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Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that uses previously acquired knowledge from a source domain to enhance learning in a target domain by reusing learned weights. This technique is ubiquitous because of its great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nermeen Abou Baker , Nico Zengeler , Uwe Handmann

Transferability metrics is a maturing field with increasing interest, which aims at providing heuristics for selecting the most suitable source models to transfer to a given target dataset, without fine-tuning them all. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Andrea Agostinelli , Michal Pándy , Jasper Uijlings , Thomas Mensink , Vittorio Ferrari

Transfer learning is a cornerstone of computer vision, yet little work has been done to evaluate the relationship between architecture and transfer. An implicit hypothesis in modern computer vision research is that models that perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Simon Kornblith , Jonathon Shlens , Quoc V. Le

Transfer learning is a critical technique in training deep neural networks for the challenging medical image segmentation task that requires enormous resources. With the abundance of medical image data, many research institutions release…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yuncheng Yang , Meng Wei , Junjun He , Jie Yang , Jin Ye , Yun Gu

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

With the preponderance of pretrained deep learning models available off-the-shelf from model banks today, finding the best weights to fine-tune to your use-case can be a daunting task. Several methods have recently been proposed to find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Daniel Bolya , Rohit Mittapalli , Judy Hoffman

A commonly accepted hypothesis is that models with higher accuracy on Imagenet perform better on other downstream tasks, leading to much research dedicated to optimizing Imagenet accuracy. Recently this hypothesis has been challenged by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Niv Nayman , Avram Golbert , Asaf Noy , Tan Ping , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Ensuring generalization to unseen environments remains a challenge. Domain shift can lead to substantially degraded performance unless shifts are well-exercised within the available training environments. We introduce a simple robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yilun Xu , Tommi Jaakkola

Given a set of heterogeneous source datasets with their classifiers, how can we quickly find the most useful source dataset for a specific target task? We address the problem of measuring transferability between source and target datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Seungcheol Park , Huiwen Xu , Taehun Kim , Inhwan Hwang , Kyung-Jun Kim , U Kang

Transfer learning is a widely-used paradigm in deep learning, where models pre-trained on standard datasets can be efficiently adapted to downstream tasks. Typically, better pre-trained models yield better transfer results, suggesting that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Hadi Salman , Andrew Ilyas , Logan Engstrom , Ashish Kapoor , Aleksander Madry

Transferability estimation has been an essential tool in selecting a pre-trained model and the layers in it for transfer learning, to transfer, so as to maximize the performance on a target task and prevent negative transfer. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Long-Kai Huang , Ying Wei , Yu Rong , Qiang Yang , Junzhou Huang

In this work, we compare the performance of six state-of-the-art deep neural networks in classification tasks when using only image features, to when these are combined with patient metadata. We utilise transfer learning from networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Spencer A. Thomas

In low-resource settings, model transfer can help to overcome a lack of labeled data for many tasks and domains. However, predicting useful transfer sources is a challenging problem, as even the most similar sources might lead to unexpected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Lukas Lange , Jannik Strötgen , Heike Adel , Dietrich Klakow

Predicting student performance under varying data distributions is a challenging task. This study proposes a method to improve prediction accuracy by employing transfer learning techniques on the dataset with varying distributions. Using…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yan Zhao

We present a simple deep learning-based framework commonly used in computer vision and demonstrate its effectiveness for cross-dataset transfer learning in mental imagery decoding tasks that are common in the field of Brain-Computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Pierre Guetschel , Michael Tangermann

Modern systems (e.g., deep neural networks, big data analytics, and compilers) are highly configurable, which means they expose different performance behavior under different configurations. The fundamental challenge is that one cannot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Mohammad Ali Javidian , Pooyan Jamshidi , Marco Valtorta

Deep neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers have achieved many successes in image classification in recent years. It has been consistently demonstrated that best practice for image classification is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jo Plested , Musa Phiri , Tom Gedeon

Transferability estimation metrics are used to find a high-performing pre-trained model for a given target task without fine-tuning models and without access to the source dataset. Despite the growing interest in developing such metrics,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Prabhant Singh , Sibylle Hess , Joaquin Vanschoren

Fairness has been a critical issue that affects the adoption of deep learning models in real practice. To improve model fairness, many existing methods have been proposed and evaluated to be effective in their own contexts. However, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junjie Yang , Jiajun Jiang , Zeyu Sun , Junjie Chen

In this paper, we identify an important reproducibility challenge in the image-to-set prediction literature that impedes proper comparisons among published methods, namely, researchers use different evaluation protocols to assess their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Luis Pineda , Amaia Salvador , Michal Drozdzal , Adriana Romero