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Transfer learning considers a learning process where a new task is solved by transferring relevant knowledge from known solutions to related tasks. While this has been studied experimentally, there lacks a foundational description of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Janith Petangoda , Nick A. M. Monk , Marc Peter Deisenroth

Humans can learn from very few samples, demonstrating an outstanding generalization ability that learning algorithms are still far from reaching. Currently, the most successful models demand enormous amounts of well-labeled data, which are…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Frederico Guth , Teofilo Emidio de-Campos

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

In this paper we consider the binary transfer learning problem, focusing on how to select and combine sources from a large pool to yield a good performance on a target task. Constraining our scenario to real world, we do not assume the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Ilja Kuzborskij , Francesco Orabona , Barbara Caputo

Transfer Learning (TL) offers the potential to accelerate learning by transferring knowledge across tasks. However, it faces critical challenges such as negative transfer, domain adaptation and inefficiency in selecting solid source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alessandro Capurso , Elia Piccoli , Davide Bacciu

Active learning is an important machine learning problem in reducing the human labeling effort. Current active learning strategies are designed from human knowledge, and are applied on each dataset in an immutable manner. In other words,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Hong-Min Chu , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Transfer learning refers to the process of adapting a model trained on a source task to a target task. While kernel methods are conceptually and computationally simple machine learning models that are competitive on a variety of tasks, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Max Ruiz Luyten , Neha Prasad , Caroline Uhler

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

In this work, we investigate the potential of improving multi-task training and also leveraging it for transferring in the reinforcement learning setting. We identify several challenges towards this goal and propose a transferring approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lingfeng Sun , Haichao Zhang , Wei Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Transfer learning is an essential technique for many machine learning/AI models of complex structures such as large language models and generative AI. The essence of transfer learning is to leverage knowledge from resolved source tasks for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-21 Haoyang Cao , Xin Guo , Wenpin Tang , Guan Wang

In practice, it is very demanding and sometimes impossible to collect datasets of tagged data large enough to successfully train a machine learning model, and one possible solution to this problem is transfer learning. This study aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Erik Otović , Marko Njirjak , Dario Jozinović , Goran Mauša , Alberto Michelini , Ivan Štajduhar

Transfer learning assumes classifiers of similar tasks share certain parameter structures. Unfortunately, modern classifiers uses sophisticated feature representations with huge parameter spaces which lead to costly transfer. Under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-20 Song Liu , Kenji Fukumizu

Transfer learning has become an essential technique to exploit information from the source domain to boost performance of the target task. Despite the prevalence in high-dimensional data, heterogeneity and heavy tails are insufficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-07 Jiayu Huang , Mingqiu Wang , Yuanshan Wu

One question central to Reinforcement Learning is how to learn a feature representation that supports algorithm scaling and re-use of learned information from different tasks. Successor Features approach this problem by learning a feature…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Lucas Lehnert , Stefanie Tellex , Michael L. Littman

Transfer learning borrows knowledge from a source domain to facilitate learning in a target domain. Two primary issues to be addressed in transfer learning are what and how to transfer. For a pair of domains, adopting different transfer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Ying Wei , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

Transfer of pre-trained representations can improve sample efficiency and reduce computational requirements for new tasks. However, representations used for transfer are usually generic, and are not tailored to a particular distribution of…

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) is computationally expensive, which is problematic especially when performing duplicated or similar training runs in model ensemble or fine-tuning pre-trained models, for example. Once we have trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Daiki Chijiwa

Transfer in reinforcement learning refers to the notion that generalization should occur not only within a task but also across tasks. We propose a transfer framework for the scenario where the reward function changes between tasks but the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-13 André Barreto , Will Dabney , Rémi Munos , Jonathan J. Hunt , Tom Schaul , Hado van Hasselt , David Silver

Transfer learning can significantly improve the sample efficiency of neural networks, by exploiting the relatedness between a data-scarce target task and a data-abundant source task. Despite years of successful applications, transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Federica Gerace , Luca Saglietti , Stefano Sarao Mannelli , Andrew Saxe , Lenka Zdeborová

How well can one expect transfer learning to work in a new setting where the domain is shifted, the task is different, and the architecture changes? Many transfer learning metrics have been proposed to answer this question. But how accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Moein Sorkhei , Christos Matsoukas , Johan Fredin Haslum , Emir Konuk , Kevin Smith