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In deep learning, transfer learning (TL) has become the de facto approach when dealing with image related tasks. Visual features learnt for one task have been shown to be reusable for other tasks, improving performance significantly. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Adrian Tormos , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Victor Gimenez-Abalos , Sergio Alvarez-Napagao

As a vital problem in pattern analysis and machine intelligence, Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) attempts to transfer an effective feature learner from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Inspired by the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Ren Chuan-Xian , Zhai Yi-Ming , Luo You-Wei , Yan Hong

Recent techniques to solve photorealistic style transfer within deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) generally require intensive training from large-scale datasets, thus having limited applicability and poor generalization ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Sunwoo Kim , Soohyun Kim , Seungryong Kim

There has been a significant recent surge in deep neural network (DNN) techniques. Most of the existing DNN techniques have restricted model formats/assumptions. To overcome their limitations, we propose the nonparametric transformation…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-28 Tong Wang , Shunqin Zhang , Sanguo Zhang , Jian Huang , Shuangge Ma

The use of transfer learning with deep neural networks has increasingly become widespread for deploying well-tested computer vision systems to newer domains, especially those with limited datasets. We describe a transfer learning use case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Rashik Shadman , M. G. Sarwar Murshed , Edward Verenich , Alvaro Velasquez , Faraz Hussain

Deep Neural Networks are highly over-parameterized and the size of the neural networks can be reduced significantly after training without any decrease in performance. One can clearly see this phenomenon in a wide range of architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Utku Evci

This paper introduces Progressively Diffused Networks (PDNs) for unifying multi-scale context modeling with deep feature learning, by taking semantic image segmentation as an exemplar application. Prior neural networks, such as ResNet, tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Ruimao Zhang , Wei Yang , Zhanglin Peng , Xiaogang Wang , Liang Lin

The workflow of pretraining and fine-tuning has emerged as a popular paradigm for solving various NLP and V&L (Vision-and-Language) downstream tasks. With the capacity of pretrained models growing rapidly, how to perform parameter-efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Zhengkun Zhang , Wenya Guo , Xiaojun Meng , Yasheng Wang , Yadao Wang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Zhenglu Yang

Transfer learning is a popular approach to bypassing data limitations in one domain by leveraging data from another domain. This is especially useful in robotics, as it allows practitioners to reduce data collection with physical robots,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Liam Schramm , Avishai Sintov , Abdeslam Boularias

We address the fundamental question of why deep neural networks generalize by establishing a pointwise generalization theory for fully connected networks. This framework resolves long-standing barriers to characterizing the rich nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shaojie Li , Yunbei Xu

By classifying infinite-width neural networks and identifying the *optimal* limit, Tensor Programs IV and V demonstrated a universal way, called $\mu$P, for *widthwise hyperparameter transfer*, i.e., predicting optimal hyperparameters of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Greg Yang , Dingli Yu , Chen Zhu , Soufiane Hayou

Sentiment analysis is known as one of the most crucial tasks in the field of natural language processing and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of those prominent models that is commonly used for this aim. Although convolutional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Hossein Sadr , Mozhdeh Nazari Solimandarabi , Mir Mohsen Pedram , Mohammad Teshnehlab

Intermediate-task transfer can benefit a wide range of NLP tasks with properly selected source datasets. However, it is computationally infeasible to experiment with all intermediate transfer combinations, making choosing a useful source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Wangchunshu Zhou , Canwen Xu , Julian McAuley

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

Differentially private (DP) transfer learning, i.e., fine-tuning a pretrained model on private data, is the current state-of-the-art approach for training large models under privacy constraints. We focus on two key hyperparameters in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Aki Rehn , Linzh Zhao , Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Honkela

As a new classification platform, deep learning has recently received increasing attention from researchers and has been successfully applied to many domains. In some domains, like bioinformatics and robotics, it is very difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Chuanqi Tan , Fuchun Sun , Tao Kong , Wenchang Zhang , Chao Yang , Chunfang Liu

Deep learning models have become a cornerstone of modern AI research, yet their initializations and learning rates may at times be set in an opaque or ad-hoc fashion due to the high cost of hyperparameter sweeps. The $\mu$-Parameterization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Lucas Lingle

Finetuning pretrained models occurs in a low-dimensional subspace of the full parameter space. Prior work has focused on characterizing this optimization subspace, but largely ignored the complementary question: why do certain directions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junjie Yu , Yue Wang , Zihan Deng , Yan Zhu , Wenxiao Ma , Quanying Liu

Prompt tuning offers a parameter-efficient way to adapt large pre-trained language models to new tasks, but most existing approaches are designed for single-task settings, failing to share knowledge across related tasks. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ahmad Pouramini , Hesham Faili

Existing approaches to combine both additive and multiplicative neural units either use a fixed assignment of operations or require discrete optimization to determine what function a neuron should perform. This leads either to an…

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