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This article focuses on large language models (LLMs) fine-tuning in the scarce data regime (also known as the "few-shot" learning setting). We propose a method to increase the generalization capabilities of LLMs based on neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Louis Falissard , Vincent Guigue , Laure Soulier

Morphology-aware policy learning is a means of enhancing policy sample efficiency by aggregating data from multiple agents. These types of policies have previously been shown to help generalize over dynamic, kinematic, and limb…

Adapting deep learning models to new domains often requires computationally intensive retraining and risks catastrophic forgetting. While fine-tuning enables domain-specific adaptation, it can reduce robustness to distribution shifts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Reza Akbarian Bafghi , Carden Bagwell , Avinash Ravichandran , Ashish Shrivastava , Maziar Raissi

In this paper, hypernetworks are trained to generate behaviors across a range of unseen task conditions, via a novel TD-based training objective and data from a set of near-optimal RL solutions for training tasks. This work relates to meta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sahand Rezaei-Shoshtari , Charlotte Morissette , Francois Robert Hogan , Gregory Dudek , David Meger

While generative modeling has achieved remarkable success on tasks like natural language-conditioned image generation, enabling model adaptation from example data points remains a relatively underexplored and challenging problem. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tyler Ingebrand , Ruihan Zhao , Kushagra Gupta , David Fridovich-Keil , Sandeep P. Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

Certifying the IID generalisation ability of deep networks is the first of many requirements for trusting AI in high-stakes applications from medicine to security. However, when instantiating generalisation bounds for deep networks it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Taehoon Kim , Henry Gouk , Minyoung Kim , Timothy Hospedales

We address the challenge of getting efficient yet accurate recognition systems with limited labels. While recognition models improve with model size and amount of data, many specialized applications of computer vision have severe resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Kenneth Borup , Cheng Perng Phoo , Bharath Hariharan

Point cloud foundation models demonstrate strong generalization, yet adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging in low-data regimes. Full fine-tuning often leads to overfitting and significant drift from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sneha Paul , Zachary Patterson , Nizar Bouguila

Recent deepfake detection studies often treat unseen sample detection as a ``zero-shot" task, training on images generated by known models but generalizing to unknown ones. A key real-world challenge arises when a model performs poorly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shibo Yao , Renshuai Tao , Xiaolong Zheng , Chao Liang , Chunjie Zhang

Conventional training of deep neural networks usually requires a substantial amount of data with expensive human annotations. In this paper, we utilize the idea of meta-learning to explain two very different streams of few-shot learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Shaobo Lin , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao

The entry of large language models (LLMs) into research and commercial spaces has led to a trend of ever-larger models, with initial promises of generalisability, followed by a widespread desire to downsize and create specialised models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Niall Taylor , Upamanyu Ghose , Omid Rohanian , Mohammadmahdi Nouriborji , Andrey Kormilitzin , David Clifton , Alejo Nevado-Holgado

While conditional diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in various applications, they require abundant data to train from scratch, which is often infeasible in practice. To address this issue, transfer learning has emerged as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ziheng Cheng , Tianyu Xie , Shiyue Zhang , Cheng Zhang

Adapting Foundation Models (FMs) for downstream tasks through Federated Learning (FL) emerges a promising strategy for protecting data privacy and valuable FMs. Existing methods fine-tune FM by allocating sub-FM to clients in FL, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zhaopeng Peng , Xiaoliang Fan , Yufan Chen , Zheng Wang , Shirui Pan , Chenglu Wen , Ruisheng Zhang , Cheng Wang

Recent few-shot methods, such as parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) and pattern exploiting training (PET), have achieved impressive results in label-scarce settings. However, they are difficult to employ since they are subject to high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Lewis Tunstall , Nils Reimers , Unso Eun Seo Jo , Luke Bates , Daniel Korat , Moshe Wasserblat , Oren Pereg

Diffusion model has emerged as the \emph{de-facto} model for image generation, yet the heavy training overhead hinders its broader adoption in the research community. We observe that diffusion models are commonly trained to learn all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiachen Lei , Qinglong Wang , Peng Cheng , Zhongjie Ba , Zhan Qin , Zhibo Wang , Zhenguang Liu , Kui Ren

A promising paradigm for adapting instruction-tuned language models is to learn task-specific updates on a pretrained base model and subsequently merge them into the instruction-tuned model. However, existing approaches typically treat the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiwen Ruan , Yichao Du , Jianjie Zheng , Longyue Wang , Yun Chen , Peng Li , Jinsong Su , Yang Liu , Guanhua Chen

Accurate de novo molecular and materials design requires structure-property models that generalize beyond known regimes. Although pretrained atomistic models achieve strong in-distribution accuracy after fine-tuning, their reliability under…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Chengqian Zhang , Duo Zhang , Anyang Peng , Mingyu Guo , Yuzhi Zhang , Lei Wang , Guolin Ke , Linfeng Zhang , Tiejun Li , Han Wang

Modern deep learning systems are increasingly deployed in situations such as personalization and federated learning where it is necessary to support i) learning on small amounts of data, and ii) communication efficient distributed training…

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has emerged as a highly successful approach, with training only a small number of parameters without sacrificing performance and becoming the de-facto learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Baohao Liao , Shaomu Tan , Christof Monz

Most previous few-shot learning algorithms are based on meta-training with fake few-shot tasks as training samples, where large labeled base classes are required. The trained model is also limited by the type of tasks. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu