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Randomized clinical trials are the gold standard for analyzing treatment effects, but high costs and ethical concerns can limit recruitment, potentially leading to invalid inferences. Incorporating external trial data with similar…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-09 Yujia Gu , Hanzhong Liu , Wei Ma

Artificial neural networks learn how to solve new problems through a computationally intense and time consuming process. One way to reduce the amount of time required is to inject preexisting knowledge into the network. To make use of past…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Cosmin Stamate , George D. Magoulas , Michael S. C. Thomas

Transfer learning seeks to improve the generalization performance of a target task by exploiting the knowledge learned from a related source task. Central questions include deciding what information one should transfer and when transfer can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Oussama Dhifallah , Yue M. Lu

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

Transfer learning is a powerful tool enabling model training with limited amounts of data. This technique is particularly useful in real-world problems where data availability is often a serious limitation. The simplest transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Federica Gerace , Diego Doimo , Stefano Sarao Mannelli , Luca Saglietti , Alessandro Laio

Transfer learning is a recent field of machine learning research that aims to resolve the challenge of dealing with insufficient training data in the domain of interest. This is a particular issue with traditional deep neural networks where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Parthipan Siva , Paul Fieguth , Alexander Wong

Neural machine translation is known to require large numbers of parallel training sentences, which generally prevent it from excelling on low-resource language pairs. This thesis explores the use of cross-lingual transfer learning on neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Tom Kocmi

Multi-task learning can leverage information learned by one task to benefit the training of other tasks. Despite this capacity, naive formulations often degrade performance and in particular, identifying the tasks that would benefit from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Christopher Fifty , Ehsan Amid , Zhe Zhao , Tianhe Yu , Rohan Anil , Chelsea Finn

Transfer learning has become an essential paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling the transfer of knowledge from a source task to improve performance on a target task. This approach, particularly through techniques such as pretraining…

Domain similarity measures can be used to gauge adaptability and select suitable data for transfer learning, but existing approaches define ad hoc measures that are deemed suitable for respective tasks. Inspired by work on curriculum…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Sebastian Ruder , Barbara Plank

We consider transferability estimation, the problem of estimating how well deep learning models transfer from a source to a target task. We focus on regression tasks, which received little previous attention, and propose two simple and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Cuong N. Nguyen , Phong Tran , Lam Si Tung Ho , Vu Dinh , Anh T. Tran , Tal Hassner , Cuong V. Nguyen

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 recent years, supervised machine learning models have demonstrated tremendous success in a variety of application domains. Despite the promising results, these successful models are data hungry and their performance relies heavily on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Azin Asgarian , Parinaz Sobhani , Ji Chao Zhang , Madalin Mihailescu , Ariel Sibilia , Ahmed Bilal Ashraf , Babak Taati

Transfer learning for nonparametric regression is considered. We first study the non-asymptotic minimax risk for this problem and develop a novel estimator called the confidence thresholding estimator, which is shown to achieve the minimax…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-24 T. Tony Cai , Hongming Pu

Transfer reinforcement learning aims to derive a near-optimal policy for a target environment with limited data by leveraging abundant data from related source domains. However, it faces two key challenges: the lack of performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chi Zhang , Ziying Jia , George K. Atia , Sihong He , Yue Wang

Data fusion and transfer learning are rapidly growing fields that enhance model performance for a target population by leveraging other related data sources or tasks. The challenges lie in the various potential heterogeneities between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-19 Jing Wang , HaiYing Wang , Kun Chen

Through this project, we researched on transfer learning methods and their applications on real world problems. By implementing and modifying various methods in transfer learning for our problem, we obtained an insight in the advantages and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Hailin Chen , Shengping Cui , Sebastian Li

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 aims to transfer knowledge or information from a source domain to a relevant target domain. In this paper, we understand transfer learning from the perspectives of knowledge transferability and trustworthiness. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jun Wu , Jingrui He