Few-Shot Learning with Metric-Agnostic Conditional Embeddings

12 Feb 2018 · Nathan Hilliard, Lawrence Phillips, Scott Howland, Artëm Yankov, Courtney D. Corley, Nathan O. Hodas ·

Learning high quality class representations from few examples is a key problem in metric-learning approaches to few-shot learning. To accomplish this, we introduce a novel architecture where class representations are conditioned for each few-shot trial based on a target image. We also deviate from traditional metric-learning approaches by training a network to perform comparisons between classes rather than relying on a static metric comparison. This allows the network to decide what aspects of each class are important for the comparison at hand. We find that this flexible architecture works well in practice, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the Caltech-UCSD birds fine-grained classification task.

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