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Meta-learning is a powerful paradigm for few-shot learning. Although with remarkable success witnessed in many applications, the existing optimization based meta-learning models with over-parameterized neural networks have been evidenced to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Hongduan Tian , Bo Liu , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Qingshan Liu

Popular PEFT methods reduce trainable parameter count for fine-tuning by parameterizing new low-rank or sparse trainable weights in parallel to the frozen pre-trained weights $W$. However, these weights are trained from scratch, and there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Suhas G Hegde , Shilpy Kaur , Aruna Tiwari

A common approach to transfer learning under distribution shift is to fine-tune the last few layers of a pre-trained model, preserving learned features while also adapting to the new task. This paper shows that in such settings, selectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yoonho Lee , Annie S. Chen , Fahim Tajwar , Ananya Kumar , Huaxiu Yao , Percy Liang , Chelsea Finn

Foundation models pre-trained on large-scale data have been widely witnessed to achieve success in various natural imaging downstream tasks. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods aim to adapt foundation models to new domains by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Wenqiang Zu , Shenghao Xie , Qing Zhao , Guoqi Li , Lei Ma

Finetuning pretrained models occurs in a low-dimensional subspace of the full parameter space. Prior work has focused on characterizing this optimization subspace, but largely ignored the complementary question: why do certain directions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junjie Yu , Yue Wang , Zihan Deng , Yan Zhu , Wenxiao Ma , Quanying Liu

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has emerged as the predominant technique for fine-tuning in the era of large language models. However, existing PEFT methods still have inadequate training efficiency. Firstly, the utilization of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Naibin Gu , Peng Fu , Xiyu Liu , Bowen Shen , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang

Fine-tuning is a popular way of exploiting knowledge contained in a pre-trained convolutional network for a new visual recognition task. However, the orthogonal setting of transferring knowledge from a pretrained network to a visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Amelie Royer , Christoph H. Lampert

Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence by providing robust, versatile architectures pre-trained on large-scale datasets. However, adapting these massive models to specific downstream tasks requires fine-tuning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jieming Bian , Yuanzhe Peng , Lei Wang , Yin Huang , Jie Xu

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on domain-specific data is the dominant approach for adapting foundation models to specialized tasks. However, it has been observed that SFT models tend to forget knowledge acquired during pretraining. In vision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yifan Hao , Xingyuan Pan , Hanning Zhang , Chenlu Ye , Rui Pan , Tong Zhang

Pre-trained models (PTMs) have achieved great success in various Software Engineering (SE) downstream tasks following the ``pre-train then fine-tune'' paradigm. As fully fine-tuning all parameters of PTMs can be computationally expensive, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Wentao Zou , Qi Li , Jidong Ge , Chuanyi Li , Xiaoyu Shen , Liguo Huang , Bin Luo

We propose an entirely new meta-learning framework for network pruning. It is a general framework that can be theoretically applied to almost all types of networks with all kinds of pruning and has great generality and transferability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yewei Liu , Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods achieve performance comparable to Full Fine-Tuning (FFT) while requiring significantly fewer computing resources, making it the go-to choice for researchers. We find that although PEFT can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yongkang Liu , Xingle Xu , Ercong Nie , Zijing Wang , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Qian Li , Hinrich Schütze

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved promising downstream performance. However, when facing various resource budgets in real-world applications, it costs a huge computation burden to pretrain multiple networks of various sizes one by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Shaoru Wang , Zeming Li , Jin Gao , Liang Li , Weiming Hu

With the advent of large pre-trained transformer models, fine-tuning these models for various downstream tasks is a critical problem. Paucity of training data, the existence of data silos, and stringent privacy constraints exacerbate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Naif Alkhunaizi , Faris Almalik , Rouqaiah Al-Refai , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

Visual Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has become a powerful alternative for full fine-tuning so as to adapt pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks, which only tunes a small number of parameters while freezing the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Haoyu He , Jianfei Cai , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Bohan Zhuang

The emergence of large pre-trained networks has revolutionized the AI field, unlocking new possibilities and achieving unprecedented performance. However, these models inherit a fundamental limitation from traditional Machine Learning…

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) is an effective method for adapting pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks by tuning a small subset of parameters. Among PEFT methods, sparse tuning achieves superior performance by only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shufan Shen , Junshu Sun , Xiangyang Ji , Qingming Huang , Shuhui Wang

Large Transformer-based models were shown to be reducible to a smaller number of self-attention heads and layers. We consider this phenomenon from the perspective of the lottery ticket hypothesis, using both structured and magnitude…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sai Prasanna , Anna Rogers , Anna Rumshisky

Pretrained Foundation Models (PFMs) have transformed numerous applications by enabling efficient adaptation to customized tasks. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has emerged as a resource-efficient alternative to full fine-tuning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Baoquan Zhang , Guangning Xu , Michael. K. Ng

Pre-training has been a popular learning paradigm in deep learning era, especially in annotation-insufficient scenario. Better ImageNet pre-trained models have been demonstrated, from the perspective of architecture, by previous research to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Andong Deng , Xingjian Li , Di Hu , Tianyang Wang , Haoyi Xiong , Chengzhong Xu