Title
MDFM: Multi-Decision Fusing Model for Few-Shot Learning
Abstract
In recent years, researchers pay growing attention to the few-shot learning (FSL) task to address the data-scarce problem. A standard FSL framework is composed of two components: i) Pre-train. Employ the base data to generate a CNN-based feature extraction model (FEM). ii) Meta-test. Apply the trained FEM to the novel data (category is different from base data) to acquire the feature embeddings and recognize them. Although researchers have made remarkable breakthroughs in FSL, there still exists a fundamental problem. Since the trained FEM with base data usually cannot adapt to the novel class flawlessly, the novel data’s feature may lead to the distribution shift problem. To address this challenge, we hypothesize that even if most of the decisions based on different FEMs are viewed as <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">weak decisions</i> , which are not available for all classes, they still perform decent in some specific categories. Inspired by this assumption, we propose a novel method Multi-Decision Fusing Model (MDFM), which comprehensively considers the decisions based on multiple FEMs to enhance the efficacy and robustness of the model. MDFM is a simple, flexible, non-parametric method that can directly apply to the existing FEMs. Besides, we extend the proposed MDFM to two FSL settings (e.g., supervised and semi-supervised settings). We evaluate the proposed method on five benchmark datasets and achieve significant improvements of 3.4%-7.3% compared with state-of-the-arts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3135023
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Few-shot learning (FSL),distribution shift problem,multi-decision fusing model (MDFM)
Journal
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
1051-8215
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
16
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuai Shao121.72
Lei Xing210223.72
Rui Xu332.75
WeiFeng Liu45911.72
Yanjiang Wang5158.65
Bao-Di Liu616627.34