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Main Authors: Ren, Yunhan, Luo, Feng, Huang, Siyu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16728
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author Ren, Yunhan
Luo, Feng
Huang, Siyu
author_facet Ren, Yunhan
Luo, Feng
Huang, Siyu
contents While existing Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) models have achieved significant success, their performance with limited labeled samples and a small number of known categories remains largely unexplored. In this work, we introduce the task of Few-shot Generalized Category Discovery (FSGCD), aiming to achieve competitive performance in GCD tasks under conditions of known information scarcity. To tackle this challenge, we propose a decision boundary enhancement framework with affinity-based retrieval. Our framework is designed to learn the decision boundaries of known categories and transfer these boundaries to unknown categories. First, we use a decision boundary pre-training module to mitigate the overfitting of pre-trained information on known category boundaries and improve the learning of these decision boundaries using labeled samples. Second, we implement a two-stage retrieval-guided decision boundary optimization strategy. Specifically, this strategy further enhances the severely limited known boundaries by using affinity-retrieved pseudo-labeled samples. Then, these refined boundaries are applied to unknown clusters via guidance from affinity-based feature retrieval. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms existing methods on six public GCD benchmarks under the FSGCD setting. The codes are available at: https://github.com/Ryh1218/FSGCD
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spellingShingle Few-Shot Generalized Category Discovery With Retrieval-Guided Decision Boundary Enhancement
Ren, Yunhan
Luo, Feng
Huang, Siyu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
While existing Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) models have achieved significant success, their performance with limited labeled samples and a small number of known categories remains largely unexplored. In this work, we introduce the task of Few-shot Generalized Category Discovery (FSGCD), aiming to achieve competitive performance in GCD tasks under conditions of known information scarcity. To tackle this challenge, we propose a decision boundary enhancement framework with affinity-based retrieval. Our framework is designed to learn the decision boundaries of known categories and transfer these boundaries to unknown categories. First, we use a decision boundary pre-training module to mitigate the overfitting of pre-trained information on known category boundaries and improve the learning of these decision boundaries using labeled samples. Second, we implement a two-stage retrieval-guided decision boundary optimization strategy. Specifically, this strategy further enhances the severely limited known boundaries by using affinity-retrieved pseudo-labeled samples. Then, these refined boundaries are applied to unknown clusters via guidance from affinity-based feature retrieval. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms existing methods on six public GCD benchmarks under the FSGCD setting. The codes are available at: https://github.com/Ryh1218/FSGCD
title Few-Shot Generalized Category Discovery With Retrieval-Guided Decision Boundary Enhancement
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16728