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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

This doctoral thesis improves the transfer learning for sequence labeling tasks by adapting pre-trained neural language models. The proposed improvements in transfer learning involve introducing a multi-task model that incorporates an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 David Dukić

Deep text matching approaches have been widely studied for many applications including question answering and information retrieval systems. To deal with a domain that has insufficient labeled data, these approaches can be used in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Chen Qu , Feng Ji , Minghui Qiu , Liu Yang , Zhiyu Min , Haiqing Chen , Jun Huang , W. Bruce Croft

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

Large language models are increasingly deployed across diverse applications. This often includes tasks LLMs have not encountered during training. This implies that enumerating and obtaining the high-quality training data for all tasks is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shambhavi Krishna , Atharva Naik , Chaitali Agarwal , Sudharshan Govindan , Taesung Lee , Haw-Shiuan Chang

Transfer learning (TL) is becoming a powerful tool in scientific applications of neural networks (NNs), such as weather/climate prediction and turbulence modeling. TL enables out-of-distribution generalization (e.g., extrapolation in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-04 Adam Subel , Yifei Guan , Ashesh Chattopadhyay , Pedram Hassanzadeh

Neural network based methods have obtained great progress on a variety of natural language processing tasks. However, in most previous works, the models are learned based on single-task supervised objectives, which often suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Pengfei Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

A crucial challenge in reinforcement learning is to reduce the number of interactions with the environment that an agent requires to master a given task. Transfer learning proposes to address this issue by re-using knowledge from previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Remo Sasso , Matthia Sabatelli , Marco A. Wiering

Transfer learning aims at improving the performance of target learners on target domains by transferring the knowledge contained in different but related source domains. In this way, the dependence on a large number of target domain data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Fuzhen Zhuang , Zhiyuan Qi , Keyu Duan , Dongbo Xi , Yongchun Zhu , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong , Qing He

We present a Transfer Causal Learning (TCL) framework when target and source domains share the same covariate/feature spaces, aiming to improve causal effect estimation accuracy in limited data. Limited data is very common in medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Song Wei , Hanyu Zhang , Ronald Moore , Rishikesan Kamaleswaran , Yao Xie

Transfer learning improves the performance of the target task by leveraging the data of a specific source task: the closer the relationship between the source and the target tasks, the greater the performance improvement by transfer…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-31 Youzhi Qu , Xinyao Jian , Wenxin Che , Penghui Du , Kai Fu , Quanying Liu

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

Transfer learning involves taking information and insight from one problem domain and applying it to a new problem domain. Although widely used in practice, theory for transfer learning remains less well-developed. To address this, we prove…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-24 Jake Williams , Abel Tadesse , Tyler Sam , Huey Sun , George D. Montanez

Transfer learning allows practitioners to recognize and apply knowledge learned in previous tasks (source task) to new tasks or new domains (target task), which share some commonality. The two important factors impacting the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Michael Bernico , Yuntao Li , Dingchao Zhang

Classification is an essential and fundamental task in machine learning, playing a cardinal role in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). In a supervised learning setting, labels are always needed for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Irene Li

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…

This paper addresses the problem of transferring useful knowledge from a source network to predict node labels in a newly formed target network. While existing transfer learning research has primarily focused on vector-based data, in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Meng Fang , Jie Yin , Xingquan Zhu

To efficiently select optimal dataset combinations for enhancing multi-task learning (MTL) performance in large language models, we proposed a novel framework that leverages a neural network to predict the best dataset combinations. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zaifu Zhan , Rui Zhang

We consider the Hypothesis Transfer Learning (HTL) problem where one incorporates a hypothesis trained on the source domain into the learning procedure of the target domain. Existing theoretical analysis either only studies specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Simon Shaolei Du , Jayanth Koushik , Aarti Singh , Barnabas Poczos

Transfer Learning (TL) offers the potential to accelerate learning by transferring knowledge across tasks. However, it faces critical challenges such as negative transfer, domain adaptation and inefficiency in selecting solid source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alessandro Capurso , Elia Piccoli , Davide Bacciu