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Jiayi Su¹, Lifeng Xing¹, Tao Li¹

¹School of Mathematics and Information Science, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.

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This study introduces a novel computational model inspired by the brain's visual system for few-shot learning. The model demonstrates human-like learning capabilities, outperforming existing methods on real-world image datasets.

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Computer vision

Background:

Human visual cognition rapidly learns new object shapes and adapts to novel situations.
The ventral visual pathway is crucial for object recognition.
Existing models often lack a system-level perspective, hindering robust few-shot learning.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a computational model for few-shot learning inspired by the ventral visual stream.
To develop a system-level approach for robust few-shot learning capabilities.

Main Methods:

A computational model with a macroscopic neural architecture was developed.
Vision Transformer (ViT) reproduced feature extraction of V1 and V2.
Neural fields modeled V4 and IT neuronal activity, with Hebbian learning rules connecting neurons.

Main Results:

The model emulates visual neural mechanisms and enables efficient learning.
A scale adaptation strategy was employed.
The model outperformed state-of-the-art few-shot learning algorithms on real-world datasets.

Conclusions:

The ventral-stream-inspired machine learning model achieves effective few-shot learning.
The model demonstrates human-like learning capabilities on real-world data.