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most citedBayesian Meta-Learning for the Few-Shot Setting via Deep Kernels

62 citations · 180 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2024

EOL: Transductive Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition by Enhancing Outlier Logits

Mateusz Ochal, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Malik Boudiaf +1

In Few-Shot Learning (FSL), models are trained to recognise unseen objects from a query set, given a few labelled examples from a support set. In standard FSL, models are evaluated…

cs.LG2024

Transformer Neural Autoregressive Flows

Massimiliano Patacchiola, Aliaksandra Shysheya, Katja Hofmann +1

Density estimation, a central problem in machine learning, can be performed using Normalizing Flows (NFs). NFs comprise a sequence of invertible transformations, that turn a comple…

cs.LG2023

Comparing the Efficacy of Fine-Tuning and Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Policy Imitation

Massimiliano Patacchiola, Mingfei Sun, Katja Hofmann +1

In this paper we explore few-shot imitation learning for control problems, which involves learning to imitate a target policy by accessing a limited set of offline rollouts. This s…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Contextual Squeeze-and-Excitation for Efficient Few-Shot Image Classification

Massimiliano Patacchiola, John Bronskill, Aliaksandra Shysheya +3

Recent years have seen a growth in user-centric applications that require effective knowledge transfer across tasks in the low-data regime. An example is personalization, where a p…

stat.ML2022★ 9 cited

FiT: Parameter Efficient Few-shot Transfer Learning for Personalized and Federated Image Classification

Aliaksandra Shysheya, John Bronskill, Massimiliano Patacchiola +2

Modern deep learning systems are increasingly deployed in situations such as personalization and federated learning where it is necessary to support i) learning on small amounts of…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

Non-Gaussian Gaussian Processes for Few-Shot Regression

Marcin Sendera, Jacek Tabor, Aleksandra Nowak +5

Gaussian Processes (GPs) have been widely used in machine learning to model distributions over functions, with applications including multi-modal regression, time-series prediction…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Memory Efficient Meta-Learning with Large Images

John Bronskill, Daniela Massiceti, Massimiliano Patacchiola +3

Meta learning approaches to few-shot classification are computationally efficient at test time, requiring just a few optimization steps or single forward pass to learn a new task,…

cs.LG2021

How Sensitive are Meta-Learners to Dataset Imbalance?

Mateusz Ochal, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Amos Storkey +2

Meta-Learning (ML) has proven to be a useful tool for training Few-Shot Learning (FSL) algorithms by exposure to batches of tasks sampled from a meta-dataset. However, the standard…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Few-Shot Learning with Class Imbalance

Mateusz Ochal, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Amos Storkey +2

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) algorithms are commonly trained through Meta-Learning (ML), which exposes models to batches of tasks sampled from a meta-dataset to mimic tasks seen during…

cs.LG2020★ 28 cited

Self-Supervised Relational Reasoning for Representation Learning

Massimiliano Patacchiola, Amos Storkey

In self-supervised learning, a system is tasked with achieving a surrogate objective by defining alternative targets on a set of unlabeled data. The aim is to build useful represen…

cs.CV2020★ 27 cited

Defining Benchmarks for Continual Few-Shot Learning

Antreas Antoniou, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Mateusz Ochal +1

Both few-shot and continual learning have seen substantial progress in the last years due to the introduction of proper benchmarks. That being said, the field has still to frame a…

cs.LG2019★ 62 cited

Bayesian Meta-Learning for the Few-Shot Setting via Deep Kernels

Massimiliano Patacchiola, Jack Turner, Elliot J. Crowley +2

Recently, different machine learning methods have been introduced to tackle the challenging few-shot learning scenario that is, learning from a small labeled dataset related to a s…

cs.RO2019

Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning with Imaginary Rollouts for Human-Robot Interaction

Mohammad Thabet, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Angelo Cangelosi

Deep reinforcement learning has proven to be a great success in allowing agents to learn complex tasks. However, its application to actual robots can be prohibitively expensive. Fu…

cs.CV2019

Y-Autoencoders: disentangling latent representations via sequential-encoding

Massimiliano Patacchiola, Patrick Fox-Roberts, Edward Rosten

In the last few years there have been important advancements in generative models with the two dominant approaches being Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Auto…

cs.CV2017

Emotion Recognition in the Wild using Deep Neural Networks and Bayesian Classifiers

Luca Surace, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Elena Battini Sönmez +2

Group emotion recognition in the wild is a challenging problem, due to the unstructured environments in which everyday life pictures are taken. Some of the obstacles for an effecti…

cs.AI2017★ 41 cited

Autonomous Quadrotor Landing using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Riccardo Polvara, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Sanjay Sharma +4

Landing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a ground marker is an open problem despite the effort of the research community. Previous attempts mostly focused on the analysis of han…