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Supervised classification for tabular data remains a core machine learning task, yet its reliance on large labeled datasets limits applicability in data-scarce domains. For such few-shot scenarios, specialized methods like TabPFN - a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Daria Grushina , Kseniia Kuvshinova , Alina Kostromina , Aziz Temirkhanov , Mile Mitrovic , Dmitry Simakov

Few-shot learning aims to train models that can be generalized to novel classes with only a few samples. Recently, a line of works are proposed to enhance few-shot learning with accessible semantic information from class names. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zihao Jiang , Yunkai Dang , Dong Pang , Huishuai Zhang , Weiran Huang

Current models for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) struggle to disambiguate rare senses, despite reaching human performance on global WSD metrics. This stems from a lack of data for both modeling and evaluating rare senses in existing WSD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Terra Blevins , Mandar Joshi , Luke Zettlemoyer

Few-shot classification consists of a training phase where a model is learned on a relatively large dataset and an adaptation phase where the learned model is adapted to previously-unseen tasks with limited labeled samples. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xu Luo , Hao Wu , Ji Zhang , Lianli Gao , Jing Xu , Jingkuan Song

Recently, source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SFUDA) has emerged as a more practical and feasible approach compared to unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) which assumes that labeled source data are always accessible. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Suho Lee , Seungwon Seo , Jihyo Kim , Yejin Lee , Sangheum Hwang

Few-shot segmentation aims at assigning a category label to each image pixel with few annotated samples. It is a challenging task since the dense prediction can only be achieved under the guidance of latent features defined by sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Kai Zhu , Wei Zhai , Zheng-Jun Zha , Yang Cao

Deep learning techniques for separating audio into different sound sources face several challenges. Standard architectures require training separate models for different types of audio sources. Although some universal separators employ a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ke Chen , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

Few-shot learning aims to generalize unseen classes that appear during testing but are unavailable during training. Prototypical networks incorporate few-shot metric learning, by constructing a class prototype in the form of a mean vector…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Swapnil Bhosale , Rupayan Chakraborty , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

This paper revisits few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation (FS-PCS), with a focus on two significant issues in the state-of-the-art: foreground leakage and sparse point distribution. The former arises from non-uniform point sampling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Zhaochong An , Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Fayao Liu , Zongwei Wu , Dan Wang , Luc Van Gool , Serge Belongie

Incremental Few-Shot (IFS) segmentation aims to learn new categories over time from only a few annotations. Although widely studied in 2D, it remains underexplored for 3D point clouds. Existing methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vishal Thengane , Zhaochong An , Tianjin Huang , Son Lam Phung , Abdesselam Bouzerdoum , Lu Yin , Na Zhao , Xiatian Zhu

Labeling data is often expensive and time-consuming, especially for tasks such as object detection and instance segmentation, which require dense labeling of the image. While few-shot object detection is about training a model on novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Gabriel Huang , Issam Laradji , David Vazquez , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Pau Rodriguez

Conventional text style transfer approaches focus on sentence-level style transfer without considering contextual information, and the style is described with attributes (e.g., formality). When applying style transfer in conversations such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Shamik Roy , Raphael Shu , Nikolaos Pappas , Elman Mansimov , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour , Dan Roth

Recent progress on few-shot learning largely relies on annotated data for meta-learning: base classes sampled from the same domain as the novel classes. However, in many applications, collecting data for meta-learning is infeasible or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yunhui Guo , Noel C. Codella , Leonid Karlinsky , James V. Codella , John R. Smith , Kate Saenko , Tajana Rosing , Rogerio Feris

In recent years, the adoption of cloud services has been expanding at an unprecedented rate. As more and more organizations migrate or deploy their businesses to the cloud, a multitude of related cybersecurity incidents such as data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Fei Zuo , Junghwan Rhee , Yung Ryn Choe , Chenglong Fu , Xianshan Qu

This paper investigates a valuable setting called few-shot unsupervised domain adaptation (FS-UDA), which has not been sufficiently studied in the literature. In this setting, the source domain data are labelled, but with few-shot per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Shengqi Huang , Wanqi Yang , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou , Ming Yang

Few-shot classification (FSC), the task of adapting a classifier to unseen classes given a small labeled dataset, is an important step on the path toward human-like machine learning. Bayesian methods are well-suited to tackling the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Jake Snell , Richard Zemel

Deep learning models have become the mainstream method for medical image segmentation, but they require a large manually labeled dataset for training and are difficult to extend to unseen categories. Few-shot segmentation(FSS) has the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Yao Huang , Jianming Liu

Shortcut mitigation strategies commonly rely on training data annotations, group-balanced held-out data or the presence of all groups, i.e., all combinations of (spurious) attributes and classes, in the training data. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Phuong Quynh Le , Jörg Schlötterer , Sari Sadiya , Gemma Roig , Christin Seifert

We show that the way inference is performed in few-shot segmentation tasks has a substantial effect on performances -- an aspect often overlooked in the literature in favor of the meta-learning paradigm. We introduce a transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Malik Boudiaf , Hoel Kervadec , Ziko Imtiaz Masud , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Speech models have long been known to overfit individual speakers for many classification tasks. This leads to poor generalization in settings where the speakers are out-of-domain or out-of-distribution, as is common in production…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Maximillian Chen , Zhou Yu