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There has been growing interest in parameter-efficient methods to apply pre-trained language models to downstream tasks. Building on the Prompt Tuning approach of Lester et al. (2021), which learns task-specific soft prompts to condition a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Tu Vu , Brian Lester , Noah Constant , Rami Al-Rfou , Daniel Cer

Pre-training of Large Language Models is often prohibitively expensive and inefficient at scale, requiring complex and invasive modifications in order to achieve high data throughput. In this work, we present Token-Superposition Training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Bowen Peng , Théo Gigant , Jeffrey Quesnelle

Transformer-based models have achieved dominant performance in numerous NLP tasks. Despite their remarkable successes, pre-trained transformers such as BERT suffer from a computationally expensive self-attention mechanism that interacts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jungmin Yun , Mihyeon Kim , Youngbin Kim

In-context learning with attention enables large neural networks to make context-specific predictions by selectively focusing on relevant examples. Here, we adapt this idea to supervised learning procedures such as lasso regression and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Erin Craig , Robert Tibshirani

This paper tackles the problem of efficient video recognition. In this area, video transformers have recently dominated the efficiency (top-1 accuracy vs FLOPs) spectrum. At the same time, there have been some attempts in the image domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Transfer learning enables solving a specific task having limited data by using the pre-trained deep networks trained on large-scale datasets. Typically, while transferring the learned knowledge from source task to the target task, the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 S. H. Shabbeer Basha , Sravan Kumar Vinakota , Viswanath Pulabaigari , Snehasis Mukherjee , Shiv Ram Dubey

Recent works on parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) show the potential to adapt a pre-trained Vision Transformer to downstream recognition tasks with only a few learnable parameters. However, since they usually insert new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Taolin Zhang , Jiawang Bai , Zhihe Lu , Dongze Lian , Genping Wang , Xinchao Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

The brain can only be fully understood through the lens of the behavior it generates -- a guiding principle in modern neuroscience research that nevertheless presents significant technical challenges. Many studies capture behavior with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-02 Yanchen Wang , Han Yu , Ari Blau , Yizi Zhang , The International Brain Laboratory , Liam Paninski , Cole Hurwitz , Matt Whiteway

Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) are powerful models that learn hierarchies of visual features, which could also be used to obtain image representations for transfer learning. The basic pipeline for transfer learning is to first train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Jumabek Alikhanov , Myeong Hyeon Ga , Seunghyun Ko , Geun-Sik Jo

Continual learning is a longstanding research topic due to its crucial role in tackling continually arriving tasks. Up to now, the study of continual learning in computer vision is mainly restricted to convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Mengqi Xue , Haofei Zhang , Jie Song , Mingli Song

Learning with limited data is a key challenge for visual recognition. Many few-shot learning methods address this challenge by learning an instance embedding function from seen classes and apply the function to instances from unseen classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Han-Jia Ye , Hexiang Hu , De-Chuan Zhan , Fei Sha

It is well known that featuremap attention and multi-path representation are important for visual recognition. In this paper, we present a modularized architecture, which applies the channel-wise attention on different network branches to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Hang Zhang , Chongruo Wu , Zhongyue Zhang , Yi Zhu , Haibin Lin , Zhi Zhang , Yue Sun , Tong He , Jonas Mueller , R. Manmatha , Mu Li , Alexander Smola

Most recent work on action segmentation relies on pre-computed frame features from models trained on other tasks and typically focuses on framewise encoding and labeling without explicitly modeling action segments. To overcome these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Tieqiao Wang , Sinisa Todorovic

Transfer learning is a widely used method to build high performing computer vision models. In this paper, we study the efficacy of transfer learning by examining how the choice of data impacts performance. We find that more pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Jiquan Ngiam , Daiyi Peng , Vijay Vasudevan , Simon Kornblith , Quoc V. Le , Ruoming Pang

One of the key challenges in machine learning is to design a computationally efficient multi-class classifier while maintaining the output accuracy and performance. In this paper, we present a tree-based classifier: Attention Tree (ATree)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Sequential recommendation models the dynamics of a user's previous behaviors in order to forecast the next item, and has drawn a lot of attention. Transformer-based approaches, which embed items as vectors and use dot-product self-attention…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Alice Wang , Zahra Nazari , Lei Zheng , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Deep transfer learning recently has acquired significant research interest. It makes use of pre-trained models that are learned from a source domain, and utilizes these models for the tasks in a target domain. Model-based deep transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tianyang Wang , Jun Huan , Michelle Zhu

The increasing of pre-trained models has significantly facilitated the performance on limited data tasks with transfer learning. However, progress on transfer learning mainly focuses on optimizing the weights of pre-trained models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Bingyan Liu , Yifeng Cai , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen

To improve the efficiency and sustainability of learning deep models, we propose CREST, the first scalable framework with rigorous theoretical guarantees to identify the most valuable examples for training non-convex models, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yu Yang , Hao Kang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Tabular learning transforms raw features into optimized spaces for downstream tasks, but its effectiveness deteriorates under distribution shifts between training and testing data. We formalize this challenge as the Distribution Shift…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Wangyang Ying , Nanxu Gong , Dongjie Wang , Xinyuan Wang , Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Vivek Gupta , Chandan K. Reddy , Yanjie Fu