ben Ayed

Few-shot classification requires deep neural networks to learn generalized representations only from limited training images, which is challenging but significant in low-data regimes. Recently, CLIP-based methods have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Renrui Zhang , Bohao Li , Wei Zhang , Hao Dong , Hongsheng Li , Peng Gao , Yu Qiao

Self-supervised models trained with a contrastive loss such as CLIP have shown to be very powerful in zero-shot classification settings. However, to be used as a zero-shot classifier these models require the user to provide new captions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bhawesh Kumar , Anil Palepu , Rudraksh Tuwani , Andrew Beam

Intent classification (IC) and slot filling (SF) are core components in most goal-oriented dialogue systems. Current IC/SF models perform poorly when the number of training examples per class is small. We propose a new few-shot learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Jason Krone , Yi Zhang , Mona Diab

CLIP is a widely used foundational vision-language model that is used for zero-shot image recognition and other image-text alignment tasks. We demonstrate that CLIP is vulnerable to change in image quality under compression. This surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Cangxiong Chen , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Julian Padget

Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training(CLIP) demonstrates impressive zero-shot capability. The key to improve the adaptation of CLIP to downstream task with few exemplars lies in how to effectively model and transfer the useful knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Cilin Yan , Haochen Wang , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Xu Tang , Guoliang Kang , Efstratios Gavves

Meta-learning has become a practical approach towards few-shot image classification, where "a strategy to learn a classifier" is meta-learned on labeled base classes and can be applied to tasks with novel classes. We remove the requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Han-Jia Ye , Lu Han , De-Chuan Zhan

CLIP delivers strong zero-shot classification but remains highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Previous work of adversarial fine-tuning largely focuses on matching the predicted logits between clean and adversarial examples, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wenjing lu , Zerui Tao , Dongping Zhang , Yuning Qiu , Yang Yang , Qibin Zhao

With the advent of large-scale pre-trained models, interest in adapting and exploiting them for continual learning scenarios has grown. In this paper, we propose an approach to exploiting pre-trained vision-language models (e.g. CLIP) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xialei Liu , Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Jia-wen Xiao , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ming-Ming Cheng