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Given a finite set of sample points, meta-learning algorithms aim to learn an optimal adaptation strategy for new, unseen tasks. Often, this data can be ambiguous as it might belong to different tasks concurrently. This is particularly the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Alfredo Reichlin , Gustaf Tegnér , Miguel Vasco , Hang Yin , Mårten Björkman , Danica Kragic

Meta-learning, or learning to learn, is a technique that can help to overcome resource scarcity in cross-lingual NLP problems, by enabling fast adaptation to new tasks. We apply model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) to the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Anna Langedijk , Verna Dankers , Phillip Lippe , Sander Bos , Bryan Cardenas Guevara , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

Modern deep neural networks can easily overfit to biased training data containing corrupted labels or class imbalance. Sample re-weighting methods are popularly used to alleviate this data bias issue. Most current methods, however, require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jun Shu , Xiang Yuan , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

Despite extensive research spanning several decades, class imbalance is still considered a profound difficulty for both machine learning and deep learning models. While data oversampling is the foremost technique to address this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Sukumar Kishanthan , Asela Hevapathige

Class imbalance, overlap, and noise degrade data quality, reduce model reliability, and limit generalization. Although widely studied in binary classification, these issues remain underexplored in multi-class settings, where complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Soufiane Bacha , Laouni Djafri , Sahraoui Dhelim , Huansheng Ning

Class imbalance poses a significant challenge in classification tasks, where traditional approaches often lead to biased models and unreliable predictions. Undersampling and oversampling techniques have been commonly employed to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Matt Clifford , Jonathan Erskine , Alexander Hepburn , Raúl Santos-Rodríguez , Dario Garcia-Garcia

Recently,the detection transformer has gained substantial attention for its inherent minimal post-processing requirement.However,this paradigm relies on abundant training data,yet in the context of the cross-domain adaptation,insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Ziru Zeng , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu

We propose an algorithm for meta-learning that is model-agnostic, in the sense that it is compatible with any model trained with gradient descent and applicable to a variety of different learning problems, including classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Chelsea Finn , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Although many real-world applications, such as disease prediction, and fault detection suffer from class imbalance, most existing graph-based classification methods ignore the skewness of the distribution of classes; therefore, tend to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Mahdi Mohammadizadeh , Arash Mozhdehi , Yani Ioannou , Xin Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often suffer from degree bias in node classification tasks, where prediction performance varies across nodes with different degrees. Several approaches, which adopt Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL), have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jingyu Hu , Hongbo Bo , Jun Hong , Xiaowei Liu , Weiru Liu

Real-world categorization is severely hampered by class imbalance because traditional ensembles favor majority classes, which lowers minority performance and overall F1-score. We provide a unique ensemble technique for imbalanced problems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mohamed Ehab , Ali Hamdi , Khaled Shaban

Neural networks trained by empirical risk minimization often suffer from overfitting, especially to specific samples or domains, which leads to poor generalization. Curriculum Learning (CL) addresses this issue by selecting training samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Hiroaki Aizawa , Yoshikazu Hayashi

Most existing metric learning methods focus on learning a similarity or distance measure relying on similar and dissimilar relations between sample pairs. However, pairs of samples cannot be simply identified as similar or dissimilar in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Lifeng Gu

In this study, we systematically investigate the impact of class imbalance on classification performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and compare frequently used methods to address the issue. Class imbalance is a common problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mateusz Buda , Atsuto Maki , Maciej A. Mazurowski

While fine-tuning pre-trained models for downstream classification is the conventional paradigm in NLP, often task-specific nuances may not get captured in the resultant models. Specifically, for tasks that take two inputs and require the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Ashutosh Kumar , Aditya Joshi

Meta learning have achieved promising performance in low-resource text classification which aims to identify target classes with knowledge transferred from source classes with sets of small tasks named episodes. However, due to the limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Rongsheng Li , Yangning Li , Yinghui Li , Chaiyut Luoyiching , Hai-Tao Zheng , Nannan Zhou , Hanjing Su

Despite advances in Preference Alignment (PA) for Large Language Models (LLMs), mainstream methods like Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) face notable challenges. These approaches require high-quality datasets of positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Xiaohua Feng , Yuyuan Li , Huwei Ji , Jiaming Zhang , Li Zhang , Tianyu Du , Chaochao Chen

Model-agnostic meta learning (MAML) is currently one of the dominating approaches for few-shot meta-learning. Albeit its effectiveness, the optimization of MAML can be challenging due to the innate bilevel problem structure. Specifically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Momin Abbas , Quan Xiao , Lisha Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Tianyi Chen

Meta-learning for few-shot learning entails acquiring a prior over previous tasks and experiences, such that new tasks be learned from small amounts of data. However, a critical challenge in few-shot learning is task ambiguity: even when a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Chelsea Finn , Kelvin Xu , Sergey Levine

Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML), a model-agnostic meta-learning method, is successfully employed in NLP applications including few-shot text classification and multi-domain low-resource language generation. Many impacting factors,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Zequn Liu , Ruiyi Zhang , Yiping Song , Wei Ju , Ming Zhang