Learning to Affiliate: Mutual Centralized Learning for Few-shot Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05517v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 06:16:00 GMT
• Title: Learning to Affiliate: Mutual Centralized Learning for Few-shot Classification
• Authors: Yang Liu, Weifeng Zhang, Chao Xiang, Tu Zheng, Deng Cai
• Abstract summary: Few-shot learning aims to learn a classifier that can be easily adapted to accommodate new tasks not seen during training. Recent methods tend to collectively use a set of local features to densely represent an image instead of using a mixed global feature.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn a classifier that can be easily adapted to accommodate new tasks not seen during training, given only a few examples. To handle the limited-data problem in few-shot regimes, recent methods tend to collectively use a set of local features to densely represent an image instead of using a mixed global feature. They generally explore a unidirectional query-to-support paradigm in FSL, e.g., find the nearest/optimal support feature for each query feature and aggregate these local matches for a joint classification. In this paper, we propose a new method Mutual Centralized Learning (MCL) to fully affiliate the two disjoint sets of dense features in a bidirectional paradigm. We associate each local feature with a particle that can bidirectionally random walk in a discrete feature space by the affiliations. To estimate the class probability, we propose the features' accessibility that measures the expected number of visits to the support features of that class in a Markov process. We relate our method to learning a centrality on an affiliation network and demonstrate its capability to be plugged in existing methods by highlighting centralized local features. Experiments show that our method achieves the state-of-the-art on both miniImageNet and tieredImageNet.

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