Improved Few-Shot Visual Classification

This repository contains source codes for the following papers and thesis:

• Improved Few-Shot Visual Classification

  @ IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020

  (Paper, ArXiv, PapersWithCode, Video)

• Enhancing Few-Shot Image Classification with Unlabelled Examples

  @ IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2022

  (Paper, ArXiv, PapersWithCode, Video)

• Beyond Simple Meta-Learning: Multi-Purpose Models for Multi-Domain, Active and Continual Few-Shot Learning

  @ IEEE TPAMI Special Issue on Learning with Fewer Labels in Computer Vision, 2022 (in submission)

  (ArXiv, PapersWithCode)

• On Label-Efficient Computer Vision: Building Fast and Effective Few-Shot Image Classifiers

  @ UBC cIRcle Thesis Archives, 2021

  (Thesis, PapersWithCode, Video)

The code base has been authored by Peyman Bateni, Jarred Barber, Raghav Goyal, Vaden Masrani, Dr. Jan-Willemn van de Meent, Dr. Leonid Sigal and Dr. Frank Wood. The source codes build on the original code base for CNAPS authored by Dr. John Bronskill, Jonathan Gordon, James Reqeima, Dr. Sebastian Nowozin, and Dr. Richard E. Turner. We would like to thank them for their help, support and early sharing of their work. To see the original CNAPS repository, visit https://github.com/cambridge-mlg/cnaps.

Simple CNAPS

Simple CNAPS proposes the use of hierarchically regularized cluster means and covariance estimates within a Mahalanobis-distance based classifer for improved few-shot classification accuracy. This method incorporates said classifier within the same neural adaptive feature extractor as CNAPS. For more details, please refer to our paper on Simple CNAPS: Improved Few-Shot Visual Classification. The source code for this paper has been provided in the simple-cnaps-src directory. To reproduce our results, please refer to the README.md file within that folder.

Global Meta-Dataset Rank (Simple CNAPS): https://github.com/google-research/meta-dataset#training-on-all-datasets

Global Mini-ImageNet Rank (Simple CNAPS):

Global Tiered-ImageNet Rank (Simple CNAPS):

Transductive CNAPS

Transductive CNAPS extends the Simple CNAPS framework to the transductive few-shot learning setting where all query examples are provided at once. This method uses a two-step transductive task-encoder for adapting the feature extractor as well as a soft k-means cluster refinement procedure, resulting in better test-time accuracy. For additional details, please refer to our paper on Transductive CNAPS: Enhancing Few-Shot Image Classification with Unlabelled Examples. The source code for this work is provided under the transductive-cnaps-src directory. To reproduce our results, please refer to the README.md file within this folder.

Global Meta-Dataset Rank (Transductive CNAPS): https://github.com/google-research/meta-dataset#training-on-all-datasets

Global Mini-ImageNet Rank (Transductive CNAPS):

Global Tiered-ImageNet Rank (Transductive CNAPS):

Active and Continual Learning

We additionally evaluate both methods within the paradigms of "out of the box" active and continual learning. These settings were first proposed by Requeima et al., and studies how well few-shot classifiers, trained for few-shot learning, can be deployed for active and continual learning without any problem-specific finetuning or training. For additional details on our active and continual learning experiments and algorithms, please refer to our latest paper: Beyond Simple Meta-Learning: Multi-Purpose Models for Multi-Domain, Active and Continual Few-Shot Learning. For code and instructions to reproduce the experiments reported, please refer to the active-learning and continual-learning folders.

Meta-Dataset Results

Dataset	Simple CNAPS	Simple CNAPS	Transductive CNAPS	Transductive CNAPS
--shuffle_dataset	False	True	False	True
In-Domain Datasets	---	---	---	---
ILSVRC	58.6±1.1	56.5±1.1	58.8±1.1	57.9±1.1
Omniglot	91.7±0.6	91.9±0.6	93.9±0.4	94.3±0.4
Aircraft	82.4±0.7	83.8±0.6	84.1±0.6	84.7±0.5
Birds	74.9±0.8	76.1±0.9	76.8±0.8	78.8±0.7
Textures	67.8±0.8	70.0±0.8	69.0±0.8	66.2±0.8
Quick Draw	77.7±0.7	78.3±0.7	78.6±0.7	77.9±0.6
Fungi	46.9±1.0	49.1±1.2	48.8±1.1	48.9±1.2
VGG Flower	90.7±0.5	91.3±0.6	91.6±0.4	92.3±0.4
Out-of-Domain Datasets	---	---	---	---
Traffic Signs	73.5±0.7	59.2±1.0	76.1±0.7	59.7±1.1
MSCOCO	46.2±1.1	42.4±1.1	48.7±1.0	42.5±1.1
MNIST	93.9±0.4	94.3±0.4	95.7±0.3	94.7±0.3
CIFAR10	74.3±0.7	72.0±0.8	75.7±0.7	73.6±0.7
CIFAR100	60.5±1.0	60.9±1.1	62.9±1.0	61.8±1.0
---	---	---	---	---
In-Domain Average Accuracy	73.8±0.8	74.6±0.8	75.2±0.8	75.1±0.8
Out-of-Domain Average Accuracy	69.7±0.8	65.8±0.8	71.8±0.8	66.5±0.8
Overall Average Accuracy	72.2±0.8	71.2±0.8	73.9±0.8	71.8±0.8

Mini-ImageNet Results

Setup	5-way 1-shot	5-way 5-shot	10-way 1-shot	10-way 5-shot
Simple CNAPS	53.2±0.9	70.8±0.7	37.1±0.5	56.7±0.5
Transductive CNAPS	55.6±0.9	73.1±0.7	42.8±0.7	59.6±0.5
---	---	---	---	---
Simple CNAPS + FETI	77.4±0.8	90.3±0.4	63.5±0.6	83.1±0.4
Transductive CNAPS + FETI	79.9±0.8	91.5±0.4	68.5±0.6	85.9±0.3

Tiered-ImageNet Results

Setup	5-way 1-shot	5-way 5-shot	10-way 1-shot	10-way 5-shot
Simple CNAPS	63.0±1.0	80.0±0.8	48.1±0.7	70.2±0.6
Transductive CNAPS	65.9±1.0	81.8±0.7	54.6±0.8	72.5±0.6
---	---	---	---	---
Simple CNAPS + FETI	71.4±1.0	86.0±0.6	57.1±0.7	78.5±0.5
Transductive CNAPS + FETI	73.8±1.0	87.7±0.6	65.1±0.8	80.6±0.5

Citation

We hope you have found our code base helpful! If you use this repository, please cite our papers:

@InProceedings{Bateni2020_SimpleCNAPS,
    author = {Bateni, Peyman and Goyal, Raghav and Masrani, Vaden and Wood, Frank and Sigal, Leonid},
    title = {Improved Few-Shot Visual Classification},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month = {June},
    year = {2020}
}

@InProceedings{Bateni2022_TransductiveCNAPS,
    author    = {Bateni, Peyman and Barber, Jarred and van de Meent, Jan-Willem and Wood, Frank},
    title     = {Enhancing Few-Shot Image Classification With Unlabelled Examples},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
    month     = {January},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {2796-2805}
}

@misc{Bateni2022_BeyondSimpleMetaLearning,
    title={Beyond Simple Meta-Learning: Multi-Purpose Models for Multi-Domain, Active and Continual Few-Shot Learning}, 
    author={Peyman Bateni and Jarred Barber and Raghav Goyal and Vaden Masrani and Jan-Willem van de Meent and Leonid Sigal and Frank Wood},
    year={2022},
    eprint={2201.05151},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

@phdthesis{Bateni2021_Thesis, 
    series      = {Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 2008+}, 
    title       = {On label-efficient computer vision : building fast and effective few-shot image classifiers}, 
    url         = {https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0402554}, 
    DOI         = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0402554}, 
    school      = {University of British Columbia}, 
    author      = {Bateni, Peyman}, 
    year        = {2021}, 
    collection  = {Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 2008+}
}

**If you would like to ask any questions or reach out regarding any of the papers, please email me directly at peyman.bateni@hotmail.com (my cs.ubc.ca email may have expired by the time you are emailing as I have graduated!).