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We study a fundamental transfer learning process from source to target linear regression tasks, including overparameterized settings where there are more learned parameters than data samples. The target task learning is addressed by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Yehuda Dar , Daniel LeJeune , Richard G. Baraniuk

We study transfer learning for estimation in latent variable network models. In our setting, the conditional edge probability matrices given the latent variables are represented by $P$ for the source and $Q$ for the target. We wish to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Akhil Jalan , Arya Mazumdar , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar

This paper studies the problem of completing a low-rank matrix from a few of its random entries with the aid of prior information. We suggest a strategy to incorporate prior information into the standard matrix completion procedure by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Xu Zhang , Wei Cui , Yulong Liu

Modern statistical analysis often encounters high dimensional models but with limited sample sizes. This makes the target data based statistical estimation very difficult. Then how to borrow information from another large sized source data…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-13 Ziqian Lin , Yuan Gao , Feifei Wang , Hansheng Wang

This paper presents an automatic network adaptation method that finds a ConvNet structure well-suited to a given target task, e.g., image classification, for efficiency as well as accuracy in transfer learning. We call the concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Yang Zhong , Vladimir Li , Ryuzo Okada , Atsuto Maki

In analyses with severe data-limitations, augmenting the target dataset with information from ancillary datasets in the application domain, called source datasets, can lead to significantly improved statistical procedures. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-01 Nathan Wycoff , Ali Arab , Lisa O. Singh

Matrix completion is a class of machine learning methods that concerns the prediction of missing entries in a partially observed matrix. This paper studies matrix completion for mixed data, i.e., data involving mixed types of variables…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-18 Yunxiao Chen , Xiaoou Li

Transfer learning has been proven as an effective technique for neural machine translation under low-resource conditions. Existing methods require a common target language, language relatedness, or specific training tricks and regimes. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Tom Kocmi , Ondřej Bojar

Matrix completion aims to reconstruct a data matrix based on observations of a small number of its entries. Usually in matrix completion a single matrix is considered, which can be, for example, a rating matrix in recommendation system.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-22 Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Olga Klopp

Multi-task learning is effective for related applications, but its performance can deteriorate when the target sample size is small. Transfer learning can borrow strength from related studies; yet, many existing methods rely on restrictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Boxin Zhao , Mladen Kolar , Jinchi Lv

Matrix completion is a problem that arises in many data-analysis settings where the input consists of a partially-observed matrix (e.g., recommender systems, traffic matrix analysis etc.). Classical approaches to matrix completion assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Natali Ruchansky , Mark Crovella , Evimaria Terzi

Transfer learning aims at improving the performance of target learners on target domains by transferring the knowledge contained in different but related source domains. In this way, the dependence on a large number of target domain data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Fuzhen Zhuang , Zhiyuan Qi , Keyu Duan , Dongbo Xi , Yongchun Zhu , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong , Qing He

Transfer learning aims to improve inference in a target domain by leveraging information from related source domains, but its effectiveness critically depends on how cross-domain heterogeneity is modeled and controlled. When the conditional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Hanxiao Chen , Debarghya Mukherjee

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-19 Ye Tian , Yang Feng

We consider the matrix completion problem where the aim is to esti-mate a large data matrix for which only a relatively small random subset of its entries is observed. Quite popular approaches to matrix completion problem are iterative…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Olga Klopp

Transfer learning aims to improve performance on a target task by leveraging information from related source tasks. We propose a nonparametric regression transfer learning framework that explicitly models heterogeneity in the source-target…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hélène Halconruy , Benjamin Bobbia , Paul Lejamtel

Transfer learning has become an essential paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling the transfer of knowledge from a source task to improve performance on a target task. This approach, particularly through techniques such as pretraining…

This paper considers the estimation and prediction of a high-dimensional linear regression in the setting of transfer learning, using samples from the target model as well as auxiliary samples from different but possibly related regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-19 Sai Li , T. Tony Cai , Hongzhe Li

Multi-source transfer learning provides an effective solution to data scarcity in real-world supervised learning scenarios by leveraging multiple source tasks. In this field, existing works typically use all available samples from sources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Qingyue Zhang , Haohao Fu , Guanbo Huang , Yaoyuan Liang , Chang Chu , Tianren Peng , Yanru Wu , Qi Li , Yang Li , Shao-Lun Huang

We introduce a transfer learning framework for regression that leverages heterogeneous source domains to improve predictive performance in a data-scarce target domain. Our approach learns a conditional generative model separately for each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yikun Zhang , Steven Wilkins-Reeves , Wesley Lee , Aude Hofleitner