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How well can one expect transfer learning to work in a new setting where the domain is shifted, the task is different, and the architecture changes? Many transfer learning metrics have been proposed to answer this question. But how accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Moein Sorkhei , Christos Matsoukas , Johan Fredin Haslum , Emir Konuk , Kevin Smith

The widespread adoption of transfer learning has revolutionized machine learning by enabling efficient adaptation of pre-trained models to new domains. However, the reliability of these adaptations remains poorly understood, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Prabhav Singh , Jessica Sorrell

Transfer learning has become crucial in computer vision tasks due to the vast availability of pre-trained deep learning models. However, selecting the optimal pre-trained model from a diverse pool for a specific downstream task remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xiaotong Li , Zixuan Hu , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Ling-Yu Duan

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 refers to the process of adapting a model trained on a source task to a target task. While kernel methods are conceptually and computationally simple machine learning models that are competitive on a variety of tasks, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Max Ruiz Luyten , Neha Prasad , Caroline Uhler

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

Transfer learning is a burgeoning concept in statistical machine learning that seeks to improve inference and/or predictive accuracy on a domain of interest by leveraging data from related domains. While the term "transfer learning" has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Piotr M. Suder , Jason Xu , David B. Dunson

Identifying beneficial tasks to transfer from is a critical step toward successful intermediate-task transfer learning. In this work, we experiment with 130 source-target task combinations and demonstrate that the transfer performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Pin-Jie Lin , Miaoran Zhang , Marius Mosbach , Dietrich Klakow

Molecules have a number of distinct properties whose importance and application vary. Often, in reality, labels for some properties are hard to achieve despite their practical importance. A common solution to such data scarcity is to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Chanhui Lee , Dae-Woong Jeong , Sung Moon Ko , Sumin Lee , Hyunseung Kim , Soorin Yim , Sehui Han , Sungwoong Kim , Sungbin Lim

Transfer learning is an important approach for addressing the challenges posed by limited data availability in various applications. It accomplishes this by transferring knowledge from well-established source domains to a less familiar…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-03 Yeheng Ge , Xueyu Zhou , Jian Huang

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

In this work, we study the transfer learning problem under high-dimensional generalized linear models (GLMs), which aim to improve the fit on target data by borrowing information from useful source data. Given which sources to transfer, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-19 Ye Tian , Yang Feng

Transfer learning enhances learning across tasks, by leveraging previously learned representations -- if they are properly chosen. We describe an efficient method to accurately estimate the appropriateness of a previously trained model for…

Classical machine learning approaches are sensitive to non-stationarity. Transfer learning can address non-stationarity by sharing knowledge from one system to another, however, in areas like machine prognostics and defense, data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Tyler Cody , Stephen Adams , Peter A. Beling

In this paper we consider the binary transfer learning problem, focusing on how to select and combine sources from a large pool to yield a good performance on a target task. Constraining our scenario to real world, we do not assume the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Ilja Kuzborskij , Francesco Orabona , Barbara Caputo

Transfer learning assumes classifiers of similar tasks share certain parameter structures. Unfortunately, modern classifiers uses sophisticated feature representations with huge parameter spaces which lead to costly transfer. Under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-20 Song Liu , Kenji Fukumizu

In recent years, supervised machine learning models have demonstrated tremendous success in a variety of application domains. Despite the promising results, these successful models are data hungry and their performance relies heavily on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Azin Asgarian , Parinaz Sobhani , Ji Chao Zhang , Madalin Mihailescu , Ariel Sibilia , Ahmed Bilal Ashraf , Babak Taati

We propose a transfer learning method that utilizes data representations in a semiparametric regression model. Our aim is to perform statistical inference on the parameter of primary interest in the target model while accounting for…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-21 Baihua He , Huihang Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Jian Huang

Selecting an appropriate pre-trained source model is a critical, yet computationally expensive, task in transfer learning. Model Transferability Estimation (MTE) methods address this by providing efficient proxy metrics to rank models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuhang Liu , Wenjie Zhao , Yunhui Guo

Transfer learning has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, for example, with the introduction of augmentation-based contrastive self-supervised learning methods. While a number of large-scale empirical studies on the transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Andrei Atanov , Shijian Xu , Onur Beker , Andrei Filatov , Amir Zamir