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Hypothesis transfer learning (HTL) contrasts domain adaptation by allowing for a previous task leverage, named the source, into a new one, the target, without requiring access to the source data. Indeed, HTL relies only on a hypothesis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-17 Anass Aghbalou , Guillaume Staerman

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

Transfer learning allows us to train deep architectures requiring a large number of learned parameters, even if the amount of available data is limited, by leveraging existing models previously trained for another task. Here we explore the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Natalie Best , Jordan Ott , Erik Linstead

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 (TL) utilizes data or knowledge from one or more source domains to facilitate the learning in a target domain. It is particularly useful when the target domain has very few or no labeled data, due to annotation expense,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Wen Zhang , Lingfei Deng , Lei Zhang , Dongrui Wu

Transfer Learning (TL) plays a crucial role when a given dataset has insufficient labeled examples to train an accurate model. In such scenarios, the knowledge accumulated within a model pre-trained on a source dataset can be transferred to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Tushar Semwal , Gaurav Mathur , Promod Yenigalla , Shivashankar B. Nair

Transfer learning refers to the promising idea of initializing model fits based on pre-training on other data. We particularly consider regression modeling settings where parameter estimates from previous data can be used as anchoring…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-07 Wessel N. van Wieringen , Harald Binder

Deep learning models usually require a huge amount of data. However, these large datasets are not always attainable. This is common in many challenging NLP tasks. Consider Neural Machine Translation, for instance, where curating such large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Zaid Alyafeai , Maged Saeed AlShaibani , Irfan Ahmad

Deep neural networks are data hungry models and thus face difficulties when attempting to train on small text datasets. Transfer learning is a potential solution but their effectiveness in the text domain is not as explored as in areas such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Yaser Keneshloo , Naren Ramakrishnan , Chandan K. Reddy

Feature learning with deep models has achieved impressive results for both data representation and classification for various vision tasks. Deep feature learning, however, typically requires a large amount of training data, which may not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yue Wu , Qiang Ji

Methods of transfer learning try to combine knowledge from several related tasks (or domains) to improve performance on a test task. Inspired by causal methodology, we relax the usual covariate shift assumption and assume that it holds true…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-25 Mateo Rojas-Carulla , Bernhard Schölkopf , Richard Turner , Jonas Peters

The goal of transfer learning is to improve the performance of target learning task by leveraging information (or transferring knowledge) from other related tasks. In this paper, we examine the problem of transfer distance metric learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Yong Luo , Yonggang Wen , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning a linear regression model on a data domain of interest (target) given few samples. To aid learning, we are provided with a set of pre-trained regression models that are trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Navjot Singh , Suhas Diggavi

Transfer learning is aimed to make use of valuable knowledge in a source domain to help model performance in a target domain. It is particularly important to neural networks, which are very likely to be overfitting. In some fields like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Lili Mou , Zhao Meng , Rui Yan , Ge Li , Yan Xu , Lu Zhang , Zhi Jin

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

Theoretical works on supervised transfer learning (STL) -- where the learner has access to labeled samples from both source and target distributions -- have for the most part focused on statistical aspects of the problem, while efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Yuyang Deng , Samory Kpotufe

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

Recently, deep learning methods have made great progress in traffic prediction, but their performance depends on a large amount of historical data. In reality, we may face the data scarcity issue. In this case, deep learning models fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xueyan Yin , Feifan Li , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin

Data fusion and transfer learning are rapidly growing fields that enhance model performance for a target population by leveraging other related data sources or tasks. The challenges lie in the various potential heterogeneities between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-19 Jing Wang , HaiYing Wang , Kun Chen