arXiv:2506.04713v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: A key challenge in Few-Shot Recognition (FSR) is the scarcity of labeled task-specific data for training. Contemporary methods mitigate this challe...
By Hanxin Wang, Tian Liu, Shu Kong
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
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
arXiv:2407.03463v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In the realm of self-supervised learning (SSL), conventional wisdom has gravitated towards the utility of massive, general domain datasets fo...
By Jes\'us M Rodr\'iguez-de-Vera, Imanol G Estepa, Ignacio Saras\'ua, Bhalaji Nagarajan, Petia Radeva
Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP enable zero-shot classification by comparing image features with text prompts in a shared embedding space. A fundamental property underlying this capability is the global comparability of logits across arbitrary candidate classes.
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:2608.29395v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language models such as CLIP and SigLIP provide strong zero-shot recognition, but their predictions can degrade when deployed on target data tha...
By Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Run Wang, Mert D. Pes\'e
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:2609.22323v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Few-shot learning research is predominantly evaluated on accuracy alone, with limited attention to the parameter and training-sample budgets required...
By Neeraj Yadav
arXiv:2608. 09091v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transfer learning is particularly useful in settings with limited training data, and within image classification it is common to transfer learn upon massive datasets like ImageNet , CIFAR-100, or COCO .
By Jing Ning, James D. Braza
arXiv:2410.21582v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large-scale pretrained models are widely leveraged as foundations for learning new specialized tasks via fine-tuning, with the goal of mainta...
By Jaedong Hwang, Brian Cheung, Zhang-Wei Hong, Akhilan Boopathy, Pulkit Agrawal, Ila Fiete
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