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A sensor network is considered where a sequence of random variables is observed at each sensor. At each time step, a processed version of the observations is transmitted from the sensors to a common node called the fusion center. At some…

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The computer vision community is witnessing an unprecedented rate of new tasks being proposed and addressed, thanks to the deep convolutional networks' capability to find complex mappings from X to Y. The advent of each task often…

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Semi-supervised heterogeneous domain adaptation (SHDA) addresses learning across domains with distinct feature representations and distributions, where source samples are labeled while most target samples are unlabeled, with only a small…

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Transfer learning aims to learn classifiers for a target domain by transferring knowledge from a source domain. However, due to two main issues: feature discrepancy and distribution divergence, transfer learning can be a very difficult…

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The main challenge that sets transfer learning apart from traditional supervised learning is the distribution shift, reflected as the shift between the source and target models and that between the marginal covariate distributions. In this…

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Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) methods are proposed to tackle the sparsity problem in click through rate (CTR) estimation. Existing CDR methods directly transfer knowledge from the source domains to the target domain and ignore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Ke Xu , Ziliang Wang , Wei Zheng , Yuhao Ma , Chenglin Wang , Nengxue Jiang , Cai Cao

To reduce annotation labor associated with object detection, an increasing number of studies focus on transferring the learned knowledge from a labeled source domain to another unlabeled target domain. However, existing methods assume that…

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Transfer learning enhances model performance by utilizing knowledge from related domains, particularly when labeled data is scarce. While existing research addresses transfer learning under various distribution shifts in independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Liyuan Wang , Jiachen Chen , Kathryn L. Lunetta , Danyang Huang , Huimin Cheng , Debarghya Mukherjee

Domain adaptation is a popular paradigm in modern machine learning which aims at tackling the problem of divergence (or shift) between the labeled training and validation datasets (source domain) and a potentially large unlabeled dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Evgeny M Mirkes , Jonathan Bac , Aziz Fouché , Sergey V. Stasenko , Andrei Zinovyev , Alexander N. Gorban

Transfer learning enables to re-use knowledge learned on a source task to help learning a target task. A simple form of transfer learning is common in current state-of-the-art computer vision models, i.e. pre-training a model for image…

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All famous machine learning algorithms that comprise both supervised and semi-supervised learning work well only under a common assumption: the training and test data follow the same distribution. When the distribution changes, most…

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While sequential recommendation achieves significant progress on capturing user-item transition patterns, transferring such large-scale recommender systems remains challenging due to the disjoint user and item groups across domains. In this…

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We propose a new framework for binary classification in transfer learning settings where both covariate and label distributions may shift between source and target domains. Unlike traditional covariate shift or label shift assumptions, we…

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Domain alignment is currently the most prevalent solution to unsupervised domain-adaptation tasks and are often being presented as minimizers of some theoretical upper-bounds on risk in the target domain. However, further works revealed…

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Transfer learning has been successfully applied across many high-impact applications. However, most existing work focuses on the static transfer learning setting, and very little is devoted to modeling the time evolving target domain, such…

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Memory-based self-evolution has emerged as a promising paradigm for coding agents. However, existing approaches typically restrict memory utilization to homogeneous task domains, failing to leverage the shared infrastructural foundations,…

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Contemporary domain adaptation offers a practical solution for achieving cross-domain transfer of semantic segmentation between labeled source data and unlabeled target data. These solutions have gained significant popularity; however, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yuxi Wang , Jian Liang , Jun Xiao , Shuqi Mei , Yuran Yang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

For a target task where labeled data is unavailable, domain adaptation can transfer a learner from a different source domain. Previous deep domain adaptation methods mainly learn a global domain shift, i.e., align the global source and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Yongchun Zhu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Jindong Wang , Guolin Ke , Jingwu Chen , Jiang Bian , Hui Xiong , Qing He

Transfer learning involves taking information and insight from one problem domain and applying it to a new problem domain. Although widely used in practice, theory for transfer learning remains less well-developed. To address this, we prove…

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