Modern deep transfer learning approaches have mainly focused on learning generic feature vectors from one task that are transferable to other tasks, such as word embeddings in language and pretrained convolutional features in vision. However, these approaches usually transfer unary features and largely ignore more stru…
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Recent works reveal that network embedding techniques enable many machine learning models to handle diverse downstream tasks on graph structured data. However, as previous methods usually focus on learning embeddings for a single network, they can not learn representations transferable on multiple networks. Hence, it i…
Transfer learning aims at building robust prediction models by transferring knowledge gained from one problem to another. In the semantic Web, learning tasks are enhanced with semantic representations. We exploit their semantics to augment transfer learning by dealing with when to transfer with semantic measurements an…
Zero-shot learning transfers knowledge from seen classes to novel unseen classes to reduce human labor of labelling data for building new classifiers. Much effort on zero-shot learning however has focused on the standard multi-class setting, the more challenging multi-label zero-shot problem has received limited attent…
Neural planners for RDDL MDPs produce deep reactive policies in an offline fashion. These scale well with large domains, but are sample inefficient and time-consuming to train from scratch for each new problem. To mitigate this, recent work has studied neural transfer learning, so that a generic planner trained on othe…
Randomized Geometric Algebra for Convex Neural Networks Optimizes Transfer Learning.
problem Training neural networks to global optimality via convex optimization.
method Randomized algorithms in Clifford's Geometric Algebra for hypercomplex vector spaces.
result Convex optimization and geometric algebra improve LLMs' robustness and reliability in transfer learning.
This paper quantifies hyperparameter transfer and finds embedding layer learning rate is key.
problem Quantifying optimal hyperparameters for large language models across scales.
method Developed three metrics to quantify hyperparameter transfer and investigated the importance of embedding layer learning rate.
result Maximal Update (μP) parameterization offers high-quality learning rate transfer compared to standard parameterization (SP).
The focus in machine learning has branched beyond training classifiers on a single task to investigating how previously acquired knowledge in a source domain can be leveraged to facilitate learning in a related target domain, known as inductive transfer learning. Three active lines of research have independently explor…
Low-Rank Plus Sparse Matrix Transfer Learning under Growing Representations and Ambient Dimensionscs.LG
The paper tackles transfer learning for growing matrix representations, improving estimation accuracy.
problem Structured matrix estimation under growing ambient dimensions and latent representations.
method Proposes a general transfer framework decomposing target parameters into embedded source components, low-rank innovations, and sparse edits. Develops an anchored alternating projection estimator.
result Establishes deterministic error bounds that separate target noise, representation growth, and source estimation error, yielding improved rates.
New method transfers word embeddings from large to small datasets efficiently.
problem Challenges in learning word embeddings from new domains with limited data.
method Group-sparse matrix factorization for transfer learning.
result Efficiently learns domain-specific word embeddings with less data.
ProtoTransfer learns from unlabeled data to classify unseen tasks.
problem Few-shot classification with limited labeled data.
method Self-supervised prototypical transfer learning.
result ProtoTransfer outperforms unsupervised meta-learning methods.
Contrastive embeddings improve neural architecture search performance.
problem Improving performance of neural architecture search algorithms.
method Contrastive learning to identify networks based on data Jacobians and produce embeddings.
result Traditional black-box optimization algorithms can reach state-of-the-art performance with contrastive embeddings.
Learning powerful data embeddings has become a center piece in machine learning, especially in natural language processing and computer vision domains. The crux of these embeddings is that they are pretrained on huge corpus of data in a unsupervised fashion, sometimes aided with transfer learning. However currently in …
Enhances generative model accuracy through knowledge transfer.
problem Improving generative model precision across different tasks.
method Introduces a novel framework for transfer learning using shared structures.
result Demonstrates enhanced performance in diffusion and normalizing flows models.
This paper defines and quantifies transferability in domain generalization.
problem Understanding and quantifying transferability between domains.
method Formal definition and estimation of transferability, upper bound for target error.
result Many algorithms do not learn transferable features, proposing a new algorithm.
There is an emerging trend of embedding knowledge graphs (KGs) in continuous vector spaces in order to use those for machine learning tasks. Recently, many knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models have been proposed that learn low dimensional representations while trying to maintain the structural properties of the KGs s…
Many machine intelligence techniques are developed in E-commerce and one of the most essential components is the representation of IDs, including user ID, item ID, product ID, store ID, brand ID, category ID etc. The classical encoding based methods (like one-hot encoding) are inefficient in that it suffers sparsity pr…
Proposes using entity embedding vectors to improve Gaussian Process models for knowledge transfer across cell lines.
problem Lack of reuse of experimental data for predicting novel processes.
method Hybrid Gaussian Process models with entity embedding vectors to represent product identity.
result Improved performance in predicting novel processes compared to traditional methods.
We present a new method for black-box adversarial attack. Unlike previous methods that combined transfer-based and scored-based methods by using the gradient or initialization of a surrogate white-box model, this new method tries to learn a low-dimensional embedding using a pretrained model, and then performs efficient…
Paper proposes a new speech representation benchmark and model.
problem Lack of benchmarks for comparing speech representations.
method Unsupervised triplet-loss objective for training a universal non-semantic speech representation.
result Proposed representation outperforms other models on benchmark and transfer learning tasks.
Proposes a graph embedding framework for domain adaptation.
problem Improving performance on small datasets using related large datasets.
method Formulates domain adaptation as a graph embedding problem, learning a feature transformation end-to-end.
result Simple instantiation leads to state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks.
The ability to transfer in reinforcement learning is key towards building an agent of general artificial intelligence. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning to simultaneously transfer across both environments (ENV) and tasks (TASK), probably more importantly, by learning from only sparse (ENV, TASK) pairs …
In this paper, we study the problem of transfer learning with the attribute data. In the transfer learning problem, we want to leverage the data of the auxiliary and the target domains to build an effective model for the classification problem in the target domain. Meanwhile, the attributes are naturally stable cross d…
Transfer operators such as the Perron--Frobenius or Koopman operator play an important role in the global analysis of complex dynamical systems. The eigenfunctions of these operators can be used to detect metastable sets, to project the dynamics onto the dominant slow processes, or to separate superimposed signals. We …
EPSTE: A geometric token and deep learning approach to estimating transfer entropy in neuroimaging time series
problem Inferring directed interactions between neural systems from EEG and MEG
method Reframing TE estimation as a learnable problem operating on structured symbolic representations
result EPSTE achieves near-perfect recovery of ground-truth directed structure and significantly lower absolute error than the baseline
Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) tackles the problem of learning to classify instances involving both seen classes and unseen ones. The key issue is how to effectively transfer the model learned from seen classes to unseen classes. Existing works in GZSL usually assume that some prior information about unseen clas…
An important goal of computer vision is to build systems that learn visual representations over time that can be applied to many tasks. In this paper, we investigate a vision-language embedding as a core representation and show that it leads to better cross-task transfer than standard multi-task learning. In particular…
PHASE predicts surgical complications from physiological signals.
problem Predicting adverse surgical outcomes from physiological signals.
method Self-supervised transfer learning for physiological signals.
result PHASE outperforms other approaches in predicting five surgical complications.
Towards the challenging problem of semi-supervised node classification, there have been extensive studies. As a frontier, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have aroused great interest recently, which update the representation of each node by aggregating information of its neighbors. However, most GNNs have shallow layers wi…
FinEAS models financial sentiment using BERT embeddings.
problem Financial sentiment analysis in markets.
method Supervised fine-tuning of BERT embeddings for financial texts.
result FinEAS outperforms vanilla BERT, LSTM, and FinBERT.
Enhancing spectral embedding for low-dimensional embeddings in rare disease cohorts
problem Representing clinical concepts and patients in electronic health records
method Spectral-based unsupervised learning with flexible knowledge transfer
result Outperforms competing approaches in challenging scenarios
Research improves federated text models for next word prediction.
problem Training models on distributed devices efficiently and effectively.
method Employ transfer learning in federated learning for next word prediction.
result Enhancements to current baselines with pretrained embeddings and whole model pretraining.
New model predicts radiative properties of nanoparticle layers with high accuracy and uncertainty.
problem Predicting radiative properties of nanoparticle embedded layers accurately and with uncertainty.
method Conditional normalizing flows learn conditional distributions of optical outputs given input parameters.
result The model achieves high predictive accuracy and reliable uncertainty estimates.
MuLan links music audio to natural language tags.
problem Traditional music tagging systems use rigid attributes; MuLan aims to link audio directly to natural language.
method Joint audio-text embedding model trained on 44 million music recordings and text annotations.
result MuLan's embeddings enable zero-shot functionalities and transfer learning.
New framework for RL transfer learning with state-action mismatch.
problem High sample complexity in RL from scratch.
method Embeddings to transfer knowledge between MDPs with different state- and action-spaces.
result Successful transfer learning in scenarios with state- and action-space mismatches.
Due to physiological variation, patients diagnosed with the same condition may exhibit divergent, but related, responses to the same treatments. Hidden Parameter Markov Decision Processes (HiP-MDPs) tackle this transfer-learning problem by embedding these tasks into a low-dimensional space. However, the original formul…
URL benchmark evaluates uncertainty quantification in pretrained models.
problem Need for reliable uncertainty estimates in transferable pretrained models.
method Proposes URL benchmark to measure transferability of representations and uncertainty estimates.
result Transferable uncertainty quantification remains challenging but not contradictory to traditional goals.
Distributed representations of words, better known as word embeddings, have become important building blocks for natural language processing tasks. Numerous studies are devoted to transferring the success of unsupervised word embeddings to sentence embeddings. In this paper, we introduce a simple representation of sent…
Paper proposes GrokTransfer to eliminate delayed generalization in neural networks.
problem Delayed generalization in neural networks, compromising predictability and efficiency.
method Trains a smaller, weaker model to reach a nontrivial test performance, then uses its learned input embedding to initialize the stronger model.
result GrokTransfer enables the target model to generalize directly without delay, across various tasks.
AutoKE automates embedding physical knowledge into neural networks for complex engineering problems.
problem Complex physical equations in engineering problems.
method AutoKE framework using deep neural networks, equation parsing, automatic differentiation, adaptive weights, and NAS.
result Automatically embeds physical knowledge into neural networks for complex equations efficiently.
Kernel transfer operators, which can be regarded as approximations of transfer operators such as the Perron-Frobenius or Koopman operator in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, are defined in terms of covariance and cross-covariance operators and have been shown to be closely related to the conditional mean embedding fr…
User interaction with voice-powered agents generates large amounts of unlabeled utterances. In this paper, we explore techniques to efficiently transfer the knowledge from these unlabeled utterances to improve model performance on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) tasks. We use Embeddings from Language Model (ELMo) t…
We propose a framework that learns a representation transferable across different domains and tasks in a label efficient manner. Our approach battles domain shift with a domain adversarial loss, and generalizes the embedding to novel task using a metric learning-based approach. Our model is simultaneously optimized on …
Zero-shot contrastive loss improves text-guided image style transfer without extra training.
problem Stochastic nature of diffusion models leads to trade-offs between style transformation and content preservation.
method Proposes a zero-shot contrastive loss for diffusion models that doesn't require additional fine-tuning or auxiliary networks.
result Method outperforms existing methods while preserving content and requiring no additional training.
This research tackles unsupervised topic extraction in noisy social media data.
problem Capturing customer insights from social media data is challenging due to noise and heterogeneity.
method The research presents three nonparametric approaches based on the Variational Autoencoder framework: Embedded Dirichlet Process, Embedded Hierarchical Dirichlet Process, and time-aware Dynamic Embedded Dirichlet Process.
result The models achieve equal to better performance than state-of-the-art methods in topic extraction from noisy social media data.
We propose a novel framework for multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL). Using a variational inference formulation, we learn policies that generalize across both changing dynamics and goals. The resulting policies are parametrized by shared parameters that allow for transfer between different dynamics and goal condit…
Pre-trained language model boosts RL efficiency.
problem Low sample efficiency in RL, especially in lifelong learning.
method Use a pre-trained task-independent language model for transfer learning.
result Goal-conditional RL agents become more sample efficient.
Recent advancements in language representation models such as BERT have led to a rapid improvement in numerous natural language processing tasks. However, language models usually consist of a few hundred million trainable parameters with embedding space distributed across multiple layers, thus making them challenging t…