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Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Learning with Prototypical Random Walks
Ahmed Ayyad, Yuchen Li, Nassir Navab, Shadi Albarqouni, Mohamed Elhoseiny
Recent progress has shown that few-shot learning can be improved with access to unlabelled data, known as semi-supervised few-shot learning(SS-FSL). We introduce an SS-FSL approach, dubbed as Prototypical Random Walk Networks(PRWN), built on top of Prototypical Networks (PN). We develop a random walk semi-supervised loss that enables the network to learn representations that are compact and well-separated. Our work is related to the very recent development of graph-based approaches for few-shot learning. However, we show that compact and well-separated class representations can be achieved by modeling our prototypical random walk notion without needing additional graph-NN parameters or requiring a transductive setting where a collective test set is provided. Our model outperforms baselines in most benchmarks with significant improvements in some cases. Our model, trained with 40% of the data as labeled, compares competitively against fully supervised prototypical networks, trained on 100% of the labels, even outperforming it in the 1-shot mini-Imagenet case with 50.89% to 49.4% accuracy. We also show that our loss is resistant to distractors, unlabeled data that does not belong to any of the training classes, and hence reflecting robustness to labeled/unlabeled class distribution mismatch. Associated GitHub page can be found at https://prototypical-random-walk.github.io.
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