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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

While sequential recommendation achieves significant progress on capturing user-item transition patterns, transferring such large-scale recommender systems remains challenging due to the disjoint user and item groups across domains. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Yang Zhang , Julian McAuley , Dong Wang

Transfer learning is a promising method for AOI applications since it can significantly shorten sample collection time and improve efficiency in today's smart manufacturing. However, related research enhanced the network models by applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Erik Isai Valle Salgado , Haoxin Yan , Yue Hong , Peiyuan Zhu , Shidong Zhu , Chengwei Liao , Yanxiang Wen , Xiu Li , Xiang Qian , Xiaohao Wang , Xinghui Li

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

The homogeneity, or more generally, the similarity between source domains and a target domain seems to be essential to a positive transfer learning. In practice, however, the similarity condition is difficult to check and is often violated.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-23 Lu Lin , Weiyu Li

Transfer learning is a conceptually-enticing paradigm in pursuit of truly intelligent embodied agents. The core concept -- reusing prior knowledge to learn in and from novel situations -- is successfully leveraged by humans to handle novel…

Evidence is mounting that Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) are the most effective representation learning method for visual recognition tasks. In the common scenario, a ConvNet is trained on a large labeled dataset (source) and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Hossein Azizpour , Ali Sharif Razavian , Josephine Sullivan , Atsuto Maki , Stefan Carlsson

In computer vision and machine learning for geographic data, out-of-domain generalization is a pervasive challenge, arising from uneven global data coverage and distribution shifts across geographic regions. Though models are frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haoran Zhang , Livia Betti , Konstantin Klemmer , Esther Rolf , David Alvarez-Melis

Learning conditional distributions $\pi^*(\cdot|x)$ is a central problem in machine learning, which is typically approached via supervised methods with paired data $(x,y) \sim \pi^*$. However, acquiring paired data samples is often…

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 is concerned with the application of knowledge gained from solving a problem to a different but related problem domain. In this paper, we propose a method and efficient algorithm for ranking and selecting representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Son N. Tran , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric tool used to compare and align probability measures following the least effort principle. Despite its widespread use in machine learning (ML), OT problem still bears its computational burden,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Oliver Struckmeier , Ievgen Redko , Anton Mallasto , Karol Arndt , Markus Heinonen , Ville Kyrki

Current transfer learning methods for high-dimensional linear regression assume feature alignment across domains, restricting their applicability to semantically matched features. In many real-world scenarios, however, distinct features in…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-29 Jiancheng Jiang , Xuejun Jiang , Hongxia Jin

Transfer learning has become a popular method for leveraging pre-trained models in computer vision. However, without performing computationally expensive fine-tuning, it is difficult to quantify which pre-trained source models are suitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Michal Pándy , Andrea Agostinelli , Jasper Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari , Thomas Mensink

We consider Heterogeneous Transfer Learning (HTL) from a source to a new target domain for high-dimensional regression with differing feature sets. Most homogeneous TL methods assume that target and source domains share the same feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Jae Ho Chang , Massimiliano Russo , Subhadeep Paul

Transfer learning (TL) enables the transfer of knowledge gained in learning to perform one task (source) to a related but different task (target), hence addressing the expense of data acquisition and labeling, potential computational power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Somdatta Goswami , Katiana Kontolati , Michael D. Shields , George Em Karniadakis

The widespread adoption of transfer learning has revolutionized machine learning by enabling efficient adaptation of pre-trained models to new domains. However, the reliability of these adaptations remains poorly understood, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Prabhav Singh , Jessica Sorrell

It remains a critical challenge to adapt policies across domains with mismatched dynamics in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper, we study cross-domain offline RL, where an offline dataset from another similar source domain can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mengbei Yan , Jiafei Lyu , Shengjie Sun , Zhongjian Qiao , Jingwen Yang , Zichuan Lin , Deheng Ye , Xiu Li

Transfer entropy in information theory was recently demonstrated [Phys. Rev. E 102, 012404 (2020)] to enable us to elucidate the interaction domain among interacting elements solely from an ensemble of trajectories. There, only pairs of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-01-19 Udoy S. Basak , Sulimon Sattari , Hossain M. Motaleb , Kazuki Horikawa , Tamiki Komatsuzaki

With the emergence of large-scale pre-trained neural networks, methods to adapt such "foundation" models to data-limited downstream tasks have become a necessity. Fine-tuning, preference optimization, and transfer learning have all been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Javan Tahir , Surya Ganguli , Grant M. Rotskoff