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Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Learning Via Dependency Maximization and Instance Discriminant Analysis

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We study the few-shot learning (FSL) problem, where a model learns to recognize new objects with extremely few labeled training data per category. Most of previous FSL approaches resort to the meta-learning paradigm, where the model accumulates inductive bias through learning many training tasks so as to solve a new unseen few-shot task. In contrast, we propose a simple semi-supervised FSL approach to exploit unlabeled data accompanying the few-shot task for improving few-shot performance. (i) Firstly, we propose a Dependency Maximization method based on the Hilbert-Schmidt norm of the cross-covariance operator, which maximizes the statistical dependency between the embedded features of those unlabeled data and their label predictions, together with the supervised loss over the support set. We then use the obtained model to infer the pseudo-labels of the unlabeled data. (ii) Furthermore, we propose an Instance Discriminant Analysis to evaluate the credibility of each pseudo-labeled example and select the most faithful ones into an augmented support set to retrain the model as in the first step. We iterate the above process until the pseudo-labels of the unlabeled set become stable. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on four widely used few-shot classification benchmarks, including mini-ImageNet, tiered-ImageNet, CUB, CIFARFS, as well as the standard few-shot semantic segmentation benchmark PASCAL-5\(^{i}\).

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Appendix

Before we provide the proof for Theorem 3, we list two useful lemmas that are used repeatedly in the following.

Lemma 1

([45]) The non-increasingly ordered singular values of a matrix \(\mathbf {M}\) obey \(0\le \sigma _i\le \dfrac{\Vert M\Vert _F}{\sqrt{i}}\), where \(\Vert \cdot \Vert _F\) denotes the matrix Frobenius norm.

Lemma 2

([46]) Let \(\sigma _i(M)\) and \(\sigma _i(N)\) be the non-increasingly ordered singular values of matrices \(\mathbf {M},\mathbf {N}\in {\mathbb {R}}^{a\times b}\). Then, \({{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\mathbf {M}\mathbf {N}^T\}\le \sum _i^r\sigma _i(\mathbf {M})\sigma _i(\mathbf {N})\), where \(r={min}(a,b)\).

1.1 Proof of Theorem 3

Proof

The Fishers Criterion can be rewritten as \(\psi ={{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B\}\), where \(\bar{\mathbf {S}}=\mathbf {F}\mathbf {F}^T\) (\(\mathbf {F}\) is the matrix containing all features of the unlabeled set, arranged in columns) and \(\mathbf {S}_B=\sum _{c=1}^NM_c\varvec{\mu }_c\varvec{\mu }_c^T=\sum _{c=1}^N\mathbf {S}_{c}\) (\(\varvec{\mu }_c\) is the mean feature vector of class c). For notation clarity and simplicity, we assume that all data are centered and that data mean does not change after only one sample is removed. This is justifiable when the number of unlabeled data is sufficiently large, which is the case we consider here.

Suppose the removed instance has pseudo-label belonging to class u. After removing the instance \(f(\mathbf {x}_u)\), the two scatter matrices becomes: \(\bar{\mathbf {S}}'=\bar{\mathbf {S}}-f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\) and \(\mathbf {S}_B'=\mathbf {S}_B+\mathbf {S}_u'-\mathbf {S}_u=\mathbf {S}_B+\mathbf {E}_B\), where \(\mathbf {S}_u'=(M_u-1)\varvec{\mu }_u'\varvec{\mu }_u'^T\) and \(\varvec{\mu }_u'=(\varvec{\mu }_uM_u-f(\varvec{\mu }_u))/(M_u-1)\). Then, we can rewrite:

$$\begin{aligned} \mathbf {E}_B=\dfrac{M_u\varvec{\mu }_u\varvec{\mu }_u^T-M_u\varvec{\mu }_uf(\mathbf {x}_u)^T-M_uf(\mathbf {x}_u)\varvec{\mu }_u^T+f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T}{M_u-1} \end{aligned}$$
(11)

We can then define the IDA as:

$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}d\psi _u&={{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B-\bar{\mathbf {S}}'^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B'\}\\&={{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B-(\bar{\mathbf {S}}-f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T)^{-1}(\mathbf {S}_B+\mathbf {E}_B)\} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(12)

The latter term can be reformulated by the Woodbury identity [47]:

$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}&(\bar{\mathbf {S}}-f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T)^{-1}(\mathbf {S}_B+\mathbf {E}_B)\\&=(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}+\dfrac{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}}{1-f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)})(\mathbf {S}_B+\mathbf {E}_B) \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(13)

Substitute this term into the above IDA equation, we have:

$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} d\psi _u={{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\dfrac{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1}+ \bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B+ \dfrac{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {E}_B}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1}\} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(14)

where \(\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B=-{\mathbf {E}}_B\). To upper-bound \(d\psi _u\), we derive an upper-bound for the three terms respectively, given that trace operation is additive.

Upper-bound for \({{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\dfrac{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1}\}\): From Lemma 2, we have:

$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}&{{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\dfrac{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1}\} \\&\le \dfrac{\sum _i\sigma _i(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1})\sigma _i(f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T)}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1}\\&\le \dfrac{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)\sigma _1(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1})}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(15)

where \(\sigma _1(\cdot )\) denotes the largest singular value. Given that the largest singular value is actually the spectral norm, based on the norm submultiplicative, we have:

$$\begin{aligned} \sigma _1(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1})\le \Vert \bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\Vert _2^2\Vert \mathbf {S}_B\Vert _2 \end{aligned}$$
(16)

For the first norm, \(\Vert \bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\Vert _2=1/\sigma _{min}(\bar{\mathbf {S}})\). Typically, \(\bar{\mathbf {S}}\) is regularized by a ridge parameter \(\rho >0\), i.e. \(\bar{\mathbf {S}}+\rho \mathbf {I}\), it can be said that \(\sigma _{min}(\bar{\mathbf {S}})>\rho\), so that \(\Vert \bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\Vert _2<1/\rho\). For the second norm, \(\Vert \mathbf {S}_B\Vert _2=\Vert \sum _{c=1}^NM_c\varvec{\mu }_c\varvec{\mu }_c^T\Vert _2\le \sum _{c=1}^NM_c\Vert \varvec{\mu }_c\varvec{\mu }_c^T\Vert _2=\sum _{c=1}^NM_c\varvec{\mu }_c^T\varvec{\mu }_c=\delta\). It follows that \(\sigma _1(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1})\le \delta /\rho ^2\). Finally, based on the von Neumann [46] property, \(f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1={{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)\}-1=C{\sigma _1(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1})f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)}-1\), where \(C\in [-1,1]\). Hence, for simplicity, we use the following approximation: \(f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1\approx f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)/\rho -1\). Then, we can derive the upper-bound for \({{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\dfrac{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1}\}\) as:

$$\begin{aligned} {{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\dfrac{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {S}_B}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1}\}\le \dfrac{\delta f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)}{\rho (f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)-\rho )} \end{aligned}$$
(17)

Upper-bound for \({{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B\}\): From Lemma 2, we have:

$$\begin{aligned} {{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B\}\le \sum _{i=1}^4\sigma _i(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1})\sigma _i(\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B) \end{aligned}$$
(18)

since \(\text {rank}(\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B)\le 4\) [47]. Then, with Lemma 1, we have \(\sigma _i(\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B)\le \dfrac{\Vert \tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B\Vert _F}{\sqrt{i}}=\dfrac{\Vert {\mathbf {E}}_B\Vert _F}{\sqrt{i}}\). By substituting the definition of \({\mathbf {E}}_B\) and using the triangular inequality, we have:

$$\begin{aligned} \sigma _i(\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B)\le \dfrac{\Vert M_u\varvec{\mu }_u\varvec{\mu }_u^T-M_u\varvec{\mu }_uf(\mathbf {x}_u)^T-M_uf(\mathbf {x}_u)\varvec{\mu }_u^T\Vert _F+\Vert f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\Vert _F}{(M_u-1)\sqrt{i}} \end{aligned}$$
(19)

Based on the property that \(\Vert M\Vert _F^2={{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}(M^TM)\):

$$\begin{aligned} \sigma _i(\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B)\le \dfrac{\nu _u+f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)}{(M_u-1)\sqrt{i}} \end{aligned}$$
(20)

where the definition of \(\nu _u\) is listed in Theorem 3 of our paper. With the bound on \(\sigma _1(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1})<1/\rho\), we can derive the upper-bound for \({{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B\}\) as:

$$\begin{aligned} {{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\tilde{\mathbf {E}}_B\}\le \sum _{i=1}^4\dfrac{\nu _u+f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)}{\rho (M_u-1)\sqrt{i}}\le \dfrac{H_{4,1/2}(\nu _u+f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u))}{\rho (M_u-1)} \end{aligned}$$
(21)

Upper-bound for \({{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\dfrac{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {E}_B}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1}\}\): With similar derivation as in the first term, we have:

$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}&{{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\dfrac{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {E}_B}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1}\} \\&\le \dfrac{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)\sigma _1(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {E}_B\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1})}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)/\rho -1} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(22)

Again, based on the norm submultiplicative, \(\sigma _1(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {E}_B\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1})\le \Vert \bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\Vert _2^2\Vert \mathbf {E}_B\Vert _2\). From the derivation in the second term, we readily get \(\Vert \mathbf {E}_B\Vert _2=\sigma _1(\Vert \mathbf {E}_B\Vert _2)\le \Vert \mathbf {E}_B\Vert _F\le \dfrac{\nu _u+f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)}{(M_u-1)}\). Using the upper-bound for \(\Vert \bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\Vert _2\), we can obtain the bound \(\sigma _1(\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {E}_B\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1})\le \Vert \mathbf {E}_B\Vert _F\le \dfrac{\nu _u+f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)}{(M_u-1)\rho ^2}\). Finally, we can derive the upper-bound for the third term:

$$\begin{aligned} {{\,\mathrm{tr}\,}}\{\dfrac{\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}\mathbf {E}_B}{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^T\bar{\mathbf {S}}^{-1}f(\mathbf {x}_u)-1}\}\le \dfrac{f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)(\nu _u+f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u))}{\rho (f(\mathbf {x}_u)^Tf(\mathbf {x}_u)-\rho )(M_u-1)} \end{aligned}$$
(23)

Finally, we can conclude the upper-bound for \(d\psi _u\) by combining the upper-bounds for three additive terms together.

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Hou, Z., Kung, SY. Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Learning Via Dependency Maximization and Instance Discriminant Analysis. J Sign Process Syst 95, 13–24 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-022-01796-x

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