English
Related papers

Related papers: How Transferable are Neural Networks in NLP Applic…

200 papers

Pre-training a deep neural network on the ImageNet dataset is a common practice for training deep learning models, and generally yields improved performance and faster training times. The technique of pre-training on one task and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Nishai Kooverjee , Steven James , Terence van Zyl

Transfer learning is a burgeoning concept in statistical machine learning that seeks to improve inference and/or predictive accuracy on a domain of interest by leveraging data from related domains. While the term "transfer learning" has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Piotr M. Suder , Jason Xu , David B. Dunson

Many modern learning tasks require models that can take inputs of varying sizes. Consequently, dimension-independent architectures have been proposed for domains where the inputs are graphs, sets, and point clouds. Recent work on graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Eitan Levin , Yuxin Ma , Mateo Díaz , Soledad Villar

Transfer learning refers to machine learning techniques that focus on acquiring knowledge from related tasks to improve generalization in the tasks of interest. In MRI, transfer learning is important for developing strategies that address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Juan Miguel Valverde , Vandad Imani , Ali Abdollahzadeh , Riccardo De Feo , Mithilesh Prakash , Robert Ciszek , Jussi Tohka

Many paralinguistic tasks are closely related and thus representations learned in one domain can be leveraged for another. In this paper, we investigate how knowledge can be transferred between three paralinguistic tasks: speaker, emotion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-13 John Gideon , Soheil Khorram , Zakaria Aldeneh , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Emily Mower Provost

Natural language processing (NLP) tasks tend to suffer from a paucity of suitably annotated training data, hence the recent success of transfer learning across a wide variety of them. The typical recipe involves: (i) training a deep,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Lyan Verwimp , Jerome R. Bellegarda

Continual learning of a stream of tasks is an active area in deep neural networks. The main challenge investigated has been the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting or interference of newly acquired knowledge with knowledge from previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Diana Benavides-Prado , Patricia Riddle

Transfer learning is known to perform efficiently in many applications empirically, yet limited literature reports the mechanism behind the scene. This study establishes both formal derivations and heuristic analysis to formulate the theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Huan-Hsin Tseng , Hsin-Yi Lin , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Yu Tsao

Recently, the use of pre-trained model to build neural network based on transfer learning methodology is increasingly popular. These pre-trained models present the benefit of using less computing resources to train model with smaller amount…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 William Hui

Latent space model plays a crucial role in network analysis, and accurate estimation of latent variables is essential for downstream tasks such as link prediction. However, the large number of parameters to be estimated presents a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-22 Kuangnan Fang , Ruixuan Qin , Xinyan Fan

Transfer learning is a machine learning paradigm where the knowledge from one task is utilized to resolve the problem in a related task. On the one hand, it is conceivable that knowledge from one task could be useful for solving a related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xuetong Wu , Jonathan H. Manton , Uwe Aickelin , Jingge Zhu

The use of transfer learning (TL) techniques has become common practice in fields such as computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP). Leveraging prior knowledge gained from data with different distributions, TL offers higher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Lauren J. Wong , Sean McPherson , Alan J. Michaels

Using transfer learning to adapt a pre-trained "source model" to a downstream "target task" can dramatically increase performance with seemingly no downside. In this work, we demonstrate that there can exist a downside after all: bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Hadi Salman , Saachi Jain , Andrew Ilyas , Logan Engstrom , Eric Wong , Aleksander Madry

Deep neural networks trained on a wide range of datasets demonstrate impressive transferability. Deep features appear general in that they are applicable to many datasets and tasks. Such property is in prevalent use in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hong Liu , Mingsheng Long , Jianmin Wang , Michael I. Jordan

Transfer learning enables to re-use knowledge learned on a source task to help learning a target task. A simple form of transfer learning is common in current state-of-the-art computer vision models, i.e. pre-training a model for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Thomas Mensink , Jasper Uijlings , Alina Kuznetsova , Michael Gygli , Vittorio Ferrari

With the emergence of large-scale pre-trained neural networks, methods to adapt such "foundation" models to data-limited downstream tasks have become a necessity. Fine-tuning, preference optimization, and transfer learning have all been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Javan Tahir , Surya Ganguli , Grant M. Rotskoff

Through this project, we researched on transfer learning methods and their applications on real world problems. By implementing and modifying various methods in transfer learning for our problem, we obtained an insight in the advantages and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hailin Chen , Shengping Cui , Sebastian Li

Deep neural networks have shown promising results for various clinical prediction tasks. However, training deep networks such as those based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) requires large labeled data, significant hyper-parameter tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Priyanka Gupta , Pankaj Malhotra , Jyoti Narwariya , Lovekesh Vig , Gautam Shroff

Transfer learning for partial differential equations (PDEs) is to develop a pre-trained neural network that can be used to solve a wide class of PDEs. Existing transfer learning approaches require much information of the target PDEs such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Zezhong Zhang , Feng Bao , Lili Ju , Guannan Zhang

We introduce techniques for rapidly transferring the information stored in one neural net into another neural net. The main purpose is to accelerate the training of a significantly larger neural net. During real-world workflows, one often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Tianqi Chen , Ian Goodfellow , Jonathon Shlens