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Human learners have the natural ability to use knowledge gained in one setting for learning in a different but related setting. This ability to transfer knowledge from one task to another is essential for effective learning. In this paper,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-10 T. Tony Cai , Hongji Wei

Transfer learning seeks to improve the generalization performance of a target task by exploiting the knowledge learned from a related source task. Central questions include deciding what information one should transfer and when transfer can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Oussama Dhifallah , Yue M. Lu

Domain adaptation (DA) aims to transfer discriminative features learned from source domain to target domain. Most of DA methods focus on enhancing feature transferability through domain-invariance learning. However, source-learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Jun Wen , Changjian Shui , Kun Kuang , Junsong Yuan , Zenan Huang , Zhefeng Gong , Nenggan Zheng

Studies show that the representations learned by deep neural networks can be transferred to similar prediction tasks in other domains for which we do not have enough labeled data. However, as we transition to higher layers in the model, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Raha Moraffah , Kai Shu , Adrienne Raglin , Huan Liu

Parameter transfer is a central paradigm in transfer learning, enabling knowledge reuse across tasks and domains by sharing model parameters between upstream and downstream models. However, when only a subset of parameters from the upstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hua Yuan , Xuran Meng , Qiufeng Wang , Shiyu Xia , Ning Xu , Xu Yang , Jing Wang , Xin Geng , Yong Rui

Domain Adaptation aiming to learn a transferable feature between different but related domains has been well investigated and has shown excellent empirical performances. Previous works mainly focused on matching the marginal feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Fan Zhou , Changjian Shui , Bincheng Huang , Boyu Wang , Brahim Chaib-draa

Transfer learning is a powerful paradigm for leveraging knowledge from source domains to enhance learning in a target domain. However, traditional transfer learning approaches often focus on scalar or multivariate data within Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kaicheng Zhang , Sinian Zhang , Doudou Zhou , Yidong Zhou

We consider the problem of transfer learning in Neyman-Pearson classification, where the objective is to minimize the error w.r.t. a distribution $\mu_1$, subject to the constraint that the error w.r.t. a distribution $\mu_0$ remains below…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Mohammadreza M. Kalan , Yuyang Deng , Eitan J. Neugut , Samory Kpotufe

It is vital to learn effective policies that can be transferred to different domains with dynamics discrepancies in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper, we consider dynamics adaptation settings where there exists dynamics mismatch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jiafei Lyu , Chenjia Bai , Jingwen Yang , Zongqing Lu , Xiu Li

In the problem of domain transfer learning, we learn a model for the predic-tion in a target domain from the data of both some source domains and the target domain, where the target domain is in lack of labels while the source domain has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Guohui Zhang , Gaoyuan Liang , Fang Su , Fanxin Qu , Jing-Yan Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel learning framework for the problem of domain transfer learning. We map the data of two domains to one single common space, and learn a classifier in this common space. Then we adapt the common classifier to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Ru-Ze Liang , Wei Xie , Weizhi Li , Hongqi Wang , Jim Jing-Yan Wang , Lisa Taylor

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

Transfer learning has become a central paradigm in modern machine learning, yet it suffers from the long-standing problem of negative transfer, where leveraging source representations can harm rather than help performance on the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yichen Xu , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang , Lexin Li

In the problem of domain adaptation for binary classification, the learner is presented with labeled examples from a source domain, and must correctly classify unlabeled examples from a target domain, which may differ from the source.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-01 Clayton Scott

A key element in transfer learning is representation learning; if representations can be developed that expose the relevant factors underlying the data, then new tasks and domains can be learned readily based on mappings of these salient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Yujia Li , Kevin Swersky , Richard Zemel

Unwanted samples from private source categories in the learning objective of a partial domain adaptation setup can lead to negative transfer and reduce classification performance. Existing methods, such as re-weighting or aggregating target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Sandipan Choudhuri , Arunabha Sen

Domain adaptation investigates the problem of cross-domain knowledge transfer where the labeled source domain and unlabeled target domain have distinctive data distributions. Recently, adversarial training have been successfully applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Jingjing Li , Erpeng Chen , Zhengming Ding , Lei Zhu , Ke Lu , Zi Huang

This paper introduces a novel method to perform transfer learning across domains and tasks, formulating it as a problem of learning to cluster. The key insight is that, in addition to features, we can transfer similarity information and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zhaoyang Lv , Zsolt Kira

Deep learning has raised hopes and expectations as a general solution for many applications; indeed it has proven effective, but it also showed a strong dependence on large quantities of data. Luckily, it has been shown that, even when data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Fabio Maria Carlucci

One question central to Reinforcement Learning is how to learn a feature representation that supports algorithm scaling and re-use of learned information from different tasks. Successor Features approach this problem by learning a feature…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Lucas Lehnert , Stefanie Tellex , Michael L. Littman