Generalizing from a few examples: A survey on few-shot learning

Y Wang, Q Yao, JT Kwok, LM Ni - ACM computing surveys (csur), 2020 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning has been highly successful in data-intensive applications but is often
hampered when the data set is small. Recently, Few-shot Learning (FSL) is proposed to …

Meta learning for natural language processing: A survey

H Lee, SW Li, NT Vu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2205.01500, 2022 - arxiv.org
Deep learning has been the mainstream technique in natural language processing (NLP)
area. However, the techniques require many labeled data and are less generalizable across …

College: Concept embedding generation for large language models

R Teehan, B Lake, M Ren - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.15362, 2024 - arxiv.org
Current language models are unable to quickly learn new concepts on the fly, often
requiring a more involved finetuning process to learn robustly. Prompting in-context is not …

A survey on machine learning from few samples

J Lu, P Gong, J Ye, J Zhang, C Zhang - Pattern Recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
The capability of learning and generalizing from very few samples successfully is a
noticeable demarcation separating artificial intelligence and human intelligence. Despite the …

Distill and replay for continual language learning

J Sun, S Wang, J Zhang, C Zong - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
Accumulating knowledge to tackle new tasks without necessarily forgetting the old ones is a
hallmark of human-like intelligence. But the current dominant paradigm of machine learning …

Computational models to study language processing in the human brain: A survey

S Wang, J Sun, Y Zhang, N Lin, MF Moens… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Despite differing from the human language processing mechanism in implementation and
algorithms, current language models demonstrate remarkable human-like or surpassing …

Language Cognition and Language Computation--Human and Machine Language Understanding

S Wang, N Ding, N Lin, J Zhang, C Zong - arxiv preprint arxiv:2301.04788, 2023 - arxiv.org
Language understanding is a key scientific issue in the fields of cognitive and computer
science. However, the two disciplines differ substantially in the specific research questions …

Meta learning and its applications to natural language processing

H Lee, NT Vu, SW Li - Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Deep learning based natural language processing (NLP) has become the mainstream of
research in recent years and significantly outperforms conventional methods. However …

Rapid Word Learning Through Meta In-Context Learning

W Wang, G Jiang, T Linzen, BM Lake - arxiv preprint arxiv:2502.14791, 2025 - arxiv.org
Humans can quickly learn a new word from a few illustrative examples, and then
systematically and flexibly use it in novel contexts. Yet the abilities of current language …

Tuning in to neural encoding: Linking human brain and artificial supervised representations of language

J Sun, X Zhang, MF Moens - ECAI 2023, 2023 - ebooks.iospress.nl
To understand the algorithm that supports the human brain's language representation,
previous research has attempted to predict neural responses to linguistic stimuli using …