arXiv Machine Learning

Few-shot Classification as Multi-instance Verification: Effective Backbone-agnostic Transfer across Domains

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 16

LAMP: Layerwise Adaptive Mixing of Predictors for Training-Free Few-Shot Vision-Language Adaptation

LAMP (Layerwise Adaptive Mixing of Predictors) is a training‑free framework that fuses global and regional information from multiple encoder layers for few‑shot vision‑language adaptation. It uses a single forward pass per view to generate descriptors, then applies global and support‑calibrated regional kernel predictors that independently fit label residuals. Validation data select the optimal mixture in class‑score space, preserving native feature dimensions without learned projections, and an extended variant LAMP‑F further adapts text‑anchored class prototypes for improved accuracy across eleven datasets with ViT and ResNet backbones.

By Zhipeng Ye, Feng Jiang, Qiufeng Wang, Hao Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

Training-Free Spectral Transductive Refinement for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Classification

The paper introduces Spectral Transductive Refinement (STR), a training‑free method that refines class prototypes at test time using the geometry of a joint k‑nearest‑neighbour graph and a normalized‑Laplacian spectral coordinate system. STR operates solely on frozen visual embeddings, iteratively updating pseudo‑labelled queries to improve one‑shot and few‑shot classification under domain shift. Experiments on ResNet‑18 and ResNet‑10 backbones show STR outperforms single‑prototype baselines and rivals meta‑trained cross‑domain few‑shot methods, achieving the best 1‑shot average across eight target domains.

By Fahim Rahman, S. M. Tanjeeb Meheran Rohan, Md. Taimum Ibne Sayed, Asaduzzaman Herok, Md. Bakhtiar Hasan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

Training-free Cross-domain Few-shot Segmentation via Robust Semantic Representation and Matching

Cross-domain Few-shot Segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to transfer knowledge learned from source domain to distinct target domains, segmenting unseen target classes with only a few annotated samples. Although existing methods have made significant progress, they still rely on training or fine-tuning processes, which incur high computational costs and risk overfitting.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Are We Really Doing Few-Shot Learning? A Critical Examination of Pre-Training Assumptions

The paper critically evaluates common few‑shot learning protocols that rely on pre‑training a model on a large auxiliary set with classes disjoint from the target but drawn from the same visual domain. By comparing no pre‑training, class‑disjoint in‑domain pre‑training, supervised out‑of‑domain pre‑training, and label‑free out‑of‑domain pre‑training across eight datasets and three architectures, the authors find that in‑domain pre‑training yields a 33.41‑point average improvement, while out‑of‑domain pre‑training offers a 23.75‑point gain, revealing a 9.66‑point optimistic bias due to domain overlap. They also demonstrate that a label‑free augmentation strategy can match supervised out‑of‑domain performance and propose a descriptor‑based source‑selection method that closely approximates oracle selection, underscoring the need to move beyond in‑domain pre‑training as the default evaluation protocol.

By Alejandro Galan-Cuenca, Marcelo Saval-Calvo, Antonio Javier Gallego
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

AdaptiveCDM: Source-Free Few-Shot Domain Adaptation for Cell Detection in Microscopic Images

AdaptiveCDM is a modular framework for source‑free few‑shot domain adaptation in cell detection, enabling a pretrained model to adapt to new imaging domains using only a handful of labeled target images and no source data. It combines Resolution‑Aware Augmentation (RAug) to balance scarce, class‑imbalanced samples while preserving cellular morphology, and Category‑Aware Representation Learning (CARL) to strengthen class‑consistent proposals for better localization and classification. Experiments on M5 and Raabin‑WBC datasets show that AdaptiveCDM achieves competitive or superior mAP scores compared to state‑of‑the‑art methods under their respective supervision settings.

By Nimra Dilawar, Sara Nadeem, Javed Iqbal, Waqas Sultani, Mohsen Ali