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Transfer learning has become an essential technique to exploit information from the source domain to boost performance of the target task. Despite the prevalence in high-dimensional data, heterogeneity and heavy tails are insufficiently…

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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

End-to-end Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) models are made increasingly large and complex to achieve the state-ofthe-art accuracy. However, the increased complexity of a model can also introduce high risk of over-fitting, which is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Xueli Jia , Jianzong Wang , Zhiyong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

We propose a transfer learning method that utilizes data representations in a semiparametric regression model. Our aim is to perform statistical inference on the parameter of primary interest in the target model while accounting for…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-21 Baihua He , Huihang Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Jian Huang

Multi-source transfer learning has been proven effective when within-target labeled data is scarce. Previous work focuses primarily on exploiting domain similarities and assumes that source domains are richly or at least comparably labeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Zirui Wang , Jaime Carbonell

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…

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In this paper, we propose an approach for transferring the knowledge of a neural model for sequence labeling, learned from the source domain, to a new model trained on a target domain, where new label categories appear. Our transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Lingzhen Chen , Alessandro Moschitti

Transfer learning has been demonstrated to be successful and essential in diverse applications, which transfers knowledge from related but different source domains to the target domain. Online transfer learning(OTL) is a more challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yuntao Du , Zhiwen Tan , Qian Chen , Yi Zhang , Chongjun Wang

Learning using statistical invariants (LUSI) is a new learning paradigm, which adopts weak convergence mechanism, and can be applied to a wider range of classification problems. However, the computation cost of invariant matrices in LUSI is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ting-Ting Zhu , Yuan-Hai Shao , Chun-Na Li , Tian Liu

Semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) adapts a learner to a new domain by effectively utilizing source domain data and a few labeled target samples. It is a practical yet under-investigated research topic. In this paper, we analyze the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Wenqiao Zhang , Changshuo Liu , Can Cui , Beng Chin Ooi

In the recommendation systems, there are multiple business domains to meet the diverse interests and needs of users, and the click-through rate(CTR) of each domain can be quite different, which leads to the demand for CTR prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Wei Zhang , Pengye Zhang , Bo Zhang , Xingxing Wang , Dong Wang

This work proposes a novel and simple sequential learning strategy to train models on videos and texts for multimodal sentiment analysis. To estimate sentiment polarities on unseen out-of-distribution data, we introduce a multimodal model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xianbing Zhao , Lizhen Qu , Tao Feng , Jianfei Cai , Buzhou Tang

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…

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Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning flexible speech representations from unlabeled data. By designing pretext tasks that exploit statistical regularities, SSL models can capture useful…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yusuf Brima , Ulf Krumnack , Simone Pika , Gunther Heidemann

Although transfer learning is proven to be effective in computer vision and natural language processing applications, it is rarely investigated in forecasting financial time series. Majority of existing works on transfer learning are based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Qi-Qiao He , Patrick Cheong-Iao Pang , Yain-Whar Si

High-dimensional data in modern applications, such as COVID-19 mortality, often span multiple domains. Leveraging auxiliary information from source domains to improve performance in a target domain motivates the use of transfer learning.…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-09 Haoming Shi , Yang Feng , Xiaoqian Liu

A crucial challenge in reinforcement learning is to reduce the number of interactions with the environment that an agent requires to master a given task. Transfer learning proposes to address this issue by re-using knowledge from previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Remo Sasso , Matthia Sabatelli , Marco A. Wiering

Transfer learning is beneficial for survival analysis, especially when the target study has a limited number of events. However, existing transfer learning methods rely on the restrictive assumption that the target and source studies share…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Yu Gu , Donglin Zeng , D. Y. Lin

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

In-context learning (ICL) is an effective approach to help large language models (LLMs) adapt to various tasks by providing demonstrations of the target task. Considering the high cost of labeling demonstrations, many methods propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Dingzirui Wang , Xuanliang Zhang , Qiguang Chen , Longxu Dou , Xiao Xu , Rongyu Cao , Yingwei Ma , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che , Binhua Li , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li