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Annotating medical images for disease detection is often tedious and expensive. Moreover, the available training samples for a given task are generally scarce and imbalanced. These conditions are not conducive for learning effective deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Fouzia Altaf , Syed M. S. Islam , Naeem K. Janjua , Naveed Akhtar

Deep neural network architectures have attained remarkable improvements in scene understanding tasks. Utilizing an efficient model is one of the most important constraints for limited-resource devices. Recently, several compression methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Mahdi Ghorbani , Fahimeh Fooladgar , Shohreh Kasaei

Self-supervised pretrain techniques have been widely used to improve the downstream tasks' performance. However, real-world magnetic resonance (MR) studies usually consist of different sets of contrasts due to different acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Badhan Kumar Das , Ajay Singh , Gengyan Zhao , Han Liu , Thomas J. Re , Dorin Comaniciu , Eli Gibson , Andreas Maier

Deep transfer learning recently has acquired significant research interest. It makes use of pre-trained models that are learned from a source domain, and utilizes these models for the tasks in a target domain. Model-based deep transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tianyang Wang , Jun Huan , Michelle Zhu

Recent advancements in vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated that larger models often achieve superior performance. However, training these models remains computationally intensive and costly. To address this challenge, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhiwei Hao , Jianyuan Guo , Li Shen , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Han Hu , Yunhe Wang

With the growing burden of training deep learning models with large data sets, transfer-learning has been widely adopted in many emerging deep learning algorithms. Transformer models such as BERT are the main player in natural language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Mujahid Al Rafi , Yuan Feng , Hyeran Jeon

In the era of deep learning, the increasing number of pre-trained models available online presents a wealth of knowledge. These models, developed with diverse architectures and trained on varied datasets for different tasks, provide unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yimu Wang , Weiming Zhuang , Chen Chen , Jiabo Huang , Jingtao Li , Lingjuan Lyu

With the great success of pre-trained models, the pretrain-then-finetune paradigm has been widely adopted on downstream tasks for source code understanding. However, compared to costly training a large-scale model from scratch, how to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Deze Wang , Zhouyang Jia , Shanshan Li , Yue Yu , Yun Xiong , Wei Dong , Xiangke Liao

Fine-grained classification is a challenging task that involves identifying subtle differences between objects within the same category. This task is particularly challenging in scenarios where data is scarce. Visual transformers (ViT) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Manuel Lagunas , Brayan Impata , Victor Martinez , Virginia Fernandez , Christos Georgakis , Sofia Braun , Felipe Bertrand

Deep learning methods usually require a large amount of training data and lack interpretability. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge distillation and model interpretation framework for medical image classification that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , He Zhao , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

Designing agents that acquire knowledge autonomously and use it to solve new tasks efficiently is an important challenge in reinforcement learning. Knowledge acquired during an unsupervised pre-training phase is often transferred by…

Self-supervised learning has achieved remarkable success in learning visual representations from clean data, yet remains challenging when clean observations are sparse or not available at all. In this paper, we demonstrate that pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Konstantinos Alexis , Giorgos Giannopoulos , Dimitrios Gunopulos

Deep learning achieved great progress recently, however, it is not easy or efficient to further improve its performance by increasing the size of the model. Multi-modal learning can mitigate this challenge by introducing richer and more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Cairong Zhao , Yufeng Jin , Zifan Song , Haonan Chen , Duoqian Miao , Guosheng Hu

Transfer learning has recently become the dominant paradigm of machine learning. Pre-trained models fine-tuned for downstream tasks achieve better performance with fewer labelled examples. Nonetheless, it remains unclear how to develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jonas Pfeiffer , Sebastian Ruder , Ivan Vulić , Edoardo Maria Ponti

There is growing evidence that pretrained language models improve task-specific fine-tuning not just for the languages seen in pretraining, but also for new languages and even non-linguistic data. What is the nature of this surprising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhengxuan Wu , Nelson F. Liu , Christopher Potts

Structured prediction models aim at solving a type of problem where the output is a complex structure, rather than a single variable. Performing knowledge distillation for such models is not trivial due to their exponentially large output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Wenye Lin , Yangming Li , Lemao Liu , Shuming Shi , Hai-tao Zheng

This paper presents a study on improving human action recognition through the utilization of knowledge distillation, and the combination of CNN and ViT models. The research aims to enhance the performance and efficiency of smaller student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Hamid Ahmadabadi , Omid Nejati Manzari , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Model fine-tuning is a widely used transfer learning approach in person Re-identification (ReID) applications, which fine-tuning a pre-trained feature extraction model into the target scenario instead of training a model from scratch. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Zhengxu Yu , Dong Shen , Zhongming Jin , Jianqiang Huang , Deng Cai , Xian-Sheng Hua

Most existing methods focus on sentiment analysis of textual data. However, recently there has been a massive use of images and videos on social platforms, motivating sentiment analysis from other modalities. Current studies show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Guilherme Lourenço de Toledo , Ricardo Marcondes Marcacini

In this paper, we strive to answer the question "how to collaboratively learn convolutional neural network (CNN)-based and vision transformer (ViT)-based models by selecting and exchanging the reliable knowledge between them for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jinjing Zhu , Yunhao Luo , Xu Zheng , Hao Wang , Lin Wang