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Building accurate models for rare skin diseases remains challenging due to the lack of sufficient labeled data and the inherently long-tailed distribution of available samples. These issues are further complicated by inconsistencies in how…

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Collecting amounts of distorted/clean image pairs in the real world is non-trivial, which seriously limits the practical applications of these supervised learning-based methods on real-world image super-resolution (RealSR). Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Xin Li , Xin Jin , Jun Fu , Xiaoyuan Yu , Bei Tong , Zhibo Chen

The goal in label-imbalanced and group-sensitive classification is to optimize relevant metrics such as balanced error and equal opportunity. Classical methods, such as weighted cross-entropy, fail when training deep nets to the terminal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ganesh Ramachandra Kini , Orestis Paraskevas , Samet Oymak , Christos Thrampoulidis

Dataset distillation (DD) aims to compress large-scale datasets into compact synthetic counterparts for efficient model training. However, existing DD methods exhibit substantial performance degradation on long-tailed datasets. We identify…

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Real-world classification problems typically exhibit an imbalanced or long-tailed label distribution, wherein many labels are associated with only a few samples. This poses a challenge for generalisation on such labels, and also makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Aditya Krishna Menon , Sadeep Jayasumana , Ankit Singh Rawat , Himanshu Jain , Andreas Veit , Sanjiv Kumar

Few-Shot transfer learning has become a major focus of research as it allows recognition of new classes with limited labeled data. While it is assumed that train and test data have the same data distribution, this is often not the case in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Wenjian Wang , Lijuan Duan , Yuxi Wang , Junsong Fan , Zhi Gong , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem due to the uncertainty caused by using few labelled samples. In the past few years, many methods have been proposed to solve few-shot classification, among which transfer-based methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Yuqing Hu , Vincent Gripon , Stéphane Pateux

The challenge in fine-grained visual categorization lies in how to explore the subtle differences between different subclasses and achieve accurate discrimination. Previous research has relied on large-scale annotated data and pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Tianxu Wu , Shuo Ye , Shuhuang Chen , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You

Dataset distillation creates a small distilled set that enables efficient training by capturing key information from the full dataset. While existing dataset distillation methods perform well on balanced datasets, they struggle under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xiao Cui , Yulei Qin , Xinyue Li , Wengang Zhou , Hongsheng Li , Houqiang Li

Semi-supervised few-shot learning consists in training a classifier to adapt to new tasks with limited labeled data and a fixed quantity of unlabeled data. Many sophisticated methods have been developed to address the challenges this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xiu-Shen Wei , He-Yang Xu , Faen Zhang , Yuxin Peng , Wei Zhou

Transfer learning has achieved promising results by leveraging knowledge from the source domain to annotate the target domain which has few or none labels. Existing methods often seek to minimize the distribution divergence between domains,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Shuji Hao , Wenjie Feng , Zhiqi Shen

Deep learning (DL) techniques are highly effective for defect detection from images. Training DL classification models, however, requires vast amounts of labeled data which is often expensive to collect. In many cases, not only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Adrian Shuai Li , Elisa Bertino , Rih-Teng Wu , Ting-Yan Wu

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel queries with limited support samples by learning from base knowledge. Recent progress in this setting assumes that the base knowledge and novel query samples are distributed in the same domains,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yifan Zhao , Tong Zhang , Jia Li , Yonghong Tian

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a classifier that can recognize unseen classes from limited support data with labels. A common practice for this task is to train a model on the base set first and then transfer to novel classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Jie Qin , Marios Savvides , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Domain Adaptation (DA) aims to generalize the classifier learned from the source domain to the target domain. Existing DA methods usually assume that rich labels could be available in the source domain. However, there are usually a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Wei Wang , Zhihui Wang , Yuankai Xiang , Jing Sun , Haojie Li , Fuming Sun , Zhengming Ding

Real-world data usually present long-tailed distributions. Training on imbalanced data tends to render neural networks perform well on head classes while much worse on tail classes. The severe sparseness of training instances for the tail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Chaozheng Wang , Shuzheng Gao , Cuiyun Gao , Pengyun Wang , Wenjie Pei , Lujia Pan , Zenglin Xu

Few-shot learning (FSL), which aims to recognise new classes by adapting the learned knowledge with extremely limited few-shot (support) examples, remains an important open problem in computer vision. Most of the existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Li Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

With the advent of strong pre-trained natural language processing models like BERT, DeBERTa, MiniLM, T5, the data requirement for industries to fine-tune these models to their niche use cases has drastically reduced (typically to a few…

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Real-world training data usually exhibits long-tailed distribution, where several majority classes have a significantly larger number of samples than the remaining minority classes. This imbalance degrades the performance of typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Shuang Li , Kaixiong Gong , Chi Harold Liu , Yulin Wang , Feng Qiao , Xinjing Cheng

Few-shot classification aims to learn a classifier to recognize unseen classes during training, where the learned model can easily become over-fitted based on the biased distribution formed by only a few training examples. A recent solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dandan Guo , Long Tian , He Zhao , Mingyuan Zhou , Hongyuan Zha