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Fine-tuning models that have been pre-trained on large datasets has become a cornerstone of modern machine learning workflows. With the widespread availability of online model repositories, such as Hugging Face, it is now easier than ever…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Prabhant Singh , Sibylle Hess , Joaquin Vanschoren

Recent advances in NLP demonstrate the effectiveness of training large-scale language models and transferring them to downstream tasks. Can fine-tuning these models on tasks other than language modeling further improve performance? In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Tu Vu , Tong Wang , Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Alessandro Sordoni , Adam Trischler , Andrew Mattarella-Micke , Subhransu Maji , Mohit Iyyer

Text ranking has witnessed significant advancements, attributed to the utilization of dual-encoder enhanced by Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). Given the proliferation of available PLMs, selecting the most effective one for a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Jun Bai , Zhuofan Chen , Zhenzi Li , Hanhua Hong , Jianfei Zhang , Chen Li , Chenghua Lin , Wenge Rong

Latent space model plays a crucial role in network analysis, and accurate estimation of latent variables is essential for downstream tasks such as link prediction. However, the large number of parameters to be estimated presents a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-22 Kuangnan Fang , Ruixuan Qin , Xinyan Fan

Multi-task learning can leverage information learned by one task to benefit the training of other tasks. Despite this capacity, naive formulations often degrade performance and in particular, identifying the tasks that would benefit from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Christopher Fifty , Ehsan Amid , Zhe Zhao , Tianhe Yu , Rohan Anil , Chelsea Finn

We introduce a new measure to evaluate the transferability of representations learned by classifiers. Our measure, the Log Expected Empirical Prediction (LEEP), is simple and easy to compute: when given a classifier trained on a source data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Cuong V. Nguyen , Tal Hassner , Matthias Seeger , Cedric Archambeau

Transfer learning can significantly improve the sample efficiency of neural networks, by exploiting the relatedness between a data-scarce target task and a data-abundant source task. Despite years of successful applications, transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Federica Gerace , Luca Saglietti , Stefano Sarao Mannelli , Andrew Saxe , Lenka Zdeborová

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 boosts the performance of medical image analysis by enabling deep learning (DL) on small datasets through the knowledge acquired from large ones. As the number of DL architectures explodes, exhaustively attempting all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Levy Chaves , Alceu Bissoto , Eduardo Valle , Sandra Avila

This work considers the problem of transferring causal knowledge between tasks for Individual Treatment Effect (ITE) estimation. To this end, we theoretically assess the feasibility of transferring ITE knowledge and present a practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ahmed Aloui , Juncheng Dong , Cat P. Le , Vahid Tarokh

Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that uses previously acquired knowledge from a source domain to enhance learning in a target domain by reusing learned weights. This technique is ubiquitous because of its great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nermeen Abou Baker , Nico Zengeler , Uwe Handmann

Estimating the transferability of publicly available pretrained models to a target task has assumed an important place for transfer learning tasks in recent years. Existing efforts propose metrics that allow a user to choose one model from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Vimal K B , Saketh Bachu , Tanmay Garg , Niveditha Lakshmi Narasimhan , Raghavan Konuru , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

We pursue transfer learning to improve classifier accuracy on a target task with few labeled examples available for training. Recent work suggests that using a source task to learn a prior distribution over neural net weights, not just an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ethan Harvey , Mikhail Petrov , Michael C. Hughes

We provide new statistical guarantees for transfer learning via representation learning--when transfer is achieved by learning a feature representation shared across different tasks. This enables learning on new tasks using far less data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Nilesh Tripuraneni , Michael I. Jordan , Chi Jin

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning approaches have recently garnered a lot of attention. Having considerably lower number of trainable weights, these methods can bring about scalability and computational effectiveness. In this paper, we look…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mohammad Akbar-Tajari , Sara Rajaee , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Meta-learning, or learning-to-learn, seeks to design algorithms that can utilize previous experience to rapidly learn new skills or adapt to new environments. Representation learning -- a key tool for performing meta-learning -- learns a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Nilesh Tripuraneni , Chi Jin , Michael I. Jordan

Identifying beneficial tasks to transfer from is a critical step toward successful intermediate-task transfer learning. In this work, we experiment with 130 source-target task combinations and demonstrate that the transfer performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Pin-Jie Lin , Miaoran Zhang , Marius Mosbach , Dietrich Klakow

Transferability estimation metrics are used to find a high-performing pre-trained model for a given target task without fine-tuning models and without access to the source dataset. Despite the growing interest in developing such metrics,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Prabhant Singh , Sibylle Hess , Joaquin Vanschoren

Generating 3D city models rapidly is crucial for many applications. Monocular height estimation is one of the most efficient and timely ways to obtain large-scale geometric information. However, existing works focus primarily on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Zhitong Xiong , Wei Huang , Jingtao Hu , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Transformer-based models for transfer learning have the potential to achieve high prediction accuracies on text-based supervised learning tasks with relatively few training data instances. These models are thus likely to benefit social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Sandra Wankmüller