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Transfer learning is an important approach for addressing the challenges posed by limited data availability in various applications. It accomplishes this by transferring knowledge from well-established source domains to a less familiar…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-03 Yeheng Ge , Xueyu Zhou , Jian Huang

Safety validation is important during the development of safety-critical autonomous systems but can require significant computational effort. Existing algorithms often start from scratch each time the system under test changes. We apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Anthony Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

This paper introduces a novel transfer learning framework for deep multi-agent reinforcement learning. The approach automatically combines goal-conditioned policies with temporal contrastive learning to discover meaningful sub-goals. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Weihao Zeng , Joseph Campbell , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara

Transfer learning is beneficial for survival analysis, especially when the target study has a limited number of events. However, existing transfer learning methods rely on the restrictive assumption that the target and source studies share…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Yu Gu , Donglin Zeng , D. Y. Lin

Deep learning models have lately shown great performance in various fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, speech translation, and natural language processing. However, alongside their state-of-the-art performance, it is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Daniel Jakubovitz , Raja Giryes , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Transfer Learning (TL) aims to transfer knowledge acquired in one problem, the source problem, onto another problem, the target problem, dispensing with the bottom-up construction of the target model. Due to its relevance, TL has gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Ricardo Gamelas Sousa , Luís A. Alexandre , Jorge M. Santos , Luís M. Silva , Joaquim Marques de Sá

Transfer learning techniques are important to handle small training sets and to allow for quick generalization even from only a few examples. The following paper is the introduction as well as the literature overview part of my thesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Erik Rodner

Transfer learning has been successfully applied across many high-impact applications. However, most existing work focuses on the static transfer learning setting, and very little is devoted to modeling the time evolving target domain, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Jun Wu , Jingrui He

Algorithms often have tunable parameters that impact performance metrics such as runtime and solution quality. For many algorithms used in practice, no parameter settings admit meaningful worst-case bounds, so the parameters are made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Maria-Florina Balcan , Dan DeBlasio , Travis Dick , Carl Kingsford , Tuomas Sandholm , Ellen Vitercik

Generative models at times produce "invalid" outputs, such as images with generation artifacts and unnatural sounds. Validity-constrained distribution learning attempts to address this problem by requiring that the learned distribution have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Nick Rittler , Kamalika Chaudhuri

The objective of transfer learning is to enhance estimation and inference in a target data by leveraging knowledge gained from additional sources. Recent studies have explored transfer learning for independent observations in complex,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-23 Mingliang Ma Abolfazl Safikhani

In this paper we propose an improved method for transfer learning that takes into account the balance between target and source data. This method builds on the state-of-the-art Multisource Tradaboost, but weighs the importance of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-28 João Antunes , Alexandre Bernardino , Asim Smailagic , Daniel Siewiorek

Deep transfer learning recently has acquired significant research interest. It makes use of pre-trained models that are learned from a source domain, and utilizes these models for the tasks in a target domain. Model-based deep transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tianyang Wang , Jun Huan , Michelle Zhu

Learning with label proportions (LLP), which is a learning task that only provides unlabeled data in bags and each bag's label proportion, has widespread successful applications in practice. However, most of the existing LLP methods don't…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yanshan Xiao , HuaiPei Wang , Bo Liu

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

Theoretical studies on transfer learning or domain adaptation have so far focused on situations with a known hypothesis class or model; however in practice, some amount of model selection is usually involved, often appearing under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-13 Steve Hanneke , Samory Kpotufe , Yasaman Mahdaviyeh

Understanding generalization is crucial to confidently engineer and deploy machine learning models, especially when deployment implies a shift in the data domain. For such domain adaptation problems, we seek generalization bounds which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Adam Breitholtz , Fredrik D. Johansson

Transfer learning refers to the transfer of knowledge or information from a relevant source domain to a target domain. However, most existing transfer learning theories and algorithms focus on IID tasks, where the source/target samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Wu , Jingrui He , Elizabeth Ainsworth

The field of Computer Vision (CV) has faced challenges. Initially, it relied on handcrafted features and rule-based algorithms, resulting in limited accuracy. The introduction of machine learning (ML) has brought progress, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Aaryan Panda , Damodar Panigrahi , Shaswata Mitra , Sudip Mittal , Shahram Rahimi

We study transfer learning for estimation in latent variable network models. In our setting, the conditional edge probability matrices given the latent variables are represented by $P$ for the source and $Q$ for the target. We wish to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Akhil Jalan , Arya Mazumdar , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar