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We consider the problem of selecting $k$ seed nodes in a network to maximize the minimum probability of activation under an independent cascade beginning at these seeds. The motivation is to promote fairness by ensuring that even the least…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Dennis Robert Windham , Caroline J. Wendt , Alex Crane , Madelyn J Warr , Freda Shi , Sorelle A. Friedler , Blair D. Sullivan , Aaron Clauset

Modern datasets span billions of samples, making training on all available data infeasible. Selecting a high quality subset helps in reducing training costs and enhancing model quality. Submodularity, a discrete analogue of convexity, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Maximilian Böther , Abraham Sebastian , Pranjal Awasthi , Ana Klimovic , Srikumar Ramalingam

Transfer learning is a useful technique for achieving improved performance and reducing training costs by leveraging the knowledge gained from source tasks and applying it to target tasks. Assessing the effectiveness of transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Peizhong Ju , Sen Lin , Mark S. Squillante , Yingbin Liang , Ness B. Shroff

We address the long-standing problem of how to learn effective pixel-based image diffusion models at scale, introducing a remarkably simple greedy growing method for stable training of large-scale, high-resolution models. without the needs…

We provide an information-theoretic analysis of the generalization ability of Gibbs-based transfer learning algorithms by focusing on two popular transfer learning approaches, $\alpha$-weighted-ERM and two-stage-ERM. Our key result is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yuheng Bu , Gholamali Aminian , Laura Toni , Miguel Rodrigues , Gregory Wornell

Feature learning with deep models has achieved impressive results for both data representation and classification for various vision tasks. Deep feature learning, however, typically requires a large amount of training data, which may not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yue Wu , Qiang Ji

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

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

We consider a serious, previously-unexplored challenge facing almost all approaches to scaling up entity resolution (ER) to multiple data sources: the prohibitive cost of labeling training data for supervised learning of similarity scores…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Sahand Negahban , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Jim Gemmell

While transfer learning is an effective strategy, it often overlooks the opportunity to leverage knowledge from numerous available models online. Addressing this multi-source transfer learning problem is a promising path to boost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Marcin Osial , Bartosz Wójcik , Bartosz Zieliński , Sebastian Cygert

Deep neural networks require a large amount of labeled training data during supervised learning. However, collecting and labeling so much data might be infeasible in many cases. In this paper, we introduce a source-target selective joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Yizhou Yu

Transfer learning refers to the process of adapting a model trained on a source task to a target task. While kernel methods are conceptually and computationally simple machine learning models that are competitive on a variety of tasks, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Max Ruiz Luyten , Neha Prasad , Caroline Uhler

A typical assumption in supervised machine learning is that the train (source) and test (target) datasets follow completely the same distribution. This assumption is, however, often violated in uncertain real-world applications, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Masahiro Nomura , Yuta Saito

Kernel based methods provide a way to reconstruct potentially high-dimensional functions from meshfree samples, i.e., sampling points and corresponding target values. A crucial ingredient for this to be successful is the distribution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Tizian Wenzel , Gabriele Santin , Bernard Haasdonk

We propose a greedy algorithm to select $N$ important features among $P$ input features for a non-linear prediction problem. The features are selected one by one sequentially, in an iterative loss minimization procedure. We use neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Alireza M. Javid , Prakash Borpatra Gohain , Yonina C. Eldar , Saikat Chatterjee

In this paper we propose an improved method for transfer learning that takes into account the balance between target and source data. This method builds on the state-of-the-art Multisource Tradaboost, but weighs the importance of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-28 João Antunes , Alexandre Bernardino , Asim Smailagic , Daniel Siewiorek

Recent advances in NLP demonstrate the effectiveness of training large-scale language models and transferring them to downstream tasks. Can fine-tuning these models on tasks other than language modeling further improve performance? In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Tu Vu , Tong Wang , Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Alessandro Sordoni , Adam Trischler , Andrew Mattarella-Micke , Subhransu Maji , Mohit Iyyer

In this paper, we study transfer learning for high-dimensional factor-augmented sparse linear models, motivated by applications in economics and finance where strongly correlated predictors and latent factor structures pose major challenges…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-23 Bo Fu , Dandan Jiang

The widespread adoption of transfer learning has revolutionized machine learning by enabling efficient adaptation of pre-trained models to new domains. However, the reliability of these adaptations remains poorly understood, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Prabhav Singh , Jessica Sorrell

When the transferable set is unknowable, transfering informative knowledge as much as possible\textemdash a principle we refer to as \emph{sufficiency}, becomes crucial for enhancing transfer learning effectiveness. However, existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-22 Xiyuan Zhang , Huihang Liu , Xinyu Zhang