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Standard convolutional neural networks assume a grid structured input is available and exploit discrete convolutions as their fundamental building blocks. This limits their applicability to many real-world applications. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Shenlong Wang , Simon Suo , Wei-Chiu Ma , Andrei Pokrovsky , Raquel Urtasun

Most work in the deep learning systems community has focused on faster inference, but arriving at a trained model requires lengthy experiments. Accelerating training lets developers iterate faster and come up with better models. DNN…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Liang Luo , Jacob Nelson , Luis Ceze , Amar Phanishayee , Arvind Krishnamurthy

Spoken language understanding has been addressed as a supervised learning problem, where a set of training data is available for each domain. However, annotating data for each domain is both financially costly and non-scalable so we should…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Libo Qin , Minheng Ni , Yue Zhang , Wanxiang Che , Yangming Li , Ting Liu

Thomson scattering (TS) diagnostics provide reliable, minimally perturbative measurements of fundamental plasma parameters, such as electron density ($n_e$) and electron temperature ($T_e$). Deep neural networks can provide accurate…

Object recognition is an important task for improving the ability of visual systems to perform complex scene understanding. Recently, the Exponential Linear Unit (ELU) has been proposed as a key component for managing bias shift in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Ludovic Trottier , Philippe Giguère , Brahim Chaib-draa

Residual units are wildly used for alleviating optimization difficulties when building deep neural networks. However, the performance gain does not well compensate the model size increase, indicating low parameter efficiency in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Chen Yunpeng , Jin Xiaojie , Kang Bingyi , Feng Jiashi , Yan Shuicheng

We propose a method to transfer knowledge across neural machine translation (NMT) models by means of a shared dynamic vocabulary. Our approach allows to extend an initial model for a given language pair to cover new languages by adapting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Surafel M. Lakew , Aliia Erofeeva , Matteo Negri , Marcello Federico , Marco Turchi

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

Transfer learning is aimed to make use of valuable knowledge in a source domain to help model performance in a target domain. It is particularly important to neural networks, which are very likely to be overfitting. In some fields like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Lili Mou , Zhao Meng , Rui Yan , Ge Li , Yan Xu , Lu Zhang , Zhi Jin

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

Deep neural networks are strongly over-parameterized, often containing far more weights than required for their task. Although such redundancy can aid optimization, it leads to inefficient deployment and high computational cost, motivating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-18 Diego Pesce , Yang-Hui He , Guido Caldarelli

Transfer Learning (TL) plays a crucial role when a given dataset has insufficient labeled examples to train an accurate model. In such scenarios, the knowledge accumulated within a model pre-trained on a source dataset can be transferred to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Tushar Semwal , Gaurav Mathur , Promod Yenigalla , Shivashankar B. Nair

Machine learning requires exuberant amounts of data and computation. Also, models require equally excessive growth in the number of parameters. It is, therefore, sensible to look for technologies that reduce these demands on resources.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Danko Nikolić , Davor Andrić , Vjekoslav Nikolić

Parameter-transfer is a well-known and versatile approach for meta-learning, with applications including few-shot learning, federated learning, and reinforcement learning. However, parameter-transfer algorithms often require sharing models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Jeffrey Li , Mikhail Khodak , Sebastian Caldas , Ameet Talwalkar

The possibility for one to recover the parameters-weights and biases-of a neural network thanks to the knowledge of its function on a subset of the input space can be, depending on the situation, a curse or a blessing. On one hand,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Joachim Bona-Pellissier , François Bachoc , François Malgouyres

Despite their wide application, the vulnerabilities of deep neural networks raise societal concerns. Among them, transformation-based attacks have demonstrated notable success in transfer attacks. However, existing attacks suffer from blind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiaming Liang , Chi-Man Pun

Though remarkable progress has been achieved in various vision tasks, deep neural networks still suffer obvious performance degradation when tested in out-of-distribution scenarios. We argue that the feature statistics (mean and standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Xiaotong Li , Yongxing Dai , Yixiao Ge , Jun Liu , Ying Shan , Ling-Yu Duan

This paper explores a new research problem of unsupervised transfer learning across multiple spatiotemporal prediction tasks. Unlike most existing transfer learning methods that focus on fixing the discrepancy between supervised tasks, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Zhiyu Yao , Yunbo Wang , Mingsheng Long , Jianmin Wang

Recommender systems are often asked to serve multiple recommendation scenarios or domains. Fine-tuning a pre-trained CTR model from source domains and adapting it to a target domain allows knowledge transferring. However, optimizing all the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Xiangli Yang , Qing Liu , Rong Su , Ruiming Tang , Zhirong Liu , Xiuqiang He

We introduce and train distributed neural architectures (DNA) in vision and language domains. DNAs are initialized with a proto-architecture that consists of (transformer, MLP, attention, etc.) modules and routers. Any token (or patch) can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Aditya Cowsik , Tianyu He , Andrey Gromov