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Quantum kernel methods, i.e., kernel methods with quantum kernels, offer distinct advantages as a hybrid quantum-classical approach to quantum machine learning (QML), including applicability to Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ)…

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In this paper, we present a new approach to Transfer Learning (TL) in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for cross-domain tasks. Many of the available techniques approach the transfer architecture as a method of speeding up the target task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Girish Joshi , Girish Chowdhary

We consider the Hypothesis Transfer Learning (HTL) problem where one incorporates a hypothesis trained on the source domain into the learning procedure of the target domain. Existing theoretical analysis either only studies specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Simon Shaolei Du , Jayanth Koushik , Aarti Singh , Barnabas Poczos

We study transfer learning for a linear regression task using several least-squares pretrained models that can be overparameterized. We formulate the target learning task as optimization that minimizes squared errors on the target dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Daniel Boharon , Yehuda Dar

Transfer learning with pre-trained neural networks is a common strategy for training classifiers in medical image analysis. Without proper channel selections, this often results in unnecessarily large models that hinder deployment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ken C. L. Wong , Satyananda Kashyap , Mehdi Moradi

Supervised transfer learning has received considerable attention due to its potential to boost the predictive power of machine learning in scenarios where data are scarce. Generally, a given set of source models and a dataset from a target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-23 Shunya Minami , Kenji Fukumizu , Yoshihiro Hayashi , Ryo Yoshida

Transfer learning refers to the transfer of knowledge or information from a relevant source task to a target task. However, most existing works assume both tasks are sampled from a stationary task distribution, thereby leading to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jun Wu , Jingrui He

Neural-network quantum states have shown great potential for the study of many-body quantum systems. In statistical machine learning, transfer learning designates protocols reusing features of a machine learning model trained for a problem…

We introduce techniques for rapidly transferring the information stored in one neural net into another neural net. The main purpose is to accelerate the training of a significantly larger neural net. During real-world workflows, one often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Tianqi Chen , Ian Goodfellow , Jonathon Shlens

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

Feature learning in neural networks is crucial for their expressive power and inductive biases, motivating various theoretical approaches. Some approaches describe network behavior after training through a change in kernel scale from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-29 Noa Rubin , Kirsten Fischer , Javed Lindner , David Dahmen , Inbar Seroussi , Zohar Ringel , Michael Krämer , Moritz Helias

In networks of independent entities that face similar predictive tasks, transfer machine learning enables to re-use and improve neural nets using distributed data sets without the exposure of raw data. As the number of data sets in business…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Robin Hirt , Akash Srivastava , Carlos Berg , Niklas Kühl

Transfer learning is a popular method for tuning pretrained (upstream) models for different downstream tasks using limited data and computational resources. We study how an adversary with control over an upstream model used in transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yulong Tian , Fnu Suya , Anshuman Suri , Fengyuan Xu , David Evans

We present a simple deep learning-based framework commonly used in computer vision and demonstrate its effectiveness for cross-dataset transfer learning in mental imagery decoding tasks that are common in the field of Brain-Computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Pierre Guetschel , Michael Tangermann

Transferability estimation has emerged as an important problem in transfer learning. A transferability estimation method takes as inputs a set of pre-trained models and decides which pre-trained model can deliver the best transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yunhui Guo

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a standard approach for visual recognition due to their capacity to learn hierarchical representations from raw pixels. In practice, practitioners often choose among (i) training a compact custom CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Annoor Sharara Akhand

Transfer learning is a machine learning paradigm where knowledge from one problem is utilized to solve a new but related problem. While conceivable that knowledge from one task could be useful for solving a related task, if not executed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Xuetong Wu , Jonathan H. Manton , Uwe Aickelin , Jingge Zhu

Transfer learning is widely used to adapt large pretrained models to new tasks with only a small amount of new data. However, a challenge persists -- the features from the original task often do not fully cover what is needed for unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xingyu Alice Yang , Jianyu Zhang , Léon Bottou

Methods of transfer learning try to combine knowledge from several related tasks (or domains) to improve performance on a test task. Inspired by causal methodology, we relax the usual covariate shift assumption and assume that it holds true…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-25 Mateo Rojas-Carulla , Bernhard Schölkopf , Richard Turner , Jonas Peters

Performance of neural network models relies on the availability of large datasets with minimal levels of uncertainty. Transfer Learning (TL) models have been proposed to resolve the issue of small dataset size by letting the model train on…