Description

Few-shot learning trains a model that can generalise from only a handful of labelled examples per class, usually via meta-learning over related tasks (MAML, prototypical networks) or via metric-learning embeddings. In CSI sensing it is the practical workaround for sites where each gesture / activity can be demoed only a few times.

When it's used

  • New-user / new-room calibration with minimal labelling effort
  • Open-set CSI gesture vocabularies
  • Cross-domain CSI transfer with only few shots in the target

Limitations

  • Performance is highly sensitive to support-set choice
  • Overfit on the meta-training task family
  • Worse than full supervision when data is plentiful

Source Papers

  • hou2023_bf83 — few-shot CSI sensing pipeline
  • chen2023_5cbd — few-shot in CSI generalisation taxonomy
  • wang2026_2758 — few-shot evaluation of CSI sensing
  • yang2023_a34a — few-shot in WiFi-sensing roadmap

25 vault papers use this method

Titles and DOIs only — no abstracts, no analyses.

  • Cross-Domain WiFi Sensing with Channel State Information: A Survey 2023 DOI ↗
  • DASECount: Domain-Agnostic Sample-Efficient Wireless Indoor Crowd Counting via Few-Shot Learning 2023 DOI ↗
  • SenseFi: A library and benchmark on deep-learning-empowered WiFi human sensing 2023 DOI ↗
  • A CSI Dataset for Wireless Human Sensing on 80 MHz Wi-Fi Channels 2023 DOI ↗
  • A Survey on Wi-Fi Sensing Generalizability: Taxonomy, Techniques, Datasets, and Future Research Prospects 2026 DOI ↗
  • Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Traffic State Estimation: A Survey and the Outlook 2023 DOI ↗
  • A Comprehensive Survey on Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction 2024 DOI ↗
  • Exposing the CSI: A Systematic Investigation of CSI-based Wi-Fi Sensing Capabilities and Limitations 2023 DOI ↗
  • Exposing the CSI: A Systematic Investigation of CSI-based Wi-Fi Sensing Capabilities and Limitations 2023 DOI ↗
  • Exposing the CSI: A Systematic Investigation of CSI-based Wi-Fi Sensing Capabilities and Limitations 2023 DOI ↗
  • Exposing the CSI: A Systematic Investigation of CSI-based Wi-Fi Sensing Capabilities and Limitations 2023 DOI ↗
  • A Survey on RAG Meeting LLMs: Towards Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models 2024 DOI ↗
  • A Survey on Green Wireless Sensing: Energy-Efficient Sensing via WiFi CSI and Lightweight Learning 2026 DOI ↗
  • The construction and refined extraction techniques of knowledge graph based on large language models 2026 DOI ↗
  • Deep Learning-Enhanced Human Sensing with Channel State Information: A Survey 2026 DOI ↗
  • Meta-Learning-Based People Counting and Localization Models Employing CSI From Commodity Wi-Fi NICs 2025 DOI ↗
  • RSSI-Assisted CSI-Based Passenger Counting with Multiple Wi-Fi Receivers 2025 DOI ↗
  • CSI-Based People Counting in WiFi Networks: Leveraging Occupancy Detection 2024 DOI ↗
  • Device-Free Wireless Sensing for Gesture Recognition Based on Complementary CSI Amplitude and Phase 2024 DOI ↗
  • EasyCount: Crowd Counting Based on Easy Deployment Using Commodity Wi-Fi 2024 DOI ↗
  • Arabic Text Enhancement with GPT for Digital Libraries 2024 DOI ↗
  • Chronological Evaluation of Novel Methodology Extraction from AI Literature 2024 DOI ↗
  • DBRP: Decomposition and Branch Reasoning Improves Paper Source Tracing 2024 DOI ↗
  • Enhancing Digital Libraries with Automated Definition Generation 2024 DOI ↗
  • Exploring Efficient Optimization Techniques in Online Retrieval-Augmented Generation Application 2024 DOI ↗