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The widespread availability of pre-trained vision models has enabled numerous deep learning applications through their transferable representations. However, their computational and storage costs often limit practical deployment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Leonardo Iurada , Beatrice Occhiena , Tatiana Tommasi

This paper investigates whether the power of the models pre-trained on text data, such as BERT, can be transferred to general token sequence classification applications. To verify pre-trained models' transferability, we test the pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Wei-Tsung Kao , Hung-Yi Lee

Transformer-based large language models have remarkable potential to accelerate design optimization for applications such as drug development and materials discovery. Self-supervised pretraining of transformer models requires large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Pei Zhang , Logan Kearney , Debsindhu Bhowmik , Zachary Fox , Amit K. Naskar , John Gounley

The Transformer architecture and transfer learning have marked a quantum leap in natural language processing, improving the state of the art across a range of text-based tasks. This paper examines how these advancements can be applied to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Pasquale Salza , Christoph Schwizer , Jian Gu , Harald C. Gall

As post-training processes utilize increasingly large datasets and base models continue to grow in size, the computational demands and implementation challenges of existing algorithms are escalating significantly. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xinyu Lu , Xueru Wen , Yaojie Lu , Bowen Yu , Hongyu Lin , Haiyang Yu , Le Sun , Xianpei Han , Yongbin Li

Fine-tuning BERT-based models is resource-intensive in memory, computation, and time. While many prior works aim to improve inference efficiency via compression techniques, e.g., pruning, these works do not explicitly address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Danilo Vucetic , Mohammadreza Tayaranian , Maryam Ziaeefard , James J. Clark , Brett H. Meyer , Warren J. Gross

Recently, fine-tuning pre-trained language models (e.g., multilingual BERT) to downstream cross-lingual tasks has shown promising results. However, the fine-tuning process inevitably changes the parameters of the pre-trained model and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Andrea Madotto , Pascale Fung

Large pre-trained transformers are show-stealer in modern-day deep learning, and it becomes crucial to comprehend the parsimonious patterns that exist within them as they grow in scale. With exploding parameter counts, Lottery Ticket…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ajay Jaiswal , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

Transfer learning with models pretrained on ImageNet has become a standard practice in computer vision. Transfer learning refers to fine-tuning pretrained weights of a neural network on a downstream task, typically unrelated to ImageNet.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xander Coetzer , Arné Schreuder , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

This paper presents a practical approach to fine-grained information extraction. Through plenty of experiences of authors in practically applying information extraction to business process automation, there can be found a couple of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Minh-Tien Nguyen , Viet-Anh Phan , Le Thai Linh , Nguyen Hong Son , Le Tien Dung , Miku Hirano , Hajime Hotta

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

While task-specific finetuning of pretrained networks has led to significant empirical advances in NLP, the large size of networks makes finetuning difficult to deploy in multi-task, memory-constrained settings. We propose diff pruning as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Demi Guo , Alexander M. Rush , Yoon Kim

Transfer learning allows us to train deep architectures requiring a large number of learned parameters, even if the amount of available data is limited, by leveraging existing models previously trained for another task. Here we explore the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Natalie Best , Jordan Ott , Erik Linstead

Recent work on deep learning for tabular data demonstrates the strong performance of deep tabular models, often bridging the gap between gradient boosted decision trees and neural networks. Accuracy aside, a major advantage of neural models…

Pre-training is crucial for learning deep neural networks. Most of existing pre-training methods train simple models (e.g., restricted Boltzmann machines) and then stack them layer by layer to form the deep structure. This layer-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Zhiyuan Tang , Dong Wang , Yiqiao Pan , Zhiyong Zhang

Language model pretraining has led to significant performance gains but careful comparison between different approaches is challenging. Training is computationally expensive, often done on private datasets of different sizes, and, as we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yinhan Liu , Myle Ott , Naman Goyal , Jingfei Du , Mandar Joshi , Danqi Chen , Omer Levy , Mike Lewis , Luke Zettlemoyer , Veselin Stoyanov

As a fundamental problem in transfer learning, model selection aims to rank off-the-shelf pre-trained models and select the most suitable one for the new target task. Existing model selection techniques are often constrained in their scope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jiameng Bai , Sai Wu , Jie Song , Junbo Zhao , Gang Chen

Large, pre-trained transformer-based language models such as BERT have drastically changed the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. We present a survey of recent work that uses these large language models to solve NLP tasks via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Bonan Min , Hayley Ross , Elior Sulem , Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Thien Huu Nguyen , Oscar Sainz , Eneko Agirre , Ilana Heinz , Dan Roth

Finetuning (pretrained) language models is a standard approach for updating their internal parametric knowledge and specializing them to new tasks and domains. However, the corresponding model weight changes ("weight diffs") are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Avichal Goel , Yoon Kim , Nir Shavit , Tony T. Wang

Recently, fine-tuning pre-trained code models such as CodeBERT on downstream tasks has achieved great success in many software testing and analysis tasks. While effective and prevalent, fine-tuning the pre-trained parameters incurs a large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Ensheng Shi , Yanlin Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Lun Du , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Hongbin Sun