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Current transfer learning methods for high-dimensional linear regression assume feature alignment across domains, restricting their applicability to semantically matched features. In many real-world scenarios, however, distinct features in…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-29 Jiancheng Jiang , Xuejun Jiang , Hongxia Jin

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been successful in various domains like robotics, game playing, and simulation. While RL agents have shown impressive capabilities in their specific tasks, they insufficiently adapt to new tasks. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Thomas Schmied , Markus Hofmarcher , Fabian Paischer , Razvan Pascanu , Sepp Hochreiter

Transfer learning has recently attracted significant research attention, as it simultaneously learns from different source domains, which have plenty of labeled data, and transfers the relevant knowledge to the target domain with limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-14 Alireza Karbalayghareh , Xiaoning Qian , Edward R. Dougherty

Transfer learning approaches in reinforcement learning aim to assist agents in learning their target domains by leveraging the knowledge learned from other agents that have been trained on similar source domains. For example, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Nathan Beck , Abhiramon Rajasekharan , Hieu Tran

In this paper, we propose a novel learning framework for the problem of domain transfer learning. We map the data of two domains to one single common space, and learn a classifier in this common space. Then we adapt the common classifier to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Ru-Ze Liang , Wei Xie , Weizhi Li , Hongqi Wang , Jim Jing-Yan Wang , Lisa Taylor

Transfer learning is widely used for training deep neural networks (DNN) for building a powerful representation. Even after the pre-trained model is adapted for the target task, the representation performance of the feature extractor is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Seunghee Koh , Hyounguk Shon , Janghyeon Lee , Hyeong Gwon Hong , Junmo Kim

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

We propose Regularized Learning under Label shifts (RLLS), a principled and a practical domain-adaptation algorithm to correct for shifts in the label distribution between a source and a target domain. We first estimate importance weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anqi Liu , Fanny Yang , Animashree Anandkumar

How do we transfer the relevant knowledge from ever larger foundation models into small, task-specific downstream models that can run at much lower costs? Standard transfer learning using pre-trained weights as the initialization transfers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Shikai Qiu , Boran Han , Danielle C. Maddix , Shuai Zhang , Yuyang Wang , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Style transfer deals with the algorithms to transfer the stylistic properties of a piece of text into that of another while ensuring that the core content is preserved. There has been a lot of interest in the field of text style transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Abhilasha Sancheti , Kundan Krishna , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Anandhavelu Natarajan

Transfer learning aims to learn classifiers for a target domain by transferring knowledge from a source domain. However, due to two main issues: feature discrepancy and distribution divergence, transfer learning can be a very difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Md Geaur Rahman , Md Zahidul Islam

Data selection is a key component of efficient instruction tuning for large language models, as recent work has shown that data quality often matters more than data quantity. Accordingly, prior studies have introduced various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jingze Song , Zihao Chen , Wenqing Chen , Zibin Zheng

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable emergent capabilities through extensive pre-training, they still face critical limitations in generalizing to specialized domains and handling diverse linguistic variations, known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jinwu Hu , Zhitian Zhang , Guohao Chen , Xutao Wen , Chao Shuai , Wei Luo , Bin Xiao , Yuanqing Li , Mingkui Tan

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

Transfer learning aims to improve performance on a target task by leveraging information from related source tasks. We propose a nonparametric regression transfer learning framework that explicitly models heterogeneity in the source-target…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hélène Halconruy , Benjamin Bobbia , Paul Lejamtel

Sharing knowledge between tasks is vital for efficient learning in a multi-task setting. However, most research so far has focused on the easier case where knowledge transfer is not harmful, i.e., where knowledge from one task cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Timo Bram , Gino Brunner , Oliver Richter , Roger Wattenhofer

Transfer learning (TL) is widely used in conventional hybrid automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, to transfer the knowledge from source to target language. TL can be applied to end-to-end (E2E) ASR system such as recurrent neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Vikas Joshi , Rui Zhao , Rupesh R. Mehta , Kshitiz Kumar , Jinyu Li

Reinforcement learning (RL) in robotics is often limited by the cost and risk of data collection, motivating experience transfer from a source task to a target task. Offline-to-online RL leverages prior data but typically assumes a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mintae Kim , Koushil Sreenath

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

Transfer learning plays a key role in modern data analysis when: (1) the target data are scarce but the source data are sufficient; (2) the distributions of the source and target data are heterogeneous. This paper develops an interpretable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-31 Shuo Shuo Liu