A comprehensive survey of few-shot learning: Evolution, applications, challenges, and opportunities

Y Song, T Wang, P Cai, SK Mondal… - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Few-shot learning (FSL) has emerged as an effective learning method and shows great
potential. Despite the recent creative works in tackling FSL tasks, learning valid information …

A survey on deep learning tools dealing with data scarcity: definitions, challenges, solutions, tips, and applications

L Alzubaidi, J Bai, A Al-Sabaawi, J Santamaría… - Journal of Big Data, 2023 - Springer
Data scarcity is a major challenge when training deep learning (DL) models. DL demands a
large amount of data to achieve exceptional performance. Unfortunately, many applications …

Recent advances of few-shot learning methods and applications

JY Wang, KX Liu, YC Zhang, B Leng, JH Lu - Science China Technological …, 2023 - Springer
The rapid development of deep learning provides great convenience for production and life.
However, the massive labels required for training models limits further development. Few …

Matching feature sets for few-shot image classification

A Afrasiyabi, H Larochelle… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In image classification, it is common practice to train deep networks to extract a single
feature vector per input image. Few-shot classification methods also mostly follow this trend …

A memorizing and generalizing framework for lifelong person re-identification

N Pu, Z Zhong, N Sebe, MS Lew - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce a challenging yet practical setting for person re-identification
(ReID) task, named lifelong person re-identification (LReID), which aims to continuously …

Embedding propagation: Smoother manifold for few-shot classification

P Rodríguez, I Laradji, A Drouin, A Lacoste - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
Few-shot classification is challenging because the data distribution of the training set can be
widely different to the test set as their classes are disjoint. This distribution shift often results …

A survey on semi-, self-and unsupervised learning for image classification

L Schmarje, M Santarossa, SM Schröder… - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While deep learning strategies achieve outstanding results in computer vision tasks, one
issue remains: The current strategies rely heavily on a huge amount of labeled data. In many …

Self-training for few-shot transfer across extreme task differences

CP Phoo, B Hariharan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.07734, 2020 - arxiv.org
Most few-shot learning techniques are pre-trained on a large, labeled" base dataset". In
problem domains where such large labeled datasets are not available for pre-training (eg, X …

Adaptive consistency regularization for semi-supervised transfer learning

A Abuduweili, X Li, H Shi, CZ Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
While recent studies on semi-supervised learning have shown remarkable progress in
leveraging both labeled and unlabeled data, most of them presume a basic setting of the …

Pseudo-loss confidence metric for semi-supervised few-shot learning

K Huang, J Geng, W Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Semi-supervised few-shot learning is developed to train a classifier that can adapt to new
tasks with limited labeled data and a fixed quantity of unlabeled data. Most semi-supervised …