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We propose and evaluate a new technique for learning hybrid automata automatically by observing the runtime behavior of a dynamical system. Working from a sequence of continuous state values and predicates about the environment, CHARDA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Adam Summerville , Joseph Osborn , Michael Mateas

Parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) is a promising task, aiming to adapt the large-scale pre-trained model to downstream tasks with a relatively modest cost. However, current PETL methods struggle in compressing computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Yurong Zhang , Honghao Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Xiangxiang Chu , Li Song

This paper proposes an adaptive neural-compilation framework to address the problem of efficient program learning. Traditional code optimisation strategies used in compilers are based on applying pre-specified set of transformations that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Rudy Bunel , Alban Desmaison , Pushmeet Kohli , Philip H. S. Torr , M. Pawan Kumar

Existing speech emotion recognition (SER) methods commonly suffer from the lack of high-quality large-scale corpus, partly due to the complex, psychological nature of emotion which makes accurate labeling difficult and time consuming.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin , Qing Gu , Nan Jiang , Yan Song

While current Vision Transformer (ViT) adapter methods have shown promising accuracy, their inference speed is implicitly hindered by inefficient memory access operations, e.g., standard normalization and frequent reshaping. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Dong Zhang , Rui Yan , Pingcheng Dong , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Convex quadratic programming (QP) is an important sub-field of mathematical optimization. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a successful method to solve QP. Even though ADMM shows promising results in solving various…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Haewon Jung , Junyoung Park , Jinkyoo Park

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods introduce a small number of training parameters, enabling pre-trained models to adapt rapidly to new data distributions. While these methods have shown promising results, they exhibit notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weicai Yan , Xinhua Ma , Wang Lin , Tao Jin

Many natural language processing tasks benefit from long inputs, but processing long documents with Transformers is expensive -- not only due to quadratic attention complexity but also from applying feedforward and projection layers to…

In always-on HAR deployments, model accuracy erodes silently as domain shift accumulates over time. Addressing this challenge requires moving beyond one-off updates toward instance-driven adaptation from streaming data. However, continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Minghui Qiu , Jun Chen , Lin Chen , Shuxin Zhong , Yandao Huang , Lu Wang , Kaishun Wu

Adapters and Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) are parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques designed to make the training of language models more efficient. Previous results demonstrated that these methods can even improve performance on some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Olesya Razuvayevskaya , Ben Wu , Joao A. Leite , Freddy Heppell , Ivan Srba , Carolina Scarton , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

The goal of this paper is to design image classification systems that, after an initial multi-task training phase, can automatically adapt to new tasks encountered at test time. We introduce a conditional neural process based approach to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-14 James Requeima , Jonathan Gordon , John Bronskill , Sebastian Nowozin , Richard E. Turner

Most neural networks utilize the same amount of compute for every example independent of the inherent complexity of the input. Further, methods that adapt the amount of computation to the example focus on finding a fixed inference-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Ankur Bapna , Naveen Arivazhagan , Orhan Firat

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance in video anomaly detection (VAD) while providing interpretable predictions. However, existing VLM-based VAD methods suffer from a fundamental mismatch between training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Darryl Cherian Jacob , Xinyu Liu , Kai Wang , Pan He

Gradient-based meta-learning has proven to be highly effective at learning model initializations, representations, and update rules that allow fast adaptation from a few samples. The core idea behind these approaches is to use fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Khurram Javed , Hengshuai Yao , Martha White

Large language models (LMs) are typically adapted to improve performance on new contexts (\eg text prompts that define new tasks or domains) through fine-tuning or prompting. However, there is an accuracy compute tradeoff -- fine-tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Tong Chen , Hao Fang , Patrick Xia , Xiaodong Liu , Benjamin Van Durme , Luke Zettlemoyer , Jianfeng Gao , Hao Cheng

Pre-trained language models have shown stellar performance in various downstream tasks. But, this usually comes at the cost of high latency and computation, hindering their usage in resource-limited settings. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Ali Modarressi , Hosein Mohebbi , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

With the rapid growth in the scale of pre-trained foundation models, parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques have gained significant attention, among which Adapter Tuning is the most widely used. Despite achieving efficiency, it still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Qizhe Zhang , Bocheng Zou , Ruichuan An , Jiaming Liu , Shanghang Zhang

Conformer-based models have become the dominant end-to-end architecture for speech processing tasks. With the objective of enhancing the conformer architecture for efficient training and inference, we carefully redesigned Conformer with a…

Modern on-device neural network applications must operate under resource constraints while adapting to unpredictable domain shifts. However, this combined challenge-model compression and domain adaptation-remains largely unaddressed, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yoojin Kwon , Hongjun Suh , Wooseok Lee , Taesik Gong , Songyi Han , Hyung-Sin Kim

Transformer is a powerful model for text understanding. However, it is inefficient due to its quadratic complexity to input sequence length. Although there are many methods on Transformer acceleration, they are still either inefficient on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie