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As the scale of vision models continues to grow, Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) has emerged as a parameter-efficient transfer learning technique, noted for its superior performance compared to full fine-tuning. However, indiscriminately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Haowei Zhu , Fangyuan Zhang , Rui Qin , Tianxiang Pan , Junhai Yong , Bin Wang

Pre-training (PT) followed by fine-tuning (FT) is an effective method for training neural networks, and has led to significant performance improvements in many domains. PT can incorporate various design choices such as task and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Aniruddh Raghu , Jonathan Lorraine , Simon Kornblith , Matthew McDermott , David Duvenaud

This survey reviews prompt tuning, a parameter-efficient approach for adapting language models by prepending trainable continuous vectors while keeping the model frozen. We classify existing approaches into two categories: direct prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Zongqian Li , Yixuan Su , Nigel Collier

Modern software systems are built to be used in dynamic environments using configuration capabilities to adapt to changes and external uncertainties. In a self-adaptation context, we are often interested in reasoning about the performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Pooyan Jamshidi , Miguel Velez , Christian Kästner , Norbert Siegmund , Prasad Kawthekar

Almost all the state-of-the-art neural networks for computer vision tasks are trained by (1) pre-training on a large-scale dataset and (2) finetuning on the target dataset. This strategy helps reduce dependence on the target dataset and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Shuvam Chakraborty , Burak Uzkent , Kumar Ayush , Kumar Tanmay , Evan Sheehan , Stefano Ermon

This paper presents a novel differentiable method for unstructured weight pruning of deep neural networks. Our learned-threshold pruning (LTP) method learns per-layer thresholds via gradient descent, unlike conventional methods where they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Kambiz Azarian , Yash Bhalgat , Jinwon Lee , Tijmen Blankevoort

State-of-the-art rehearsal-free continual learning methods exploit the peculiarities of Vision Transformers to learn task-specific prompts, drastically reducing catastrophic forgetting. However, there is a tradeoff between the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Thomas De Min , Massimiliano Mancini , Karteek Alahari , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Elisa Ricci

Advancement in digital pathology and artificial intelligence has enabled deep learning-based computer vision techniques for automated disease diagnosis and prognosis. However, WSIs present unique computational and algorithmic challenges.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yash Sharma , Lubaina Ehsan , Sana Syed , Donald E. Brown

Scaling laws for large language models depend critically on the optimizer and parameterization. Existing hyperparameter transfer laws are mainly developed for first-order optimizers, and they do not structurally prevent training instability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Liliang Ren , Yang Liu , Yelong Shen , Weizhu Chen

Lightweight convolutional and transformer-based networks are increasingly preferred for real-time image classification, especially on resource-constrained devices. This study evaluates the impact of hyperparameter optimization on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Soumya Mazumdar , Tapas Samanta , Hemendra Kumar Pandey , Amitabha Das

Regularization and transfer learning are two popular techniques to enhance generalization on unseen data, which is a fundamental problem of machine learning. Regularization techniques are versatile, as they are task- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jeongun Ryu , Jaewoong Shin , Hae Beom Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Machine learning models are often tuned by nesting optimization of model weights inside the optimization of hyperparameters. We give a method to collapse this nested optimization into joint stochastic optimization of weights and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Jonathan Lorraine , David Duvenaud

With the scale of vision Transformer-based models continuing to grow, finetuning these large-scale pretrained models for new tasks has become increasingly parameter-intensive. Visual prompt tuning is introduced as a parameter-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Runjia Zeng , Cheng Han , Qifan Wang , Chunshu Wu , Tong Geng , Lifu Huang , Ying Nian Wu , Dongfang Liu

One very important hyperparameter for training deep neural networks is the learning rate schedule of the optimizer. The choice of learning rate schedule determines the computational cost of getting close to a minima, how close you actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Nikhil Iyer , V Thejas , Nipun Kwatra , Ramachandran Ramjee , Muthian Sivathanu

Recently, the pre-trained Transformer models have received a rising interest in the field of speech processing thanks to their great success in various downstream tasks. However, most fine-tuning approaches update all the parameters of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Junyi Peng , Themos Stafylakis , Rongzhi Gu , Oldřich Plchot , Ladislav Mošner , Lukáš Burget , Jan Černocký

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has become a common method for fine-tuning large language models, where a base model can serve multiple users through PEFT module switching. To enhance user experience, base models require periodic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Naibin Gu , Peng Fu , Xiyu Liu , Ke Ma , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are usually over-parameterized to increase the likelihood of getting adequate initial weights by random initialization. Consequently, trained DNNs have many redundancies which can be pruned from the model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Lukas Enderich , Fabian Timm , Wolfram Burgard

Pre-training and fine-tuning have achieved significant advances in the information retrieval (IR). A typical approach is to fine-tune all the parameters of large-scale pre-trained models (PTMs) on downstream tasks. As the model size and the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Xinyu Ma , Jiafeng Guo , Ruqing Zhang , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

State-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNNs) used in vision applications have large models with numerous weights. Training these models is very compute- and memory-resource intensive. Much research has been done on pruning or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sangkug Lym , Esha Choukse , Siavash Zangeneh , Wei Wen , Sujay Sanghavi , Mattan Erez

Deep learning algorithms vary depending on the underlying connection mechanism of nodes of them. They have various hyperparameters that are either set via specific algorithms or randomly chosen. Meanwhile, hyperparameters of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 M. M. Ozturk