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We consider transferability estimation, the problem of estimating how well deep learning models transfer from a source to a target task. We focus on regression tasks, which received little previous attention, and propose two simple and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Cuong N. Nguyen , Phong Tran , Lam Si Tung Ho , Vu Dinh , Anh T. Tran , Tal Hassner , Cuong V. Nguyen

Transfer learning seeks to improve the generalization performance of a target task by exploiting the knowledge learned from a related source task. Central questions include deciding what information one should transfer and when transfer can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Oussama Dhifallah , Yue M. Lu

Is more data always better to train vision-and-language models? We study knowledge transferability in multi-modal tasks. The current tendency in machine learning is to assume that by joining multiple datasets from different tasks their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Tianwei Chen , Noa Garcia , Mayu Otani , Chenhui Chu , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Transfer learning is aimed to make use of valuable knowledge in a source domain to help model performance in a target domain. It is particularly important to neural networks, which are very likely to be overfitting. In some fields like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Lili Mou , Zhao Meng , Rui Yan , Ge Li , Yan Xu , Lu Zhang , Zhi Jin

Transfer learning has been proven effective when within-target labeled data is scarce. A lot of works have developed successful algorithms and empirically observed positive transfer effect that improves target generalization error using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Zirui Wang

Over the past decade, the field of machine learning has experienced remarkable advancements. While image recognition systems have achieved impressive levels of accuracy, they continue to rely on extensive training datasets. Additionally, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Benji Alwis

Transfer learning is a powerful technique for knowledge-sharing between different tasks. Recent work has found that the representations of models with certain invariances, such as to adversarial input perturbations, achieve higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Till Speicher , Vedant Nanda , Krishna P. Gummadi

The growing popularity of transfer learning, due to the availability of models pre-trained on vast amounts of data, makes it imperative to understand when the knowledge of these pre-trained models can be transferred to obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Akshay Mehra , Yunbei Zhang , Jihun Hamm

Many machine learning and data mining algorithms rely on the assumption that the training and testing data share the same feature space and distribution. However, this assumption may not always hold. For instance, there are situations where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Adrian Shuai Li , Arun Iyengar , Ashish Kundu , Elisa Bertino

Current transferability estimation methods designed for natural image datasets are often suboptimal in medical image classification. These methods primarily focus on estimating the suitability of pre-trained source model features for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dovile Juodelyte , Enzo Ferrante , Yucheng Lu , Prabhant Singh , Joaquin Vanschoren , Veronika Cheplygina

Transferability estimation has emerged as an important problem in transfer learning. A transferability estimation method takes as inputs a set of pre-trained models and decides which pre-trained model can deliver the best transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yunhui Guo

Transfer learning is crucial for medical imaging, yet the selection of source datasets often relies on researchers' intuition rather than systematic principles, which can impact the generalizability of algorithms and, thus, patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yucheng Lu , Hubert Dariusz Zając , Veronika Cheplygina , Amelia Jiménez-Sánchez

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

Meta-Learning is a subarea of Machine Learning that aims to take advantage of prior knowledge to learn faster and with fewer data [1]. There are different scenarios where meta-learning can be applied, and one of the most common is algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Gean Trindade Pereira , Moisés dos Santos , Edesio Alcobaça , Rafael Mantovani , André Carvalho

Deep learning models usually require a huge amount of data. However, these large datasets are not always attainable. This is common in many challenging NLP tasks. Consider Neural Machine Translation, for instance, where curating such large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Zaid Alyafeai , Maged Saeed AlShaibani , Irfan Ahmad

The widespread adoption of transfer learning has revolutionized machine learning by enabling efficient adaptation of pre-trained models to new domains. However, the reliability of these adaptations remains poorly understood, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Prabhav Singh , Jessica Sorrell

Latent space model plays a crucial role in network analysis, and accurate estimation of latent variables is essential for downstream tasks such as link prediction. However, the large number of parameters to be estimated presents a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-22 Kuangnan Fang , Ruixuan Qin , Xinyan Fan

Transfer learning refers to machine learning techniques that focus on acquiring knowledge from related tasks to improve generalization in the tasks of interest. In MRI, transfer learning is important for developing strategies that address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Juan Miguel Valverde , Vandad Imani , Ali Abdollahzadeh , Riccardo De Feo , Mithilesh Prakash , Robert Ciszek , Jussi Tohka

We conduct the first empirical study on using knowledge transfer to improve the generalization ability of large language models (LLMs) in software engineering tasks, which often require LLMs to generalize beyond their training data. Our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Qing Huang , Yishun Wu , Zhenchang Xing , He Jiang , Yu Cheng , Huan Jin

Advancements in sensing and computing technologies, the development of human and computer interaction frameworks, big data storage capabilities, and the emergence of cloud storage and could computing have resulted in an abundance of data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Ramin Moradi , Katrina M. Groth