Shot Learning
Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to train machine learning models that can effectively learn new concepts or tasks from only a small number of examples, addressing the limitations of traditional methods requiring massive datasets. Current research focuses on improving model robustness to noisy data and heterogeneous tasks, exploring architectures like prototypical networks and meta-learning algorithms, and leveraging large vision-language models and external memory for enhanced performance. This field is crucial for advancing AI in data-scarce domains like medical image analysis and personalized medicine, where acquiring large labeled datasets is often impractical or impossible. The development of efficient and reliable FSL methods has significant implications for various applications, including object detection, natural language processing, and other areas where labeled data is limited.
Papers
Disentangle and Remerge: Interventional Knowledge Distillation for Few-Shot Object Detection from A Conditional Causal Perspective
Jiangmeng Li, Yanan Zhang, Wenwen Qiang, Lingyu Si, Chengbo Jiao, Xiaohui Hu, Changwen Zheng, Fuchun Sun
Expanding continual few-shot learning benchmarks to include recognition of specific instances
Gideon Kowadlo, Abdelrahman Ahmed, Amir Mayan, David Rawlinson
Few-Shot Learning Meets Transformer: Unified Query-Support Transformers for Few-Shot Classification
Xixi Wang, Xiao Wang, Bo Jiang, Bin Luo