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Incremental few-shot semantic segmentation (IFSS) aims to incrementally extend a semantic segmentation model to novel classes according to only a few pixel-level annotated data, while preserving its segmentation capability on previously…

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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) tackles the unseen class recognition problem, transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones. Typically, to guarantee desirable knowledge transfer, a common (latent) space is adopted for…

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Humans recognize objects after observing only a few examples, a remarkable capability enabled by their inherent language understanding of the real-world environment. Developing verbalized and interpretable representation can significantly…

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Vision-language-action (VLA) models have significantly advanced robotic manipulation by enabling robots to interpret language instructions for task execution. However, training these models often relies on large-scale user-specific data,…

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An old-school recipe for training a classifier is to (i) learn a good feature extractor and (ii) optimize a linear layer atop. When only a handful of samples are available per category, as in Few-Shot Adaptation (FSA), data are insufficient…

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Visual Question Answering (VQA) models, which fall under the category of vision-language models, conventionally execute multiple downsampling processes on image inputs to strike a balance between computational efficiency and model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Xirui Zhou , Lianlei Shan , Xiaolin Gui

Vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive zero-shot and few-shot learning capabilities, making them essential for several downstream tasks. However, fine-tuning these models at scale remains challenging, particularly in federated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arkajyoti Mitra , Afia Anjum , Paul Agbaje , Mert Pesé , Habeeb Olufowobi

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), e.g., CLIP, learn broad visual concepts from tedious training data, showing superb generalization ability. Amount of prompt learning methods have been proposed to efficiently adapt the VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Hongyu Hu , Tiancheng Lin , Jie Wang , Zhenbang Sun , Yi Xu

Few-shot recognition aims to recognize novel categories under low-data regimes. Some recent few-shot recognition methods introduce auxiliary semantic modality, i.e., category attribute information, into representation learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) on robot teleoperation data to create vision-language-action (VLA) models is a promising paradigm for training generalist policies, but it suffers from a fundamental tradeoff: learning to produce…

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Few-shot classification aims to carry out classification given only few labeled examples for the categories of interest. Though several approaches have been proposed, most existing few-shot learning (FSL) models assume that base and novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Ci-Siang Lin , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

To build a generalizable Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model with strong reasoning ability, a common strategy is to first train a specialist VLA on robot demonstrations to acquire reliable manipulation skills, and then incorporate mixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhen Fang , Zhuoyang Liu , Jiaming Liu , Hao Chen , Yu Zeng , Shiting Huang , Zehui Chen , Lin Chen , Shanghang Zhang , Feng Zhao

Few-shot action recognition (FSAR) aims to classify human actions in videos with only a small number of labeled samples per category. The scarcity of training data has driven recent efforts to incorporate additional modalities, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zefeng Qian , Xincheng Yao , Yifei Huang , Chongyang Zhang , Jiangyong Ying , Hong Sun

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) adapts models trained with large-scale general data (source domain) to downstream target domains with only scarce training data, where the research on vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) is still in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yaze Zhao , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

We study few-shot Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks with Large Language Models (LLMs) in federated learning (FL) scenarios. It is a challenging task due to limited labeled data and communication capacities in FL, especially with…

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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models exhibit strong generalization in robotic manipulation, yet reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning often degrades robustness under spatial distribution shifts. For flow-matching VLA policies, this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xu Pan , Zhenglin Wan , Xingrui Yu , Xianwei Zheng , Youkai Ke , Ming Sun , Rui Wang , Ziwei Wang , Ivor Tsang

Few-shot learning (FSL) enables object detection models to recognize novel classes given only a few annotated examples, thereby reducing expensive manual data labeling. This survey examines recent FSL advances for video and 3D object…

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With the rapid advancements in wireless communication technology, automatic modulation recognition (AMR) plays a critical role in ensuring communication security and reliability. However, numerous challenges, including higher performance…

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Most computer aided pathology detection systems rely on large volumes of quality annotated data to aid diagnostics and follow up procedures. However, quality assuring large volumes of annotated medical image data can be subjective and…

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