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As transfer learning techniques are increasingly used to transfer knowledge from the source model to the target task, it becomes important to quantify which source models are suitable for a given target task without performing…

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

Given a set of pre-trained models, how can we quickly and accurately find the most useful pre-trained model for a downstream task? Transferability measurement is to quantify how transferable is a pre-trained model learned on a source task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Huiwen Xu , U Kang

Given a set of heterogeneous source datasets with their classifiers, how can we quickly find the most useful source dataset for a specific target task? We address the problem of measuring transferability between source and target datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Seungcheol Park , Huiwen Xu , Taehun Kim , Inhwan Hwang , Kyung-Jun Kim , U Kang

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

Selecting an appropriate pre-trained source model is a critical, yet computationally expensive, task in transfer learning. Model Transferability Estimation (MTE) methods address this by providing efficient proxy metrics to rank models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuhang Liu , Wenjie Zhao , Yunhui Guo

Transfer learning aims to improve the performance of target tasks by transferring knowledge acquired in source tasks. The standard approach is pre-training followed by fine-tuning or linear probing. Especially, selecting a proper source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Huiyan Qi , Lechao Cheng , Jingjing Chen , Yue Yu , Xue Song , Zunlei Feng , Yu-Gang Jiang

How well can one expect transfer learning to work in a new setting where the domain is shifted, the task is different, and the architecture changes? Many transfer learning metrics have been proposed to answer this question. But how accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Moein Sorkhei , Christos Matsoukas , Johan Fredin Haslum , Emir Konuk , Kevin Smith

Large-scale pre-training followed by downstream fine-tuning is an effective solution for transferring deep-learning-based models. Since finetuning all possible pre-trained models is computational costly, we aim to predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhao Wang , Aoxue Li , Zhenguo Li , Qi Dou

Transfer learning methods endeavor to leverage relevant knowledge from existing source pre-trained models or datasets to solve downstream target tasks. With the increase in the scale and quantity of available pre-trained models nowadays, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Yuhe Ding , Bo Jiang , Aijing Yu , Aihua Zheng , Jian Liang

Transfer of pre-trained representations can improve sample efficiency and reduce computational requirements for new tasks. However, representations used for transfer are usually generic, and are not tailored to a particular distribution of…

Transferability estimation has emerged as an important problem in transfer learning. A transferability estimation method takes as inputs a set of pre-trained models and decides which pre-trained model can deliver the best transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yunhui Guo

This paper presents an automatic network adaptation method that finds a ConvNet structure well-suited to a given target task, e.g., image classification, for efficiency as well as accuracy in transfer learning. We call the concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Yang Zhong , Vladimir Li , Ryuzo Okada , Atsuto Maki

Transferability estimation is a fundamental problem in transfer learning to predict how good the performance is when transferring a source model (or source task) to a target task. With the guidance of transferability score, we can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Yang Tan , Yang Li , Shao-Lun Huang

Fine-tuning pre-trained models has become a cornerstone of modern machine learning, allowing practitioners to achieve high performance with limited labeled data. In surgical video analysis, where expert annotations are especially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Prabhant Singh , Yiping Li , Yasmina Al Khalil

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

In this paper, we propose a new method called ProfWeight for transferring information from a pre-trained deep neural network that has a high test accuracy to a simpler interpretable model or a very shallow network of low complexity and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Amit Dhurandhar , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Ronny Luss , Peder Olsen

This paper addresses the problem of ranking pre-trained models for object detection and image classification. Selecting the best pre-trained model by fine-tuning is an expensive and time-consuming task. Previous works have proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Mohsen Gholami , Mohammad Akbari , Xinglu Wang , Behnam Kamranian , Yong Zhang

Transfer learning has become an essential paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling the transfer of knowledge from a source task to improve performance on a target task. This approach, particularly through techniques such as pretraining…

Transfer learning assumes classifiers of similar tasks share certain parameter structures. Unfortunately, modern classifiers uses sophisticated feature representations with huge parameter spaces which lead to costly transfer. Under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-20 Song Liu , Kenji Fukumizu
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