Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
11-2021
Abstract
This paper presents a novel semi-supervised few-shot image classification method named Learning to Teach and Learn (LTTL) to effectively leverage unlabeled samples in small-data regimes. Our method is based on self-training, which assigns pseudo labels to unlabeled data. However, the conventional pseudo-labeling operation heavily relies on the initial model trained by using a handful of labeled data and may produce many noisy labeled samples. We propose to solve the problem with three steps: firstly, cherry-picking searches valuable samples from pseudo-labeled data by using a soft weighting network; and then, cross-teaching allows the classifiers to teach mutually for rejecting more noisy labels. A feature synthesizing strategy is introduced for cross-teaching to avoid clean samples being rejected by mistake; finally, the classifiers are fine-tuned with a few labeled data to avoid gradient drifts. We use the meta-learning paradigm to optimize the parameters in the whole framework. The proposed LTTL combines the power of meta-learning and self-training, achieving superior performance compared with the baseline methods on two public benchmarks.
Keywords
Few-shot learning, Meta-learning, Semi-supervised learning
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
Research Areas
Intelligent Systems and Optimization
Publication
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Volume
212
First Page
1
Last Page
10
ISSN
1077-3142
Identifier
10.1016/j.cviu.2021.103270
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
LI, Xinzhe; HUANG, Jianqiang; LIU, Yaoyao; ZHOU, Qin; ZHENG, Shibao; SCHIELE, Bernt; and SUN, Qianru.
Learning to teach and learn for semi-supervised few-shot image classification. (2021). Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 212, 1-10.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6628
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