arXiv:2601.11669cs.LGcs.CV2026-01

通过动态积累高置信度样本,提升少样本分类的原型表示能力

IPEC: Test-Time Incremental Prototype Enhancement Classifier for Few-Shot Learning

  • 测试时逐步融合高置信度查询样本,优化原型估计
  • 双过滤机制确保新增样本兼具全局置信度与局部判别力
  • 适合少样本场景下需持续学习的在线分类任务

基于度量的少样本方法因实现简单、可解释性强和计算高效而广受欢迎。然而,其测试阶段的批独立假设限制了模型利用先前批次积累的知识。为此,我们提出一种新的测试时方法——增量原型增强分类器(IPEC),通过利用之前查询样本的信息来优化原型估计。IPEC 通过选择性地将高置信度查询样本加入动态辅助集,维持高质量样本。设计了一种鲁棒的双过滤机制,从全局预测置信度和局部判别能力两方面评估每个样本。将该辅助集与支持集在后续任务中聚合,构建更稳定、更具代表性的原型,显著降低对初始支持集的依赖。方法基于贝叶斯视角:支持集视为先验,辅助集为数据驱动后验,从而启发设计了‘预热-测试’两阶段推理协议。大量实验证明,所提方法在多个少样本分类任务上均表现优异。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Metric-based few-shot approaches have gained significant popularity due to their relatively straightforward implementation, high interpret ability, and computational efficiency. However, stemming from the batch-independence assumption during testing, which prevents the model from leveraging valuable knowledge accumulated from previous batches. To address these challenges, we propose a novel test-time method called Incremental Prototype Enhancement Classifier (IPEC), a test-time method that optimizes prototype estimation by leveraging information from previous query samples. IPEC maintains a dynamic auxiliary set by selectively incorporating query samples that are classified with high confidence. To ensure sample quality, we design a robust dual-filtering mechanism that assesses each query sample based on both global prediction confidence and local discriminative ability. By aggregating this auxiliary set with the support set in subsequent tasks, IPEC builds progressively more stable and representative prototypes, effectively reducing its reliance on the initial support set. We ground this approach in a Bayesian interpretation, conceptualizing the support set as a prior and the auxiliary set as a data-driven posterior, which in turn motivates the design of a practical "warm-up and test" two-stage inference protocol. Extensive empirical results validate the superior performance of our proposed method across multiple few-shot classification tasks.

少样本学习原型增强测试时学习

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