我们提出了一个统一的查看，即通过通用表示，一个深层神经网络共同学习多个视觉任务和视觉域。同时学习多个问题涉及最大程度地减少具有不同幅度和特征的多个损失函数的加权总和，从而导致一个损失的不平衡状态，与学习每个问题的单独模型相比，一个损失的不平衡状态主导了优化和差的结果。为此，我们提出了通过小容量适配器将多个任务/特定于域网络的知识提炼到单个深神经网络中的知识。我们严格地表明，通用表示在学习NYU-V2和CityScapes中多个密集的预测问题方面实现了最新的表现，来自视觉Decathlon数据集中的不同域中的多个图像分类问题以及MetadataSet中的跨域中的几个域中学习。最后，我们还通过消融和定性研究进行多次分析。

在本文中，我们看看跨域几秒分类的问题，旨在从以前看不见的类别和域名的域中学习分类器。最近的方法广泛地通过参数参数化与前者通常在大型训练集上学习的任务 - 不可行的和任务特定权重参数来解决这个问题，并且后者通过在小型支撑集上通过辅助网络动态预测。在这项工作中，我们专注于对后者的估计，并建议将特定于任务特定权重直接在小型支架上学习，以与动态估计它们。特别地，通过系统分析，我们示出了通过矩阵形式的参数适配器以备体网络的多个中间层的参数化适配器的任务特定权重显着提高了Meta DataSet中最先进模型的性能基准以较小的额外费用。

尽管最近的密集预测问题的多任务学习的进步，但大多数方法都依赖于昂贵的标记数据集。在本文中，我们介绍了一个标签有效的方法，并在部分注释的数据上关注多密集预测任务，我们称之为多任务部分监督学习。我们提出了一种多任务培训程序，该程序成功利用任务关系在数据部分注释时监督其多任务学习。特别地，我们学会将每个任务对映射到联合成对任务空间，这使得通过在任务对上的另一个网络通过另一个网络以计算有效的方式共享信息，并通过保留高级信息来避免学习琐碎的交叉任务关系关于输入图像。我们严格证明，我们的提出方法有效利用了未标记的任务的图像，并且在三个标准基准测试中优于现有的半监督学习方法和相关方法。

We propose a novel multi-task learning architecture, which allows learning of task-specific feature-level attention. Our design, the Multi-Task Attention Network (MTAN), consists of a single shared network containing a global feature pool, together with a soft-attention module for each task. These modules allow for learning of taskspecific features from the global features, whilst simultaneously allowing for features to be shared across different tasks. The architecture can be trained end-to-end and can be built upon any feed-forward neural network, is simple to implement, and is parameter efficient. We evaluate our approach on a variety of datasets, across both image-toimage predictions and image classification tasks. We show that our architecture is state-of-the-art in multi-task learning compared to existing methods, and is also less sensitive to various weighting schemes in the multi-task loss function. Code is available at https://github.com/ lorenmt/mtan.

There is a growing interest in learning data representations that work well for many different types of problems and data. In this paper, we look in particular at the task of learning a single visual representation that can be successfully utilized in the analysis of very different types of images, from dog breeds to stop signs and digits. Inspired by recent work on learning networks that predict the parameters of another, we develop a tunable deep network architecture that, by means of adapter residual modules, can be steered on the fly to diverse visual domains. Our method achieves a high degree of parameter sharing while maintaining or even improving the accuracy of domain-specific representations. We also introduce the Visual Decathlon Challenge, a benchmark that evaluates the ability of representations to capture simultaneously ten very different visual domains and measures their ability to perform well uniformly.

多任务学习最近已成为对复杂场景的全面理解的有前途的解决方案。不仅具有适当设计的记忆效率，多任务模型都可以跨任务交换互补信号。在这项工作中，我们共同解决了2D语义分割，以及两个与几何相关的任务，即密集的深度，表面正常估计以及边缘估计，显示了它们对室内和室外数据集的好处。我们提出了一种新颖的多任务学习体系结构，该体系结构通过相关引导的注意力和自我注意力来利用配对的交叉任务交换，以增强所有任务的平均表示学习。我们考虑了三个多任务设置的广泛实验，与合成基准和真实基准中的竞争基准相比，我们的提案的好处。我们还将方法扩展到新型的多任务无监督域的适应设置。我们的代码可在https://github.com/cv-rits/densemtl上找到。

The focus of recent meta-learning research has been on the development of learning algorithms that can quickly adapt to test time tasks with limited data and low computational cost. Few-shot learning is widely used as one of the standard benchmarks in meta-learning. In this work, we show that a simple baseline: learning a supervised or selfsupervised representation on the meta-training set, followed by training a linear classifier on top of this representation, outperforms state-of-the-art few-shot learning methods. An additional boost can be achieved through the use of selfdistillation. This demonstrates that using a good learned embedding model can be more effective than sophisticated meta-learning algorithms. We believe that our findings motivate a rethinking of few-shot image classification benchmarks and the associated role of meta-learning algorithms.

多任务学习（MTL）是深度学习中的一个活动字段，其中我们通过利用任务之间的关系来共同学习多项任务。已经证明，与独立学习每个任务时，MTL有助于该模型共享任务之间的学习功能并增强预测。我们为2任务MTL问题提出了一个新的学习框架，它使用一个任务的预测作为另一个网络的输入来预测其他任务。我们定义了由循环一致性损失和对比学习，对齐和跨任务一致性损失的两个新的损失术语。这两个损耗都旨在实施模型以对准多个任务的预测，以便模型一致地预测。理论上我们证明，两次损失都帮助模型更有效地学习，并且在与直接预测的对齐方面更好地了解跨任务一致性损失。实验结果还表明，我们的拟议模型在基准城市景观和NYU数据集上实现了显着性能。

转移学习可以在源任务上重新使用知识来帮助学习目标任务。一种简单的转移学习形式在当前的最先进的计算机视觉模型中是常见的，即预先训练ILSVRC数据集上的图像分类模型，然后在任何目标任务上进行微调。然而，先前对转移学习的系统研究已经有限，并且预计工作的情况并不完全明白。在本文中，我们对跨越不同的图像域进行了广泛的转移学习实验探索（消费者照片，自主驾驶，空中图像，水下，室内场景，合成，特写镜头）和任务类型（语义分割，物体检测，深度估计，关键点检测）。重要的是，这些都是与现代计算机视觉应用相关的复杂的结构化的输出任务类型。总共执行超过2000年的转移学习实验，包括许多来源和目标来自不同的图像域，任务类型或两者。我们系统地分析了这些实验，了解图像域，任务类型和数据集大小对传输学习性能的影响。我们的研究导致了几个见解和具体建议：（1）对于大多数任务，存在一个显着优于ILSVRC'12预培训的来源; （2）图像领域是实现阳性转移的最重要因素; （3）源数据集应该\ \ emph {include}目标数据集的图像域以获得最佳结果; （4）与此同时，当源任务的图像域比目标的图像域时，我们只观察小的负面影响; （5）跨任务类型的转移可能是有益的，但其成功严重依赖于源和目标任务类型。

很少有视觉识别是指从一些标记实例中识别新颖的视觉概念。通过将查询表示形式与类表征进行比较以预测查询实例的类别，许多少数射击的视觉识别方法采用了基于公制的元学习范式。但是，当前基于度量的方法通常平等地对待所有实例，因此通常会获得有偏见的类表示，考虑到并非所有实例在总结了类级表示的实例级表示时都同样重要。例如，某些实例可能包含无代表性的信息，例如过多的背景和无关概念的信息，这使结果偏差。为了解决上述问题，我们提出了一个新型的基于公制的元学习框架，称为实例自适应类别表示网络（ICRL-net），以进行几次视觉识别。具体而言，我们开发了一个自适应实例重新平衡网络，具有在生成班级表示，通过学习和分配自适应权重的不同实例中的自适应权重时，根据其在相应类的支持集中的相对意义来解决偏见的表示问题。此外，我们设计了改进的双线性实例表示，并结合了两个新型的结构损失，即，阶层内实例聚类损失和阶层间表示区分损失，以进一步调节实例重估过程并完善类表示。我们对四个通常采用的几个基准测试：Miniimagenet，Tieredimagenet，Cifar-FS和FC100数据集进行了广泛的实验。与最先进的方法相比，实验结果证明了我们的ICRL-NET的优势。

少量学习，特别是几秒钟的图像分类，近年来受到了越来越多的关注，并目睹了重大进展。最近的一些研究暗示表明，许多通用技术或“诀窍”，如数据增强，预训练，知识蒸馏和自我监督，可能大大提高了几次学习方法的性能。此外，不同的作品可以采用不同的软件平台，不同的训练计划，不同的骨干架构以及甚至不同的输入图像大小，使得公平的比较困难，从业者与再现性斗争。为了解决这些情况，通过在Pytorch中的同一单个代码库中重新实施17个最新的框架，提出了几次射门学习（Libfewshot）的全面图书馆。此外，基于libfewshot，我们提供多个基准数据集的全面评估，其中包含多个骨干架构，以评估不同培训技巧的常见缺陷和效果。此外，鉴于近期对必要性或未培训机制的必要性怀疑，我们的评估结果表明，特别是当与预训练相结合时，仍然需要这种机制。我们希望我们的工作不仅可以降低初学者的障碍，可以在几次学习上工作，而且还消除了非动力技巧的影响，促进了几枪学习的内在研究。源代码可从https://github.com/rl-vig/libfewshot获取。

大型预训练的变压器是现代语义分割基准的顶部，但具有高计算成本和冗长的培训。为了提高这种约束，我们从综合知识蒸馏的角度来研究有效的语义分割，并考虑弥合多源知识提取和特定于变压器特定的斑块嵌入之间的差距。我们提出了基于变压器的知识蒸馏（TransKD）框架，该框架通过蒸馏出大型教师变压器的特征地图和补丁嵌入来学习紧凑的学生变形金刚，绕过长期的预训练过程并将FLOPS降低> 85.0％。具体而言，我们提出了两个基本和两个优化模块：（1）交叉选择性融合（CSF）可以通过通道注意和层次变压器内的特征图蒸馏之间的知识转移； （2）嵌入对齐（PEA）在斑块过程中执行尺寸转换，以促进贴片嵌入蒸馏； （3）全局本地上下文混合器（GL-MIXER）提取了代表性嵌入的全局和局部信息； （4）嵌入助手（EA）是一种嵌入方法，可以无缝地桥接老师和学生模型，并具有老师的渠道数量。关于CityScapes，ACDC和NYUV2数据集的实验表明，TransKD的表现优于最先进的蒸馏框架，并竞争了耗时的预训练方法。代码可在https://github.com/ruipingl/transkd上找到。

This work proposes Multi-task Meta Learning (MTML), integrating two learning paradigms Multi-Task Learning (MTL) and meta learning, to bring together the best of both worlds. In particular, it focuses simultaneous learning of multiple tasks, an element of MTL and promptly adapting to new tasks with fewer data, a quality of meta learning. It is important to highlight that we focus on heterogeneous tasks, which are of distinct kind, in contrast to typically considered homogeneous tasks (e.g., if all tasks are classification or if all tasks are regression tasks). The fundamental idea is to train a multi-task model, such that when an unseen task is introduced, it can learn in fewer steps whilst offering a performance at least as good as conventional single task learning on the new task or inclusion within the MTL. By conducting various experiments, we demonstrate this paradigm on two datasets and four tasks: NYU-v2 and the taskonomy dataset for which we perform semantic segmentation, depth estimation, surface normal estimation, and edge detection. MTML achieves state-of-the-art results for most of the tasks. Although semantic segmentation suffers quantitatively, our MTML method learns to identify segmentation classes absent in the pseudo labelled ground truth of the taskonomy dataset.

We introduce Bootstrap Your Own Latent (BYOL), a new approach to self-supervised image representation learning. BYOL relies on two neural networks, referred to as online and target networks, that interact and learn from each other. From an augmented view of an image, we train the online network to predict the target network representation of the same image under a different augmented view. At the same time, we update the target network with a slow-moving average of the online network. While state-of-the art methods rely on negative pairs, BYOL achieves a new state of the art without them. BYOL reaches 74.3% top-1 classification accuracy on ImageNet using a linear evaluation with a ResNet-50 architecture and 79.6% with a larger ResNet. We show that BYOL performs on par or better than the current state of the art on both transfer and semi-supervised benchmarks. Our implementation and pretrained models are given on GitHub. 3 * Equal contribution; the order of first authors was randomly selected.

Image classification with small datasets has been an active research area in the recent past. However, as research in this scope is still in its infancy, two key ingredients are missing for ensuring reliable and truthful progress: a systematic and extensive overview of the state of the art, and a common benchmark to allow for objective comparisons between published methods. This article addresses both issues. First, we systematically organize and connect past studies to consolidate a community that is currently fragmented and scattered. Second, we propose a common benchmark that allows for an objective comparison of approaches. It consists of five datasets spanning various domains (e.g., natural images, medical imagery, satellite data) and data types (RGB, grayscale, multispectral). We use this benchmark to re-evaluate the standard cross-entropy baseline and ten existing methods published between 2017 and 2021 at renowned venues. Surprisingly, we find that thorough hyper-parameter tuning on held-out validation data results in a highly competitive baseline and highlights a stunted growth of performance over the years. Indeed, only a single specialized method dating back to 2019 clearly wins our benchmark and outperforms the baseline classifier.

大多数现有的工作在几次学习中，依赖于Meta-Learning网络在大型基础数据集上，该网络通常是与目标数据集相同的域。我们解决了跨域几秒钟的问题，其中基础和目标域之间存在大移位。与未标记的目标数据的跨域几秒识别问题在很大程度上在文献中毫无根据。启动是使用自我训练解决此问题的第一个方法。但是，它使用固定的老师在标记的基础数据集上返回，以为未标记的目标样本创建软标签。由于基本数据集和未标记的数据集来自不同的域，因此将基本数据集的类域中的目标图像投影，具有固定的预制模型可能是子最优的。我们提出了一种简单的动态蒸馏基方法，以方便来自新颖/基础数据集的未标记图像。我们通过从教师网络中的未标记图像的未标记版本的预测计算并将其与来自学生网络相同的相同图像的强大版本匹配来施加一致性正常化。教师网络的参数被更新为学生网络参数的指数移动平均值。我们表明所提出的网络了解可以轻松适应目标域的表示，即使它尚未在预先预测阶段的目标专用类别训练。我们的车型优于当前最先进的方法，在BSCD-FSL基准中的5次分类，3.6％的3.6％，并在传统的域名几枪学习任务中显示出竞争性能。

Few-shot learning aims to fast adapt a deep model from a few examples. While pre-training and meta-training can create deep models powerful for few-shot generalization, we find that pre-training and meta-training focuses respectively on cross-domain transferability and cross-task transferability, which restricts their data efficiency in the entangled settings of domain shift and task shift. We thus propose the Omni-Training framework to seamlessly bridge pre-training and meta-training for data-efficient few-shot learning. Our first contribution is a tri-flow Omni-Net architecture. Besides the joint representation flow, Omni-Net introduces two parallel flows for pre-training and meta-training, responsible for improving domain transferability and task transferability respectively. Omni-Net further coordinates the parallel flows by routing their representations via the joint-flow, enabling knowledge transfer across flows. Our second contribution is the Omni-Loss, which introduces a self-distillation strategy separately on the pre-training and meta-training objectives for boosting knowledge transfer throughout different training stages. Omni-Training is a general framework to accommodate many existing algorithms. Evaluations justify that our single framework consistently and clearly outperforms the individual state-of-the-art methods on both cross-task and cross-domain settings in a variety of classification, regression and reinforcement learning problems.

Jitendra Malik once said, "Supervision is the opium of the AI researcher". Most deep learning techniques heavily rely on extreme amounts of human labels to work effectively. In today's world, the rate of data creation greatly surpasses the rate of data annotation. Full reliance on human annotations is just a temporary means to solve current closed problems in AI. In reality, only a tiny fraction of data is annotated. Annotation Efficient Learning (AEL) is a study of algorithms to train models effectively with fewer annotations. To thrive in AEL environments, we need deep learning techniques that rely less on manual annotations (e.g., image, bounding-box, and per-pixel labels), but learn useful information from unlabeled data. In this thesis, we explore five different techniques for handling AEL.

语义分割在广泛的计算机视觉应用中起着基本作用，提供了全球对图像​​的理解的关键信息。然而，最先进的模型依赖于大量的注释样本，其比在诸如图像分类的任务中获得更昂贵的昂贵的样本。由于未标记的数据替代地获得更便宜，因此无监督的域适应达到了语义分割社区的广泛成功并不令人惊讶。本调查致力于总结这一令人难以置信的快速增长的领域的五年，这包含了语义细分本身的重要性，以及将分段模型适应新环境的关键需求。我们提出了最重要的语义分割方法;我们对语义分割的域适应技术提供了全面的调查;我们揭示了多域学习，域泛化，测试时间适应或无源域适应等较新的趋势;我们通过描述在语义细分研究中最广泛使用的数据集和基准测试来结束本调查。我们希望本调查将在学术界和工业中提供具有全面参考指导的研究人员，并有助于他们培养现场的新研究方向。

Learning with limited data is a key challenge for visual recognition. Many few-shot learning methods address this challenge by learning an instance embedding function from seen classes and apply the function to instances from unseen classes with limited labels. This style of transfer learning is task-agnostic: the embedding function is not learned optimally discriminative with respect to the unseen classes, where discerning among them leads to the target task. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to adapt the instance embeddings to the target classification task with a set-to-set function, yielding embeddings that are task-specific and are discriminative. We empirically investigated various instantiations of such set-to-set functions and observed the Transformer is most effective -as it naturally satisfies key properties of our desired model. We denote this model as FEAT (few-shot embedding adaptation w/ Transformer) and validate it on both the standard few-shot classification benchmark and four extended few-shot learning settings with essential use cases, i.e., cross-domain, transductive, generalized few-shot learning, and low-shot learning. It archived consistent improvements over baseline models as well as previous methods, and established the new stateof-the-art results on two benchmarks.