A new method improves meta-learning for few-shot learning.
problem Catastrophic forgetting and robustness issues in meta-learning.
method CML-BGNN: Bayesian Graph Neural Networks for continual meta-learning.
result Improves performance by 42.8% on miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot classification.
We propose a meta-learning algorithm utilizing a linear transformer that carries out null-space projection of neural network outputs. The main idea is to construct an alternative classification space such that the error signals during few-shot learning are quickly zero-forced on that space so that reliable classificati…
Few-shot image classification is improved by correcting CNNs' texture bias.
problem Few-shot image classification performance is hindered by CNNs' texture bias.
method Corrected CNNs' texture bias using a simpler method than state-of-the-art approaches.
result State-of-the-art performance on miniImageNet task achieved.
MetaFun learns functional representations for meta-learning.
problem Few-shot classification on large-scale datasets.
method Functional encoder-decoder approach with iterative updates.
result State-of-the-art performance on miniImageNet and tieredImageNet.
A family of recent successful approaches to few-shot learning relies on learning an embedding space in which predictions are made by computing similarities between examples. This corresponds to combining information between support and query examples at a very late stage of the prediction pipeline. Inspired by this obs…
Gradient-based meta-learning techniques are both widely applicable and proficient at solving challenging few-shot learning and fast adaptation problems. However, they have practical difficulties when operating on high-dimensional parameter spaces in extreme low-data regimes. We show that it is possible to bypass these …
A new method for few-shot learning using directional statistics.
problem Few-shot classification with limited training data.
method Generates class representatives using a mixture of von Mises-Fisher distributions to capture inter-class correlation.
result Outperforms other methods in miniImageNet and tieredImageNet datasets.
Meta-learning enables a model to learn from very limited data to undertake a new task. In this paper, we study the general meta-learning with adversarial samples. We present a meta-learning algorithm, ADML (ADversarial Meta-Learner), which leverages clean and adversarial samples to optimize the initialization of a lear…
SeqFOMAML uses meta-learning to prevent forgetting across tasks.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks when learning multiple tasks sequentially.
method Meta-learning approach exposing neural network to multiple tasks sequentially.
result SeqFOMAML reduces catastrophic forgetting in sequential learning problems.
A new meta-learning method using shared variational inference.
problem Meta-learning with uncertainty over model parameters.
method Shared amortized variational inference network for conditional prior and posterior.
result Prevents collapse of conditional prior to Dirac delta function.
A new method improves few-shot learning by combining ProtoNet with LFD.
problem Few-shot learning struggles with high variance support sets.
method Combines ProtoNet with Local Fisher Discriminant Analysis.
result Superior classification accuracy on miniImageNet and tieredImageNet.
TapNet uses neural networks with task-adaptive projection for improved few-shot learning.
problem Handling previously unseen tasks with limited training examples.
method Meta-learning strategy with episode-based training, task-adaptive projection.
result State-of-the-art classification accuracies on various few-shot learning datasets.
New method improves few-shot learning with noisy labels.
problem Robustness to label noise in few-shot learning.
method Feature aggregation and Transformer model for noisy samples.
result TraNFS outperforms other methods in noisy conditions.
Few-shot learning aims to train efficient predictive models with a few examples. The lack of training data leads to poor models that perform high-variance or low-confidence predictions. In this paper, we propose to meta-learn the ensemble of epoch-wise empirical Bayes models (E3BM) to achieve robust predictions. "Epoch…
Paper tackles few-shot class-incremental learning with a neural gas network.
problem Incrementally learn new classes from very few labelled samples without forgetting old classes.
method Proposes TOPIC framework using a neural gas network to preserve class topology and adapt to new samples.
result Significantly outperforms other methods on CIFAR100, miniImageNet, and CUB200 datasets.
New algorithm TURTLE outperforms MAML and meta-learner LSTM.
problem Learning new tasks quickly with limited data and compute power.
method Combining insights from MAML and meta-learner LSTM, TURTLE uses second-order gradients.
result TURTLE outperforms MAML and meta-learner LSTM in few-shot learning tasks.
This work proposes a method to control gradient descent in neural networks using a decoder with shared weights.
problem Efficient few-shot learning and model adaptation in meta-learning.
method A decoder network is used to control the gradient descent process of model parameters in a low-dimensional latent space, sharing weights to reduce parameter requirements.
result The proposed approach outperforms existing methods in tasks like Omniglot and miniImageNet classification.
LGM-Net learns transferable prior knowledge for few-shot learning.
problem Few-shot classification with limited training data.
method Meta-learning approach with TargetNet and MetaNet modules.
result LGM-Net achieves competitive performance on unseen tasks.
Advances few-shot classification by treating it as supervised learning and proposing new training techniques.
problem Formulating the ability of humans to learn from limited data in machine learning.
method Formulated few-shot classification as a supervised learning problem and introduced multi-episode and cross-way training techniques.
result Proposed training strategies accelerate the training process without accuracy loss.
Deep learning for object classification relies heavily on convolutional models. While effective, CNNs are rarely interpretable after the fact. An attention mechanism can be used to highlight the area of the image that the model focuses on thus offering a narrow view into the mechanism of classification. We expand on th…
MAML with over-parameterized DNNs converges globally at a linear rate.
problem Few-shot learning with limited data.
method Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) with over-parameterized deep neural networks (DNNs).
result MAML with over-parameterized DNNs converges globally at a linear rate.
Improved few-shot learning with LSSVM and transductive modules.
problem Few-shot learning with limited data and samples.
method Introducing LSSVM as a base learner and transductive modules to enhance classification accuracy.
result FSLSTM achieves state-of-the-art performance on miniImageNet and CIFAR-FS benchmarks.
X-DER improves continual learning by revising replay memory and learning unseen classes.
problem Deep networks forget when learning new tasks sequentially.
method Combines rehearsal and Knowledge Distillation, revising replay memory and learning unseen classes.
result X-DER outperforms state-of-the-art on various benchmarks.
Meta-learning strategy improves few-shot classification performance.
problem Few-shot classification with deep neural networks struggles when labeled samples are limited.
method Proposes an easy-to-hard expert meta-training strategy to arrange training tasks based on task hardness.
result Meta-learners achieve better results with the proposed expert training strategy.
Improved few-shot learning with lower-level neural network embeddings.
problem Limited data scenarios in few-shot learning.
method Graph-based meta-learning framework using hidden layer feature embeddings.
result Utilization of lower-level neural network embeddings improves classifier accuracy.
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…
New method trains prototypical few-shot models on single class.
problem Train few-shot models on single class with limited examples.
method Introduce 'null class' and use batch normalization; propose Gaussian layer for distance calculation.
result Achieved high accuracy on test sets (Omniglot: 98%, MiniImageNet: 80%).
TransMatch uses transfer learning to improve few-shot learning accuracy.
problem Building robust models with limited labeled data.
method Transfer-learning framework combining feature extraction, initialization, and semi-supervised learning.
result Significant improvement in few-shot learning accuracy.
HIDRA optimizes weights for diverse tasks, improving model performance.
problem Optimizing gradient-based optimization strategies with dynamic target variables.
method Meta-learning approach that learns a master neuron to initialize output neurons for any number of target variables.
result Improves model performance and generalizes to tasks with any number of target variables.
Task-adaptive clustering improves few-shot learning with unlabeled data.
problem Handling unseen tasks with limited labeled data.
method Task-conditioned clustering in a new projection space.
result State-of-the-art semi-supervised few-shot classification performance.
Proposes a method for weakly-supervised object localization to improve few-shot learning.
problem Challenges of few-shot learning, especially with fine-grained categories.
method Introduces a Self-Attention Based Complementary Module (SAC Module) for weakly-supervised object localization.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets, especially for fine-grained few-shot tasks.
Paper proposes a new pipeline for few-shot classification using forget-update module and channel vector sequence.
problem Few-shot classification with limited support samples.
method Channel vector sequence construction module and forget-update module.
result Pipeline achieves state-of-the-art results on various datasets.
New Hessian-free method improves bilevel optimization for meta-learning.
problem Efficiently solving bilevel optimization problems with limited second-order information.
method Proposes a new Hessian-free method that approximates the response Jacobian matrix via optimization path differences.
result Demonstrates superior performance on meta-learning tasks compared to baseline methods.
Paper proposes MTL to improve few-shot learning with deep networks.
problem Few-shot learning with deep networks struggles due to overfitting.
method MTL learns scaling and shifting functions of DNN weights for each task.
result MTL achieves top performance on miniImageNet, tieredImageNet, and FC100 benchmarks.