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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

Transfer Learning (TL) is an efficient machine learning paradigm that allows overcoming some of the hurdles that characterize the successful training of deep neural networks, ranging from long training times to the needs of large datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Matthia Sabatelli , Pierre Geurts

Deep neural networks are often considered opaque systems, prompting the need for explainability methods to improve trust and accountability. Existing approaches typically attribute test-time predictions either to input features (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Aziz Bacha , Thomas George

Transfer learning entails taking an artificial neural network (ANN) that is trained on a source dataset and adapting it to a new target dataset. While this has been shown to be quite powerful, its use has generally been restricted by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-05 AbdElRahman ElSaid , Joshua Karns , Alexander Ororbia , Daniel Krutz , Zimeng Lyu , Travis Desell

Transfer learning makes it possible to use large vision networks on a variety of domains, by specializing their models' general filters to new tasks. However, these networks assume the input images to have 3 input channels, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mariette Schönfeld , Laurens Devos , Wannes Meert , Hendrik Blockeel

We consider transferability estimation, the problem of estimating how well deep learning models transfer from a source to a target task. We focus on regression tasks, which received little previous attention, and propose two simple and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Cuong N. Nguyen , Phong Tran , Lam Si Tung Ho , Vu Dinh , Anh T. Tran , Tal Hassner , Cuong V. Nguyen

Is more data always better to train vision-and-language models? We study knowledge transferability in multi-modal tasks. The current tendency in machine learning is to assume that by joining multiple datasets from different tasks their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Tianwei Chen , Noa Garcia , Mayu Otani , Chenhui Chu , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Recent work on deep learning for tabular data demonstrates the strong performance of deep tabular models, often bridging the gap between gradient boosted decision trees and neural networks. Accuracy aside, a major advantage of neural models…

It has been demonstrated that deep neural networks outperform traditional machine learning. However, deep networks lack generalisability, that is, they will not perform as good as in a new (testing) set drawn from a different distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Bruno Casella , Alessio Barbaro Chisari , Sebastiano Battiato , Mario Valerio Giuffrida

In recent years, multi-task learning has turned out to be of great success in various applications. Though single model training has promised great results throughout these years, it ignores valuable information that might help us estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yeshwant Singh , Anupam Biswas , Angshuman Bora , Debashish Malakar , Subham Chakraborty , Suman Bera

This paper presents a framework for deep transfer learning, which aims to leverage information from multi-domain upstream data with a large number of samples $n$ to a single-domain downstream task with a considerably smaller number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yuling Jiao , Huazhen Lin , Yuchen Luo , Jerry Zhijian Yang

Transfer learning research attempts to make model induction transferable across different domains. This method assumes that specific information regarding to which domain each instance belongs is known. This paper helps to extend the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xinshun Liu , He Xin , Mao Hui , Liu Jing , Lai Weizhong , Ye Qingwen

Previous transfer learning methods based on deep network assume the knowledge should be transferred between the same hidden layers of the source domain and the target domains. This assumption doesn't always hold true, especially when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Jianzhe Lin , Qi Wang , Rabab Ward , Z. Jane Wang

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

Recent work has found that multi-task training with a large number of diverse tasks can uniformly improve downstream performance on unseen target tasks. In contrast, literature on task transferability has established that the choice of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Vishakh Padmakumar , Leonard Lausen , Miguel Ballesteros , Sheng Zha , He He , George Karypis

Transfer learning with models pretrained on ImageNet has become a standard practice in computer vision. Transfer learning refers to fine-tuning pretrained weights of a neural network on a downstream task, typically unrelated to ImageNet.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xander Coetzer , Arné Schreuder , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

Transfer learning improves the performance of the target task by leveraging the data of a specific source task: the closer the relationship between the source and the target tasks, the greater the performance improvement by transfer…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-31 Youzhi Qu , Xinyao Jian , Wenxin Che , Penghui Du , Kai Fu , Quanying Liu

In this report, we combine the idea of Wide ResNets and transfer learning to optimize the architecture of deep neural networks. The first improvement of the architecture is the use of all layers as information source for the last layer.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wolfgang Fuhl

Many methods have been proposed to solve the domain adaptation problem recently. However, the success of them implicitly funds on the assumption that the information of domains are fully transferrable. If the assumption is not satisfied,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Hoang Tran Vu , Ching-Chun Huang

Transformer-based models for transfer learning have the potential to achieve high prediction accuracies on text-based supervised learning tasks with relatively few training data instances. These models are thus likely to benefit social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Sandra Wankmüller