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With the rise of cloud-edge collaboration, recommendation services are increasingly trained in distributed environments. Federated Recommendation (FR) enables such multi-end collaborative training while preserving privacy by sharing model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Haochen Yuan , Yang Zhang , Xiang He , Quan Z. Sheng , Zhongjie Wang

With the advent of large pre-trained transformer models, fine-tuning these models for various downstream tasks is a critical problem. Paucity of training data, the existence of data silos, and stringent privacy constraints exacerbate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Naif Alkhunaizi , Faris Almalik , Rouqaiah Al-Refai , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

Fine-tuning large pre-trained foundation models often yields excellent downstream performance but is prohibitively expensive when updating all parameters. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods such as LoRA alleviate this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yibo Zhong , Haoxiang Jiang , Lincan Li , Ryumei Nakada , Tianci Liu , Linjun Zhang , Huaxiu Yao , Haoyu Wang

Limited labeled data makes it hard to train models from scratch in medical domain, and an important paradigm is pre-training and then fine-tuning. Large pre-trained models contain rich representations, which can be adapted to downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Along He , Kai Wang , Zhihong Wang , Tao Li , Huazhu Fu

Point cloud foundation models demonstrate strong generalization, yet adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging in low-data regimes. Full fine-tuning often leads to overfitting and significant drift from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sneha Paul , Zachary Patterson , Nizar Bouguila

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) techniques make it possible to efficiently adapt a language model to create "expert" models that specialize to new tasks or domains. Recent techniques in model merging and compositional generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Prateek Yadav , Leshem Choshen , Colin Raffel , Mohit Bansal

In few-shot classification tasks (so-called episodes), a small set of labeled support samples is provided during inference to aid the classification of unlabeled query samples. Metric-based models typically operate by computing similarities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xuanyu Zhuang , Geoffroy Peeters , Gaël Richard

We propose a novel prompt tuning method called CoAPT(Context Attribute words in Prompt Tuning) for few/zero-shot image classification. The core motivation is that attributes are descriptive words with rich information about a given concept.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Gun Lee , Subin An , Sungyong Baik , Soochahn Lee

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) is increasingly recognized as an effective method in speech processing. However, the optimal approach and the placement of PEFT methods remain inconclusive. Our study conducts extensive experiments to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Tzu-Han Lin , How-Shing Wang , Hao-Yung Weng , Kuang-Chen Peng , Zih-Ching Chen , Hung-yi Lee

Foundation models like SAM (Segment Anything Model) exhibit strong zero-shot image segmentation performance, but often fall short on domain-specific tasks. Fine-tuning these models typically requires significant manual effort and domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Breenda Das , Lennart Purucker , Timur Carstensen , Frank Hutter

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) often causes overfitting to specific prompt wording, where minor phrasing variations drastically reduce performance. To address this, we propose Prompt-Agnostic Fine-Tuning (PAFT), a method that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chenxing Wei , Yao Shu , Mingwen Ou , Ying Tiffany He , Fei Richard Yu

Fine-tuning is widely used to tailor large language models for specific tasks such as neural machine translation (NMT). However, leveraging transfer learning is computationally expensive when fine-tuning large multilingual models with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Josh McGiff , Nikola S. Nikolov

Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques have drawn significant attention due to their ability to yield competitive results while updating only a small portion of the adjustable parameters. However, existing PEFT methods pose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Muling Wu , Wenhao Liu , Xiaohua Wang , Tianlong Li , Changze Lv , Zixuan Ling , Jianhao Zhu , Cenyuan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

We rethink the role of positional encoding in 3D representation learning and fine-tuning. We argue that using positional encoding in point Transformer-based methods serves to aggregate multi-scale features of point clouds. Additionally, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Shaochen Zhang , Zekun Qi , Runpei Dong , Xiuxiu Bai , Xing Wei

Large models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have transformed artificial intelligence, powering applications in natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal learning. However, fully…

Reducing scan time in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging while maintaining high-quality images is crucial for minimizing patient discomfort and radiation exposure. Due to the limited size of datasets and distribution discrepancy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-11 Yumin Kim , Gayoon Choi , Seong Jae Hwang

Prompt-based methods have been successfully applied in sentence-level few-shot learning tasks, mostly owing to the sophisticated design of templates and label words. However, when applied to token-level labeling tasks such as NER, it would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ruotian Ma , Xin Zhou , Tao Gui , Yiding Tan , Linyang Li , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Few-shot learning allows machines to classify novel classes using only a few labeled samples. Recently, few-shot segmentation aiming at semantic segmentation on low sample data has also seen great interest. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Jun Seo , Young-Hyun Park , Sung Whan Yoon , Jaekyun Moon

Fine-tuning (FT) pre-trained sentence embedding models on small datasets has been shown to have limitations. In this paper we show that concatenating the embeddings from the pre-trained model with those from a simple sentence embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Siddhant Garg , Rohit Kumar Sharma , Yingyu Liang