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Transfer learning via fine-tuning pre-trained transformer models has gained significant success in delivering state-of-the-art results across various NLP tasks. In the absence of centralized data, Federated Learning (FL) can benefit from…

While state-of-the-art Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models perform well on standard benchmarks, they frequently struggle with writers exhibiting highly specific styles that are underrepresented in the training data. To handle unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom Simon , Stephane Nicolas , Pierrick Tranouez , Clement Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

Adapter tuning, which updates only a few parameters, has become a mainstream method for fine-tuning pretrained language models to downstream tasks. However, it often yields subpar results in few-shot learning. AdapterFusion, which assembles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Shwai He , Run-Ze Fan , Liang Ding , Li Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Dacheng Tao

In recent years, multi-task prompt tuning has garnered considerable attention for its inherent modularity and potential to enhance parameter-efficient transfer learning across diverse tasks. This paper aims to analyze and improve the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Ahmad Pouramini , Hesham Faili

Fine-tuning from pre-trained ImageNet models has become the de-facto standard for various computer vision tasks. Current practices for fine-tuning typically involve selecting an ad-hoc choice of hyperparameters and keeping them fixed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hao Li , Pratik Chaudhari , Hao Yang , Michael Lam , Avinash Ravichandran , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

The advent of hyper-scale and general-purpose pre-trained models is shifting the paradigm of building task-specific models for target tasks. In the field of audio research, task-agnostic pre-trained models with high transferability and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hyun-seo Shin , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

Few-shot dense retrieval (DR) aims to effectively generalize to novel search scenarios by learning a few samples. Despite its importance, there is little study on specialized datasets and standardized evaluation protocols. As a result,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Si Sun , Yida Lu , Shi Yu , Xiangyang Li , Zhonghua Li , Zhao Cao , Zhiyuan Liu , Deiming Ye , Jie Bao

Fine-tuning large pre-trained models is an effective transfer mechanism in NLP. However, in the presence of many downstream tasks, fine-tuning is parameter inefficient: an entire new model is required for every task. As an alternative, we…

Recent progress has shown that few-shot learning can be improved with access to unlabelled data, known as semi-supervised few-shot learning(SS-FSL). We introduce an SS-FSL approach, dubbed as Prototypical Random Walk Networks(PRWN), built…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Ahmed Ayyad , Yuchen Li , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni , Mohamed Elhoseiny

The few-shot natural language understanding (NLU) task has attracted much recent attention. However, prior methods have been evaluated under a disparate set of protocols, which hinders fair comparison and measuring progress of the field. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Yanan Zheng , Jing Zhou , Yujie Qian , Ming Ding , Chonghua Liao , Jian Li , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Jie Tang , Sebastian Ruder , Zhilin Yang

In few-shot classification, we are interested in learning algorithms that train a classifier from only a handful of labeled examples. Recent progress in few-shot classification has featured meta-learning, in which a parameterized model for…

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes given only a few annotated samples. Existing methods suffer the problem of feature undermining, i.e. potential novel classes are treated as background during training phase. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lihe Yang , Wei Zhuo , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Most previous few-shot learning algorithms are based on meta-training with fake few-shot tasks as training samples, where large labeled base classes are required. The trained model is also limited by the type of tasks. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

Learning with limited data is a key challenge for visual recognition. Many few-shot learning methods address this challenge by learning an instance embedding function from seen classes and apply the function to instances from unseen classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Han-Jia Ye , Hexiang Hu , De-Chuan Zhan , Fei Sha

Few-shot learning is a technique to learn a model with a very small amount of labeled training data by transferring knowledge from relevant tasks. In this paper, we propose a few-shot learning method for wearable sensor based human activity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Siwei Feng , Marco F. Duarte

Graph representation learning, a critical step in graph-centric tasks, has seen significant advancements. Earlier techniques often operate in an end-to-end setting, which heavily rely on the availability of ample labeled data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xingtong Yu , Yuan Fang , Zemin Liu , Yuxia Wu , Zhihao Wen , Jianyuan Bo , Xinming Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Recently, few-shot object detection~(FSOD) has received much attention from the community, and many methods are proposed to address this problem from a knowledge transfer perspective. Though promising results have been achieved, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Zhiyuan Zhao , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Recent studies on few-shot classification using transfer learning pose challenges to the effectiveness and efficiency of episodic meta-learning algorithms. Transfer learning approaches are a natural alternative, but they are restricted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Kuilin Chen , Chi-Guhn Lee

Few-shot transfer often shows substantial gain over zero-shot transfer~\cite{lauscher2020zero}, which is a practically useful trade-off between fully supervised and unsupervised learning approaches for multilingual pretrained model-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Shanu Kumar , Sandipan Dandapat , Monojit Choudhury

Providing pretrained language models with simple task descriptions in natural language enables them to solve some tasks in a fully unsupervised fashion. Moreover, when combined with regular learning from examples, this idea yields…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Timo Schick , Hinrich Schütze