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A key element in transfer learning is representation learning; if representations can be developed that expose the relevant factors underlying the data, then new tasks and domains can be learned readily based on mappings of these salient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Yujia Li , Kevin Swersky , Richard Zemel

We introduce a new representation learning algorithm suited to the context of domain adaptation, in which data at training and test time come from similar but different distributions. Our algorithm is directly inspired by theory on domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-10 Hana Ajakan , Pascal Germain , Hugo Larochelle , François Laviolette , Mario Marchand

Transfer learning is a problem defined over two domains. These two domains share the same feature space and class label space, but have significantly different distributions. One domain has sufficient labels, named as source domain, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Hongqi Wang , Anfeng Xu , Shanshan Wang , Sunny Chughtai

In this paper we present a new approach to content-based transfer learning for solving the data sparsity problem in cases when the users' preferences in the target domain are either scarce or unavailable, but the necessary information on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Naseem Biadsy , Lior Rokach , Armin Shmilovici

Unsupervised feature learning has shown impressive results for a wide range of input modalities, in particular for object classification tasks in computer vision. Using a large amount of unlabeled data, unsupervised feature learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Christian Osendorfer , Justin Bayer , Sebastian Urban , Patrick van der Smagt

We study the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation, which aims to adapt classifiers trained on a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Many existing approaches first learn domain-invariant features and then construct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Yuan Shi , Fei Sha

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning a linear regression model on a data domain of interest (target) given few samples. To aid learning, we are provided with a set of pre-trained regression models that are trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Navjot Singh , Suhas Diggavi

We propose a transfer learning method that utilizes data representations in a semiparametric regression model. Our aim is to perform statistical inference on the parameter of primary interest in the target model while accounting for…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-21 Baihua He , Huihang Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Jian Huang

The recent success of neural machine translation models relies on the availability of high quality, in-domain data. Domain adaptation is required when domain-specific data is scarce or nonexistent. Previous unsupervised domain adaptation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zi-Yi Dou , Junjie Hu , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that uses previously acquired knowledge from a source domain to enhance learning in a target domain by reusing learned weights. This technique is ubiquitous because of its great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nermeen Abou Baker , Nico Zengeler , Uwe Handmann

We introduce a new representation learning approach for domain adaptation, in which data at training and test time come from similar but different distributions. Our approach is directly inspired by the theory on domain adaptation…

Transfer learning methods address the situation where little labeled training data from the "target" problem exists, but much training data from a related "source" domain is available. However, the overwhelming majority of transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Aubrey Gress , Ian Davidson

Transfer learning is a powerful paradigm for leveraging knowledge from source domains to enhance learning in a target domain. However, traditional transfer learning approaches often focus on scalar or multivariate data within Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kaicheng Zhang , Sinian Zhang , Doudou Zhou , Yidong Zhou

Graphical models are a rich language for describing high-dimensional distributions in terms of their dependence structure. While there are algorithms with provable guarantees for learning undirected graphical models in a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Guy Bresler , Frederic Koehler , Ankur Moitra , Elchanan Mossel

Domain adaptation enables the learner to safely generalize into novel environments by mitigating domain shifts across distributions. Previous works may not effectively uncover the underlying reasons that would lead to the drastic model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Ruijia Xu , Guanbin Li , Jihan Yang , Liang Lin

We develop a novel transfer learning framework to tackle the challenge of limited training data in image reconstruction problems. The proposed framework consists of two training steps, both of which are formed as bi-level optimizations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yunmei Chen , Chi Ding , Xiaojing Ye

Unsupervised domain adaptation is effective in leveraging the rich information from the source domain to the unsupervised target domain. Though deep learning and adversarial strategy make an important breakthrough in the adaptability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 You-Wei Luo , Chuan-Xian Ren , Pengfei Ge , Ke-Kun Huang , Yu-Feng Yu

Existing transfer learning-based beam prediction approaches primarily rely on simple fine-tuning. When there is a significant difference in data distribution between the target domain and the source domain, simple fine-tuning limits the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zhiqiang Xiao , Yuwen Cao , Mondher Bouazizi , Tomoaki Ohtsuki , Shahid Mumtaz

Unsupervised domain adaptation methods aim to alleviate performance degradation caused by domain-shift by learning domain-invariant representations. Existing deep domain adaptation methods focus on holistic feature alignment by matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Jun Wen , Risheng Liu , Nenggan Zheng , Qian Zheng , Zhefeng Gong , Junsong Yuan

In recent years, supervised machine learning models have demonstrated tremendous success in a variety of application domains. Despite the promising results, these successful models are data hungry and their performance relies heavily on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Azin Asgarian , Parinaz Sobhani , Ji Chao Zhang , Madalin Mihailescu , Ariel Sibilia , Ahmed Bilal Ashraf , Babak Taati