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The growing use of Machine Learning has produced significant advances in many fields. For image-based tasks, however, the use of deep learning remains challenging in small datasets. In this article, we review, evaluate and compare the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Miguel Romero , Yannet Interian , Timothy Solberg , Gilmer Valdes

Transfer learning is a popular paradigm for utilizing existing knowledge from previous learning tasks to improve the performance of new ones. It has enjoyed numerous empirical successes and inspired a growing number of theoretical studies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Haoyang Cao , Haotian Gu , Xin Guo

Transfer learning seeks to improve the generalization performance of a target task by exploiting the knowledge learned from a related source task. Central questions include deciding what information one should transfer and when transfer can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Oussama Dhifallah , Yue M. Lu

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

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

Modern deep neural network (DNN) systems are highly configurable with large a number of options that significantly affect their non-functional behavior, for example inference time and energy consumption. Performance models allow to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Md Shahriar Iqbal , Lars Kotthoff , Pooyan Jamshidi

A crucial challenge in reinforcement learning is to reduce the number of interactions with the environment that an agent requires to master a given task. Transfer learning proposes to address this issue by re-using knowledge from previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Remo Sasso , Matthia Sabatelli , Marco A. Wiering

Transfer learning from huge natural image datasets, fine-tuning of deep neural networks and the use of the corresponding pre-trained networks have become de facto the core of art analysis applications. Nevertheless, the effects of transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Nicolas Gonthier , Yann Gousseau , Saïd Ladjal

Transfer learning enables to re-use knowledge learned on a source task to help learning a target task. A simple form of transfer learning is common in current state-of-the-art computer vision models, i.e. pre-training a model for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Thomas Mensink , Jasper Uijlings , Alina Kuznetsova , Michael Gygli , Vittorio Ferrari

Deep networks, composed of multiple layers of hierarchical distributed representations, tend to learn low-level features in initial layers and transition to high-level features towards final layers. Paradigms such as transfer learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Haytham M. Fayek , Lawrence Cavedon , Hong Ren Wu

In most applications of utilizing neural networks for mathematical optimization, a dedicated model is trained for each specific optimization objective. However, in many scenarios, several distinct yet correlated objectives or tasks often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Wei Cui , Wei Yu

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

Large, pre-trained models are problematic to use in resource constrained applications. Fortunately, task-aware structured pruning methods offer a solution. These approaches reduce model size by dropping structural units like layers and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Lucio Dery , David Grangier , Awni Hannun

Continual learning of a stream of tasks is an active area in deep neural networks. The main challenge investigated has been the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting or interference of newly acquired knowledge with knowledge from previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Diana Benavides-Prado , Patricia Riddle

Availability of labelled data is the major obstacle to the deployment of deep learning algorithms for computer vision tasks in new domains. The fact that many frameworks adopted to solve different tasks share the same architecture suggests…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Adriano Cardace , Luca De Luigi , Alessio Tonioni , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

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

One question central to Reinforcement Learning is how to learn a feature representation that supports algorithm scaling and re-use of learned information from different tasks. Successor Features approach this problem by learning a feature…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Lucas Lehnert , Stefanie Tellex , Michael L. Littman

Deep neural networks produce state-of-the-art results when trained on a large number of labeled examples but tend to overfit when small amounts of labeled examples are used for training. Creating a large number of labeled examples requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Attaullah Sahito , Eibe Frank , Bernhard Pfahringer

Weight-sharing is one of the pillars behind Convolutional Neural Networks and their successes. However, in physical neural systems such as the brain, weight-sharing is implausible. This discrepancy raises the fundamental question of whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Jordan Ott , Erik Linstead , Nicholas LaHaye , Pierre Baldi

Many deep neural networks trained on natural images exhibit a curious phenomenon in common: on the first layer they learn features similar to Gabor filters and color blobs. Such first-layer features appear not to be specific to a particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Yoshua Bengio , Hod Lipson