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Prototype Rectification for Few-Shot Learning

25 Nov 2019ECCV 2020 8arXiv:1911.10713archive 2025-07-28

Jinlu Liu, Liang Song, Yongqiang Qin

Few-shot learning requires to recognize novel classes with scarce labeled data. Prototypical network is useful in existing researches, however, training on narrow-size distribution of scarce data usually tends to get biased prototypes. In this paper, we figure out two key influencing factors of the process: the intra-class bias and the cross-class bias. We then propose a simple yet effective approach for prototype rectification in transductive setting. The approach utilizes label propagation to diminish the intra-class bias and feature shifting to diminish the cross-class bias. We also conduct theoretical analysis to derive its rationality as well as the lower bound of the performance. Effectiveness is shown on three few-shot benchmarks. Notably, our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on both miniImageNet (70.31% on 1-shot and 81.89% on 5-shot) and tieredImageNet (78.74% on 1-shot and 86.92% on 5-shot).

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Few-Shot Image ClassificationFew-Shot Learning

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Few-Shot Image Classification Dirichlet CUB-200 (5-way, 1-shot) BDCSPN 1:1 Accuracy 74.5 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Dirichlet CUB-200 (5-way, 5-shot) BDCSPN 1:1 Accuracy 87.1 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Dirichlet Mini-Imagenet (5-way, 1-shot) BD-CSPN 1:1 Accuracy 67.0 #3 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Dirichlet Mini-Imagenet (5-way, 5-shot) BDCSPN 1:1 Accuracy 80.2 #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Dirichlet Tiered-Imagenet (5-way, 1-shot) BDCSPN 1:1 Accuracy 74.1 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Dirichlet Tiered-Imagenet (5-way, 5-shot) BDCSPN 1:1 Accuracy 84.8 #5 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Mini-ImageNet - 1-Shot Learning BD-CSPN Accuracy 70.31% #7 of 16 Archive leaderboard report

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