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Multi-source transfer learning provides an effective solution to data scarcity in real-world supervised learning scenarios by leveraging multiple source tasks. In this field, existing works typically use all available samples from sources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Qingyue Zhang , Haohao Fu , Guanbo Huang , Yaoyuan Liang , Chang Chu , Tianren Peng , Yanru Wu , Qi Li , Yang Li , Shao-Lun Huang

Existing work within transfer learning often follows a two-step process -- pre-training over a large-scale source domain and then finetuning over limited samples from the target domain. Yet, despite its popularity, this methodology has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Akul Goyal , Carl Edwards

With the increasing abundance of pretrained models in recent years, the problem of selecting the best pretrained checkpoint for a particular downstream classification task has been gaining increased attention. Although several methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Nan Ding , Xi Chen , Tomer Levinboim , Beer Changpinyo , Radu Soricut

We propose a framework that learns a representation transferable across different domains and tasks in a label efficient manner. Our approach battles domain shift with a domain adversarial loss, and generalizes the embedding to novel task…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-04 Zelun Luo , Yuliang Zou , Judy Hoffman , Li Fei-Fei

The success of deep learning algorithms generally depends on large-scale data, while humans appear to have inherent ability of knowledge transfer, by recognizing and applying relevant knowledge from previous learning experiences when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Junguang Jiang , Yang Shu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Transfer learning can be applied in deep reinforcement learning to accelerate the training of a policy in a target task by transferring knowledge from a policy learned in a related source task. This is commonly achieved by copying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Joseph Campbell , Yue Guo , Fiona Xie , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara

Transfer learning is a powerful paradigm for leveraging knowledge from source domains to enhance learning in a target domain. However, traditional transfer learning approaches often focus on scalar or multivariate data within Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kaicheng Zhang , Sinian Zhang , Doudou Zhou , Yidong Zhou

Knowledge transfer between heterogeneous source and target networks and tasks has received a lot of attention in recent times as large amounts of quality labeled data can be difficult to obtain in many applications. Existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Keerthiram Murugesan , Vijay Sadashivaiah , Ronny Luss , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Pin-Yu Chen , Amit Dhurandhar

A typical assumption in supervised machine learning is that the train (source) and test (target) datasets follow completely the same distribution. This assumption is, however, often violated in uncertain real-world applications, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Masahiro Nomura , Yuta Saito

Transferring representation for multitask imitation learning has the potential to provide improved sample efficiency on learning new tasks, when compared to learning from scratch. In this work, we provide a statistical guarantee indicating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Bryan Chan , Karime Pereida , James Bergstra

Transfer Learning is an area of statistics and machine learning research that seeks answers to the following question: how do we build successful learning algorithms when the data available for training our model is qualitatively different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Brandon Tse Wei Chow

Transformer-based models for transfer learning have the potential to achieve high prediction accuracies on text-based supervised learning tasks with relatively few training data instances. These models are thus likely to benefit social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Sandra Wankmüller

This work considers the problem of transferring causal knowledge between tasks for Individual Treatment Effect (ITE) estimation. To this end, we theoretically assess the feasibility of transferring ITE knowledge and present a practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ahmed Aloui , Juncheng Dong , Cat P. Le , Vahid Tarokh

We propose novel model transfer-learning methods that refine a decision forest model M learned within a "source" domain using a training set sampled from a "target" domain, assumed to be a variation of the source. We present two random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Noam Segev , Maayan Harel , Shie Mannor , Koby Crammer , Ran El-Yaniv

Transfer learning boosts the performance of medical image analysis by enabling deep learning (DL) on small datasets through the knowledge acquired from large ones. As the number of DL architectures explodes, exhaustively attempting all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Levy Chaves , Alceu Bissoto , Eduardo Valle , Sandra Avila

Statistical machine learning methods often face the challenge of limited data available from the population of interest. One remedy is to leverage data from auxiliary source populations, which share some conditional distributions or are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-11 Hongxiang Qiu , Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen , Edgar Dobriban

This paper studies task adaptive pre-trained model selection, an underexplored problem of assessing pre-trained models for the target task and select best ones from the model zoo \emph{without fine-tuning}. A few pilot works addressed the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Kaichao You , Yong Liu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

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 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, in which a network is trained on one task and re-purposed on another, is often used to produce neural network classifiers when data is scarce or full-scale training is too costly. When the goal is to produce a model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Ali Shafahi , Parsa Saadatpanah , Chen Zhu , Amin Ghiasi , Christoph Studer , David Jacobs , Tom Goldstein