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Transfer learning aims at transferring knowledge from a well-labeled domain to a similar but different domain with limited or no labels. Unfortunately, existing learning-based methods often involve intensive model selection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Han Yu , Meiyu Huang , Qiang Yang

Transfer learning has been developed to improve the performances of different but related tasks in machine learning. However, such processes become less efficient with the increase of the size of training data and the number of tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

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

Transfer learning is an umbrella term for machine learning approaches that leverage knowledge gained from solving one problem (the source domain) to improve speed, efficiency, and data requirements in solving a different but related problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Alireza Nadali , Bingzhuo Zhong , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

Transfer learning aims to learn classifiers for a target domain by transferring knowledge from a source domain. However, due to two main issues: feature discrepancy and distribution divergence, transfer learning can be a very difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Md Geaur Rahman , Md Zahidul Islam

Meta-learning stands for 'learning to learn' such that generalization to new tasks is achieved. Among these methods, Gradient-based meta-learning algorithms are a specific sub-class that excel at quick adaptation to new tasks with limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Transfer learning has drawn growing attention with the target of improving statistical efficiency of one study (dataset) by digging information from similar and related auxiliary studies (datasets). In the article, we consider transfer…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-28 Yong He , Qiushi Li , Qinqin Hu , Lei Liu

Transfer learning borrows knowledge from a source domain to facilitate learning in a target domain. Two primary issues to be addressed in transfer learning are what and how to transfer. For a pair of domains, adopting different transfer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Ying Wei , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

We consider Heterogeneous Transfer Learning (HTL) from a source to a new target domain for high-dimensional regression with differing feature sets. Most homogeneous TL methods assume that target and source domains share the same feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Jae Ho Chang , Massimiliano Russo , Subhadeep Paul

Although achieving remarkable progress, it is very difficult to induce a supervised classifier without any labeled data. Unsupervised domain adaptation is able to overcome this challenge by transferring knowledge from a labeled source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yuntao Du , Ruiting Zhang , Xiaowen Zhang , Yirong Yao , Hengyang Lu , Chongjun Wang

Transfer learning through fine-tuning a pre-trained neural network with an extremely large dataset, such as ImageNet, can significantly accelerate training while the accuracy is frequently bottlenecked by the limited dataset size of the new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Xingjian Li , Haoyi Xiong , Hanchao Wang , Yuxuan Rao , Liping Liu , Zeyu Chen , Jun Huan

Generalising deep networks to novel domains without manual labels is challenging to deep learning. This problem is intrinsically difficult due to unpredictable changing nature of imagery data distributions in novel domains. Pre-learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong

Humans can learn from very few samples, demonstrating an outstanding generalization ability that learning algorithms are still far from reaching. Currently, the most successful models demand enormous amounts of well-labeled data, which are…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Frederico Guth , Teofilo Emidio de-Campos

Transfer learning has become an essential paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling the transfer of knowledge from a source task to improve performance on a target task. This approach, particularly through techniques such as pretraining…

In this paper, we propose an approach for transferring the knowledge of a neural model for sequence labeling, learned from the source domain, to a new model trained on a target domain, where new label categories appear. Our transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Lingzhen Chen , Alessandro Moschitti

Language Models (LMs) encode substantial knowledge in their parameters, yet it remains unclear how to transfer such knowledge in a fine-grained manner, namely parametric knowledge transfer (PKT). A central challenge is to make cross-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jian Gu , Aldeida Aleti , Chunyang Chen , Hongyu Zhang

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

Transfer learning is a very important tool in deep learning as it allows propagating information from one "source dataset" to another "target dataset", especially in the case of a small number of training examples in the latter. Yet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Daniel Jakubovitz , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Raja Giryes

Transfer learning leverages knowledge from other domains and has been successful in many applications. Transfer learning methods rely on the overall similarity of the source and target domains. However, in some cases, it is impossible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yifu Zhang , Hongru Li , Shimeng Shi , Youqi Li , Jiansong Zhang

Learning what to share between tasks has been a topic of great importance recently, as strategic sharing of knowledge has been shown to improve downstream task performance. This is particularly important for multilingual applications, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Farhad Nooralahzadeh , Giannis Bekoulis , Johannes Bjerva , Isabelle Augenstein