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We present a 2-step optimal transport approach that performs a mapping from a source distribution to a target distribution. Here, the target has the particularity to present new classes not present in the source domain. The first step of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Marwa Kechaou , Romain Hérault , Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Gilles Gasso

This work simultaneously considers the discriminability and transferability properties of deep representations in the typical supervised learning task, i.e., image classification. By a comprehensive temporal analysis, we observe a trade-off…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Quan Cui , Bingchen Zhao , Zhao-Min Chen , Borui Zhao , Renjie Song , Jiajun Liang , Boyan Zhou , Osamu Yoshie

Transfer learning is an umbrella term for machine learning approaches that leverage knowledge gained from solving one problem (the source domain) to improve speed, efficiency, and data requirements in solving a different but related problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Alireza Nadali , Bingzhuo Zhong , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

Transferability estimation aims to provide heuristics for quantifying how suitable a pre-trained model is for a specific downstream task, without fine-tuning them all. Prior studies have revealed that well-trained models exhibit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yuhe Ding , Bo Jiang , Lijun Sheng , Aihua Zheng , Jian Liang

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach called class-aware optimal transport (OT), which measures the OT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Tuan Nguyen , Van Nguyen , Trung Le , He Zhao , Quan Hung Tran , Dinh Phung

This paper introduces a novel method to perform transfer learning across domains and tasks, formulating it as a problem of learning to cluster. The key insight is that, in addition to features, we can transfer similarity information and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zhaoyang Lv , Zsolt Kira

On edge devices, data scarcity occurs as a common problem where transfer learning serves as a widely-suggested remedy. Nevertheless, transfer learning imposes a heavy computation burden to resource-constrained edge devices. Existing task…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Zimu Zheng , Qiong Chen , Chuang Hu , Dan Wang , Fangming Liu

Visual perception entails solving a wide set of tasks, e.g., object detection, depth estimation, etc. The predictions made for multiple tasks from the same image are not independent, and therefore, are expected to be consistent. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Amir Zamir , Alexander Sax , Teresa Yeo , Oğuzhan Kar , Nikhil Cheerla , Rohan Suri , Zhangjie Cao , Jitendra Malik , Leonidas Guibas

In human learning, it is common to use multiple sources of information jointly. However, most existing feature learning approaches learn from only a single task. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-task deep network to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Zhongzheng Ren , Yong Jae Lee

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

This paper addresses challenges in robust transfer learning stemming from ambiguity in Bayes classifiers and weak transferable signals between the target and source distribution. We introduce a novel quantity called the ''ambiguity level''…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-06 Jianqing Fan , Cheng Gao , Jason M. Klusowski

Out-of-distribution (OOD) data poses serious challenges in deployed machine learning models, so methods of predicting a model's performance on OOD data without labels are important for machine learning safety. While a number of methods have…

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

Out-of-distribution generalization is one of the key challenges when transferring a model from the lab to the real world. Existing efforts mostly focus on building invariant features among source and target domains. Based on invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Guojun Zhang , Han Zhao , Yaoliang Yu , Pascal Poupart

Few-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification (FS-RSSC) presents the challenge of classifying remote sensing images with limited labeled samples. Existing methods typically emphasize single-modal feature learning, neglecting the potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zhong Ji , Ci Liu , Jingren Liu , Chen Tang , Yanwei Pang , Xuelong Li

Transfer learning refers to the transfer of knowledge or information from a relevant source domain to a target domain. However, most existing transfer learning theories and algorithms focus on IID tasks, where the source/target samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Wu , Jingrui He , Elizabeth Ainsworth

Transfer learning is one of the subjects undergoing intense study in the area of machine learning. In object recognition and object detection there are known experiments for the transferability of parameters, but not for neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ioannis Athanasiadis , Panagiotis Mousouliotis , Loukas Petrou

Recently, deep learning methods have made great progress in traffic prediction, but their performance depends on a large amount of historical data. In reality, we may face the data scarcity issue. In this case, deep learning models fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xueyan Yin , Feifan Li , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin

Regression prediction plays a crucial role in practical applications and strongly relies on data annotation. However, due to prohibitive annotation costs or domain-specific constraints, labeled data in the target domain is often scarce,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-25 Bingbing Wang , Jiaqi Wang , Yu Tang

Leveraging a transferability estimation metric facilitates the non-trivial challenge of selecting the optimal model for the downstream task from a pool of pre-trained models. Most existing metrics primarily focus on identifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Prafful Kumar Khoba , Zijian Wang , Chetan Arora , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh