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The objective of transfer learning is to enhance estimation and inference in a target data by leveraging knowledge gained from additional sources. Recent studies have explored transfer learning for independent observations in complex,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-23 Mingliang Ma Abolfazl Safikhani

A promising paradigm for adapting instruction-tuned language models is to learn task-specific updates on a pretrained base model and subsequently merge them into the instruction-tuned model. However, existing approaches typically treat the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiwen Ruan , Yichao Du , Jianjie Zheng , Longyue Wang , Yun Chen , Peng Li , Jinsong Su , Yang Liu , Guanhua Chen

Continual learning (CL) aims to train models that can sequentially learn new tasks without forgetting previous tasks' knowledge. Although previous works observed that pre-training can benefit CL, it remains unclear whether a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xueying Bai , Yifan Sun , Niranjan Balasubramanian

We consider the problem of predicting edges in a graph from node attributes in an e-commerce setting. Specifically, given nodes labelled with search query text, we want to predict links to related queries that share products. Experiments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Matthew Dippel , Adam Kiezun , Tanay Mehta , Ravi Sundaram , Srikanth Thirumalai , Akshar Varma

Human attention mechanisms often work in a top-down manner, yet it is not well explored in vision research. Here, we propose the Top-Down Attention Framework (TDAF) to capture top-down attentions, which can be easily adopted in most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Bo Pang , Yizhuo Li , Jiefeng Li , Muchen Li , Hanwen Cao , Cewu Lu

We propose an efficient transfer learning method for adapting ImageNet pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to fine-grained image classification task. Conventional transfer learning methods typically face the trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Xiangxi Mo , Ruizhe Cheng , Tianyi Fang

Recently, neural networks based purely on self-attention, such as the Vision Transformer (ViT), have been shown to outperform deep learning models constructed with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on various vision tasks, thus extending…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yuan Gong , Cheng-I Jeff Lai , Yu-An Chung , James Glass

Res-Tuning introduces a flexible and efficient paradigm for model tuning, showing that tuners decoupled from the backbone network can achieve performance comparable to traditional methods. Existing methods commonly construct the tuner as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Chaojie Mao , Zeyinzi Jiang

Sparse neural networks are becoming increasingly important as the field seeks to improve the performance of existing models by scaling them up, while simultaneously trying to reduce power consumption and computational footprint.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Siddhant M. Jayakumar , Razvan Pascanu , Jack W. Rae , Simon Osindero , Erich Elsen

The mathematical problem-solving capabilities of large language models have become a focal point of research, with growing interests in leveraging self-generated reasoning paths as a promising way to refine and enhance these models. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xiaoxuan Wang , Yihe Deng , Mingyu Derek Ma , Wei Wang

Transformers have proven highly effective across modalities, but standard softmax attention scales quadratically with sequence length, limiting long context modeling. Linear attention mitigates this by approximating attention with kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ashkan Shahbazi , Chayne Thrash , Yikun Bai , Keaton Hamm , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Soheil Kolouri

Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention mechanism is characterized by feature collapse in deeper layers, resulting in the vanishing of low-level visual features. However, such features can be helpful to accurately represent and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anxhelo Diko , Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque

Subliminal learning describes a student language model inheriting a behavioral bias by fine-tuning on seemingly innocuous data generated by a biased teacher model. Prior work has begun to characterize this phenomenon but leaves open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 George Morgulis , John Hewitt

Recently, Transformer based models have shown competitive automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance. One key factor in the success of these models is the multi-head attention mechanism. However, for trained models, we have previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shucong Zhang , Erfan Loweimi , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

We propose an attention-based networks for transferring motions between arbitrary objects. Given a source image(s) and a driving video, our networks animate the subject in the source images according to the motion in the driving video. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Subin Jeon , Seonghyeon Nam , Seoung Wug Oh , Seon Joo Kim

Meta-learning stands for 'learning to learn' such that generalization to new tasks is achieved. Among these methods, Gradient-based meta-learning algorithms are a specific sub-class that excel at quick adaptation to new tasks with limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Deep neural models (e.g. Transformer) naturally learn spurious features, which create a ``shortcut'' between the labels and inputs, thus impairing the generalization and robustness. This paper advances the self-attention mechanism to its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Hongqiu Wu , Ruixue Ding , Hai Zhao , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Min Zhang

While deep learning has achieved remarkable success across many domains, it has historically underperformed on tabular learning tasks, which remain dominated by gradient boosting decision trees. However, recent advancements are paving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Alan Arazi , Eilam Shapira , Roi Reichart

The quadratic complexity of self-attention in Transformer models remains a significant bottleneck for processing long sequences and deploying large language models efficiently. For this approach, there has been significant research into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Spandan Pratyush

Predictive process monitoring aims to support the execution of a process during runtime with various predictions about the further evolution of a process instance. In the last years a plethora of deep learning architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Martin Käppel , Lars Ackermann , Stefan Jablonski , Simon Härtl