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48 results for few labeled examples

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 a learning algorithm is defined and trained on episodes representing different c…

2018-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper considers the problem of inferring image labels from images when only a few annotated examples are available at training time. This setup is often referred to as low-shot learning, where a standard approach is to re-train the last few layers of a convolutional neural network learned on separate classes for w…

2017-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Meta metric learning improves few-shot learning for diverse domains.

problem Few-shot learning struggles with diverse domains and varying label numbers.
method Task-specific learners with metric learning and a meta learner to discover task-specific metrics.
result Meta metric learning achieves superior performance in diverse multi-domain tasks and flexible label numbers.

Theoretical analysis improves few-shot learning performance.

problem Optimizing the number of labeled examples per category in few-shot learning.
method Theoretical analysis of Prototypical Networks, proposing a robust method to the shot number.
result Model trained for arbitrary meta-training shot number performs well across different meta-testing shot numbers.

Enhances few-shot image classification using unlabelled examples.

problem Few-shot image classification with limited labeled data.
method Transductive meta-learning combining soft k-means clustering and neural feature extractor.
result State-of-the-art performance on Meta-Dataset, mini-ImageNet, and tiered-ImageNet benchmarks.

Adaptive-Step Graph Meta-Learner tackles few-shot graph classification with limited labeled data.

problem Few labeled graph data in bioinformatics and other applications.
method A novel framework combining a graph meta-learner and a step controller for robust and generalization.
result State-of-the-art results on several few-shot graph classification tasks.

Few-shot brain segmentation achieved with weak labels and deep networks.

problem Efficient brain segmentation from limited labeled data.
method Heteroscedastic multi-task networks with Monte-Carlo inference and direct probability learning.
result Significant improvements in segmentation accuracy with minimal labeled data.

Limited supervision can enable reliable disentangled representation learning.

problem Learning disentangled representations without inductive biases is theoretically impossible.
method Investigated the impact of limited supervision (0.01--0.5% of data) on disentanglement methods.
result A small number of labeled examples (0.01--0.5\% of the data set) is sufficient for model selection.

Big models pretrain and fine-tune for semi-supervised learning on ImageNet.

problem Learning from few labeled examples with a large amount of unlabeled data.
method Unsupervised pretraining of a big ResNet model followed by supervised fine-tuning and distillation.
result 73.9% ImageNet top-1 accuracy with just 1% of labels (\le13 labeled images per class).

An active learner is given a hypothesis class, a large set of unlabeled examples and the ability to interactively query labels to an oracle of a subset of these examples; the goal of the learner is to learn a hypothesis in the class that fits the data well by making as few label queries as possible. This work addresses…

2015-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

AAL method generates few-shot tasks from unlabeled data for unsupervised few-shot learning.

problem Lack of unsupervised few-shot learning methods.
method Randomly label a subset of images, apply data augmentation, and use generated labels for target sets.
result Learned models achieve good generalization on Omniglot and Mini-Imagenet.

Paper proposes M3S training for GCNs on graphs with few labels.

problem Learning graph embeddings with few labeled nodes is challenging.
method Multi-Stage Self-Supervised (M3S) Training Algorithm combining self-supervised learning.
result M3S Training Algorithm improves GCNs' generalization on graphs with few labeled nodes.

APL learns from surprising observations to quickly generalize from few examples.

problem Quickly generalize from limited data for intelligent systems.
method Approximates probability distributions by remembering surprising observations in an external memory module.
result APL performs as well as state-of-the-art baselines on few-shot classification benchmarks.

LST improves few-shot classification by leveraging unlabeled data and meta-learning.

problem Challenges of few-shot classification due to limited labeled data.
method Semi-supervised meta-learning method (LST) that uses unlabeled data and a soft weighting network (SWN).
result Significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods on ImageNet benchmarks.

MetaTNE tackles few-shot novel labels in graphs, improving node classification.

problem Node classification on graphs with novel labels and limited training data.
method MetaTNE framework with structural, meta-learning, and optimization modules.
result MetaTNE significantly improves node classification over state-of-the-art methods.

TAMA uses LMMs to detect and interpret anomalies in time series data with few labels.

problem Challenges in manual feature engineering and extensive labeled training data for TSAD.
method Leverages LMMs to convert time series into visual formats for few-shot in-context learning.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in TSAD tasks.

Meta-learning framework for few-shot one-class classification using order-equivariant networks.

problem Few labeled examples for positive class in one-class classification tasks.
method Order-equivariant networks for meta-learning a binary classifier conditioned on positive examples.
result Meta-learning framework outperforms baselines on unseen synthetic streams.

This study explores how examples influence ICL in LLMs.

problem Understanding how examples impact in-context learning in large language models.
method Theoretical study with a probabilistic model extending from Gaussian mixture model.
result The impact of pre-training knowledge and examples on ICL prediction accuracy.

Deep RL detects anomalies from few labeled examples and large unlabeled data.

problem Anomaly detection with limited labeled data and large unlabeled data.
method Deep reinforcement learning to optimize detection of labeled and unlabeled anomalies.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on 48 real-world datasets.

Improved predictions for rare labels using neural networks and ontologies.

problem Long-tailed frequency distribution in multi-label prediction problems.
method Modified neural network output layer with a Bayesian network of sigmoids leveraging ontology relationships.
result Significant improvements in per-label AUROC and average precision for less common labels.

New active learning methods use statistical leverage scores to select examples efficiently.

problem Efficiently selecting labeled examples for high model accuracy with limited labeled data.
method Proposes ALEVS and DBALEVS methods based on statistical leverage scores.
result DBALEVS selects diverse, representative examples efficiently.

A method to improve few-shot learning using continual local replacement and pseudo labeling.

problem Learning novel classes with limited data.
method Sophisticated network architecture for feature representation and continual local replacement strategy.
result Significantly improved generalization and better decision boundary for classification.

Early stopping in meta-learning improved by analyzing neural activation patterns.

problem Early stopping in few-shot learning is challenging due to distributional shifts between meta-validation and meta-test sets.
method Activation-Based Early-stopping (ABE) analyzes hidden layer activations from unlabelled support examples to detect when target generalization diverges from source data.
result Simple activation statistics can effectively estimate target generalization, improving few-shot transfer learning across various algorithms and datasets.

The paper proposes methods to predict classifier generalization with few labeled samples.

problem Measuring classifier generalization with limited labeled data.
method Analysis of generalization variability, transfer-based solutions in supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised settings.
result Simple measures correlate with classifier generalization and can predict it with confidence.

Graph-based Bayesian SSL uses graph theory to propagate labels from a few to many unlabeled features.

problem Efficiently propagating labels from a small set of labeled data to a large set of unlabeled data.
method Probabilistic framework using graph theory and Bayesian statistics.
result Mathematical foundations for improving the accuracy and efficiency of label propagation.

Few-shot learning benchmarks can be solved without using support set labels at test-time.

problem Evaluate the adequacy of few-shot learning benchmarks that require task supervision at test-time.
method Introduced Centroid Networks, a modification of Prototypical Networks, which hides support set labels from the method at test-time and uses clustering to recover them.
result Most benchmarks cannot be solved perfectly without LT, indicating the inadequacy of benchmarks requiring task supervision.