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The pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm has become prominent in transfer learning. For example, if the model is pre-trained on ImageNet and then fine-tuned to PASCAL, it can significantly outperform that trained on PASCAL from scratch.…

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As researchers teach robots to perform more and more complex tasks, the need for realistic simulation environments is growing. Existing techniques for closing the reality gap by approximating real-world physics often require extensive real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Adam Allevato , Elaine Schaertl Short , Mitch Pryor , Andrea L. Thomaz

The pretrain-finetune paradigm usually improves downstream performance over training a model from scratch on the same task, becoming commonplace across many areas of machine learning. While pretraining is empirically observed to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Gabriele Merlin , Vedant Nanda , Ruchit Rawal , Mariya Toneva

Transfer learning enables to re-use knowledge learned on a source task to help learning a target task. A simple form of transfer learning is common in current state-of-the-art computer vision models, i.e. pre-training a model for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Thomas Mensink , Jasper Uijlings , Alina Kuznetsova , Michael Gygli , Vittorio Ferrari

In deep learning, transferring information from a pretrained network to a downstream task by finetuning has many benefits. The choice of task head plays an important role in fine-tuning, as the pretrained and downstream tasks are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yi Ren , Shangmin Guo , Wonho Bae , Danica J. Sutherland

Simulation offers a scalable and efficient alternative to real-world data collection for learning visuomotor robotic policies. However, the simulation-to-reality, or Sim2Real distribution shift -- introduced by employing simulation-trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yash Yardi , Samuel Biruduganti , Lars Ankile

Graph-structured data is ubiquitous in the world which models complex relationships between objects, enabling various Web applications. Daily influxes of unlabeled graph data on the Web offer immense potential for these applications. Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yun Zhu , Yaoke Wang , Haizhou Shi , Zhenshuo Zhang , Dian Jiao , Siliang Tang

Realistic synthetic image data rendered from 3D models can be used to augment image sets and train image classification semantic segmentation models. In this work, we explore how high quality physically-based rendering and domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jason W. Anderson , Marcin Ziolkowski , Ken Kennedy , Amy W. Apon

Graph neural networks (GNNs) is widely used to learn a powerful representation of graph-structured data. Recent work demonstrates that transferring knowledge from self-supervised tasks to downstream tasks could further improve graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Xueting Han , Zhenhuan Huang , Bang An , Jing Bai

Fine-tuning visual models has been widely shown promising performance on many downstream visual tasks. With the surprising development of pre-trained visual foundation models, visual tuning jumped out of the standard modus operandi that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Bruce X. B. Yu , Jianlong Chang , Haixin Wang , Lingbo Liu , Shijie Wang , Zhiyu Wang , Junfan Lin , Lingxi Xie , Haojie Li , Zhouchen Lin , Qi Tian , Chang Wen Chen

Recent work has found that multi-task training with a large number of diverse tasks can uniformly improve downstream performance on unseen target tasks. In contrast, literature on task transferability has established that the choice of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Vishakh Padmakumar , Leonard Lausen , Miguel Ballesteros , Sheng Zha , He He , George Karypis

In recent years, domains such as natural language processing and image recognition have popularized the paradigm of using large datasets to pretrain representations that can be effectively transferred to downstream tasks. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 David Brandfonbrener , Ofir Nachum , Joan Bruna

How to synthesize a dataset while achieving differential privacy for AI model training is a meaningful but challenging problem. To address this problem, state-of-the-art methods first select original private dataset's multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mingxuan Jia , Wen Huang , Weixin Zhao , Xingyi Wang , Jian Peng , Zhishuo Zhang

Rapid development of large-scale pre-training has resulted in foundation models that can act as effective feature extractors on a variety of downstream tasks and domains. Motivated by this, we study the efficacy of pre-trained vision models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Oleksiy Ostapenko , Timothee Lesort , Pau Rodríguez , Md Rifat Arefin , Arthur Douillard , Irina Rish , Laurent Charlin

Frozen pretrained models have become a viable alternative to the pretraining-then-finetuning paradigm for transfer learning. However, with frozen models there are relatively few parameters available for adapting to downstream tasks, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Yutong Lin , Ze Liu , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu , Nanning Zheng , Stephen Lin , Yue Cao

In human learning, it is common to use multiple sources of information jointly. However, most existing feature learning approaches learn from only a single task. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-task deep network to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Zhongzheng Ren , Yong Jae Lee

Recent success in fine-tuning large models, that are pretrained on broad data at scale, on downstream tasks has led to a significant paradigm shift in deep learning, from task-centric model design to task-agnostic representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Ching-Yun Ko , Pin-Yu Chen , Jeet Mohapatra , Payel Das , Luca Daniel

Transfer learning is a classic paradigm by which models pretrained on large "upstream" datasets are adapted to yield good results on "downstream" specialized datasets. Generally, more accurate models on the "upstream" dataset tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Eugenia Iofinova , Alexandra Peste , Mark Kurtz , Dan Alistarh

In the burgeoning field of intelligent transportation systems, enhancing vehicle-driver interaction through facial attribute recognition, such as facial expression, eye gaze, age, etc., is of paramount importance for safety,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Esmaeil Seraj , Walter Talamonti

Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning have enabled the use of large unlabeled datasets to train visual foundation models that can generalize to a variety of downstream tasks. While this training paradigm is well suited for the…