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In many real-world applications, researchers aim to deploy models trained in a source domain to a target domain, where obtaining labeled data is often expensive, time-consuming, or even infeasible. While most existing literature assumes…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-26 Seong-ho Lee , Yanyuan Ma , Jiwei Zhao

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

In crowd counting datasets, people appear at different scales, depending on their distance from the camera. To address this issue, we propose a novel multi-branch scale-aware attention network that exploits the hierarchical structure of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Rahul Rama Varior , Bing Shuai , Joseph Tighe , Davide Modolo

Regression uses supervised machine learning to find a model that combines several independent variables to predict a dependent variable based on ground truth (labeled) data, i.e., tuples of independent and dependent variables (labels).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Maria Ulan , Welf Löwe , Morgan Ericsson , Anna Wingkvist

We present a supervised learning framework of training generative models for density estimation. Generative models, including generative adversarial networks, normalizing flows, variational auto-encoders, are usually considered as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yanfang Liu , Minglei Yang , Zezhong Zhang , Feng Bao , Yanzhao Cao , Guannan Zhang

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

Unsupervised domain adaptation person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to identify pedestrian images within an unlabeled target domain with an auxiliary labeled source-domain dataset. Many existing works attempt to recover reliable identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Qiong Wu , Jiahan Li , Pingyang Dai , Qixiang Ye , Liujuan Cao , Yongjian Wu , Rongrong Ji

An important aspect of urban planning is understanding crowd levels at various locations, which typically require the use of physical sensors. Such sensors are potentially costly and time consuming to implement on a large scale. To address…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Jerome Heng , Junhua Liu , Kwan Hui Lim

Transfer learning uses a data model, trained to make predictions or inferences on data from one population, to make reliable predictions or inferences on data from another population. Most existing transfer learning approaches are based on…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-01 Jimmy Hickey , Jonathan P. Williams , Emily C. Hector

This paper considers the two-dataset problem, where data are collected from two potentially different populations sharing common aspects. This problem arises when data are collected by two different types of researchers or from two…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-27 Steven N. MacEachern , Koji Miyawaki

Unsupervised domain adaptation seeks to learn an invariant and discriminative representation for an unlabeled target domain by leveraging the information of a labeled source dataset. We propose to improve the discriminative ability of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Rui Wang , Guoyin Wang , Ricardo Henao

There has been increased interest in devising learning techniques that combine unlabeled data with labeled data ? i.e. semi-supervised learning. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has been performed across various techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-12 N. V. Chawla , Grigoris Karakoulas

In many practical data mining scenarios, such as network intrusion detection, Twitter spam detection, and computer-aided diagnosis, a source domain that is different from but related to a target domain is very common. In addition, a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhe Yuan , Yimin Wen

Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning presents unique challenges due to the lack of explicitly labeled negative samples, particularly in high-stakes domains such as fraud detection and medical diagnosis. To address data scarcity and privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-17 Jialei Liu , Jun Liao , Kuangnan Fang

Crowd counting is one of the core tasks in various surveillance applications. A practical system involves estimating accurate head counts in dynamic scenarios under different lightning, camera perspective and occlusion states. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Li Wang , Weiyuan Shao , Yao Lu , Hao Ye , Jian Pu , Yingbin Zheng

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a powerful paradigm for efficiently labeling large datasets and performing various learning tasks, by leveraging crowds of human annotators. When additional information is available about the data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Panagiotis A. Traganitis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Covariate shift and outcome model heterogeneity are two prominent challenges in leveraging external sources to improve risk modeling for underrepresented cohorts in paucity of accurate labels. We consider the transfer learning problem…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-10 Doudou Zhou , Mengyan Li , Tianxi Cai , Molei Liu

We propose a novel crowd counting model that maps a given crowd scene to its density. Crowd analysis is compounded by myriad of factors like inter-occlusion between people due to extreme crowding, high similarity of appearance between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Deepak Babu Sam , Shiv Surya , R. Venkatesh Babu

In modern machine learning applications, frequent encounters of covariate shift and label scarcity have posed challenges to robust model training and evaluation. Numerous transfer learning methods have been developed to robustly adapt the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-22 Linshanshan Wang , Xuan Wang , Katherine P. Liao , Tianxi Cai

Multi-view crowd counting has been proposed to deal with the severe occlusion issue of crowd counting in large and wide scenes. However, due to the difficulty of collecting and annotating multi-view images, the datasets for multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qi Zhang , Yunfei Gong , Zhidan Xie , Zhizi Wang , Antoni B. Chan , Hui Huang