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What sorts of structure might enable a learner to discover classes from unlabeled data? Traditional approaches rely on feature-space similarity and heroic assumptions on the data. In this paper, we introduce unsupervised learning under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Manley Roberts , Pranav Mani , Saurabh Garg , Zachary C. Lipton

In this work, we study the transfer learning problem under high-dimensional generalized linear models (GLMs), which aim to improve the fit on target data by borrowing information from useful source data. Given which sources to transfer, we…

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Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to leverage labeled samples from known categories to cluster unlabeled data that may include both known and unknown categories. While existing methods have achieved impressive results under standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wei Feng , Zongyuan Ge

Approaches based on deep neural networks have achieved striking performance when testing data and training data share similar distribution, but can significantly fail otherwise. Therefore, eliminating the impact of distribution shifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xingxuan Zhang , Peng Cui , Renzhe Xu , Linjun Zhou , Yue He , Zheyan Shen

We derive an (almost) guaranteed upper bound on the error of deep neural networks under distribution shift using unlabeled test data. Prior methods either give bounds that are vacuous in practice or give estimates that are accurate on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Elan Rosenfeld , Saurabh Garg

In this paper, we present a new idea for Transfer Learning (TL) based on Gibbs Sampling. Gibbs sampling is an algorithm in which instances are likely to transfer to a new state with a higher possibility with respect to a probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Hossein Shahabadi Farahani , Alireza Fatehi , Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli

Transfer learning aims to improve learning in target domain by borrowing knowledge from a related but different source domain. To reduce the distribution shift between source and target domains, recent methods have focused on exploring…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-09 Xiyu Yu , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong , Kun Zhang , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Dacheng Tao

Quantification learning deals with the task of estimating the target label distribution under label shift. In this paper, we first present a unifying framework, distribution feature matching (DFM), that recovers as particular instances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-04 Bastien Dussap , Gilles Blanchard , Badr-Eddine Chérief-Abdellatif

Transfer learning for high-dimensional Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) is studied with the goal of estimating the target GGM by utilizing the data from similar and related auxiliary studies. The similarity between the target graph and each…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-22 Sai Li , T. Tony Cai , Hongzhe Li

Generalization under distribution shift remains a core challenge in modern machine learning, yet existing learning bound theory is limited to narrow, idealized settings and is non-estimable from samples. In this paper, we bridge the gap…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-25 Hongbo Chen , Li Charlie Xia

Aiming at improving performance of visual classification in a cost-effective manner, this paper proposes an incremental semi-supervised learning paradigm called Deep Co-Space (DCS). Unlike many conventional semi-supervised learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Ziliang Chen , Keze Wang , Xiao Wang , Pai Peng , Ebroul Izquierdo , Liang Lin

Accelerating deep neural network (DNN) inference on resource-limited devices is one of the most important barriers to ensuring a wider and more inclusive adoption. To alleviate this, DNN binary quantization for faster convolution and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Meshia Cédric Oveneke

Learning with noisy labels, which aims to reduce expensive labors on accurate annotations, has become imperative in the Big Data era. Previous noise transition based method has achieved promising results and presented a theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Ivor W. Tsang , Jun Sun

Target domain pseudo-labelling has shown effectiveness in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). However, pseudo-labels of unlabeled target domain data are inevitably noisy due to the distribution shift between source and target domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Zhongying Deng , Da Li , Junjun He , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang

Despite its empirical success, deep learning still lacks a comprehensive theoretical understanding of model fitting and generalization. This paper proposes the probability distribution (PD) learning framework to analyze the optimization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Binchuan Qi , Wei Gong , Li Li

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

In this paper, we tackle the problem of training with multiple source domains with the aim to generalize to new domains at test time without an adaptation step. This is known as domain generalization (DG). Previous works on DG assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Mohammad Mahfujur Rahman , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

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

Transfer learning enhances model performance by utilizing knowledge from related domains, particularly when labeled data is scarce. While existing research addresses transfer learning under various distribution shifts in independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Liyuan Wang , Jiachen Chen , Kathryn L. Lunetta , Danyang Huang , Huimin Cheng , Debarghya Mukherjee

We introduce a novel training principle for probabilistic models that is an alternative to maximum likelihood. The proposed Generative Stochastic Networks (GSN) framework is based on learning the transition operator of a Markov chain whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-29 Guillaume Alain , Yoshua Bengio , Li Yao , Jason Yosinski , Eric Thibodeau-Laufer , Saizheng Zhang , Pascal Vincent