Core Concepts
Proposing a straightforward framework leveraging pre-trained language models for few-shot learning tasks.
Abstract
The article discusses the challenges of few-shot learning and introduces a framework that utilizes semantic information and pre-trained language models to improve classification accuracy. It emphasizes the importance of explicit utilization of pre-trained language models in few-shot learning tasks. The framework achieves impressive results, especially in 1-shot learning tasks, surpassing current state-of-the-art methods.
Directory:
- Introduction
- Discusses the challenges of Few-Shot Learning (FSL) and the significance of human-like learning capabilities.
- Related Work
- Overview of FSL methods and advancements in leveraging relationships among samples.
- Semantic-based Few-shot Learning
- Incorporation of semantic information and pre-trained language models in FSL research.
- Preliminary
- Problem formulation in FSL and meta-training strategies.
- Method
- Details on the proposed SimpleFSL framework for few-shot learning tasks.
- Experiments
- Conducted experiments on four datasets to evaluate the performance of SimpleFSL and SimpleFSL++.
- Model Analysis
- Ablation study, prompts analysis, adaptor analysis, fusion mechanism comparison, and hyper-parameters analysis.
- Conclusion
Stats
"Particularly noteworthy is its outstanding performance in the 1-shot learning task, surpassing the current state-of-the-art by an average of 3.3% in classification accuracy."
"The 'zero-shot' aligns the visual feature and textual semantic feature, without using any samples from the novel classes."
Quotes
"Language models are few-shot learners."
"Our proposed framework consistently delivers promising results."