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Hands-On One-shot Learning with Python

By : Shruti Jadon, Ankush Garg
Book Image

Hands-On One-shot Learning with Python

By: Shruti Jadon, Ankush Garg

Overview of this book

One-shot learning has been an active field of research for scientists trying to develop a cognitive machine that mimics human learning. With this book, you'll explore key approaches to one-shot learning, such as metrics-based, model-based, and optimization-based techniques, all with the help of practical examples. Hands-On One-shot Learning with Python will guide you through the exploration and design of deep learning models that can obtain information about an object from one or just a few training samples. The book begins with an overview of deep learning and one-shot learning and then introduces you to the different methods you can use to achieve it, such as deep learning architectures and probabilistic models. Once you've got to grips with the core principles, you'll explore real-world examples and implementations of one-shot learning using PyTorch 1.x on datasets such as Omniglot and MiniImageNet. Finally, you'll explore generative modeling-based methods and discover the key considerations for building systems that exhibit human-level intelligence. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with the different one- and few-shot learning methods and be able to use them to build your own deep learning models.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Section 1: One-shot Learning Introduction
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Section 2: Deep Learning Architectures
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Section 3: Other Methods and Conclusion

Recent advancements

In the deep learning community, there are various other approaches that have been proposed for one-shot learning, such as generative modeling using GANs, image deformation meta-networks, representative based metric learning, and so on. So far, we have seen models doing classification using one-shot learning, but there are advancements currently being made in object detection and semantic segmentation as well. In this section, we will touch upon some of the recent papers from major machine learning-based conferences (for example, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICLR, and so on).

Metric-based learning is one of the older methods to approach one-shot learning. Though this area is old, there are plenty of aspects of it that are still being explored. The research work on the topic Revisiting local descriptor based image-to-class measure for few-shot learning (https://arxiv.org...