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48 results for Cross-domain Pretraining

A new framework pretrains a single GNN model for diverse graphs, overcoming domain-specific challenges.

problem Difficulty in generalizing across graphs from different domains using existing GNNs.
method Cross-domain pretraining framework with gating functions to choose experts for new graphs.
result Superior performance on link prediction and node classification tasks across various domains.

Cross-domain collaborative filtering (CF) aims to alleviate data sparsity in single-domain CF by leveraging knowledge transferred from related domains. Many traditional methods focus on enriching compared neighborhood relations in CF directly to address the sparsity problem. In this paper, we propose superhighway const…

2018-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparse coding has shown its power as an effective data representation method. However, up to now, all the sparse coding approaches are limited within the single domain learning problem. In this paper, we extend the sparse coding to cross domain learning problem, which tries to learn from a source domain to a target dom…

2013-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

ADGAN improves risk tolerance prediction by aligning cross-domain data.

problem Lack of professional knowledge and domain-specific models in risk tolerance studies.
method Asymmetric cross-Domain Generative Adversarial Network (ADGAN) for domain scale inequality.
result ADGAN better handles class imbalance and unqualified data than state-of-the-art methods.

With the proliferation of social media platforms and e-commerce sites, several cross-domain collaborative filtering strategies have been recently introduced to transfer the knowledge of user preferences across domains. The main challenge of cross-domain recommendation is to weigh and learn users' different behaviors in…

2019-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Nowadays, users open multiple accounts on social media platforms and e-commerce sites, expressing their personal preferences on different domains. However, users' behaviors change across domains, depending on the content that users interact with, such as movies, music, clothing and retail products. In this paper, we pr…

2019-06-29abs ↗pdf ↗

GWIL uses Gromov-Wasserstein distance to align expert and imitation agent states.

problem Cross-domain imitation learning challenges due to different system dimensions and stationary distributions.
method Gromov-Wasserstein Imitation Learning (GWIL) using Gromov-Wasserstein distance.
result GWIL effectively aligns expert and imitation agent states in various continuous control domains.

CosML combines domain-specific meta-learners for cross-domain few-shot classification.

problem Generalizing to unseen domains while meta-learning on multiple seen domains.
method CosML trains domain-specific meta-learners and combines their meta-parameters in the parameter space.
result CosML outperforms state-of-the-art methods and achieves strong cross-domain generalization.

Ensuring the security of transactions is currently one of the major challenges that banking systems deal with. The usage of face for biometric authentication of users is attracting large investments from banks worldwide due to its convenience and acceptability by people, especially in cross-domain scenarios, in which f…

2018-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach improves cross-domain recommendation for sparse target domains.

problem Cross-domain recommendation challenges with sparse target domains.
method Guided neural collaborative filtering with domain-invariant components across dense and sparse domains.
result Effective and scalable approach demonstrated on public and Visa datasets.

A new model for imputing missing values in time series data across domains.

problem Imputing missing values in time series data across domains with domain shifts and high missing rates.
method A diffusion-based imputation model that integrates shared spectral components and domain-specific temporal structures, with cross-domain consistency alignment.
result Our model effectively handles missing values and domain shifts, outperforming existing methods.

The cross-domain recommendation technique is an effective way of alleviating the data sparse issue in recommender systems by leveraging the knowledge from relevant domains. Transfer learning is a class of algorithms underlying these techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel transfer learning approach for cross-doma…

2018-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The recent empirical success of unsupervised cross-domain mapping algorithms, between two domains that share common characteristics, is not well-supported by theoretical justifications. This lacuna is especially troubling, given the clear ambiguity in such mappings. We work with adversarial training methods based on IP…

2018-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Cross-Domain Collaborative Filtering (CDCF) provides a way to alleviate data sparsity and cold-start problems present in recommendation systems by exploiting the knowledge from related domains. Existing CDCF models are either based on matrix factorization or deep neural networks. Either of the techniques in isolation m…

2019-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning effective embedding has been proved to be useful in many real-world problems, such as recommender systems, search ranking and online advertisement. However, one of the challenges is data sparsity in learning large-scale item embedding, as users' historical behavior data are usually lacking or insufficient in a…

2019-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Clustering consists of grouping together samples giving their similar properties. The problem of modeling simultaneously groups of samples and features is known as Co-Clustering. This paper introduces ROCCO - a Robust Continuous Co-Clustering algorithm. ROCCO is a scalable, hyperparameter-free, easy and ready to use al…

2018-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new method for manifold alignment using geometry-regularized twin autoencoders.

problem Traditional MA methods lack out-of-sample extension and real-world applicability.
method Guided representation learning with geometry-regularized twin autoencoders.
result Improves cross-domain generalization and robustness while maintaining alignment fidelity.

Task-agnostic data augmentation shows little benefit for pretrained transformers.

problem Evaluating the effectiveness of task-agnostic data augmentation on pretrained transformers.
method Conducted a systematic examination of two data augmentation techniques (Easy Data Augmentation and Back-Translation) across 5 tasks, 6 datasets, and 3 pretrained transformer models.
result Data augmentation techniques previously effective for non-pretrained models fail to consistently improve performance for pretrained transformers, even with limited training data.

Pretraining models improves text classification accuracy, but diminishing returns are observed with large datasets.

problem Improving text classification accuracy with pretrained models.
method Examined the benefits of pretrained models on text classification tasks with varying amounts of training data.
result As the number of training examples grows into the millions, the accuracy gap between pretrained BERT-based models and vanilla LSTM narrows to within 1%.

Paper studies how few pretraining tasks are needed for a linear model to solve new tasks.

problem How many pretraining tasks are needed for a linear model to solve new tasks?
method Pretrained a linear attention model for linear regression with a Gaussian prior.
result Effective pretraining requires a small number of independent tasks, and the model closely matches Bayes optimal.

Method constructs finance LLMs without instruction data using pretraining and model merging.

problem Developing domain-specific LLMs for finance is resource-intensive.
method Continual pretraining on financial data + model merging of instruction-tuned and domain-specific pretrained vectors.
result Successfully constructs instruction-tuned LLMs for finance without additional instruction data.

Mask-reconstruction pretraining helps in downstream tasks by capturing more semantic features.

problem How mask-reconstruction pretraining helps in downstream tasks and why it surpasses supervised learning.
method Theoretical analysis and experimental validation of mask-reconstruction pretraining (MRP) on auto-encoders.
result MRP provably captures more semantic features than supervised learning, leading to better performance in downstream tasks.

Pretraining method enhances dialogue representation learning across various tasks.

problem Scarce labeled data for specific dialogue tasks.
method Multi-task unsupervised pretraining with natural training objectives.
result Significant improvement in downstream tasks without encoder discrimination.

Synthetic continued pretraining enhances model performance with synthetic data.

problem Data inefficiency in pretrained models when adapting to domain-specific documents.
method Synthetic data augmentation using EntiGraph to create a large synthetic corpus.
result Language models can answer questions and follow instructions without access to domain-specific documents.

WeatherFormer learns robust weather features from small datasets.

problem Modeling complex weather dynamics from limited data.
method Pretrained transformer encoder on large satellite dataset, with spatiotemporal encoding.
result State-of-the-art performance in county-level soybean yield prediction and influenza forecasting.

Theoretical analysis of data quality and synergies in LLMs.

problem Understanding why different training methods require different amounts of data.
method Theoretical analysis of transformers trained on a weight prediction task for linear regression.
result SFT excels on smaller datasets challenging for the pretrained model, while RL benefits from large, not overly difficult data.

Denoised smoothing defends pretrained classifiers against adversarial attacks.

problem Adversarial attacks on pretrained classifiers.
method Prepending a denoiser to any off-the-shelf classifier using randomized smoothing.
result Guaranteed p\ell_p-robustness to adversarial examples without modifying the pretrained classifier.