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Table 1 Works covered in “Solving imbalance within LSL” section

From: Low-shot learning and class imbalance: a survey

Proposed model

Application

Imbalance type

\(\rho\)

Improvement vs. best baseline

Baseline(s)

No proposed model [16]

LSL image classification

Task, traditional

\(\rho \le 20\)

N/A (survey paper)

Many LSL SOTAs

\(\alpha\)-TIM [38]

TLSL image classification

Query set

UNSP

+ 0–3% Acc.

Many LSL SOTAs

ProtoNet combined [39]\(^{a}\)

TLSL image classification

Query set

UNSP

+ 2% Acc. 1-shot

− 1.5% Acc. 5-shot

Many LSL SOTAs + [38]

TF-MC [40]\(^{a}\)

TLSL image classification

Prediction

UNSP

+ 2% Acc. 10-shot

Many LSL SOTAs

N/A [41]\(^{a}\)

LSL image classification

Traditional

UNSP

+ 2% Acc.

Other proposed variants

N/A [42]\(^{a}\)

LSL image classification

Traditional

\(\rho \le 1000\)

+ 2–14% Acc. few-shot

+ 10–12% F1 Score

Base model + other proposals

PcGAN [43]

OSL road object classification

Traditional

UNSP

+ 5% Acc.

Some OSL SOTAs

Post-Scaling [44]

Class-incremental image classification

Traditional

\(\rho > 100\)

\(\pm 1\%\) Acc.

Some SOTAs + CI measures

N/A [45]

LSL semi-supervised image classification

Other

\(\rho = 1\)

+ 10–20% Acc.

One non-SOTA model

MAMC-Net [46]

ZSL domain generalization

Traditional

UNSP

+ 0.8% per-class Acc.

Some ZSDG/ ZSL SOTAs

SCILM [47]

GZSL image classification

Traditional

\(\rho \approx 15\)

+ 10% Harm. Mean Acc.

Many ZSL SOTAs

\(\mathcal {L}_BT\) + GP [48]

GZSL image classification

Traditional

\(\rho \approx 15\)

+ 1.5% Harm. Mean Acc.

+ 8.5% w.r.t. [47]

Many ZSL SOTAs

DUET [6]

GZSL image classification

Traditional

\(\rho \approx 15\)

+ 1.5% Harm. Mean Acc.

+ 4% w.r.t. [48]

Many ZSL SOTAs

No Proposed

Model [49]

LSL object detection

Traditional

\(\rho > 200\)

N/A (survey paper)

Some LSL SOTAs

AGCM [50]\(^{a}\)

LSL object detection

Traditional

\(\rho > 200\)

+ 0–5 mAP on novel classes

Many LSL SOTAs

BFS [51]

LSL object detection

Foreground–background

N/A

+ 15 mAP

+ 5 mAP 10-shot w.r.t. [52]

Some LSL SOTAs

CIR-FSD [52]

LSL object detection

Foreground–background

N/A

+ 4-17 mAP

+ 7 mAP 3-shot w.r.t. [51]

Some LSL SOTAs

SSL-ALPNet

[53]

LSL image segmentation

Foreground–background

N/A

+ 25–50% Dice

Two LSL SOTAs

AMD-Reg [54]

ZSL sketch-based image retrieval

Traditional

\(\rho = 10; 100\)

+3-5 mAP

Many SBIR and ZSL SOTAs

GwFReID [55]

Re-identification

Traditional

UNSP

+ 6 mAP

− 9 forgetting ratio

Many Non-LSL SOTAs

SiameseCCR [56]

LSL character recognition

Contrastive

N/A

+ 13% Top-1 Acc.

Some Non-LSL SOTAs

N/A [57]

Automated CAPTCHA completion

Support set

UNSP

+ 0–2% Acc. 10-shot

Base model w/o improvements

PRNet [58]

OSL 3D image segmentation

Foreground–background

N/A

+ 35% Dice

Three OSL SOTAs

MRE-Net [59]

LSL 3D image segmentation

Foreground–Background

N/A

+ 0-6% Dice

One LSL SOTA

UniFewMeta

[60]

LSL Nat. language processing

Traditional

UNSP

+ 0–25% Acc.

Three LSL SOTAs

MELO [61]\(^{a}\)

Cold-start product recommendation

Task

\(5 \le \rho \le 25\)

−  0–0.07 RMSE

−  0.0.06 MAE

Base model w/o improvement

N/A [62]

LSL industrial fault classification

Support set

\(\rho = 10\)

+ 15–25% Acc.

Other proposed variants

RRPN [63]

LSL industrial fault classification

Traditional

UNSP

+ 1–1.5% Acc.

Five LSL SOTAs

  1. aThis work is not published as of September 2023