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Large language models (LLMs) excel at complex tasks thanks to advances in their reasoning abilities. However, existing methods overlook the trade-off between reasoning effectiveness and efficiency, often encouraging unnecessarily long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jingyao Wang , Wenwen Qiang , Zeen Song , Changwen Zheng , Hui Xiong

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) demonstrate remarkable intelligence but struggle with emerging tasks unseen during training in real-world applications. Training separate models for each new task is usually impractical. Multi-task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xiao Zhang , Kangsheng Wang , Tianyu Hu , Huimin Ma

Aided target recognition (AiTR), the problem of classifying objects from sensor data, is an important problem with applications across industry and defense. While classification algorithms continue to improve, they often require more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Samuel Rivera , Olga Mendoza-Schrock , Ashley Diehl

Pivot-based neural machine translation (NMT) is commonly used in low-resource setups, especially for translation between non-English language pairs. It benefits from using high resource source-pivot and pivot-target language pairs and an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Evgeniia Tokarchuk , Jan Rosendahl , Weiyue Wang , Pavel Petrushkov , Tomer Lancewicki , Shahram Khadivi , Hermann Ney

We propose a framework that learns a representation transferable across different domains and tasks in a label efficient manner. Our approach battles domain shift with a domain adversarial loss, and generalizes the embedding to novel task…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-04 Zelun Luo , Yuliang Zou , Judy Hoffman , Li Fei-Fei

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) learns effective policies from a static target dataset. The performance of state-of-the-art offline RL algorithms notwithstanding, it relies on the size of the target dataset, and it degrades if limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Weiqin Chen , Xinjie Zhang , Sandipan Mishra , Santiago Paternain

Deploying machine learning models to new tasks is a major challenge despite the large size of the modern training datasets. However, it is conceivable that the training data can be reweighted to be more representative of the new (target)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Subha Maity , Mikhail Yurochkin , Moulinath Banerjee , Yuekai Sun

Many existing transfer learning methods rely on leveraging information from source data that closely resembles the target data. However, this approach often overlooks valuable knowledge that may be present in different yet potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Xin Xiong , Zijian Guo , Tianxi Cai

Transfer learning is a powerful tool enabling model training with limited amounts of data. This technique is particularly useful in real-world problems where data availability is often a serious limitation. The simplest transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Federica Gerace , Diego Doimo , Stefano Sarao Mannelli , Luca Saglietti , Alessandro Laio

Effective water resource management requires information on water availability, both in terms of quality and quantity, spatially and temporally. In this paper, we study the methodology behind Transfer Learning (TL) through fine-tuning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Roland Oruche , Lisa Egede , Tracy Baker , Fearghal O'Donncha

Transfer-learning methods aim to improve performance in a data-scarce target domain using a model pretrained on a data-rich source domain. A cost-efficient strategy, linear probing, involves freezing the source model and training a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Utku Evci , Vincent Dumoulin , Hugo Larochelle , Michael C. Mozer

Transfer learning has gained significant attention in recent deep learning research due to its ability to accelerate convergence and enhance performance on new tasks. However, its success is often contingent on the similarity between source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bedionita Soro , Bruno Andreis , Hayeon Lee , Wonyong Jeong , Song Chong , Frank Hutter , Sung Ju Hwang

Multi-task learning (MTL) allows deep neural networks to learn from related tasks by sharing parameters with other networks. In practice, however, MTL involves searching an enormous space of possible parameter sharing architectures to find…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-20 Sebastian Ruder , Joachim Bingel , Isabelle Augenstein , Anders Søgaard

Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled in various tasks but perform better in high-resource scenarios, which presents challenges in low-resource scenarios. Data scarcity and the inherent difficulty of adapting LLMs to specific tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuanhao Zeng , Min Wang , Yihang Wang , Yingxia Shao

We study linear regression under covariate shift, where the marginal distribution over the input covariates differs in the source and the target domains, while the conditional distribution of the output given the input covariates is similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Jingfeng Wu , Difan Zou , Vladimir Braverman , Quanquan Gu , Sham M. Kakade

We develop here a novel transfer learning methodology called Profiled Transfer Learning (PTL). The method is based on the \textit{approximate-linear} assumption between the source and target parameters. Compared with the commonly assumed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Ziqian Lin , Junlong Zhao , Fang Wang , Hansheng Wang

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a growing subject of interest in deep learning, due to its ability to train models more efficiently on multiple tasks compared to using a group of conventional single-task models. However, MTL can be impractical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Anish Lakkapragada , Essam Sleiman , Saimourya Surabhi , Dennis P. Wall

Vehicular crowdsensing is anticipated to become a key catalyst for data-driven optimization in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) domain. Yet, the expected growth in massive Machine-type Communication (mMTC) caused by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Benjamin Sliwa , Christian Wietfeld

Meta reinforcement learning (meta-RL) aims to learn a policy solving a set of training tasks simultaneously and quickly adapting to new tasks. It requires massive amounts of data drawn from training tasks to infer the common structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yijie Guo , Qiucheng Wu , Honglak Lee

Multi-task learning is to improve the performance of the model by transferring and exploiting common knowledge among tasks. Existing MTL works mainly focus on the scenario where label sets among multiple tasks (MTs) are usually the same,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Quan Feng , Songcan Chen