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."