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People deploy top-down, goal-directed attention to accomplish tasks, such as finding lost keys. By tuning the visual system to relevant information sources, object recognition can become more efficient (a benefit) and more biased toward the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Xiaoliang Luo , Brett D. Roads , Bradley C. Love

Few-shot learning is the process of learning novel classes using only a few examples and it remains a challenging task in machine learning. Many sophisticated few-shot learning algorithms have been proposed based on the notion that networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Akihiro Nakamura , Tatsuya Harada

We present a deep learning-based method for propagating spatially-varying visual material attributes (e.g. texture maps or image stylizations) to larger samples of the same or similar materials. For training, we leverage images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo , Elena Garces

Latent space model plays a crucial role in network analysis, and accurate estimation of latent variables is essential for downstream tasks such as link prediction. However, the large number of parameters to be estimated presents a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-22 Kuangnan Fang , Ruixuan Qin , Xinyan Fan

Fine-tuning of pre-trained deep nets is commonly used to improve accuracies and training times for neural nets. It is generally assumed that pre-training a net for optimal source task performance best prepares it for fine-tuning to learn an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Steven Gutstein , Brent Lance , Sanjay Shakkottai

Finetuning can be used to tackle domain-specific tasks by transferring knowledge. Previous studies on finetuning focused on adapting only the weights of a task-specific classifier or re-optimizing all layers of the pre-trained model using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Basel Barakat , Qiang Huang

Most existing methods focus on sentiment analysis of textual data. However, recently there has been a massive use of images and videos on social platforms, motivating sentiment analysis from other modalities. Current studies show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Guilherme Lourenço de Toledo , Ricardo Marcondes Marcacini

We consider transferability estimation, the problem of estimating how well deep learning models transfer from a source to a target task. We focus on regression tasks, which received little previous attention, and propose two simple and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Cuong N. Nguyen , Phong Tran , Lam Si Tung Ho , Vu Dinh , Anh T. Tran , Tal Hassner , Cuong V. Nguyen

Fine-tuning large pre-trained models is an effective transfer mechanism in NLP. However, in the presence of many downstream tasks, fine-tuning is parameter inefficient: an entire new model is required for every task. As an alternative, we…

Transfer learning of diffusion models to smaller target domains is challenging, as naively fine-tuning the model often results in poor generalization. Test-time guidance methods help mitigate this by offering controllable improvements in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yara Bahram , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Eric Granger

Learning from small amounts of labeled data is a challenge in the area of deep learning. This is currently addressed by Transfer Learning where one learns the small data set as a transfer task from a larger source dataset. Transfer Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Parijat Dube , Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee , Elisabeth Petit-Bois , Matthew Hill

We study the question: How can we select the right data for fine-tuning to a specific task? We call this data selection problem active fine-tuning and show that it is an instance of transductive active learning, a novel generalization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Jonas Hübotter , Bhavya Sukhija , Lenart Treven , Yarden As , Andreas Krause

In medical image analysis, transfer learning is a powerful method for deep neural networks (DNNs) to generalize well on limited medical data. Prior efforts have focused on developing pre-training algorithms on domains such as lung…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yixiong Chen , Li Liu , Jingxian Li , Hua Jiang , Chris Ding , Zongwei Zhou

Transferring knowledge from an image synthesis model trained on a large dataset is a promising direction for learning generative image models from various domains efficiently. While previous works have studied GAN models, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kihyuk Sohn , Yuan Hao , José Lezama , Luisa Polania , Huiwen Chang , Han Zhang , Irfan Essa , Lu Jiang

This paper deals with deep transductive learning, and proposes TransBoost as a procedure for fine-tuning any deep neural model to improve its performance on any (unlabeled) test set provided at training time. TransBoost is inspired by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Omer Belhasin , Guy Bar-Shalom , Ran El-Yaniv

CNNs have made an undeniable impact on computer vision through the ability to learn high-capacity models with large annotated training sets. One of their remarkable properties is the ability to transfer knowledge from a large source dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yu-Xiong Wang , Deva Ramanan , Martial Hebert

While transferring a pretrained language model, common approaches conventionally attach their task-specific classifiers to the top layer and adapt all the pretrained layers. We investigate whether one could make a task-specific selection on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Shuo Xie , Jiahao Qiu , Ankita Pasad , Li Du , Qing Qu , Hongyuan Mei

We study a fundamental transfer learning process from source to target linear regression tasks, including overparameterized settings where there are more learned parameters than data samples. The target task learning is addressed by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Yehuda Dar , Daniel LeJeune , Richard G. Baraniuk

Hyperspectral imaging is a rich source of data, allowing for multitude of effective applications. However, such imaging remains challenging because of large data dimension and, typically, small pool of available training examples. While…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Wojciech Masarczyk , Przemysław Głomb , Bartosz Grabowski , Mateusz Ostaszewski

A promising paradigm for adapting instruction-tuned language models is to learn task-specific updates on a pretrained base model and subsequently merge them into the instruction-tuned model. However, existing approaches typically treat the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiwen Ruan , Yichao Du , Jianjie Zheng , Longyue Wang , Yun Chen , Peng Li , Jinsong Su , Yang Liu , Guanhua Chen