SETrLUSI combines diverse knowledge from multiple domains for faster convergence.
problem Handling diverse knowledge from multiple domains in transfer learning.
method Stochastic Ensemble Multi-Source Transfer Learning Using Statistical Invariant (SETrLUSI).
result SETrLUSI accelerates convergence and outperforms related methods.
Paper proposes SOTL framework for improving transfer learning accuracy and efficiency.
problem Statistical bias and computational efficiency in multi-source domain adaptation.
method Sparse Optimization for Transfer Learning (SOTL) with L0-regularization.
result SOTL significantly improves estimation accuracy and computational speed, especially under adversarial conditions.
Paper tackles entity matching over multi-source data, optimizing alignment and mitigating negative transfer.
problem Learning effective entity matching models over multi-source large-scale data with relaxed assumptions.
method Proposes a Relaxed Multi-source Large-scale Entity-matching (RMLE) problem and Incentive Compatible Pareto Alignment (ICPA) method.
result Optimized cross-source alignments and mitigated negative transfer, improving entity matching accuracy.
Paper proposes a method to combine multiple facial analysis models for better performance.
problem Facial analysis models from different sources have low transferability.
method Two-step process: 1) Auto-encoder for common embedding, 2) Distillation for lightweight model.
result Lightweight model outperforms state-of-the-art on 15 facial analysis tasks.
Paper improves volatility forecasting for new issues and spin-offs.
problem Forecasting volatility with limited historical data.
method Multi-source transfer learning approach.
result Transfer learning approach outperforms alternative models.
Framework reuses pre-trained models for data-free transfer learning.
problem Challenges in retrieving source data for model training.
method Model Recycling Framework for parameter-efficient training.
result Makes multi-source data-free supervised transfer learning possible.
Brain imaging data are important in brain sciences yet expensive to obtain, with big volume (i.e., large p) but small sample size (i.e., small n). To tackle this problem, transfer learning is a promising direction that leverages source data to improve performance on related, target data. Most transfer learning methods …
Survey explores methods to adapt deep learning models across multiple labeled domains.
problem Difficulty in obtaining labeled data for deep learning models.
method Multi-source domain adaptation (MDA) to transfer knowledge from labeled to unlabeled or sparsely labeled target domains.
result MDA methods improve performance by minimizing domain shift.
Transfer learning framework for fragility modeling under domain shift and class imbalance
problem Data gaps in structural fragility modeling
method Transfer learning
result Improves failure detection and predictive stability in low-data regimes
A decentralized approach for multi-source domain adaptation.
problem Transfer knowledge from multiple related domains to an unlabeled target domain.
method Federated Dataset Dictionary Learning (FedDaDiL) framework, eliminating central server, using Wasserstein barycenters.
result Our decentralized approach effectively adapts source domains to an unlabeled target domain.
MULTIPOLAR aggregates diverse source policies for efficient transfer RL.
problem Efficiently transfer knowledge between different environmental dynamics.
method Adaptive action aggregation and residual prediction network.
result Demonstrated effectiveness across diverse simulated environments.
Paper tackles online multi-source domain adaptation using Gaussian mixtures and dictionary learning.
problem Adapting multiple, heterogeneous source domains to a target domain in a streaming fashion.
method Introduces a novel approach for online fitting of Gaussian Mixture Models based on Wasserstein geometry, combined with dataset dictionary learning.
result Demonstrates ability to adapt 'on the fly' to target domain data streams.
Transfer learning has been proven effective when within-target labeled data is scarce. A lot of works have developed successful algorithms and empirically observed positive transfer effect that improves target generalization error using source knowledge. However, theoretical analysis of transfer learning is more challe…
In data stream mining, predictive models typically suffer drops in predictive performance due to concept drift. As enough data representing the new concept must be collected for the new concept to be well learnt, the predictive performance of existing models usually takes some time to recover from concept drift. To spe…
Multi-source transfer learning has been proven effective when within-target labeled data is scarce. Previous work focuses primarily on exploiting domain similarities and assumes that source domains are richly or at least comparably labeled. While this strong assumption is never true in practice, this paper relaxes it a…
Adaptive source selection for positive transfer in linear models improves target dataset performance.
problem Limited task-specific labeled data in business settings.
method Greedily decides from which sources and how many samples to incorporate into the target dataset using an accept/reject rule based on a data-dependent estimate of the transfer gain.
result Consistent gains over classical and recent strong baselines while avoiding negative transfer.
The paper tackles MSDA by learning dictionary atoms in Wasserstein space.
problem Mitigating data distribution shifts across multiple source domains to target domain.
method Dictionary learning and optimal transport in Wasserstein space; DaDiL algorithm for learning.
result Improved classification performance by 3.15%, 2.29%, and 7.71% in benchmarks.
Paper tackles MSDA with GMMs and OT, improving over prior art.
problem Adapting multiple heterogeneous source measures to a target measure.
method Optimal Transport between Gaussian Mixture Models, with novel barycenter calculation.
result Improves image classification and fault diagnosis benchmarks.
Proposes a transfer learning framework for sparse SIMs without raw source data.
problem Lack of direct access to raw source data and known link functions in transfer learning.
method Source-data-free framework based on SIM, using summary statistics and a multilayer perceptron.
result Consistent improvements over existing approaches in synthetic and real-world data.
Adaptive transfer learning model for varying mechanisms across domains.
problem Improving inference in a target domain by leveraging related source domains with varying mechanisms.
method Semi-parametric domain-varying coefficient model (DVCM) for structured transfer learning.
result Minimax rate-optimal adaptive transfer learning estimator with provable negative transfer safeguards.
Method selects task-specific neurons for unsupervised transfer learning.
problem Challenges in fine-tuning large language models for specific tasks.
method Selects important neurons for a specific classification task and extends to multi-source transfer learning.
result Higher similarity between task-specific fingerprints leads to better transferability.
A new framework optimizes model transfer across domains with labeled data.
problem Distributional heterogeneity across domains in multi-source learning.
method Conditional Group Distributionally Robust Optimization (CG-DRO) framework with Mirror Prox algorithm and double machine learning.
result Established fast statistical convergence rates and uniformly valid inference for CG-DRO.
Paper tackles multi-source domain adaptation for regression.
problem Predicting HDL cholesterol levels using gut microbiome data.
method Two-step procedure: 1) Extend a flexible single-source DA algorithm for classification to regression. 2) Augment with ensemble learning for multi-source DA.
result Consistent improvement in HDL cholesterol level prediction performance over existing methods.
SIG model identifies invariant variables for MSDA with fewer domain constraints.
problem Challenges in enforcing minimal changes across domains for MSDA.
method Subspace identification theory and variational inference.
result SIG model outperforms existing techniques on various benchmark datasets.
LOL-GP model improves surrogate modeling of expensive simulators.
problem Costly computer simulations for complex systems.
method Local transfer learning Gaussian process.
result Improved surrogate performance over existing methods.
Bayesian quadrature (BQ) is a sample-efficient probabilistic numerical method to solve integrals of expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions, yet so far,active BQ learning schemes focus merely on the integrand itself as information source, and do not allow for information transfer from cheaper, related functions. Here…
EnMDAP aligns conditional distributions for multi-source domain adaptation using pseudolabels.
problem Training a target model with no labeled data in the absence of target data labels.
method EnMDAP uses label-wise moment matching and ensemble learning with multiple feature extractors.
result EnMDAP achieves state-of-the-art performance in multi-source domain adaptation tasks.
Paper proposes a unified time series forecasting model with adaptive transfer.
problem General forecasting models for diverse time series data.
method Unified representations through Decomposed Frequency Learning and adaptive domain-specific features via Time Series Register.
result State-of-the-art forecasting performance on seven real-world benchmarks.
Proposes LVGP for multi-source data fusion in science and engineering.
problem Differences in quality and comprehensiveness of data sources.
method Latent Variable Gaussian Process (LVGP) framework.
result Improved predictions for sparse-data problems.
Proposes a framework to fuse heterogeneous data sources for better modeling.
problem Heterogeneous data sources with different input parameter spaces.
method Input mapping calibration (IMC) and latent variable Gaussian process (LVGP).
result Improved predictive accuracy over single source models.
Study shows multi-source learning is more resilient to adversarial corruption than single-source learning.
problem Learning from multiple untrusted data sources, especially when some are adversarially corrupted.
method Analyzed the scenario where an adversary can corrupt a fixed fraction of data sources, derived a generalization bound for this setting.
result PAC-learnability is possible in the multi-source setting even when some data sources are adversarially corrupted.
Paper proposes MCC to reduce class confusion for versatile DA.
problem Class confusion in DA methods limits their performance across different scenarios.
method Introduces Minimum Class Confusion (MCC) loss function to handle various DA scenarios.
result MCC significantly improves performance on diverse DA scenarios, including Multi-Source and Multi-Target DA.
Graph network predicts circRNA-disease associations using multi-source similarity features.
problem Identifying circRNA-disease associations is challenging and time-consuming.
method Proposes a graph convolution network framework using multi-source similarity information.
result Framework predicts circRNA-disease associations with promising results and outperforms existing methods.
Study evaluates cross-validation methods for clinical ECG classification, finding leave-source-out more reliable.
problem Overoptimistic cross-validation estimates for new patient sources.
method Empirical evaluation of K-fold and leave-source-out cross-validation methods.
result Leave-source-out cross-validation provides more reliable performance estimates.
Proposes a new approach for domain adaptation using latent representations.
problem Handling distribution shifts between source and target domains in high-dimensional data.
method Learn compact latent representations based on the label's Markov blanket, partitioning into parents, children, and spouses.
result General domain adaptation can be achieved by learning representations of the label's parents, children, and spouses.
Learning from multiple sources of information is an important problem in machine-learning research. The key challenges are learning representations and formulating inference methods that take into account the complementarity and redundancy of various information sources. In this paper we formulate a variational autoenc…
Direct learning framework for integrating multi-source causal data.
problem Conditional average treatment effects inference from heterogeneous data.
method Direct learning framework, double robustness, causal information-aware weighting function.
result Effective causal data fusion in both homogeneous and heterogeneous scenarios.
Early diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases is crucial for their treatment, but even experienced physicians find it difficult, as their clinical manifestations are similar. In order to assist with the diagnosis, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have been developed. These commonly rely on a fixed scale classifie…
Novel bounds for deep MDA algorithms improve performance and efficiency.
problem Improving performance of MDA algorithms with few target labels and pseudo labels.
method Information-theoretic tools and novel deep MDA algorithm.
result Algorithm-dependent generalization bounds for MDA.
The paper tackles distribution-free prediction intervals for multi-source data.
problem Challenges in achieving valid inferences due to distribution shifts and privacy concerns.
method Derives efficient influence functions, incorporates machine learning, and proposes data-adaptive strategies.
result Achieves parametric rates of convergence to nominal coverage probabilities for prediction intervals.
Enhances optimization in multi-source settings with causal principles.
problem Optimizing functions with multiple sources of data and causal dependencies.
method Integrates Multi-Source Bayesian Optimization with Causal Bayesian Optimization principles.
result Improves optimization efficiency and reduces computational complexity.
Paper tackles adapting multiple domains to a target domain using distillation and dictionary learning.
problem Adapting multiple heterogeneous labeled source domains to an unlabeled target domain.
method Combines Multi-Source Domain Adaptation and Dataset Distillation with Dataset Dictionary Learning.
result Achieves state-of-the-art adaptation performance even with minimal labeled data.
This work tackles robust multi-source domain adaptation under label shift.
problem Label shift and data contamination in multi-source domain adaptation.
method Domain-weighted empirical risk minimization framework with refinement procedure.
result The proposed method achieves superior performance in multi-category classification problems.
New framework tackles multi-source domain adaptation with optimism and consistency.
problem Adjusting mixture distribution weights and ensuring low error on target domain.
method Mildly optimistic objective function and consistency regularization.
result Beats current state of the art in multi-source domain adaptation.
In this paper, we propose to tackle the problem of reducing discrepancies between multiple domains referred to as multi-source domain adaptation and consider it under the target shift assumption: in all domains we aim to solve a classification problem with the same output classes, but with labels' proportions differing…
A new method for analyzing multi-source, multi-way data reduces dimensionality and reveals shared and individual structures.
problem Analyzing multi-source, multi-way data from different high-throughput technologies.
method Multiple Linked Tensor Factorization (MULTIFAC) extending CP decomposition with L2 penalties and EM algorithm for incomplete data.
result MULTIFAC approximates underlying signal, identifies shared and unshared structures, and imputes missing data.
The paper tackles uncertainty quantification in multi-source settings.
problem Uncertainty quantification under covariate shift is challenging in multi-source settings.
method The paper addresses this by proposing two extensions of weighted conformal prediction: merge-based aggregation and data-pooling.
result Theoretical guarantees are provided for the proposed approaches, and experiments validate their effectiveness.
This study predicts parking availability using multi-source data and a self-supervised learning enhanced transformer.
problem Accurate parking availability prediction to support urban planning and management.
method Proposes SST-iTransformer, a self-supervised learning enhanced spatio-temporal inverted transformer, integrating multi-source data.
result SST-iTransformer achieves state-of-the-art performance in parking availability prediction.