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Constructing first principles models is a challenging task for nonlinear and complex systems such as a wastewater treatment unit. In recent years, data-driven models are widely used to overcome the complexity. However, they often suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Ece S. Koksal , Erdal Aydin

Using transfer learning to adapt a pre-trained "source model" to a downstream "target task" can dramatically increase performance with seemingly no downside. In this work, we demonstrate that there can exist a downside after all: bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Hadi Salman , Saachi Jain , Andrew Ilyas , Logan Engstrom , Eric Wong , Aleksander Madry

The approximation and convergence properties of implicit neural representations (INRs) are known to be highly sensitive to parameter initialization strategies. While several data-driven initialization methods demonstrate significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kushal Vyas , Alper Kayabasi , Daniel Kim , Vishwanath Saragadam , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Contrastive visual pretraining based on the instance discrimination pretext task has made significant progress. Notably, recent work on unsupervised pretraining has shown to surpass the supervised counterpart for finetuning downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Nanxuan Zhao , Zhirong Wu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Stephen Lin

Training supervised machine learning systems with a fairness loss can improve prediction fairness across different demographic groups. However, doing so requires demographic annotations for training data, without which we cannot produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Carlos Aguirre , Mark Dredze

Transfer learning refers to the transfer of knowledge or information from a relevant source task to a target task. However, most existing works assume both tasks are sampled from a stationary task distribution, thereby leading to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jun Wu , Jingrui He

Transfer learning aims to improve performance on a target task by leveraging information from related source tasks. We propose a nonparametric regression transfer learning framework that explicitly models heterogeneity in the source-target…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hélène Halconruy , Benjamin Bobbia , Paul Lejamtel

Large, pre-trained models are problematic to use in resource constrained applications. Fortunately, task-aware structured pruning methods offer a solution. These approaches reduce model size by dropping structural units like layers and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Lucio Dery , David Grangier , Awni Hannun

Transferring knowledge from large source datasets is an effective way to fine-tune the deep neural networks of the target task with a small sample size. A great number of algorithms have been proposed to facilitate deep transfer learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xingjian Li , Haoyi Xiong , Haozhe An , Chengzhong Xu , Dejing Dou

As transfer learning techniques are increasingly used to transfer knowledge from the source model to the target task, it becomes important to quantify which source models are suitable for a given target task without performing…

Transfer learning is a powerful technique for knowledge-sharing between different tasks. Recent work has found that the representations of models with certain invariances, such as to adversarial input perturbations, achieve higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Till Speicher , Vedant Nanda , Krishna P. Gummadi

Transferring representation for multitask imitation learning has the potential to provide improved sample efficiency on learning new tasks, when compared to learning from scratch. In this work, we provide a statistical guarantee indicating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Bryan Chan , Karime Pereida , James Bergstra

Transfer learning has emerged as a powerful technique in many application problems, such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, this technique is largely ignored in application to genetic data analysis. In this paper,…

Applications · Statistics 2022-06-22 Jinghang Lin , Shan Zhang , Qing Lu

Transfer learning enhances learning across tasks, by leveraging previously learned representations -- if they are properly chosen. We describe an efficient method to accurately estimate the appropriateness of a previously trained model for…

Obtaining labeled data to train a model for a task of interest is often expensive. Prior work shows training models on multitask data augmented with task descriptions (prompts) effectively transfers knowledge to new tasks. Towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hamish Ivison , Noah A. Smith , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Pradeep Dasigi

We develop a theory of transfer learning in infinitely wide neural networks under gradient flow that quantifies when pretraining on a source task improves generalization on a target task. We analyze both (i) fine-tuning, when the downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Clarissa Lauditi , Blake Bordelon , Cengiz Pehlevan

Meta-learning models transfer the knowledge acquired from previous tasks to quickly learn new ones. They are trained on benchmarks with a fixed number of data points per task. This number is usually arbitrary and it is unknown how it…

Although CNNs have gained the ability to transfer learned knowledge from source task to target task by virtue of large annotated datasets but consume huge processing time to fine-tune without GPU. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Tasfia Shermin , Manzur Murshed , Guojun Lu , Shyh Wei Teng

Pre-training a deep neural network on the ImageNet dataset is a common practice for training deep learning models, and generally yields improved performance and faster training times. The technique of pre-training on one task and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Nishai Kooverjee , Steven James , Terence van Zyl

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…