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Meta-learning and few-shot prompting are viable methods to induce certain types of compositional behaviour. However, these methods can be very sensitive to the choice of support examples used. Choosing good supports from the training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sam Spilsbury , Pekka Marttinen , Alexander Ilin

Teaching machines to recognize a new category based on few training samples especially only one remains challenging owing to the incomprehensive understanding of the novel category caused by the lack of data. However, human can learn new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Fengyuan Yang , Ruiping Wang , Xilin Chen

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to incrementally learn models from a small amount of novel data, which requires strong representation and adaptation ability of models learned under few-example supervision to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kexin Bao , Yong Li , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

Deep neural networks require large training sets but suffer from high computational cost and long training times. Training on much smaller training sets while maintaining nearly the same accuracy would be very beneficial. In the few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Ilia Sucholutsky , Matthias Schonlau

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

We introduce Resilient Multiple Choice Learning (rMCL), an extension of the MCL approach for conditional distribution estimation in regression settings where multiple targets may be sampled for each training input. Multiple Choice Learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-17 Victor Letzelter , Mathieu Fontaine , Mickaël Chen , Patrick Pérez , Slim Essid , Gaël Richard

Meta-learning is widely used for few-shot slot tagging in task of few-shot learning. The performance of existing methods is, however, seriously affected by \textit{sample forgetting issue}, where the model forgets the historically learned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Hongru Wang , Zezhong Wang , Wai Chung Kwan , Kam-Fai Wong

Learning from a limited amount of data, namely Few-Shot Learning, stands out as a challenging computer vision task. Several works exploit semantics and design complicated semantic fusion mechanisms to compensate for rare representative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Hai Zhang , Junzhe Xu , Shanlin Jiang , Zhenan He

Large language models (LLMs) have become the norm in natural language processing (NLP), excelling in few-shot in-context learning (ICL) with their remarkable abilities. Nonetheless, the success of ICL largely hinges on the choice of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xingxuan Li , Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Shafiq Joty , Lidong Bing

This work investigates whether small-scale LMs can benefit from instruction tuning. We compare conversational and question-answering instruction tuning datasets, applied either in a merged or sequential curriculum, using decoder-only models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Luca Capone , Alessandro Bondielli , Alessandro Lenci

With the rise of low power speech-enabled devices, there is a growing demand to quickly produce models for recognizing arbitrary sets of keywords. As with many machine learning tasks, one of the most challenging parts in the model creation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 James Lin , Kevin Kilgour , Dominik Roblek , Matthew Sharifi

Humans can quickly learn a new word from a few illustrative examples, and then systematically and flexibly use it in novel contexts. Yet the abilities of current language models for few-shot word learning, and methods for improving these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Wentao Wang , Guangyuan Jiang , Tal Linzen , Brenden M. Lake

The surprising ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform well on complex reasoning with only few-shot chain-of-thought prompts is believed to emerge only in very large-scale models (100+ billion parameters). We show that such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yao Fu , Hao Peng , Litu Ou , Ashish Sabharwal , Tushar Khot

Few-shot image classification aims to accurately classify unlabeled images using only a few labeled samples. The state-of-the-art solutions are built by deep learning, which focuses on designing increasingly complex deep backbones.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Na Chen , Xianming Kuang , Feiyu Liu , Kehao Wang , Qun Chen

Deep Learning shows very good performance when trained on large labeled data sets. The problem of training a deep net on a few or one sample per class requires a different learning approach which can generalize to unseen classes using only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Jinchao Liu , Stuart J. Gibson , Margarita Osadchy

Language models, especially pre-trained large language models, have showcased remarkable abilities as few-shot in-context learners (ICL), adept at adapting to new tasks with just a few demonstrations in the input context. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Man Luo , Xin Xu , Yue Liu , Panupong Pasupat , Mehran Kazemi

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced open-world action understanding and can be adapted as generative classifiers for closed-set settings by autoregressively generating action labels as text. However, this approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhanzhong Pang , Dibyadip Chatterjee , Fadime Sener , Angela Yao

Few-shot text classification aims to recognize unseen classes with limited labeled text samples. Existing approaches focus on boosting meta-learners by developing complex algorithms in the training stage. However, the labeled samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yunlong Gao , Xinyue Liu , Yingbo Wang , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Generative seq2seq dialogue systems are trained to predict the next word in dialogues that have already occurred. They can learn from large unlabeled conversation datasets, build a deep understanding of conversational context, and generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Sam Shleifer , Manish Chablani , Namit Katariya , Anitha Kannan , Xavier Amatriain

In NLP, text language models based on words or subwords are known to outperform their character-based counterparts. Yet, in the speech community, the standard input of spoken LMs are 20ms or 40ms-long discrete units (shorter than a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Robin Algayres , Yossi Adi , Tu Anh Nguyen , Jade Copet , Gabriel Synnaeve , Benoit Sagot , Emmanuel Dupoux