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We consider the Hypothesis Transfer Learning (HTL) problem where one incorporates a hypothesis trained on the source domain into the learning procedure of the target domain. Existing theoretical analysis either only studies specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Simon Shaolei Du , Jayanth Koushik , Aarti Singh , Barnabas Poczos

We consider Heterogeneous Transfer Learning (HTL) from a source to a new target domain for high-dimensional regression with differing feature sets. Most homogeneous TL methods assume that target and source domains share the same feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Jae Ho Chang , Massimiliano Russo , Subhadeep Paul

Many machine learning and data mining algorithms rely on the assumption that the training and testing data share the same feature space and distribution. However, this assumption may not always hold. For instance, there are situations where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Adrian Shuai Li , Arun Iyengar , Ashish Kundu , Elisa Bertino

The application of transfer learning, leveraging knowledge from source domains to enhance model performance in a target domain, has significantly grown, supporting diverse real-world applications. Its success often relies on shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Runxue Bao , Yiming Sun , Yuhe Gao , Jindong Wang , Qiang Yang , Zhi-Hong Mao , Ye Ye

A key assumption in supervised learning is that training and test data follow the same probability distribution. However, this fundamental assumption is not always satisfied in practice, e.g., due to changing environments, sample selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Nan Lu , Tianyi Zhang , Tongtong Fang , Takeshi Teshima , Masashi Sugiyama

Transfer learning has been demonstrated to be successful and essential in diverse applications, which transfers knowledge from related but different source domains to the target domain. Online transfer learning(OTL) is a more challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yuntao Du , Zhiwen Tan , Qian Chen , Yi Zhang , Chongjun Wang

Transfer learning has been proven effective when within-target labeled data is scarce. A lot of works have developed successful algorithms and empirically observed positive transfer effect that improves target generalization error using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Zirui Wang

We develop here a novel transfer learning methodology called Profiled Transfer Learning (PTL). The method is based on the \textit{approximate-linear} assumption between the source and target parameters. Compared with the commonly assumed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Ziqian Lin , Junlong Zhao , Fang Wang , Hansheng Wang

Transfer learning (TL) is a well-established machine learning technique to boost the generalization performance on a specific (target) task using information gained from a related (source) task, and it crucially depends on the ability of a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-11 Alessandro Ingrosso , Rosalba Pacelli , Pietro Rotondo , Federica Gerace

In machine learning, the loss functions optimized during training often differ from the target loss that defines task performance due to computational intractability or lack of differentiability. We present an in-depth study of the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yutao Zhong

We study the transfer learning (TL) for the functional linear regression (FLR) under the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) framework, observing that the TL techniques in existing high-dimensional linear regression are not compatible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-10 Haotian Lin , Matthew Reimherr

This paper explores transfer learning in heterogeneous multi-source environments with distributional divergence between target and auxiliary domains. To address challenges in statistical bias and computational efficiency, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-08 Chenqi Gong , Hu Yang

Transfer Learning (TL) aims to transfer knowledge acquired in one problem, the source problem, onto another problem, the target problem, dispensing with the bottom-up construction of the target model. Due to its relevance, TL has gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Ricardo Gamelas Sousa , Luís A. Alexandre , Jorge M. Santos , Luís M. Silva , Joaquim Marques de Sá

When the available data for a target domain is limited, transfer learning (TL) methods can be used to develop models on related data-rich domains, before deploying them on the target domain. However, these TL methods are typically designed…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-06 Ricardo Ribeiro Pereira , Jacopo Bono , Hugo Ferreira , Pedro Ribeiro , Carlos Soares , Pedro Bizarro

Bayesian transfer learning (BTL) is defined in this paper as the task of conditioning a target probability distribution on a transferred source distribution. The target globally models the interaction between the source and target, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Milan Papež , Anthony Quinn

Data used for training structural health monitoring (SHM) systems are expensive and often impractical to obtain, particularly labelled data. Population-based SHM presents a potential solution to this issue by considering the available data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 J. Poole , P. Gardner , A. J. Hughes , N. Dervilis , R. S. Mills , T. A. Dardeno , K. Worden

Transfer learning involves taking information and insight from one problem domain and applying it to a new problem domain. Although widely used in practice, theory for transfer learning remains less well-developed. To address this, we prove…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-24 Jake Williams , Abel Tadesse , Tyler Sam , Huey Sun , George D. Montanez

The proliferation of sensors brings an immense volume of spatio-temporal (ST) data in many domains, including monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics applications. Data curation is a time-consuming process for a large volume of data,…

In-context learning (ICL) is a type of prompting where a transformer model operates on a sequence of (input, output) examples and performs inference on-the-fly. In this work, we formalize in-context learning as an algorithm learning problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yingcong Li , M. Emrullah Ildiz , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Samet Oymak

Deep learning has become the leading approach to assisted target recognition. While these methods typically require large amounts of labeled training data, domain adaptation (DA) or transfer learning (TL) enables these algorithms to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Deborah Weeks , Samuel Rivera
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