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In recent years, deep learning models have shown great potential in source code modeling and analysis. Generally, deep learning-based approaches are problem-specific and data-hungry. A challenging issue of these approaches is that they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yasir Hussain , Zhiqiu Huang , Yu Zhou , Senzhang Wang

Transfer learning aims at improving the performance of target learners on target domains by transferring the knowledge contained in different but related source domains. In this way, the dependence on a large number of target domain data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Fuzhen Zhuang , Zhiyuan Qi , Keyu Duan , Dongbo Xi , Yongchun Zhu , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong , Qing He

Meta-learning, or "learning to learn," is a subfield of machine learning where the goal is to develop models and algorithms that can learn from various tasks and improve their learning process over time. Unlike traditional machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Mouad El Bouchattaoui

In this study, we focus on heterogeneous knowledge transfer across entirely different model architectures, tasks, and modalities. Existing knowledge transfer methods (e.g., backbone sharing, knowledge distillation) often hinge on shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kunxi Li , Tianyu Zhan , Kairui Fu , Shengyu Zhang , Kun Kuang , Jiwei Li , Zhou Zhao , Fan Wu , Fei Wu

Transfer learning can boost the performance on the targettask by leveraging the knowledge of the source domain. Recent worksin neural architecture search (NAS), especially one-shot NAS, can aidtransfer learning by establishing sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ming Sun , Haoxuan Dou , Junjie Yan

This paper presents an automatic network adaptation method that finds a ConvNet structure well-suited to a given target task, e.g., image classification, for efficiency as well as accuracy in transfer learning. We call the concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Yang Zhong , Vladimir Li , Ryuzo Okada , Atsuto Maki

One desired capability for machines is the ability to transfer their knowledge of one domain to another where data is (usually) scarce. Despite ample adaptation of transfer learning in various deep learning applications, we yet do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Behnam Neyshabur , Hanie Sedghi , Chiyuan Zhang

Background: Despite recent significant progress in the development of automatic sleep staging methods, building a good model still remains a big challenge for sleep studies with a small cohort due to the data-variability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Huy Phan , Oliver Y. Chén , Philipp Koch , Zongqing Lu , Ian McLoughlin , Alfred Mertins , Maarten De Vos

Machine learning methods adapt the parameters of a model, constrained to lie in a given model class, by using a fixed learning procedure based on data or active observations. Adaptation is done on a per-task basis, and retraining is needed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Osvaldo Simeone , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang

With the emergence of large-scale pre-trained neural networks, methods to adapt such "foundation" models to data-limited downstream tasks have become a necessity. Fine-tuning, preference optimization, and transfer learning have all been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Javan Tahir , Surya Ganguli , Grant M. Rotskoff

Meta-learning, or learning-to-learn, seeks to design algorithms that can utilize previous experience to rapidly learn new skills or adapt to new environments. Representation learning -- a key tool for performing meta-learning -- learns a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Nilesh Tripuraneni , Chi Jin , Michael I. Jordan

This article reviews meta-learning also known as learning-to-learn which seeks rapid and accurate model adaptation to unseen tasks with applications in highly automated AI, few-shot learning, natural language processing and robotics. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Huimin Peng

Transfer learning allows us to train deep architectures requiring a large number of learned parameters, even if the amount of available data is limited, by leveraging existing models previously trained for another task. Here we explore the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Natalie Best , Jordan Ott , Erik Linstead

As the landscape of large language models expands, efficiently finetuning for specific tasks becomes increasingly crucial. At the same time, the landscape of parameter-efficient finetuning methods rapidly expands. Consequently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Tobias Strangmann , Lennart Purucker , Jörg K. H. Franke , Ivo Rapant , Fabio Ferreira , Frank Hutter

Statistical analysis of network data has attracted considerable attention in recent years, due to the rapid advancement of well-trained network models and the accessibility of large public network datasets. In this article, we propose a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-22 Yong He , Kangxiang Qin , Haoran Tang

Transfer learning is widely used to adapt large pretrained models to new tasks with only a small amount of new data. However, a challenge persists -- the features from the original task often do not fully cover what is needed for unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xingyu Alice Yang , Jianyu Zhang , Léon Bottou

We introduce a novel method that enables parameter-efficient transfer and multi-task learning with deep neural networks. The basic approach is to learn a model patch - a small set of parameters - that will specialize to each task, instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Mark Sandler , Andrey Zhmoginov , Andrew Howard

Transfer learning can significantly improve the sample efficiency of neural networks, by exploiting the relatedness between a data-scarce target task and a data-abundant source task. Despite years of successful applications, transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Federica Gerace , Luca Saglietti , Stefano Sarao Mannelli , Andrew Saxe , Lenka Zdeborová

An increasing number of people in the world today speak a mixed-language as a result of being multilingual. However, building a speech recognition system for code-switching remains difficult due to the availability of limited resources and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Genta Indra Winata , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Zhaojiang Lin , Zihan Liu , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

Humans are incredibly good at transferring knowledge from one domain to another, enabling rapid learning of new tasks. Likewise, transfer learning has enabled enormous success in many computer vision problems using pretraining. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yipeng Zhang , Tyler L. Hayes , Christopher Kanan