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This paper addresses challenges in robust transfer learning stemming from ambiguity in Bayes classifiers and weak transferable signals between the target and source distribution. We introduce a novel quantity called the ''ambiguity level''…

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The classical approach to non-linear regression in physics, is to take a mathematical model describing the functional dependence of the dependent variable from a set of independent variables, and then, using non-linear fitting algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Umberto , Michelucci , Francesca Venturini

Learning two tasks in a single shared function has some benefits. Firstly by acquiring information from the second task, the shared function leverages useful information that could have been neglected or underestimated in the first task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Jonghwa Yim , Sang Hwan Kim

Federated learning of causal estimands offers a powerful strategy to improve estimation efficiency by leveraging data from multiple study sites while preserving privacy. Existing literature has primarily focused on the average treatment…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-24 Siqi Cao , Shu Yang

We propose a new causal inference framework to learn causal effects from multiple, decentralized data sources in a federated setting. We introduce an adaptive transfer algorithm that learns the similarities among the data sources by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Thanh Vinh Vo , Arnab Bhattacharyya , Young Lee , Tze-Yun Leong

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

Lack of sufficient labeled data often limits the applicability of advanced machine learning algorithms to real life problems. However efficient use of Transfer Learning (TL) has been shown to be very useful across domains. TL utilizes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Sunil Kumar Sahu , Ashish Anand

The availability of abundant labeled data in recent years led the researchers to introduce a methodology called transfer learning, which utilizes existing data in situations where there are difficulties in collecting new annotated data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Abolfazl Farahani , Behrouz Pourshojae , Khaled Rasheed , Hamid R. Arabnia

Theoretical studies on transfer learning or domain adaptation have so far focused on situations with a known hypothesis class or model; however in practice, some amount of model selection is usually involved, often appearing under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-13 Steve Hanneke , Samory Kpotufe , Yasaman Mahdaviyeh

In multi-source transfer learning, a key challenge lies in how to appropriately differentiate and utilize heterogeneous source tasks. However, existing multi-source methods typically focus on optimizing either the source weights or the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Qingyue Zhang , Chang Chu , Haohao Fu , Tianren Peng , Yanru Wu , Guanbo Huang , Yang Li , Shao-Lun Huang

Semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) aims to solve tasks in target domain by utilizing transferable information learned from the available source domain and a few labeled target data. However, source data is not always accessible in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Xiaodong Wang , Junbao Zhuo , Shuhao Cui , Shuhui Wang

Recent years, transfer learning has attracted much attention in the community of machine learning. In this paper, we mainly focus on the tasks of parameter transfer under the framework of extreme learning machine (ELM). Unlike the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Chao Chen , Boyuan Jiang , Xinyu Jin

Classification imbalance arises when one class is much rarer than the other. We frame this setting as transfer learning under label (prior) shift between an imbalanced source distribution induced by the observed data and a balanced target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-16 Eric Xia , Jason M. Klusowski

In transfer learning, transferability is one of the most fundamental problems, which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of arbitrary transfer tasks. Existing research focuses on classification tasks and neglects domain or task differences.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Qianshan Zhan , Xiao-Jun Zeng

Transfer learning aims to enhance performance on a target task by using knowledge from related tasks. However, when the source and target tasks are not closely aligned, it can lead to reduced performance, known as negative transfer. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Zehong Wang , Zheyuan Zhang , Chuxu Zhang , Yanfang Ye

There is a strong incentive to develop versatile learning techniques that can transfer the knowledge of class-separability from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain in the presence of a domain-shift. Existing domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Naveen Venkat , Rahul M , R. Venkatesh Babu

Machine learning deployments in real-world wireless communication tasks face significant generalization challenges due to location and environment-specific signal structure, high diversity in data across different deployments, and limited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Sadjad Alikhani , Akshay Malhotra , Shahab Hamidi-Rad , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The ultimate goal of regression analysis is to obtain information about the conditional distribution of a response given a set of explanatory variables. This goal is, however, seldom achieved because most established regression models only…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-13 Torsten Hothorn , Thomas Kneib , Peter Bühlmann

Transfer learning (TL) has emerged as a powerful tool to supplement data collected for a target task with data collected for a related source task. The Bayesian framework is natural for TL because information from the source data can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-06 Mohamed A. Abba , Jonathan P. Williams , Brian J. Reich

Modern NLP applications have enjoyed a great boost utilizing neural networks models. Such deep neural models, however, are not applicable to most human languages due to the lack of annotated training data for various NLP tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Xilun Chen , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Hany Hassan , Wei Wang , Claire Cardie