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Transferability estimation is an essential problem in transfer learning to predict how good the performance is when transferring a source model (or source task) to a target task. Recent analytical transferability metrics have been widely…

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

We propose a novel approach for estimating the difficulty and transferability of supervised classification tasks. Unlike previous work, our approach is solution agnostic and does not require or assume trained models. Instead, we estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Anh T. Tran , Cuong V. Nguyen , Tal Hassner

We address the problem of ensemble selection in transfer learning: Given a large pool of source models we want to select an ensemble of models which, after fine-tuning on the target training set, yields the best performance on the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Andrea Agostinelli , Jasper Uijlings , Thomas Mensink , Vittorio Ferrari

Transferability scores aim to quantify how well a model trained on one domain generalizes to a target domain. Despite numerous methods proposed for measuring transferability, their reliability and practical usefulness remain inconclusive,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Alireza Kazemi , Helia Rezvani , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Transferring knowledge from one neural network to another has been shown to be helpful for learning tasks with few training examples. Prevailing fine-tuning methods could potentially contaminate pre-trained features by comparably high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Farshid Varno , Behrouz Haji Soleimani , Marzie Saghayi , Lisa Di Jorio , Stan Matwin

Transfer learning is an essential technique for many machine learning/AI models of complex structures such as large language models and generative AI. The essence of transfer learning is to leverage knowledge from resolved source tasks for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-21 Haoyang Cao , Xin Guo , Wenpin Tang , Guan Wang

Transfer learning is an emerging and popular paradigm for utilizing existing knowledge from previous learning tasks to improve the performance of new ones. Despite its numerous empirical successes, theoretical analysis for transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Haoyang Cao , Haotian Gu , Xin Guo , Mathieu Rosenbaum

Transfer learning is a widely used method to build high performing computer vision models. In this paper, we study the efficacy of transfer learning by examining how the choice of data impacts performance. We find that more pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Jiquan Ngiam , Daiyi Peng , Vijay Vasudevan , Simon Kornblith , Quoc V. Le , Ruoming Pang

Transfer entropy (TE) is an information theoretic measure that reveals the directional flow of information between processes, providing valuable insights for a wide range of real-world applications. This work proposes Transfer Entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Omer Luxembourg , Dor Tsur , Haim Permuter

Transfer learning is a popular paradigm for utilizing existing knowledge from previous learning tasks to improve the performance of new ones. It has enjoyed numerous empirical successes and inspired a growing number of theoretical studies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Haoyang Cao , Haotian Gu , Xin Guo

In the evolving landscape of deep learning, selecting the best pre-trained models from a growing number of choices is a challenge. Transferability scorers propose alleviating this scenario, but their recent proliferation, ironically, poses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Levy Chaves , Eduardo Valle , Alceu Bissoto , Sandra Avila

The growing popularity of transfer learning, due to the availability of models pre-trained on vast amounts of data, makes it imperative to understand when the knowledge of these pre-trained models can be transferred to obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Akshay Mehra , Yunbei Zhang , Jihun Hamm

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

Transfer learning has become an essential technique to exploit information from the source domain to boost performance of the target task. Despite the prevalence in high-dimensional data, heterogeneity and heavy tails are insufficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-07 Jiayu Huang , Mingqiu Wang , Yuanshan Wu

Transfer learning across heterogeneous data distributions (a.k.a. domains) and distinct tasks is a more general and challenging problem than conventional transfer learning, where either domains or tasks are assumed to be the same. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Yang Tan , Yang Li , Shao-Lun Huang

Transfer learning is a powerful tool enabling model training with limited amounts of data. This technique is particularly useful in real-world problems where data availability is often a serious limitation. The simplest transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Federica Gerace , Diego Doimo , Stefano Sarao Mannelli , Luca Saglietti , Alessandro Laio

Transfer learning is a critical technique in training deep neural networks for the challenging medical image segmentation task that requires enormous resources. With the abundance of medical image data, many research institutions release…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yuncheng Yang , Meng Wei , Junjun He , Jie Yang , Jin Ye , Yun Gu

Transfer learning aims to make the most of existing pre-trained models to achieve better performance on a new task in limited data scenarios. However, it is unclear which models will perform best on which task, and it is prohibitively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Louis Fouquet , Simona Maggio , Léo Dreyfus-Schmidt

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 a powerful technique for knowledge-sharing between different tasks. Recent work has found that the representations of models with certain invariances, such as to adversarial input perturbations, achieve higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Till Speicher , Vedant Nanda , Krishna P. Gummadi