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When labeled data is scarce for a specific target task, transfer learning often offers an effective solution by utilizing data from a related source task. However, when transferring knowledge from a less related source, it may inversely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Zirui Wang , Zihang Dai , Barnabás Póczos , Jaime Carbonell

Transfer learning research attempts to make model induction transferable across different domains. This method assumes that specific information regarding to which domain each instance belongs is known. This paper helps to extend the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xinshun Liu , He Xin , Mao Hui , Liu Jing , Lai Weizhong , Ye Qingwen

We study a fundamental transfer learning process from source to target linear regression tasks, including overparameterized settings where there are more learned parameters than data samples. The target task learning is addressed by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Yehuda Dar , Daniel LeJeune , Richard G. Baraniuk

Transfer learning is beneficial for survival analysis, especially when the target study has a limited number of events. However, existing transfer learning methods rely on the restrictive assumption that the target and source studies share…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Yu Gu , Donglin Zeng , D. Y. Lin

Transfer learning aims to improve the performance of a target model by leveraging data from related source populations, which is known to be especially helpful in cases with insufficient target data. In this paper, we study the problem of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-19 Tian Gu , Yi Han , Rui Duan

This paper studies transfer learning for ridge-regularized robust linear regression in the moderate-dimensional regime, where the number of predictors is of the same order as the sample size and the regression coefficients are not assumed…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-14 Lingfeng Lyu , Xiao Guo , Zongqi Liu

With the emergence of large-scale pre-trained neural networks, methods to adapt such "foundation" models to data-limited downstream tasks have become a necessity. Fine-tuning, preference optimization, and transfer learning have all been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Javan Tahir , Surya Ganguli , Grant M. Rotskoff

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

Neural machine translation is known to require large numbers of parallel training sentences, which generally prevent it from excelling on low-resource language pairs. This thesis explores the use of cross-lingual transfer learning on neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Tom Kocmi

Linear discriminant analysis is a widely used method for classification. However, the high dimensionality of predictors combined with small sample sizes often results in large classification errors. To address this challenge, it is crucial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-09 Hongzhe Zhang , Arnab Auddy , Hongzhe Lee

Transfer learning is a key component of modern machine learning, enhancing the performance of target tasks by leveraging diverse data sources. Simultaneously, overparameterized models such as the minimum-$\ell_2$-norm interpolator (MNI) in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-19 Yeichan Kim , Ilmun Kim , Seyoung Park

Feature learning with deep models has achieved impressive results for both data representation and classification for various vision tasks. Deep feature learning, however, typically requires a large amount of training data, which may not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yue Wu , Qiang Ji

In many business settings, task-specific labeled data are scarce or costly to obtain, limiting supervised learning on a target task. A classical response is transfer learning (TL). Many TL works study how to transfer information from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Hamza Cherkaoui , Hélène Halconruy , Yohan Petetin

Transfer learning aims to transfer knowledge or information from a source domain to a relevant target domain. In this paper, we understand transfer learning from the perspectives of knowledge transferability and trustworthiness. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jun Wu , Jingrui He

The application of transfer learning, leveraging knowledge from source domains to enhance model performance in a target domain, has significantly grown, supporting diverse real-world applications. Its success often relies on shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Runxue Bao , Yiming Sun , Yuhe Gao , Jindong Wang , Qiang Yang , Zhi-Hong Mao , Ye Ye

Transfer learning aims to improve the performance of target tasks by transferring knowledge acquired in source tasks. The standard approach is pre-training followed by fine-tuning or linear probing. Especially, selecting a proper source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Huiyan Qi , Lechao Cheng , Jingjing Chen , Yue Yu , Xue Song , Zunlei Feng , Yu-Gang Jiang

Predicting student performance under varying data distributions is a challenging task. This study proposes a method to improve prediction accuracy by employing transfer learning techniques on the dataset with varying distributions. Using…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yan Zhao

Transfer learning is a problem defined over two domains. These two domains share the same feature space and class label space, but have significantly different distributions. One domain has sufficient labels, named as source domain, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Hongqi Wang , Anfeng Xu , Shanshan Wang , Sunny Chughtai

There are many time series in the literature with high dimension yet limited sample sizes, such as macroeconomic variables, and it is almost impossible to obtain efficient estimation and accurate prediction by using the corresponding…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-30 Yuchang Lin , Qianqian Zhu , Guodong Li

This paper studies high-dimensional additive regression under the transfer learning framework, where one observes samples from a target population together with auxiliary samples from different but potentially related regression models. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-17 Seung Hyun Moon