Transfer learning improves portfolio optimization by identifying transfer risk.
problem Financial portfolio optimization problem.
method Introduces transfer risk concept within transfer learning framework.
result Transfer risk is a significant indicator of transferability and enhances portfolio management efficiency.
Physics-informed neural networks simulate radiative transfer efficiently.
problem Simulating radiative transfer accurately and efficiently.
method Physics-informed neural networks trained to minimize radiative transfer equations.
result PINNs provide an easy-to-implement, robust, and accurate method for radiative transfer simulation.
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.
FiT combines transfer and meta-learning for efficient few-shot image classification.
problem Few-shot image classification in personalized and federated learning settings.
method Combines transfer learning and meta-learning with fixed pretrained backbones and fine-tuned FiLM adapter layers.
result Achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on VTAB-1k benchmark with fewer than 1% of updateable parameters.
Simple methods improve regression transferability estimation.
problem Estimating how well regression models transfer between tasks.
method Two simple, computationally efficient approaches based on negative regularized mean squared error.
result Significantly outperform existing methods in accuracy and efficiency.
Paper improves sample efficiency of transfer learning in diffusion models.
problem Diffusion models need too much data to train from scratch.
method Assumes shared low-dimensional representation across tasks for improved sample efficiency.
result Sample complexity of target tasks can be reduced with a well-learned representation.
Transferable Boltzmann Generators learn to sample unseen molecules efficiently.
problem Generating equilibrium samples of molecular systems.
method Boltzmann Generators using normalizing flows to learn transformations.
result Transferable Boltzmann Generators can predict zero-shot Boltzmann distributions for unseen molecules.
New analysis shows transfer learning can significantly reduce sample size for complex models.
problem Reducing sample size needed for complex models like large language models.
method Optimal transport viewpoint applied to analyze transfer learning efficiency.
result Transfer learning can achieve better sample efficiency for complex models.
Paper analyzes transfer risk in transfer learning for finance.
problem Evaluate transferability of transfer learning in finance.
method Proposes transfer risk concept and applies to stock return prediction and portfolio optimization.
result Transfer risk correlates with transfer learning performance and identifies appropriate source tasks.
HySRL improves RL sample efficiency with shifted-dynamics data.
problem Leveraging historical data with shifted dynamics to improve sample efficiency in RL.
method HySRL, a hybrid transfer RL algorithm that uses prior information on dynamics shift to achieve better sample complexity.
result HySRL achieves problem-dependent sample complexity and outperforms pure online RL.
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.
This paper examines allocation mechanisms in markets with transfer costs, showing how these costs affect economic efficiency.
problem Transfer costs in decentralized exchange markets reduce economic efficiency.
method An axiomatic study of allocation mechanisms in the presence of transfer costs, providing robust and conditional mean allocation mechanisms.
result Robust and conditional mean allocation mechanisms are identified, relating to risk sharing in agent pools.
This paper explores how imperfect reward models can improve online RLHF.
problem Sample efficiency in online RLHF from imperfect reward models.
method Identifies policy coverability and proposes TPO algorithm for transfer learning.
result TPO algorithm improves sample efficiency compared to standard online learning.
New framework explains fast transfer of hyperparameters across model scales.
problem Understanding and optimizing hyperparameters for large-scale models.
method Developed a conceptual framework for HP transfer across scale, showing fast transfer is equivalent to useful transfer for compute-optimal grid search.
result Fast transfer of hyperparameters is equivalent to useful transfer for compute-optimal grid search, offering asymptotic computational advantage.
Improved transfer learning with expert models, reducing compute and speeding up performance.
problem Improving sample efficiency and reducing computational requirements for new tasks.
method Training a diverse set of experts using existing label structures and performance proxies to select the relevant expert for each target task.
result Significant speed-up of 2-3 orders of magnitude compared to competing approaches.
Study improves Bayesian optimisation with ensemble transfer learning.
problem Improving sample efficiency in Bayesian optimisation of expensive functions.
method Empirical analysis of ensemble-based transfer learning methods and pipeline components.
result Two components (warm start initialisation and positive weight constraint) improve transfer learning Bayesian optimisation performance.
Transfer Learning (TL) has shown great potential to accelerate Reinforcement Learning (RL) by leveraging prior knowledge from past learned policies of relevant tasks. Existing transfer approaches either explicitly computes the similarity between tasks or select appropriate source policies to provide guided explorations…
Bayesian network structure learning algorithms with limited data are being used in domains such as systems biology and neuroscience to gain insight into the underlying processes that produce observed data. Learning reliable networks from limited data is difficult, therefore transfer learning can improve the robustness …
Transfer learning assumes classifiers of similar tasks share certain parameter structures. Unfortunately, modern classifiers uses sophisticated feature representations with huge parameter spaces which lead to costly transfer. Under the impression that changes from one classifier to another should be ``simple'', an effi…
A cost-efficient method for hyperparameter tuning using multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization.
problem Expensive hyperparameter tuning with limited knowledge transfer methods.
method Amortized Auto-Tuning (AT2) framework for multi-task, multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization.
result AT2 leads to the best hyperparameter recommendation and is more cost-efficient.
New method improves adversarial transferability from Bayesian neural networks.
problem Improving the effectiveness of black-box evasion attacks.
method Sampling from the posterior distribution of neural network weights to build a surrogate.
result Significantly improved success rates of state-of-the-art attacks (up to 83.2 percentage points).
XMixup improves transfer learning accuracy by 1.9% with less training time.
problem Efficiently transfer knowledge from large source datasets to target tasks with small samples.
method Cross-domain Mixup technique that selects auxiliary samples from source datasets and augments training samples via mixup strategy.
result Improves accuracy by 1.9% on average over six real-world transfer learning datasets.
The computational demands of computer vision tasks based on state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) image classification far exceed the energy budgets of mobile devices. This paper proposes FixyNN, which consists of a fixed-weight feature extractor that generates ubiquitous CNN features, and a conventional …
MetaNOR learns common nonlocal kernels for efficient metamaterial modeling.
problem Efficiently modeling wave propagation in new metamaterials.
method Meta-learns a common nonlocal kernel from existing tasks and transfers this knowledge to new tasks with minimal data.
result Substantial improvements in sampling efficiency for new metamaterials.
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.
New method transfers emotions in facial images.
problem Transforming facial images to different emotions.
method Infinite task learning and vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.
result Achieves low reconstruction cost and high emotion classification accuracy.
Behavior Transfer improves reinforcement learning by leveraging pre-trained policies.
problem Efficient transfer of knowledge in reinforcement learning.
method Behavior Transfer (BT) that uses pre-trained policies for exploration.
result BT combined with pre-training leads to better solutions than without pre-training.
Paper proposes a statistical test for transfer learning in linear regression.
problem Theoretical framework for parameter transfer in linear regression.
method Developed a statistical test to predict transfer quality.
result The test can predict if a fine-tuned model has lower prediction risk.
Methane is considered being a good choice as a propellant for future reusable launch systems. However, the heat transfer prediction for supercritical methane flowing in cooling channels of a regeneratively cooled combustion chamber is challenging. Because accurate heat transfer predictions are essential to design relia…
Transfer learning improves chaotic dynamics predictions with less data.
problem Efficiently predicting chaotic dynamics with limited data.
method Transfer learning for nonlinear dynamics, optimizing transfer rate and leveraging small-scale turbulence universality.
result Significantly more accurate inference of chaotic dynamics achieved.
A modular GP framework for efficient transfer learning.
problem Efficiently transfer knowledge across different tasks or datasets.
method Modular variational Gaussian processes (GPs) with a dictionary of well-fitted GPs.
result Reduces computational costs and allows the transfer of uncertainty metrics.
This work transfers causal knowledge between tasks for Individual Treatment Effect estimation.
problem Estimating Individual Treatment Effects (ITE) requires a large amount of data, making it challenging.
method The authors introduce a practical framework for efficient transfer of causal knowledge between tasks, using a Causal Inference Task Affinity (CITA) measure.
result ITE knowledge transfer can significantly reduce the amount of data needed for ITE estimation.
The study explores how brain development can inspire efficient deep learning models.
problem Efficient and robust optimization procedures for deep learning.
method Inspiration from biological neural development to improve deep learning models.
result Biological neural development can inspire efficient and robust optimization procedures.
Integrates skills and world models for efficient task solving and transfer.
problem Quickly solve new tasks in complex environments using reusable knowledge.
method Leverages partial amortization for fast adaptation and online skill planning.
result Improved sample efficiency in single tasks and transfer between tasks.
Recent advances in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have produced state-of-the-art architectures on several tasks. NAS shifts the efforts of human experts from developing novel architectures directly to designing architecture search spaces and methods to explore them efficiently. The search space definition captures pr…
New method upscales models and transfers hyperparameters efficiently.
problem Efficiently scaling and tuning large neural networks.
method Introduces a general upscaling method and extends μTransfer for hyperparameter tuning. result Effective hyperparameter transfer for upscaled models.
SOR framework improves transfer learning efficiency and adaptability.
problem Limited data and overfitting in transfer learning.
method Freezes network structures while using group lasso and L1 penalties. result Achieves competitive results on few-shot medical imaging tasks.
Adversarially robust models transfer better than standard models in image classification.
problem Improving transfer learning performance in image classification.
method Focused on adversarially robust ImageNet classifiers, compared to standard models.
result Adversarially robust models yield improved accuracy on downstream classification tasks.
This paper proposes a method to train multiple neural networks with shared parameters using a reconstruction loss.
problem Training multiple neural networks for correlated tasks separately is inefficient.
method Introduces a novel approach with a reconstruction loss to encourage shared features across multiple tasks.
result The proposed method achieves efficient transfer learning with competitive performance.
Paper tackles robust transfer learning with unreliable source data.
problem Challenges in robust transfer learning stemming from ambiguity in Bayes classifiers and weak transferable signals.
method Introduces ambiguity level, proposes Transfer Around Boundary (TAB) model, establishes general theorem.
result Demonstrates efficiency and robustness of TAB model improving classification while avoiding negative transfer.
FGSM is more stable in adversarially robust transfer learning than PGD.
problem Computational efficiency in adversarially robust transfer learning.
method Revisited use of FGSM in adversarial fine-tuning.
result FGSM is more stable and efficient in adversarial fine-tuning.
Model projection transfers convolutional network properties to feedforward networks.
problem Transferring properties between feedforward and convolutional networks.
method Unified node-level framework with tensor-valued activations, model projection.
result Projected CNN nodes inherit GFFN-style trainable structure.
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 …
MO2 learns useful behaviours from past experience for new tasks.
problem Discovering useful behaviours from past experience and transferring them to new tasks.
method Model-Based Offline Options (MO2) framework supporting sample-efficient bottleneck option discovery over continuous state-action spaces.
result MO2 outperforms recent option learning methods on complex long-horizon continuous control tasks.
Paper tackles high-dimensional quantile regression with distribution shift using transfer learning.
problem Efficiency of knowledge transfer is severely impacted by distribution shift in high-dimensional regression.
method Proposes a novel transferable set and framework for three types of distribution shift: parameter, covariate, and residual.
result Establishes estimation error bounds and source detection consistency for the proposed method.
Recently, several optimization methods have been successfully applied to the hyperparameter optimization of deep neural networks (DNNs). The methods work by modeling the joint distribution of hyperparameter values and corresponding error. Those methods become less practical when applied to modern DNNs whose training ma…
Unified view on GP transfer learning for Bayesian optimization.
problem Improving data efficiency in Bayesian optimization with scarce data.
method Unified hierarchical GP models for transfer learning, including a novel boosted GP transfer model.
result Unified analysis and comparison of transfer learning methods for GP models.
Transfer knowledge from multiple sources to improve matrix completion.
problem Matrix completion with noisy data.
method Aggregating singular subspaces information from multiple sources to solve a two-way PCA problem and transform into a low-dimensional linear regression.
result Guaranteed statistical efficiency in transforming the high-dimensional target matrix completion problem.