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Consider the problem of improving the estimation of conditional average treatment effects (CATE) for a target domain of interest by leveraging related information from a source domain with a different feature space. This heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Ioana Bica , Mihaela van der Schaar

Deep learning has emerged as a compelling framework for scientific and engineering computing, motivating growing interest in neural network-based solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs). Within this landscape, network…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Tao Cheng , Lili Ju , Zhonghua Qiao , Xiaoping Zhang

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 has emerged as a highly sought-after and actively pursued research area within the statistical community. The core concept of transfer learning involves leveraging insights and information from auxiliary datasets to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-01 Pengfei Li , Tao Yu , Chixiang Chen , Jing Qin

Transfer learning is crucial in training deep neural networks on new target tasks. Current transfer learning methods always assume at least one of (i) source and target task label spaces overlap, (ii) source datasets are available, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Sekitoshi Kanai , Atsutoshi Kumagai , Daiki Chijiwa , Hisashi Kashima

This paper addresses the problem of transferring useful knowledge from a source network to predict node labels in a newly formed target network. While existing transfer learning research has primarily focused on vector-based data, in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Meng Fang , Jie Yin , Xingquan Zhu

Transfer learning seeks to improve the generalization performance of a target task by exploiting the knowledge learned from a related source task. Central questions include deciding what information one should transfer and when transfer can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Oussama Dhifallah , Yue M. Lu

Deep neural networks have led to a series of breakthroughs in computer vision given sufficient annotated training datasets. For novel tasks with limited labeled data, the prevalent approach is to transfer the knowledge learned in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Yi Zhu , Jia Xue , Shawn Newsam

The most successful methods such as ReLU transfer functions, batch normalization, Xavier initialization, dropout, learning rate decay, or dynamic optimizers, have become standards in the field due, particularly, to their ability to increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Yurika Sakai , Andrey Kormilitzin , Qiang Liu , Alejo Nevado-Holgado

Machine learning classification models trained with empirical risk minimization (ERM) often inadvertently rely on spurious correlations. When absent in the test data, these unintended associations between non-target attributes and target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ihab Asaad , Maha Shadaydeh , Joachim Denzler

Learning from multiple related tasks by knowledge sharing and transfer has become increasingly relevant over the last two decades. In order to successfully transfer information from one task to another, it is critical to understand the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Boyu Wang , Jorge Mendez , Changjian Shui , Fan Zhou , Di Wu , Gezheng Xu , Christian Gagné , Eric Eaton

Transfer entropy (TE) is an information theoretic measure that reveals the directional flow of information between processes, providing valuable insights for a wide range of real-world applications. This work proposes Transfer Entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Omer Luxembourg , Dor Tsur , Haim Permuter

As the application of deep learning has expanded to real-world problems with insufficient volume of training data, transfer learning recently has gained much attention as means of improving the performance in such small-data regime.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Yunhun Jang , Hankook Lee , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Ensuring generalization to unseen environments remains a challenge. Domain shift can lead to substantially degraded performance unless shifts are well-exercised within the available training environments. We introduce a simple robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yilun Xu , Tommi Jaakkola

While transferring a pretrained language model, common approaches conventionally attach their task-specific classifiers to the top layer and adapt all the pretrained layers. We investigate whether one could make a task-specific selection on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Shuo Xie , Jiahao Qiu , Ankita Pasad , Li Du , Qing Qu , Hongyuan Mei

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

Domain similarity measures can be used to gauge adaptability and select suitable data for transfer learning, but existing approaches define ad hoc measures that are deemed suitable for respective tasks. Inspired by work on curriculum…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Sebastian Ruder , Barbara Plank

Randomized clinical trials are the gold standard for analyzing treatment effects, but high costs and ethical concerns can limit recruitment, potentially leading to invalid inferences. Incorporating external trial data with similar…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-09 Yujia Gu , Hanzhong Liu , Wei Ma

Variational methods have been recently considered for scaling the training process of Gaussian process classifiers to large datasets. As an alternative, we describe here how to train these classifiers efficiently using expectation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-17 Daniel Hernández-Lobato , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Graph neural networks (GNNs) is widely used to learn a powerful representation of graph-structured data. Recent work demonstrates that transferring knowledge from self-supervised tasks to downstream tasks could further improve graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Xueting Han , Zhenhuan Huang , Bang An , Jing Bai