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Transfer learning (TL) utilizes data or knowledge from one or more source domains to facilitate the learning in a target domain. It is particularly useful when the target domain has very few or no labeled data, due to annotation expense,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Wen Zhang , Lingfei Deng , Lei Zhang , Dongrui Wu

The availability of abundant labeled data in recent years led the researchers to introduce a methodology called transfer learning, which utilizes existing data in situations where there are difficulties in collecting new annotated data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Abolfazl Farahani , Behrouz Pourshojae , Khaled Rasheed , Hamid R. Arabnia

Transfer learning is a machine learning paradigm where the knowledge from one task is utilized to resolve the problem in a related task. On the one hand, it is conceivable that knowledge from one task could be useful for solving a related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xuetong Wu , Jonathan H. Manton , Uwe Aickelin , Jingge Zhu

Transfer learning seeks to improve the generalization performance of a target task by exploiting the knowledge learned from a related source task. Central questions include deciding what information one should transfer and when transfer can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Oussama Dhifallah , Yue M. Lu

Transfer learning is a machine learning paradigm where knowledge from one problem is utilized to solve a new but related problem. While conceivable that knowledge from one task could be useful for solving a related task, if not executed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Xuetong Wu , Jonathan H. Manton , Uwe Aickelin , Jingge Zhu

Transfer learning has become a central paradigm in modern machine learning, yet it suffers from the long-standing problem of negative transfer, where leveraging source representations can harm rather than help performance on the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yichen Xu , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang , Lexin Li

Adversarial learning has been successfully embedded into deep networks to learn transferable features, which reduce distribution discrepancy between the source and target domains. Existing domain adversarial networks assume fully shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Zhangjie Cao , Mingsheng Long , Jianmin Wang , Michael I. Jordan

Transfer learning has emerged as a powerful methodology for adapting pre-trained deep neural networks on image recognition tasks to new domains. This process consists of taking a neural network pre-trained on a large feature-rich source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Francisco Utrera , Evan Kravitz , N. Benjamin Erichson , Rajiv Khanna , Michael W. Mahoney

Transfer learning is widely used for transferring knowledge from a source domain to the target domain where the labeled data is scarce. Recently, deep transfer learning has achieved remarkable progress in various applications. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Cen Chen , Bingzhe Wu , Minghui Qiu , Li Wang , Jun Zhou

Transfer learning is a useful technique for achieving improved performance and reducing training costs by leveraging the knowledge gained from source tasks and applying it to target tasks. Assessing the effectiveness of transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Peizhong Ju , Sen Lin , Mark S. Squillante , Yingbin Liang , Ness B. Shroff

As the application of deep learning has expanded to real-world problems with insufficient volume of training data, transfer learning recently has gained much attention as means of improving the performance in such small-data regime.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Yunhun Jang , Hankook Lee , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Transfer learning is a valuable tool in deep learning as it allows propagating information from one "source dataset" to another "target dataset", especially in the case of a small number of training examples in the latter. Yet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Daniel Jakubovitz , David Uliel , Miguel Rodrigues , Raja Giryes

Transfer learning, also referred as knowledge transfer, aims at reusing knowledge from a source dataset to a similar target one. While many empirical studies illustrate the benefits of transfer learning, few theoretical results are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-19 David Obst , Badih Ghattas , Jairo Cugliari , Georges Oppenheim , Sandra Claudel , Yannig Goude

Transfer learning aims to leverage models pre-trained on source data to efficiently adapt to target setting, where only limited data are available for model fine-tuning. Recent works empirically demonstrate that adversarial training in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Zhun Deng , Linjun Zhang , Kailas Vodrahalli , Kenji Kawaguchi , James Zou

Modern statistical analysis often encounters high dimensional models but with limited sample sizes. This makes the target data based statistical estimation very difficult. Then how to borrow information from another large sized source data…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-13 Ziqian Lin , Yuan Gao , Feifei Wang , Hansheng Wang

Generalization outside the scope of one's training data requires leveraging prior knowledge about the effects that transfer, and the effects that don't, between different data sources. Transfer learning is a framework for specifying and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Sabina J. Sloman , Julien Martinelli , Samuel Kaski

Models that perform out-of-domain generalization borrow knowledge from heterogeneous source data and apply it to a related but distinct target task. Transfer learning has proven effective for accomplishing this generalization in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Xinran Miao , Kris Sankaran

Transfer learning aims to enhance performance on a target task by using knowledge from related tasks. However, when the source and target tasks are not closely aligned, it can lead to reduced performance, known as negative transfer. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Zehong Wang , Zheyuan Zhang , Chuxu Zhang , Yanfang Ye

Negative transfer in training of acoustic models for automatic speech recognition has been reported in several contexts such as domain change or speaker characteristics. This paper proposes a novel technique to overcome negative transfer by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Mortaza Doulaty , Oscar Saz , Thomas Hain

Transfer learning, in which a network is trained on one task and re-purposed on another, is often used to produce neural network classifiers when data is scarce or full-scale training is too costly. When the goal is to produce a model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Ali Shafahi , Parsa Saadatpanah , Chen Zhu , Amin Ghiasi , Christoph Studer , David Jacobs , Tom Goldstein
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