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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Hok Shing Wong , Li Wang , Raymond Chan , Tieyong Zeng

Model merging is a powerful technique for integrating the specialized knowledge of multiple machine learning models into a single model. However, existing methods require manually partitioning model parameters into fixed groups for merging,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-25 João Abrantes , Robert Tjarko Lange , Yujin Tang

Model merging aims to combine multiple fine-tuned models into a single set of weights that performs well across all source tasks. While prior work has shown that merging can approximate the performance of individual fine-tuned models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Mohammadsajad Alipour , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri

We propose novel first-order stochastic approximation algorithms for canonical correlation analysis (CCA). Algorithms presented are instances of inexact matrix stochastic gradient (MSG) and inexact matrix exponentiated gradient (MEG), and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Raman Arora , Teodor V. Marinov , Poorya Mianjy , Nathan Srebro

Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is a multivariate statistical method which describes the associations between two sets of variables. The objective is to find linear combinations of the variables in each data set having maximal…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-01-07 Ines Wilms , Christophe Croux

Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is a standard tool for studying associations between two data sources; however, it is not designed for data with count or proportion measurement types. In addition, while CCA uncovers common signals, it…

Computation · Statistics 2022-08-02 Dongbang Yuan , Yunfeng Zhang , Shuai Guo , Wenyi Wang , Irina Gaynanova

Real-world applications of machine learning models often confront data distribution shifts, wherein discrepancies exist between the training and test data distributions. In the common multi-domain multi-class setup, as the number of classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Haoxiang Wang , Haozhe Si , Huajie Shao , Han Zhao

Diffusion models have emerged as a promising approach for generating high-quality, high-dimensional images. Nevertheless, these models are hindered by their high computational cost and slow inference, partly due to the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Omid Saghatchian , Atiyeh Gh. Moghadam , Ahmad Nickabadi

Model merging is a technique that combines multiple large pretrained models into a single model with enhanced performance and broader task adaptability. It has gained popularity in large pretrained model development due to its ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yu Zhou , Xingyu Wu , Jibin Wu , Liang Feng , Kay Chen Tan

In clinical and biomedical research, multiple high-dimensional datasets are nowadays routinely collected from omics and imaging devices. Multivariate methods, such as Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), integrate two (or more) datasets to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-20 Nuria Senar , Mark van de Wiel , Aeilko Zwinderman , Michel Hof

We study the stochastic optimization of canonical correlation analysis (CCA), whose objective is nonconvex and does not decouple over training samples. Although several stochastic gradient based optimization algorithms have been recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Weiran Wang , Jialei Wang , Dan Garber , Nathan Srebro

Fine-tuning pretrained models has become a standard pathway to achieve state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of domains, leading to a proliferation of task-specific model variants. As the number of such specialized models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Pietro Buzzega , Riccardo Salami , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

Layer-wise model fusion via optimal transport, named OTFusion, applies soft neuron association for unifying different pre-trained networks to save computational resources. While enjoying its success, OTFusion requires the input networks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Dang Nguyen , Trang Nguyen , Khai Nguyen , Dinh Phung , Hung Bui , Nhat Ho

The objective of multimodal information fusion is to mathematically analyze information carried in different sources and create a new representation which will be more effectively utilized in pattern recognition and other multimedia…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lei Gao , Rui Zhang , Lin Qi , Enqing Chen , Ling Guan

We propose a novel method to merge convolutional neural-nets for the inference stage. Given two well-trained networks that may have different architectures that handle different tasks, our method aligns the layers of the original networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Yi-Min Chou , Yi-Ming Chan , Jia-Hong Lee , Chih-Yi Chiu , Chu-Song Chen

In this paper, we propose a special fusion method for combining ensembles of base classifiers utilizing new neural networks in order to improve overall efficiency of classification. While ensembles are designed such that each classifier is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Mehdi Salkhordeh Haghighi , Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi , Abedin Vahedian , Hamed Modaghegh

Achieving backward compatibility when rolling out new models can highly reduce costs or even bypass feature re-encoding of existing gallery images for in-production visual retrieval systems. Previous related works usually leverage losses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Qiang Meng , Chixiang Zhang , Xiaoqiang Xu , Feng Zhou

Canonical correlation analysis is a technique to extract common features from a pair of multivariate data. In complex situations, however, it does not extract useful features because of its linearity. On the other hand, kernel method used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Shotaro Akaho

Deep neural networks have been the predominant paradigm in machine learning for solving cognitive tasks. Such models, however, are restricted by a high computational overhead, limiting their applicability and hindering advancements in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ian Pons , Bruno Yamamoto , Anna H. Reali Costa , Artur Jordao

We introduce three novel semi-parametric extensions of probabilistic canonical correlation analysis with identifiability guarantees. We consider moment matching techniques for estimation in these models. For that, by drawing explicit links…

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