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When labeled data is scarce for a specific target task, transfer learning often offers an effective solution by utilizing data from a related source task. However, when transferring knowledge from a less related source, it may inversely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Zirui Wang , Zihang Dai , Barnabás Póczos , Jaime Carbonell

Transfer learning is a useful technique for achieving improved performance and reducing training costs by leveraging the knowledge gained from source tasks and applying it to target tasks. Assessing the effectiveness of transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Peizhong Ju , Sen Lin , Mark S. Squillante , Yingbin Liang , Ness B. Shroff

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

The availability of abundant labeled data in recent years led the researchers to introduce a methodology called transfer learning, which utilizes existing data in situations where there are difficulties in collecting new annotated data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Abolfazl Farahani , Behrouz Pourshojae , Khaled Rasheed , Hamid R. Arabnia

The problem of learning one task using samples from another task is central to transfer learning. In this paper, we focus on answering the following question: when does combining the samples from two related tasks perform better than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-11 Fan Yang , Hongyang R. Zhang , Sen Wu , Christopher Ré , Weijie J. Su

Transfer learning is a machine learning paradigm where knowledge from one problem is utilized to solve a new but related problem. While conceivable that knowledge from one task could be useful for solving a related task, if not executed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Xuetong Wu , Jonathan H. Manton , Uwe Aickelin , Jingge Zhu

Transfer learning is a machine learning paradigm where the knowledge from one task is utilized to resolve the problem in a related task. On the one hand, it is conceivable that knowledge from one task could be useful for solving a related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xuetong Wu , Jonathan H. Manton , Uwe Aickelin , Jingge Zhu

Transfer learning, also referred as knowledge transfer, aims at reusing knowledge from a source dataset to a similar target one. While many empirical studies illustrate the benefits of transfer learning, few theoretical results are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-19 David Obst , Badih Ghattas , Jairo Cugliari , Georges Oppenheim , Sandra Claudel , Yannig Goude

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

Using transfer learning to adapt a pre-trained "source model" to a downstream "target task" can dramatically increase performance with seemingly no downside. In this work, we demonstrate that there can exist a downside after all: bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Hadi Salman , Saachi Jain , Andrew Ilyas , Logan Engstrom , Eric Wong , Aleksander Madry

In many business settings, task-specific labeled data are scarce or costly to obtain, limiting supervised learning on a target task. A classical response is transfer learning (TL). Many TL works study how to transfer information from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Hamza Cherkaoui , Hélène Halconruy , Yohan Petetin

Transfer learning is a vital technique that generalizes models trained for one setting or task to other settings or tasks. For example in speech recognition, an acoustic model trained for one language can be used to recognize speech in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Dong Wang , Thomas Fang Zheng

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

Transfer learning has emerged as a powerful methodology for adapting pre-trained deep neural networks on image recognition tasks to new domains. This process consists of taking a neural network pre-trained on a large feature-rich source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Francisco Utrera , Evan Kravitz , N. Benjamin Erichson , Rajiv Khanna , Michael W. Mahoney

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

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

Transfer learning is an exciting area of Natural Language Processing that has the potential to both improve model performance and increase data efficiency. This study explores the effects of varying quantities of target task training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Josiah Ross , Luke Yoffe , Alon Albalak , William Yang Wang

Pre-training a deep neural network on the ImageNet dataset is a common practice for training deep learning models, and generally yields improved performance and faster training times. The technique of pre-training on one task and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Nishai Kooverjee , Steven James , Terence van Zyl

Transfer in reinforcement learning refers to the notion that generalization should occur not only within a task but also across tasks. We propose a transfer framework for the scenario where the reward function changes between tasks but the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-13 André Barreto , Will Dabney , Rémi Munos , Jonathan J. Hunt , Tom Schaul , Hado van Hasselt , David Silver

Task transfer learning is a popular technique in image processing applications that uses pre-trained models to reduce the supervision cost of related tasks. An important question is to determine task transferability, i.e. given a common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yajie Bao , Yang Li , Shao-Lun Huang , Lin Zhang , Lizhong Zheng , Amir Zamir , Leonidas Guibas
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