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Meta-Learning with Vision Transformers Boosts Data-Efficient Plant Growth Estimation

Researchers have developed a novel meta-learning framework to improve plant growth estimation using Vision Transformers (ViT) and fuzzy clustering. This approach addresses the challenge of limited labeled data by organizing unlabeled images into structured tasks via fuzzy c-means clustering. Experiments demonstrate that second-order meta-learning methods, such as MAML++, significantly outperform traditional baselines in few-shot learning scenarios, enabling reliable growth estimation even with scarce labels. AI

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Meta-Learning with Vision Transformers Boosts Data-Efficient Plant Growth Estimation

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Sheikh Hasan Elahi, Rusith Chamara Hathurusinghe Dewage, Habib Ullah, Muhammad Salman Siddiqui, Rakibul Islam, Fadi Al Machot ·

    Meta-Learning for Data-Efficient Plant Growth Estimation via Vision Transformers and Fuzzy Clustering

    arXiv:2609.10749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate plant growth estimation is essential for greenhouse monitoring, yet obtaining labeled data remains costly and time-consuming. To address this, we propose a few-shot regression framework that combines Vision Transformer (V…