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We study the implicit regularization of optimization methods for linear models interpolating the training data in the under-parametrized and over-parametrized regimes. Since it is difficult to determine whether an optimizer converges to…

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In recent years, multi-task prompt tuning has garnered considerable attention for its inherent modularity and potential to enhance parameter-efficient transfer learning across diverse tasks. This paper aims to analyze and improve the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Ahmad Pouramini , Hesham Faili

Unwanted samples from private source categories in the learning objective of a partial domain adaptation setup can lead to negative transfer and reduce classification performance. Existing methods, such as re-weighting or aggregating target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Sandipan Choudhuri , Arunabha Sen

We propose self-adaptive training---a new training algorithm that dynamically corrects problematic training labels by model predictions without incurring extra computational cost---to improve generalization of deep learning for potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Lang Huang , Chao Zhang , Hongyang Zhang

In many economic applications, multiple source datasets are available, but their effective combination is challenging due to heterogeneity across datasets. To address this problem, we study a parameter-transfer framework that shares only…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Fen Jiang , Wenhui Li , Xinyu Zhang

In reinforcement learning, specifying reward functions that capture the intended task can be very challenging. Reward learning aims to address this issue by learning the reward function. However, a learned reward model may have a low error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Lukas Fluri , Leon Lang , Alessandro Abate , Patrick Forré , David Krueger , Joar Skalse

Given a model trained on source data, Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) enables adaptation and inference in test data streams with domain shifts from the source. Current methods predominantly optimize the model for each incoming test data batch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Ziqiang Wang , Zhixiang Chi , Yanan Wu , Li Gu , Zhi Liu , Konstantinos Plataniotis , Yang Wang

Transferring knowledge in cross-domain reinforcement learning is a challenging setting in which learning is accelerated by reusing knowledge from a task with different observation and/or action space. However, it is often necessary to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Sergio A. Serrano , Jose Martinez-Carranza , L. Enrique Sucar

We study the transfer of rewards learned using inverse reinforcement learning from expert demonstrations in one environment to reinforcement learning in a new, different environment. This arises naturally when demonstrations are collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Guang-Yuan Hao , Lars van der Laan , Aurélien Bibaut , Nathan Kallus

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-07 Jiayu Huang , Mingqiu Wang , Yuanshan Wu

Transfer learning borrows knowledge from a source domain to facilitate learning in a target domain. Two primary issues to be addressed in transfer learning are what and how to transfer. For a pair of domains, adopting different transfer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Ying Wei , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

We propose Regularized Learning under Label shifts (RLLS), a principled and a practical domain-adaptation algorithm to correct for shifts in the label distribution between a source and a target domain. We first estimate importance weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anqi Liu , Fanny Yang , Animashree Anandkumar

Transfer learning refers to the promising idea of initializing model fits based on pre-training on other data. We particularly consider regression modeling settings where parameter estimates from previous data can be used as anchoring…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-07 Wessel N. van Wieringen , Harald Binder

Deep neural networks require a large amount of labeled training data during supervised learning. However, collecting and labeling so much data might be infeasible in many cases. In this paper, we introduce a source-target selective joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Yizhou Yu

Transfer-learning and meta-learning are two effective methods to apply knowledge learned from large data sources to new tasks. In few-class, few-shot target task settings (i.e. when there are only a few classes and training examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , David Eigen , Massoud Pedram

It is vital to learn effective policies that can be transferred to different domains with dynamics discrepancies in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper, we consider dynamics adaptation settings where there exists dynamics mismatch…

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Despite the impressive growth of the abilities of multilingual language models, such as XLM-R and mT5, it has been shown that they still face difficulties when tackling typologically-distant languages, particularly in the low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Ofir Arviv , Dmitry Nikolaev , Taelin Karidi , Omri Abend

Person re-identification (Re-ID) models usually show a limited performance when they are trained on one dataset and tested on another dataset due to the inter-dataset bias (e.g. completely different identities and backgrounds) and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jiajie Tian , Zhu Teng , Rui Li , Yan Li , Baopeng Zhang , Jianping Fan

Prompt tuning, in which prompts are optimized to adapt large-scale pre-trained language models to downstream tasks instead of fine-tuning the full model parameters, has been shown to be particularly effective when the prompts are trained in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Haeju Lee , Minchan Jeong , Se-Young Yun , Kee-Eung Kim

Pretrained multilingual encoders enable zero-shot cross-lingual transfer, but often produce unreliable models that exhibit high performance variance on the target language. We postulate that this high variance results from zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shijie Wu , Benjamin Van Durme , Mark Dredze