학술논문

Few-Shot Learning With Dynamic Graph Structure Preserving
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics IEEE Trans. Ind. Inf. Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on. 20(3):3306-3315 Mar, 2024
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Geometry
Task analysis
Optimization
Feature extraction
Training
Metalearning
Laplace equations
Feature space
few-shot learning
graph structure
label space
transductive learning
Language
ISSN
1551-3203
1941-0050
Abstract
In recent years, few-shot learning has received increasing attention in the Internet of Things areas. Few-shot learning aims to distinguish unseen classes with a few labeled samples from each class. Most recently transductive few-shot studies highly rely on the static geometry distributions generated on the feature space during the label propagation process between unseen class instances. However, these recent methods fail to guarantee that the generated graph structure preserves the true distributions between data properly. In this article, we propose a novel dynamic graph structure preserving (DGSP) model for few-shot learning. Specifically, we formulate the objective function of DGSP by simultaneously considering the data correlations from the feature space and the label space to update the generated graph structure, which can reasonably revise the inappropriate or mistaken local geometry relationships. Then, we design an efficient alternating optimization algorithm to jointly learn the label prediction matrix and the optimal graph structure, the latter of which can be formulated as a linear programming problem. Moreover, our proposed DGSP can be easily combined with any backbone networks during the learning process. We conduct extensive experimental results across different benchmarks, backbones, and task settings, and our method achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with methods based on transductive few-shot learning.