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48 results for supervised transfer learning

DM improves self-supervised transfer learning by matching target distributions.

problem Improving self-supervised transfer learning performance.
method Distribution Matching (DM) method that drives representation distribution towards a predefined reference distribution.
result DM outperforms existing methods on target classification tasks.

Simplifies transfer learning with deep neural networks using ridge regression.

problem High computational cost of finetuning deep models for transfer learning.
method Leverage the low-rank property of deep neural networks' feature vectors in kernel ridge regression.
result Successful on supervised and semi-supervised transfer learning tasks.

TX-Ray analyzes and quantifies model knowledge transfer in NLP.

problem Insufficient methods for explaining and quantifying model knowledge transfer in NLP.
method Modified computer vision explainability principle to NLP, visualizing feature preference distributions.
result TX-Ray reveals how self-supervised models learn linguistic abstractions and improves generalization.

Framework for lifelong learning using eigentasks to avoid forgetting and transfer knowledge.

problem Avoiding forgetting and transferring knowledge in lifelong learning.
method Eigentask framework: skills paired with generative models, wake-sleep cycle for learning and consolidation.
result Improved performance in supervised continual learning, evidence of forward knowledge transfer.

Transfer learning improves sparse, interpretable probabilistic classification.

problem Sparse and interpretable models in transfer learning.
method Two transfer learning extensions integrated into sparse and interpretable probabilistic classification vector machine.
result Transfer learning extensions improve sparsity and performance.

We present a technique to improve the transferability of deep representations learned on small labeled datasets by introducing self-supervised tasks as auxiliary loss functions. While recent approaches for self-supervised learning have shown the benefits of training on large unlabeled datasets, we find improvements in …

2019-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Transfer learning is a very important tool in deep learning as it allows propagating information from one "source dataset" to another "target dataset", especially in the case of a small number of training examples in the latter. Yet, discrepancies between the underlying distributions of the source and target data are c…

2019-04-02abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves transfer and robustness of supervised contrastive learning.

problem Class collapse in supervised contrastive learning leads to poor representation quality.
method Adding a weighted class-conditional InfoNCE loss and a class-conditional autoencoder.
result Improves transfer and robustness on 5 standard datasets and 3 worst-group robustness datasets.

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.

Learning from prior tasks and transferring that experience to improve future performance is critical for building lifelong learning agents. Although results in supervised and reinforcement learning show that transfer may significantly improve the learning performance, most of the literature on transfer is focused on ba…

2013-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper evaluates a method to improve representations using incomplete external evidence across tasks.

problem Increasing labelled data quality and quantity is challenging due to manual labelling errors and noise.
method Evidence Transfer method using incomplete categorical external evidence.
result Evidence Transfer proves effective and robust against different levels of incompleteness.

End-to-end analysis of SGD for STL with adaptive sub-sampling.

problem Designing SGD for STL with statistical guarantees without prior knowledge of source quality.
method Mixed-sample SGD procedure that alternates between source and target data, maintaining transfer guarantees.
result Mixed-sample SGD converges to a target-adaptive solution with 1/T1/\sqrt{T} rate.

This study compares transfer learning and self-supervised learning for better model performance.

problem Choosing between transfer learning and self-supervised learning for optimal model performance.
method Comprehensive comparative study of transfer learning and self-supervised learning under various data and task properties.
result Self-supervised learning outperforms transfer learning in certain applications, and vice versa.

TAP transfers knowledge from unlabeled data to improve cross-modal learning.

problem Improving supervised learning performance using unlabeled data from a different modality.
method Probabilistic approach for missing information estimation, kernel regression, cross-attention module, TAP neural network.
result TAP significantly improves generalization across different domains and neural network architectures.

We propose a novel approach for estimating the difficulty and transferability of supervised classification tasks. Unlike previous work, our approach is solution agnostic and does not require or assume trained models. Instead, we estimate these values using an information theoretic approach: treating training labels as …

2019-08-21abs ↗pdf ↗

New model improves transfer learning and semi-supervised learning.

problem Improving transfer learning and semi-supervised learning performance.
method Developed a new conditional energy-based model (ICE-BeeM) based on nonlinear ICA.
result Identifiable representations learned by ICE-BeeM improve performance in transfer learning and semi-supervised learning tasks.

A new model improves semi-supervised learning for unstructured data.

problem Manual labeling of unstructured data is expensive, time-consuming, and prone to errors.
method Batch Semi-Supervised Self-Organizing Map (Batch SS-SOM) integrating deep learning techniques.
result Batch SS-SOM performs well in semi-supervised classification and clustering, even with few labeled samples.

Study finds CLIP's caption-based learning outperforms image-only methods under certain conditions.

problem Comparing CLIP's performance with traditional image-only methods in learning transferable representations.
method Controlled comparison of CLIP and image-only methods using a dataset with descriptive captions and specific criteria.
result CLIP's caption-based learning outperforms image-only methods when certain conditions are met, but can be detrimental in others.

Paper proposes a method to train robust neural networks without labeled data.

problem Training robust neural networks without class labels.
method Adversarial contrastive learning framework using unlabeled data.
result Robust Contrastive Learning (RoCL) achieves comparable robust accuracy to supervised methods and significantly improved robustness.

SupSiam and SupBYOL improve supervised representation learning with ANCL.

problem Improving supervised representation learning with ANCL.
method Proposed supervised ANCL framework leveraging labels to avoid collapse.
result Supervised ANCL improves representation learning across various datasets and tasks.

Advances in neural network based classifiers have transformed automatic feature learning from a pipe dream of stronger AI to a routine and expected property of practical systems. Since the emergence of AlexNet every winning submission of the ImageNet challenge has employed end-to-end representation learning, and due to…

2017-03-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper shows pre-training and transfer learning reduce sample complexity for neural networks.

problem Training high-dimensional supervised learning with limited labeled data.
method Study of single-layer neural networks via online stochastic gradient descent, considering concept shift.
result Pre-training and transfer learning reduce sample complexity by polynomial factors under general assumptions.

DDSTN improves breast cancer diagnosis by leveraging imbalanced ultrasound modalities.

problem Imbalanced ultrasound modalities in diagnosing breast cancer.
method Integrates LUPI and MMD into a deep transfer learning framework.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in BUS-based CAD.

In recent years, supervised machine learning models have demonstrated tremendous success in a variety of application domains. Despite the promising results, these successful models are data hungry and their performance relies heavily on the size of training data. However, in many healthcare applications it is difficult…

2018-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Protein modeling is an increasingly popular area of machine learning research. Semi-supervised learning has emerged as an important paradigm in protein modeling due to the high cost of acquiring supervised protein labels, but the current literature is fragmented when it comes to datasets and standardized evaluation tec…

2019-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces a new method for improving reinforcement learning performance using transfer learning.

problem Improving reinforcement learning performance with limited sample sizes in dynamic decision-making scenarios.
method Developed a novel ``re-weighted targeting procedure'' and ``transfer deep QQ^*-learning'' approach.
result Demonstrated improved reinforcement learning performance through strategic sample construction.

We consider the problem of function estimation in the case where an underlying causal model can be inferred. This has implications for popular scenarios such as covariate shift, concept drift, transfer learning and semi-supervised learning. We argue that causal knowledge may facilitate some approaches for a given probl…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

CLS measures dataset similarity through decision rule performance.

problem Measuring dataset similarity in machine learning, especially for transfer learning and domain adaptation.
method Cross-Learning Score (CLS) measures similarity through bidirectional generalization performance of decision rules, linking to cosine similarity under canonical linear models.
result CLS effectively measures dataset similarity and transferability, validated on synthetic and real-world datasets.