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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

This paper presents Adaptive Meta-Domain Transfer Learning (AMDTL), a novel methodology that combines principles of meta-learning with domain-specific adaptations to enhance the transferability of artificial intelligence models across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Michele Laurelli

In activity recognition, it is often expensive and time-consuming to acquire sufficient activity labels. To solve this problem, transfer learning leverages the labeled samples from the source domain to annotate the target domain which has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Lisha Hu , Xiaohui Peng , Philip S. Yu

Multi-Task Learning has emerged as a methodology in which multiple tasks are jointly learned by a shared learning algorithm, such as a DNN. MTL is based on the assumption that the tasks under consideration are related; therefore it exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Dimitrios Kollias , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Transfer Learning (TL) plays a crucial role when a given dataset has insufficient labeled examples to train an accurate model. In such scenarios, the knowledge accumulated within a model pre-trained on a source dataset can be transferred to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Tushar Semwal , Gaurav Mathur , Promod Yenigalla , Shivashankar B. Nair

Transfer learning (TL) utilizes data or knowledge from one or more source domains to facilitate the learning in a target domain. It is particularly useful when the target domain has very few or no labeled data, due to annotation expense,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Wen Zhang , Lingfei Deng , Lei Zhang , Dongrui Wu

Many real-world machine learning applications involve several learning tasks which are inter-related. For example, in healthcare domain, we need to learn a predictive model of a certain disease for many hospitals. The models for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Inci M. Baytas , Ming Yan , Anil K. Jain , Jiayu Zhou

Transfer learning on tabular data is challenging due to disparate feature spaces across domains, in contrast to the homogeneous structures of image and text. Large language models (LLMs) offer a knowledge base to improve the limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ibna Kowsar , Kazi F. Akhter , Manar D. Samad

As AI evolves, collaboration among heterogeneous models helps overcome data scarcity by enabling knowledge transfer across institutions and devices. Traditional Federated Learning (FL) only supports homogeneous models, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jianqing Zhang , Xinghao Wu , Yanbing Zhou , Xiaoting Sun , Qiqi Cai , Yang Liu , Yang Hua , Zhenzhe Zheng , Jian Cao , Qiang Yang

Transfer learning aims to improve the performance of a target model by leveraging data from related source populations, which is known to be especially helpful in cases with insufficient target data. In this paper, we study the problem of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-19 Tian Gu , Yi Han , Rui Duan

Consider the problem of improving the estimation of conditional average treatment effects (CATE) for a target domain of interest by leveraging related information from a source domain with a different feature space. This heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Ioana Bica , Mihaela van der Schaar

Transfer Learning (TL) offers the potential to accelerate learning by transferring knowledge across tasks. However, it faces critical challenges such as negative transfer, domain adaptation and inefficiency in selecting solid source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alessandro Capurso , Elia Piccoli , Davide Bacciu

Aided target recognition (AiTR), the problem of classifying objects from sensor data, is an important problem with applications across industry and defense. While classification algorithms continue to improve, they often require more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Samuel Rivera , Olga Mendoza-Schrock , Ashley Diehl

Domain adaptation leverages the knowledge in one domain - the source domain - to improve learning efficiency in another domain - the target domain. Existing heterogeneous domain adaptation research is relatively well-progressed, but only in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Feng Liu , Guanquan Zhang , Jie Lu

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,…

Federated learning (FL) has drawn increasing attention owing to its potential use in large-scale industrial applications. Existing federated learning works mainly focus on model homogeneous settings. However, practical federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Mang Ye , Xiuwen Fang , Bo Du , Pong C. Yuen , Dacheng Tao

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a learning paradigm in machine learning and its aim is to leverage useful information contained in multiple related tasks to help improve the generalization performance of all the tasks. In this paper, we give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

Previous transfer learning methods based on deep network assume the knowledge should be transferred between the same hidden layers of the source domain and the target domains. This assumption doesn't always hold true, especially when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Jianzhe Lin , Qi Wang , Rabab Ward , Z. Jane Wang

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

Transfer learning has become an essential technique for utilizing information from source datasets to improve the performance of the target task. However, in the context of high-dimensional data, heterogeneity arises due to heteroscedastic…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-26 Xiaohui Yuan , Shujie Ren