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Transfer learning aims to leverage knowledge from pre-trained models to benefit the target task. Prior transfer learning work mainly transfers from a single model. However, with the emergence of deep models pre-trained from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yang Shu , Zhangjie Cao , Ziyang Zhang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Prompt tuning, in which prompts are optimized to adapt large-scale pre-trained language models to downstream tasks instead of fine-tuning the full model parameters, has been shown to be particularly effective when the prompts are trained in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Haeju Lee , Minchan Jeong , Se-Young Yun , Kee-Eung Kim

Intermediate-task transfer can benefit a wide range of NLP tasks with properly selected source datasets. However, it is computationally infeasible to experiment with all intermediate transfer combinations, making choosing a useful source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Wangchunshu Zhou , Canwen Xu , Julian McAuley

Pre-trained models have become pivotal in enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of time series forecasting on target data sets by leveraging transfer learning. While benchmarks validate the performance of model generalization on various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Claudia Ehrig , Benedikt Sonnleitner , Ursula Neumann , Catherine Cleophas , Germain Forestier

Efficient learning from demonstration for long-horizon tasks remains an open challenge in robotics. While significant effort has been directed toward learning trajectories, a recent resurgence of object-centric approaches has demonstrated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Adrian Röfer , Russell Buchanan , Max Argus , Sethu Vijayakumar , Abhinav Valada

A common approach in positive-unlabeled learning is to train a classification model between labeled and unlabeled data. This strategy is in fact known to give an optimal classifier under mild conditions; however, it results in biased…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-03 Shantanu Jain , Martha White , Predrag Radivojac

As the application of deep learning has expanded to real-world problems with insufficient volume of training data, transfer learning recently has gained much attention as means of improving the performance in such small-data regime.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Yunhun Jang , Hankook Lee , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Using variational Bayes neural networks, we develop an algorithm capable of accumulating knowledge into a prior from multiple different tasks. The result is a rich and meaningful prior capable of few-shot learning on new tasks. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-09 Alexandre Lacoste , Boris Oreshkin , Wonchang Chung , Thomas Boquet , Negar Rostamzadeh , David Krueger

The popularity of transfer learning stems from the fact that it can borrow information from useful auxiliary datasets. Existing statistical transfer learning methods usually adopt a global similarity measure between the source data and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ruqian Zhang , Yijiao Zhang , Annie Qu , Zhongyi Zhu , Juan Shen

In many prediction problems, we have extra information during training (for example, measurements that are expensive or slow to collect) that will not be available when the model is deployed. A common strategy is to first train a model that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-25 Jiahao Shi , Omar Hagrass , Jason M. Klusowski

A crucial challenge in reinforcement learning is to reduce the number of interactions with the environment that an agent requires to master a given task. Transfer learning proposes to address this issue by re-using knowledge from previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Remo Sasso , Matthia Sabatelli , Marco A. Wiering

Using pre-trained models has been found to reduce the effect of data heterogeneity and speed up federated learning algorithms. Recent works have explored training-free methods using first- and second-order statistics to aggregate local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Dipam Goswami , Simone Magistri , Kai Wang , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Joost van de Weijer

Supervised transfer learning has received considerable attention due to its potential to boost the predictive power of machine learning in scenarios where data are scarce. Generally, a given set of source models and a dataset from a target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-23 Shunya Minami , Kenji Fukumizu , Yoshihiro Hayashi , Ryo Yoshida

Transfer learning refers to the transfer of knowledge or information from a relevant source domain to a target domain. However, most existing transfer learning theories and algorithms focus on IID tasks, where the source/target samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Wu , Jingrui He , Elizabeth Ainsworth

Transfer learning --- transferring learned knowledge --- has brought a paradigm shift in the way models are trained. The lucrative benefits of improved accuracy and reduced training time have shown promise in training models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Bijeeta Pal , Shruti Tople

Due to high annotation costs making the best use of existing human-created training data is an important research direction. We, therefore, carry out a systematic evaluation of transferability of BERT-based neural ranking models across five…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Iurii Mokrii , Leonid Boytsov , Pavel Braslavski

Generalizing causal knowledge across diverse environments is challenging, especially when estimates from large-scale datasets must be applied to smaller or systematically different contexts, where external validity is critical. Model-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-19 Seyda Betul Aydin , Holger Brandt

The increasing of pre-trained models has significantly facilitated the performance on limited data tasks with transfer learning. However, progress on transfer learning mainly focuses on optimizing the weights of pre-trained models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Bingyan Liu , Yifeng Cai , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen

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 is a classic paradigm by which models pretrained on large "upstream" datasets are adapted to yield good results on "downstream" specialized datasets. Generally, more accurate models on the "upstream" dataset tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Eugenia Iofinova , Alexandra Peste , Mark Kurtz , Dan Alistarh