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Transfer learning is a vital technique that generalizes models trained for one setting or task to other settings or tasks. For example in speech recognition, an acoustic model trained for one language can be used to recognize speech in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Dong Wang , Thomas Fang Zheng

Transductive tasks on graphs differ fundamentally from typical supervised machine learning tasks, as the independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) assumption does not hold among samples. Instead, all train/test/validation samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hamed Shirzad , Honghao Lin , Ameya Velingker , Balaji Venkatachalam , David Woodruff , Danica Sutherland

Transfer learning can significantly improve the sample efficiency of neural networks, by exploiting the relatedness between a data-scarce target task and a data-abundant source task. Despite years of successful applications, transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Federica Gerace , Luca Saglietti , Stefano Sarao Mannelli , Andrew Saxe , Lenka Zdeborová

Modern large-scale neural networks are often trained and released in multiple sizes to accommodate diverse inference budgets. To improve efficiency, recent work has explored model upscaling: initializing larger models from trained smaller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yuxin Ma , Nan Chen , Mateo Díaz , Soufiane Hayou , Dmitriy Kunisky , Soledad Villar

Graph transformers are a recent advancement in machine learning, offering a new class of neural network models for graph-structured data. The synergy between transformers and graph learning demonstrates strong performance and versatility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ahsan Shehzad , Feng Xia , Shagufta Abid , Ciyuan Peng , Shuo Yu , Dongyu Zhang , Karin Verspoor

Graphs provide a powerful means for representing complex interactions between entities. Recently, deep learning approaches are emerging for representing and modeling graph-structured data, although the conventional deep learning methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Jaekoo Lee , Hyunjae Kim , Jongsun Lee , Sungroh Yoon

This paper focuses on spectral graph convolutional neural networks (ConvNets), where filters are defined as elementwise multiplication in the frequency domain of a graph. In machine learning settings where the dataset consists of signals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ron Levie , Wei Huang , Lorenzo Bucci , Michael M. Bronstein , Gitta Kutyniok

Transfer learning is critical for efficient information transfer across multiple related learning problems. A simple, yet effective transfer learning approach utilizes deep neural networks trained on a large-scale task for feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Anurag Kumar , Yun Wang , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Christian Fuegen

Recent statistical approaches have improved the robustness and scalability of spoken dialogue systems. However, despite recent progress in domain adaptation, their reliance on in-domain data still limits their cross-domain scalability. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Simon Keizer , Verena Rieser

Transfer learning aims to transfer knowledge or information from a source domain to a relevant target domain. In this paper, we understand transfer learning from the perspectives of knowledge transferability and trustworthiness. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jun Wu , Jingrui He

We introduce a flexible setup allowing for a neural network to learn both its size and topology during the course of a standard gradient-based training. The resulting network has the structure of a graph tailored to the particular learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Romuald A. Janik , Aleksandra Nowak

Classical machine learning approaches are sensitive to non-stationarity. Transfer learning can address non-stationarity by sharing knowledge from one system to another, however, in areas like machine prognostics and defense, data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Tyler Cody , Stephen Adams , Peter A. Beling

Random graph models are frequently used as a controllable and versatile data source for experimental campaigns in various research fields. Generating such data-sets at scale is a non-trivial task as it requires design decisions typically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Manuel Penschuck , Ulrik Brandes , Michael Hamann , Sebastian Lamm , Ulrich Meyer , Ilya Safro , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

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

Current graph neural networks (GNNs) lack generalizability with respect to scales (graph sizes, graph diameters, edge weights, etc..) when solving many graph analysis problems. Taking the perspective of synthesizing graph theory programs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Hao Tang , Zhiao Huang , Jiayuan Gu , Bao-Liang Lu , Hao Su

Learning systems often expand their ambient features or latent representations over time, embedding earlier representations into larger spaces with limited new latent structure. We study transfer learning for structured matrix estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jinhang Chai , Xuyuan Liu , Elynn Chen , Yujun Yan

Transfer learning is fundamental for addressing problems in settings with little training data. While several transfer learning approaches have been proposed in 3D, unfortunately, these solutions typically operate on an entire 3D object or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Souhaib Attaiki , Lei Li , Maks Ovsjanikov

Exploring the transferability between heterogeneous tasks sheds light on their intrinsic interconnections, and consequently enables knowledge transfer from one task to another so as to reduce the training effort of the latter. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jie Song , Yixin Chen , Xinchao Wang , Chengchao Shen , Mingli Song

While deep learning has revolutionized research and applications in NLP and computer vision, this has not yet been the case for behavioral modeling and behavioral health applications. This is because the domain's datasets are smaller, have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Mike A. Merrill , Tim Althoff

Neural fields have emerged as a new data representation paradigm and have shown remarkable success in various signal representations. Since they preserve signals in their network parameters, the data transfer by sending and receiving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Junwoo Cho , Seungtae Nam , Daniel Rho , Jong Hwan Ko , Eunbyung Park