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While interest in the application of machine learning to improve healthcare has grown tremendously in recent years, a number of barriers prevent deployment in medical practice. A notable concern is the potential to exacerbate entrenched…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Isabel Chien , Nina Deliu , Richard E. Turner , Adrian Weller , Sofia S. Villar , Niki Kilbertus

The burgeoning fields of robot learning and embodied AI have triggered an increasing demand for large quantities of data. However, collecting sufficient unbiased data from the target domain remains a challenge due to costly data collection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Haoyi Niu , Jianming Hu , Guyue Zhou , Xianyuan Zhan

Recently, transfer learning and self-supervised learning have gained significant attention within the medical field due to their ability to mitigate the challenges posed by limited data availability, improve model generalisation, and reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zehui Zhao , Laith Alzubaidi , Jinglan Zhang , Ye Duan , Usman Naseem , Yuantong Gu

Transfer learning has become an essential paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling the transfer of knowledge from a source task to improve performance on a target task. This approach, particularly through techniques such as pretraining…

We propose a transfer learning method that utilizes data representations in a semiparametric regression model. Our aim is to perform statistical inference on the parameter of primary interest in the target model while accounting for…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-21 Baihua He , Huihang Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Jian Huang

Machine learning algorithms have achieved remarkable success across various disciplines, use cases and applications, under the prevailing assumption that training and test samples are drawn from the same distribution. Consequently, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Zehao Xiao , Cees G. M. Snoek

Machine learning models have been widely applied for material property prediction. However, practical application of these models can be hindered by a lack of information about how well they will perform on previously unseen types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 Gihan Panapitiya , Emily Saldanha

Extensive efforts have been made to understand and improve the fairness of machine learning models based on observational metrics, especially in high-stakes domains such as medical insurance, education, and hiring decisions. However, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Mintong Kang , Linyi Li , Maurice Weber , Yang Liu , Ce Zhang , Bo Li

Transfer learning aims to transfer knowledge or information from a source domain to a relevant target domain. In this paper, we understand transfer learning from the perspectives of knowledge transferability and trustworthiness. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jun Wu , Jingrui He

Fine-tuning pre-trained models is a widely employed technique in numerous real-world applications. However, fine-tuning these models on new tasks can lead to unfair outcomes. This is due to the absence of generalization guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Yixuan Zhang , Feng Zhou

Supervised learning with large scale labeled datasets and deep layered models has made a paradigm shift in diverse areas in learning and recognition. However, this approach still suffers generalization issues under the presence of a domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-28 Ozan Sener , Hyun Oh Song , Ashutosh Saxena , Silvio Savarese

Diagnosing and mitigating changes in model fairness under distribution shift is an important component of the safe deployment of machine learning in healthcare settings. Importantly, the success of any mitigation strategy strongly depends…

Transfer learning is a vital technique that generalizes models trained for one setting or task to other settings or tasks. For example in speech recognition, an acoustic model trained for one language can be used to recognize speech in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Dong Wang , Thomas Fang Zheng

Federated learning improves data privacy and efficiency in machine learning performed over networks of distributed devices, such as mobile phones, IoT and wearable devices, etc. Yet models trained with federated learning can still fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xingchao Peng , Zijun Huang , Yizhe Zhu , Kate Saenko

A commonly accepted hypothesis is that models with higher accuracy on Imagenet perform better on other downstream tasks, leading to much research dedicated to optimizing Imagenet accuracy. Recently this hypothesis has been challenged by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Niv Nayman , Avram Golbert , Asaf Noy , Tan Ping , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

The increasing application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning models poses potential risks of unfair behavior and, in light of recent regulations, has attracted the attention of the research community. Several researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Giandomenico Cornacchia , Vito Walter Anelli , Fedelucio Narducci , Azzurra Ragone , Eugenio Di Sciascio

In practical machine learning settings, the data on which a model must make predictions often come from a different distribution than the data it was trained on. Here, we investigate the problem of unsupervised multi-source domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Dustin Wright , Isabelle Augenstein

Real-world datasets often encode stereotypes and societal biases. Such biases can be implicitly captured by trained models, leading to biased predictions and exacerbating existing societal preconceptions. Existing debiasing methods, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Aili Shen , Xudong Han , Trevor Cohn , Timothy Baldwin , Lea Frermann

With the increasing use and impact of recommender systems in our daily lives, how to achieve fairness in recommendation has become an important problem. Previous works on fairness-aware recommendation mainly focus on a predefined set of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Yunqi Li , Dingxian Wang , Hanxiong Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Machine learning techniques are steadily becoming more important in modern biology, and are used to build predictive models, discover patterns, and investigate biological problems. However, models trained on one dataset are often not…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-30 Seyedmehdi Orouji , Martin C. Liu , Tal Korem , Megan A. K. Peters