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Models should be able to adapt to unseen data during test-time to avoid performance drops caused by inevitable distribution shifts in real-world deployment scenarios. In this work, we tackle the practical yet challenging test-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yunhe Gao , Xingjian Shi , Yi Zhu , Hao Wang , Zhiqiang Tang , Xiong Zhou , Mu Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Foundational vision transformer models have shown impressive few shot performance on many vision tasks. This research presents a novel investigation into the application of parameter efficient fine-tuning methods within an active learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Athmanarayanan Lakshmi Narayanan , Ranganath Krishnan , Amrutha Machireddy , Mahesh Subedar

Recently, prompt tuning (PT) has gained increasing attention as a parameter-efficient way of tuning pre-trained language models (PLMs). Despite extensively reducing the number of tunable parameters and achieving satisfying performance, PT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yufei Huang , Yujia Qin , Huadong Wang , Yichun Yin , Maosong Sun , Zhiyuan Liu , Qun Liu

Recent advancements in large vision-language models (LVLMs), such as GPT4-V and LLaVA, have been substantial. LLaVA's modular architecture, in particular, offers a blend of simplicity and efficiency. Recent works mainly focus on introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yuan Liu , Le Tian , Xiao Zhou , Jie Zhou

Transfer learning based on full fine-tuning (FFT) of the pre-trained encoder and task-specific decoder becomes increasingly complex as deep models grow exponentially. Parameter efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) approaches using adapters…

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Medical image segmentation is a vital healthcare endeavor requiring precise and efficient models for appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Vision transformer (ViT)-based segmentation models have shown great performance in accomplishing this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Numan Saeed , Muhammad Ridzuan , Roba Al Majzoub , Mohammad Yaqub

We introduce a novel method that enables parameter-efficient transfer and multi-task learning with deep neural networks. The basic approach is to learn a model patch - a small set of parameters - that will specialize to each task, instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Mark Sandler , Andrey Zhmoginov , Andrew Howard

Driven by the progress of large-scale pre-training, parameter-efficient transfer learning has gained immense popularity across different subfields of Artificial Intelligence. The core is to adapt the model to downstream tasks with only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Haixin Wang , Xinlong Yang , Jianlong Chang , Dian Jin , Jinan Sun , Shikun Zhang , Xiao Luo , Qi Tian

Large foundation models have emerged in the last years and are pushing performance boundaries for a variety of tasks. Training or even finetuning such models demands vast datasets and computational resources, which are often scarce and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Leo Fillioux , Enzo Ferrante , Paul-Henry Cournède , Maria Vakalopoulou , Stergios Christodoulidis

Adapting pre-trained models has become an effective strategy in artificial intelligence, offering a scalable and efficient alternative to training models from scratch. In the context of remote sensing (RS), where visual grounding(VG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hasan Moughnieh , Mohamad Chalhoub , Hasan Nasrallah , Cristiano Nattero , Paolo Campanella , Giovanni Nico , Ali J. Ghandour

Transfer learning represents a recent paradigm shift in the way we build artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In contrast to training task-specific models, transfer learning involves pre-training deep learning models on a large corpus of…

Parameter-Efficient FineTuning (PEFT) methods have recently gained significant popularity thanks to the widespread availability of large-scale pretrained models. These methods allow for quick adaptation to downstream tasks with minimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Massimo Bini , Leander Girrbach , Zeynep Akata

Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of large language models (LLMs) simultaneously is a critical yet challenging research goal. In this paper, we find that low-rank pre-training, normally considered as efficient methods that will…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xingtai Lv , Ning Ding , Kaiyan Zhang , Ermo Hua , Ganqu Cui , Bowen Zhou

We propose Conditional Adapter (CoDA), a parameter-efficient transfer learning method that also improves inference efficiency. CoDA generalizes beyond standard adapter approaches to enable a new way of balancing speed and accuracy using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Tao Lei , Junwen Bai , Siddhartha Brahma , Joshua Ainslie , Kenton Lee , Yanqi Zhou , Nan Du , Vincent Y. Zhao , Yuexin Wu , Bo Li , Yu Zhang , Ming-Wei Chang

Adapting large-scale pretrained models to various downstream tasks via fine-tuning is a standard method in machine learning. Recently, parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods show promise in adapting a pretrained model to different tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Yen-Cheng Liu , Chih-Yao Ma , Junjiao Tian , Zijian He , Zsolt Kira

We rethink the role of positional encoding in 3D representation learning and fine-tuning. We argue that using positional encoding in point Transformer-based methods serves to aggregate multi-scale features of point clouds. Additionally, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Shaochen Zhang , Zekun Qi , Runpei Dong , Xiuxiu Bai , Xing Wei

Large language models are first pre-trained on trillions of tokens and then instruction-tuned or aligned to specific preferences. While pre-training remains out of reach for most researchers due to the compute required, fine-tuning has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Megh Thakkar , Quentin Fournier , Matthew D Riemer , Pin-Yu Chen , Amal Zouaq , Payel Das , Sarath Chandar

State-of-the-art rehearsal-free continual learning methods exploit the peculiarities of Vision Transformers to learn task-specific prompts, drastically reducing catastrophic forgetting. However, there is a tradeoff between the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Thomas De Min , Massimiliano Mancini , Karteek Alahari , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Elisa Ricci

Parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) methods adapt large artificial neural networks to downstream tasks without fine-tuning the entire model. However, existing additive methods, such as adapters, sometimes struggle to capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Amirmohammad Mohammadi , Davelle Carreiro , Alexandra Van Dine , Joshua Peeples

Recently, foundation models based on Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become widely available. However, their fine-tuning process is highly resource-intensive, and it hinders their adoption in several edge or low-energy applications. To this…

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