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Boosting Few-Shot Learning With Adaptive Margin Loss

28 May 2020CVPR 2020 6arXiv:2005.13826archive 2025-07-28

Aoxue Li, Weiran Huang, Xu Lan, Jiashi Feng, Zhenguo Li, Li-Wei Wang

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve the generalization ability of metric-based meta-learning approaches for few-shot learning problems. Specifically, we first develop a class-relevant additive margin loss, where semantic similarity between each pair of classes is considered to separate samples in the feature embedding space from similar classes. Further, we incorporate the semantic context among all classes in a sampled training task and develop a task-relevant additive margin loss to better distinguish samples from different classes. Our adaptive margin method can be easily extended to a more realistic generalized FSL setting. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can boost the performance of current metric-based meta-learning approaches, under both the standard FSL and generalized FSL settings.

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Few-Shot Image ClassificationFew-Shot LearningMeta-LearningSemantic SimilaritySemantic Textual Similarity

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Few-Shot Image Classification ImageNet (1-shot) TRAML Top-5 Accuracy 59.2 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Mini-Imagenet 5-way (1-shot) TRAML Accuracy 67.10 #48 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Mini-Imagenet 5-way (5-shot) TRAML Accuracy 79.54 #56 of 95 Archive leaderboard report

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