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48 results for Pre-training knowledge

This study explores how examples influence ICL in LLMs.

problem Understanding how examples impact in-context learning in large language models.
method Theoretical study with a probabilistic model extending from Gaussian mixture model.
result The impact of pre-training knowledge and examples on ICL prediction accuracy.

This paper aims to analyze knowledge consistency between pre-trained deep neural networks. We propose a generic definition for knowledge consistency between neural networks at different fuzziness levels. A task-agnostic method is designed to disentangle feature components, which represent the consistent knowledge, from…

2019-08-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Pre-training is crucial for learning deep neural networks. Most of existing pre-training methods train simple models (e.g., restricted Boltzmann machines) and then stack them layer by layer to form the deep structure. This layer-wise pre-training has found strong theoretical foundation and broad empirical support. Howe…

2015-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Transfer learning does not improve character recognition performance.

problem Improving character recognition performance using transfer learning.
method Performed experiments with varying levels of similarity between source and target tasks, transferring both parameters and features.
result No significant advantage gained by transfer learning over traditional machine learning.

Method transfers knowledge without label overlap, source data, or target architecture consistency.

problem Difficulties in transfer learning due to label mismatch, restricted source data, and specialized target architectures.
method Uses deep generative models in two stages: pseudo pre-training and pseudo semi-supervised learning.
result Outperforms scratch training and knowledge distillation methods.

Unsupervised pre-training improves model generalization, but lacks theoretical understanding.

problem Lack of theoretical understanding of unsupervised pre-training's impact on model generalization.
method Introduces a novel theoretical framework to analyze and enhance generalization.
result Enhances understanding of unsupervised pre-training and fine-tuning, proposing a new regularization method.

Researchers develop method to protect against 'weight poisoning' attacks on pre-trained models.

problem The security threat of downloading untrusted pre-trained weights that can be manipulated after fine-tuning.
method RIPPLe regularization method and Embedding Surgery initialization procedure.
result Demonstrated that weight poisoning attacks are possible even with limited knowledge of the dataset and fine-tuning procedure.

Study shows how a strong model can learn a task's feature while retaining other capabilities.

problem How to align superhuman AI systems using weak-to-strong generalization.
method Two-layer neural networks, reward-model learning, multi-step SGD, feature learning.
result The strong model efficiently learns task features while retaining general capabilities.

Improved sentiment analysis in Korean finance using masked PLMs.

problem Fine-grained sentiment analysis in non-English finance literature is lacking due to limited annotated data.
method Developed KorFinASC dataset and applied TGT-Masking to PLMs to remove non-stationary knowledge.
result Improved classification accuracy by 22.63% on KorFinASC.

Enhances financial time-series prediction by adapting pre-trained models to new data.

problem Adapting pre-trained financial models to new data sets efficiently.
method Augmented Bilinear Network that retains and adjusts pre-trained neural network knowledge.
result Improves prediction performance and reduces model complexity.

Understanding learning materials (e.g. test questions) is a crucial issue in online learning systems, which can promote many applications in education domain. Unfortunately, many supervised approaches suffer from the problem of scarce human labeled data, whereas abundant unlabeled resources are highly underutilized. To…

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

GCTM integrates GCN into topic models for better topic learning from data streams.

problem Learning hidden topics from short and noisy data streams with concept drift.
method Proposes a graph convolutional topic model (GCTM) that learns from a knowledge graph and old data.
result Significantly better performance in probabilistic predictive measures and topic coherence.

Study compares deep feature methods for anomaly detection in limited data scenarios.

problem Handling limited data in industrial inspection applications.
method Three approaches (KNN, Mahalanobis, PaDiM) using pre-trained deep features with data augmentation.
result Data augmentation significantly improves performance in small data regimes.

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved great success in various applications. However, training an effective DNN model for a specific task is rather challenging because it requires a prior knowledge or experience to design the network architecture, repeated trial-and-error process to tune the parameters, and …

2018-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores the connection between adversarial and knowledge transferability.

problem Understanding the factors affecting knowledge transferability.
method Theoretical analysis and practical metrics for adversarial transferability.
result Adversarial transferability and knowledge transferability are closely related.

Two things seem to be indisputable in the contemporary deep learning discourse: 1. The categorical cross-entropy loss after softmax activation is the method of choice for classification. 2. Training a CNN classifier from scratch on small datasets does not work well. In contrast to this, we show that the cosine loss fun…

2019-01-25abs ↗pdf ↗

LEMON uses pre-trained models to scale neural networks efficiently.

problem Efficiency in scaling deep neural networks, especially Transformers, which are resource-intensive to train from scratch.
method LEMON initializes scaled models using pre-trained weights and optimizes learning rates.
result Significant reduction in training time and computational costs for Vision Transformers and BERT.

Weight Squeezing transfers knowledge from large models to smaller ones, improving performance and speed.

problem Transfer learning and model compression for faster and more efficient training.
method Reparameterization of weights from a large model to a smaller one.
result Weight Squeezing outperforms other methods on GLUE benchmark with faster training.

The paper studies estimation rates for MoE models with a new prompt.

problem Estimating parameters in a softmax-contaminated MoE model.
method Analytic notion of distinguishability, minimax optimal estimation rates.
result Estimation rates are minimax optimal under distinguishability, but slower otherwise.

Proposes efficient deep causal generative models for high-dimensional causal inference.

problem Inefficient training of deep generative models for high-dimensional data.
method Modular training of deep causal generative models using adversarial training and pre-trained models.
result First algorithm that provably samples from any identifiable causal query in the presence of latent confounders.

In recent years, deep learning models have shown great potential in source code modeling and analysis. Generally, deep learning-based approaches are problem-specific and data-hungry. A challenging issue of these approaches is that they require training from starch for a different related problem. In this work, we propo…

2019-10-12abs ↗pdf ↗

This study investigates how much knowledge from natural images can be transferred to pathology images.

problem Quantifying how much knowledge from natural images can be transferred to pathology images.
method Proposes a framework to quantify knowledge gain by a particular layer, conducts empirical investigation in pathology image centered transfer learning.
result Early layers of deep models can transfer knowledge to pathology image classification tasks.

Transfer learning have been frequently used to improve deep neural network training through incorporating weights of pre-trained networks as the starting-point of optimization for regularization. While deep transfer learning can usually boost the performance with better accuracy and faster convergence, transferring wei…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian Power Steering fine-tunes large diffusion models for domain adaptation.

problem Fine-tuning pre-trained diffusion models for tasks in a smaller probability space.
method Bayesian framework with a novel network structure (Bayesian Power Steering).
result Bayesian Power Steering achieves an FID score of 10.49 on the COCO17 dataset.