papersSEP 12 04:00 UTC
Paper Questions Whether Few-Shot Learning Protocols Reflect True Few-Shot Conditions
A new arXiv paper argues that standard few-shot learning benchmarks may not measure what they claim. In typical setups, models are first trained on a large auxiliary dataset whose categories differ from the evaluation episodes but come from the same visual domain, so the target task is not genuinely novel. The authors call for closer scrutiny of these pre-training assumptions when interpreting few-shot results.