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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

Information from related source studies can often enhance the findings of a target study. However, the distribution shift between target and source studies can severely impact the efficiency of knowledge transfer. In the high-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-26 Ruiqi Bai , Yijiao Zhang , Hanbo Yang , Zhongyi Zhu

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

We propose a novel adaptive transfer learning framework, learning to transfer learn (L2TL), to improve performance on a target dataset by careful extraction of the related information from a source dataset. Our framework considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Linchao Zhu , Sercan O. Arik , Yi Yang , Tomas Pfister

Transfer learning has emerged as a powerful technique for improving the performance of machine learning models on new domains where labeled training data may be scarce. In this approach a model trained for a source task, where plenty of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Zalan Fabian , A. Salman Avestimehr , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

We study the transfer learning process between two linear regression problems. An important and timely special case is when the regressors are overparameterized and perfectly interpolate their training data. We examine a parameter transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Yehuda Dar , Richard G. Baraniuk

We propose novel model transfer-learning methods that refine a decision forest model M learned within a "source" domain using a training set sampled from a "target" domain, assumed to be a variation of the source. We present two random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Noam Segev , Maayan Harel , Shie Mannor , Koby Crammer , Ran El-Yaniv

We develop here a novel transfer learning methodology called Profiled Transfer Learning (PTL). The method is based on the \textit{approximate-linear} assumption between the source and target parameters. Compared with the commonly assumed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Ziqian Lin , Junlong Zhao , Fang Wang , Hansheng Wang

This paper studies transfer learning for ridge-regularized robust linear regression in the moderate-dimensional regime, where the number of predictors is of the same order as the sample size and the regression coefficients are not assumed…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-14 Lingfeng Lyu , Xiao Guo , Zongqi Liu

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 aims to improve the performance of a target model by leveraging data from related source populations, which is known to be especially helpful in cases with insufficient target data. In this paper, we study the problem of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-19 Tian Gu , Yi Han , Rui Duan

Transfer learning is beneficial for survival analysis, especially when the target study has a limited number of events. However, existing transfer learning methods rely on the restrictive assumption that the target and source studies share…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Yu Gu , Donglin Zeng , D. Y. Lin

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

This paper considers the estimation and prediction of a high-dimensional linear regression in the setting of transfer learning, using samples from the target model as well as auxiliary samples from different but possibly related regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-19 Sai Li , T. Tony Cai , Hongzhe Li

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

Transfer learning refers to the process of adapting a model trained on a source task to a target task. While kernel methods are conceptually and computationally simple machine learning models that are competitive on a variety of tasks, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Max Ruiz Luyten , Neha Prasad , Caroline Uhler

Transfer learning has emerged as a highly sought-after and actively pursued research area within the statistical community. The core concept of transfer learning involves leveraging insights and information from auxiliary datasets to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-01 Pengfei Li , Tao Yu , Chixiang Chen , Jing Qin

Generalized linear models (GLMs) arise in high-dimensional machine learning, statistics, communications and signal processing. In this paper we analyze GLMs when the data matrix is random, as relevant in problems such as compressed sensing,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Jean Barbier , Florent Krzakala , Nicolas Macris , Léo Miolane , Lenka Zdeborová

Multi-source transfer learning provides an effective solution to data scarcity in real-world supervised learning scenarios by leveraging multiple source tasks. In this field, existing works typically use all available samples from sources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Qingyue Zhang , Haohao Fu , Guanbo Huang , Yaoyuan Liang , Chang Chu , Tianren Peng , Yanru Wu , Qi Li , Yang Li , Shao-Lun Huang

We study transfer learning for a linear regression task using several least-squares pretrained models that can be overparameterized. We formulate the target learning task as optimization that minimizes squared errors on the target dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Daniel Boharon , Yehuda Dar