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Transferability estimation has been attached to great attention in the computer vision fields. Researchers try to estimate with low computational cost the performance of a model when transferred from a source task to a given target task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Jun Bai , Xiaofeng Zhang , Chen Li , Hanhua Hong , Xi Xu , Chenghua Lin , Wenge Rong

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

Transferability metrics is a maturing field with increasing interest, which aims at providing heuristics for selecting the most suitable source models to transfer to a given target dataset, without fine-tuning them all. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Andrea Agostinelli , Michal Pándy , Jasper Uijlings , Thomas Mensink , Vittorio Ferrari

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

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

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

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

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…

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

Fine-tuning from pre-trained ImageNet models has become the de-facto standard for various computer vision tasks. Current practices for fine-tuning typically involve selecting an ad-hoc choice of hyperparameters and keeping them fixed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hao Li , Pratik Chaudhari , Hao Yang , Michael Lam , Avinash Ravichandran , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

One of the goals in scaling sequential machine learning methods pertains to dealing with high-dimensional data spaces. A key related challenge is that many methods heavily depend on obtaining the inverse covariance matrix of the data. It is…

Computation · Statistics 2017-07-28 Tomer Lancewicki

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

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

Existing research has shown that a multilingual pre-trained language model fine-tuned with one (source) language also performs well on downstream tasks for non-source languages, even though no fine-tuning is done on these languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yiduo Guo , Yaobo Liang , Dongyan Zhao , Bing Liu , Duan Nan

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

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

With the increase in availability of large pre-trained language models (LMs) in Natural Language Processing (NLP), it becomes critical to assess their fit for a specific target task a priori - as fine-tuning the entire space of available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Elisa Bassignana , Max Müller-Eberstein , Mike Zhang , Barbara Plank

With the ever-increasing complexity of large-scale pre-trained models coupled with a shortage of labeled data for downstream training, transfer learning has become the primary approach in many fields, including natural language processing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xiao Li , Sheng Liu , Jinxin Zhou , Xinyu Lu , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Zhihui Zhu , Qing Qu

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

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
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