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Fine-tuning of self-supervised models is a powerful transfer learning method in a variety of fields, including speech processing, since it can utilize generic feature representations obtained from large amounts of unlabeled data.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Shinta Otake , Rei Kawakami , Nakamasa Inoue

Pretrained on large-scale and diverse datasets, VLA models demonstrate strong generalization and adaptability as general-purpose robotic policies. However, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), which serves as the primary mechanism for adapting…

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Recent studies applied Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning techniques (PEFTs) to efficiently narrow the performance gap between pre-training and downstream. There are two important factors for various PEFTs, namely, the accessible data size and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yuxin Tian , Mouxing Yang , Yunfan Li , Dayiheng Liu , Xingzhang Ren , Xi Peng , Jiancheng Lv

Fine-tuning (FT) pre-trained sentence embedding models on small datasets has been shown to have limitations. In this paper we show that concatenating the embeddings from the pre-trained model with those from a simple sentence embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Siddhant Garg , Rohit Kumar Sharma , Yingyu Liang

A common strategy for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of pre-trained Vision Transformers (ViTs) involves adapting the model to downstream tasks by learning a low-rank adaptation matrix. This matrix is decomposed into a product of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Wei Dong , Yuan Sun , Yiting Yang , Xing Zhang , Zhijun Lin , Qingsen Yan , Haokui Zhang , Peng Wang , Yang Yang , Hengtao Shen

While parameter efficient tuning (PET) methods have shown great potential with transformer architecture on Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, their effectiveness with large-scale ConvNets is still under-studied on Computer Vision (CV)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Hao Chen , Ran Tao , Han Zhang , Yidong Wang , Xiang Li , Wei Ye , Jindong Wang , Guosheng Hu , Marios Savvides

Parameter efficient transfer learning (PETL) aims at making good use of the representation knowledge in the pre-trained large models by fine-tuning a small number of parameters. Recently, taking inspiration from the natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Bruce X. B. Yu , Jianlong Chang , Lingbo Liu , Qi Tian , Chang Wen Chen

How do we transfer the relevant knowledge from ever larger foundation models into small, task-specific downstream models that can run at much lower costs? Standard transfer learning using pre-trained weights as the initialization transfers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Shikai Qiu , Boran Han , Danielle C. Maddix , Shuai Zhang , Yuyang Wang , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has become increasingly important as foundation models continue to grow in both popularity and size. Adapter has been particularly well-received due to their potential for parameter reduction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Minglei Li , Peng Ye , Yongqi Huang , Lin Zhang , Tao Chen , Tong He , Jiayuan Fan , Wanli Ouyang

Explorations in fine-tuning Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) from Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT), have made impressive progress. However, most approaches rely on explicit weight updates, overlooking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mingyuan Zhang , Yue Bai , Yifan Wang , Yiyang Huang , Yun Fu

Large Vision-Language Action (VLA) models have shown significant potential for embodied AI. However, their predominant training via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) limits generalization due to susceptibility to compounding errors under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jijia Liu , Feng Gao , Bingwen Wei , Xinlei Chen , Qingmin Liao , Yi Wu , Chao Yu , Yu Wang

Large-scale pre-trained transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in various computer vision tasks. However, it is still highly challenging to fully fine-tune these models for downstream tasks due to their high computational and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Zhao Song , Ke Yang , Naiyang Guan , Junjie Zhu , Peng Qiao , Qingyong Hu

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is a critical step for enhancing the instruction-following capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and adapting them to specialized domains. However, SFT often leads to a degradation of the model's general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Fei Ding , Baiqiao Wang

Mainstream parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, such as LoRA or Adapter, project a model's hidden states to a lower dimension, allowing pre-trained models to adapt to new data through this low-rank bottleneck. However, PEFT tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Tingyu Qu , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens

While state-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex visual-text tasks, their success heavily relies on massive model scaling, limiting their practical deployment. Small-scale VLMs offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Huilin Deng , Ding Zou , Rui Ma , Hongchen Luo , Yang Cao , Yu Kang

Adapter-based parameter-efficient transfer learning has achieved exciting results in vision-language models. Traditional adapter methods often require training or fine-tuning, facing challenges such as insufficient samples or resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Juncheng Yang , Zuchao Li , Shuai Xie , Weiping Zhu , Wei Yu , Shijun Li

Finetuning a pretrained vision model (PVM) is a common technique for learning downstream vision tasks. However, the conventional finetuning process with randomly sampled data points results in diminished training efficiency. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Rongyu Zhang , Zefan Cai , Huanrui Yang , Zidong Liu , Denis Gudovskiy , Tomoyuki Okuno , Yohei Nakata , Kurt Keutzer , Baobao Chang , Yuan Du , Li Du , Shanghang Zhang

Recent successes suggest that parameter-efficient fine-tuning of foundation models as the state-of-the-art method for transfer learning in vision, replacing the rich literature of alternatives such as meta-learning. In trying to harness the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Shengzhuang Chen , Jihoon Tack , Yunqiao Yang , Yee Whye Teh , Jonathan Richard Schwarz , Ying Wei

Prompt tuning is a parameter-efficient way to deploy large-scale pre-trained models to downstream tasks by adding task-specific tokens. In terms of vision-language pre-trained (VLP) models, prompt tuning often requires a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qiong Wu , Shubin Huang , Yiyi Zhou , Pingyang Dai , Annan Shu , Guannan Jiang , Rongrong Ji

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has attracted significant attention due to the growth of pre-trained model sizes and the need to fine-tune (FT) them for superior downstream performance. Despite a surge in new PEFT methods, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zheda Mai , Ping Zhang , Cheng-Hao Tu , Hong-You Chen , Li Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao