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UDA learns target domain from unlabeled data via source knowledge transfer.
Paper shows pre-training and transfer learning reduce sample complexity for neural networks.
New unsupervised transfer learning method for spatiotemporal tasks.
Framework transfers complementary operating conditions to train anomaly detectors.
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…
Proposes TFDF to learn transferable and discriminative features for unsupervised domain adaptation.
Study improves GMM learning performance through multi-task and transfer learning.
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…
We study how to leverage off-the-shelf visual and linguistic data to cope with out-of-vocabulary answers in visual question answering task. Existing large-scale visual datasets with annotations such as image class labels, bounding boxes and region descriptions are good sources for learning rich and diverse visual conce…
Studies show that the representations learned by deep neural networks can be transferred to similar prediction tasks in other domains for which we do not have enough labeled data. However, as we transition to higher layers in the model, the representations become more task-specific and less generalizable. Recent resear…
Unsupervised anomaly detection from high dimensional data like mobility networks is a challenging task. Study of different approaches of feature engineering from such high dimensional data have been a focus of research in this field. This study aims to investigate the transferability of features learned by network clas…
ProtoTransfer learns from unlabeled data to classify unseen tasks.
Unsupervised domain adaptation methods aim to alleviate performance degradation caused by domain-shift by learning domain-invariant representations. Existing deep domain adaptation methods focus on holistic feature alignment by matching source and target holistic feature distributions, without considering local feature…
Model improves information transfer from visual streams.
Deep learning based medical image diagnosis has shown great potential in clinical medicine. However, it often suffers two major difficulties in practice: 1) only limited labeled samples are available due to expensive annotation costs over medical images; 2) labeled images may contain considerable label noises (e.g., mi…
A new unsupervised contrastive learning framework improves time series representation learning.
This paper proposes an unsupervised learning method to solve heat equations on chips.
Data transformation, e.g. feature transformation and selection, is an integral part of any machine learning procedure. In this paper we introduce an information-theoretic model and tools to assess the quality of data transformations in machine learning tasks. In an unsupervised fashion, we analyze the transfer of infor…
This research shows unsupervised GANs can perform object segmentation without labels.
The ability of a human being to extrapolate previously gained knowledge to other domains inspired a new family of methods in machine learning called transfer learning. Transfer learning is often based on the assumption that objects in both target and source domains share some common feature and/or data space. In this p…
A new model decouples global and local image representations without supervision.
Domain adaptation leverages the knowledge in one domain - the source domain - to improve learning efficiency in another domain - the target domain. Existing heterogeneous domain adaptation research is relatively well-progressed, but only in situations where the target domain contains at least a few labeled instances. I…
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 …
We introduce 'semi-unsupervised learning', a problem regime related to transfer learning and zero-shot learning where, in the training data, some classes are sparsely labelled and others entirely unlabelled. Models able to learn from training data of this type are potentially of great use as many real-world datasets ar…
Optimal Transport enhances machine learning with new methods.
This paper presents a novel yet intuitive approach to unsupervised feature learning. Inspired by the human visual system, we explore whether low-level motion-based grouping cues can be used to learn an effective visual representation. Specifically, we use unsupervised motion-based segmentation on videos to obtain segme…
(Unsupervised) Domain Adaptation (DA) seeks for classifying target instances when solely provided with source labeled and target unlabeled examples for training. Learning domain-invariant features helps to achieve this goal, whereas it underpins unlabeled samples drawn from a single or multiple explicit target domains …
In this work, we ask the following question: Can visual analogies, learned in an unsupervised way, be used in order to transfer knowledge between pairs of games and even play one game using an agent trained for another game? We attempt to answer this research question by creating visual analogies between a pair of game…
Interventional domain adaptation improves feature transferability by removing spurious correlations.
Elastic co-clustering improves clustering of single-cell genomic data.
MetFA aligns source and target domains for cross-device image classification.
Model learns disentangled representations from natural videos.
Method maps imperfect simulations to observed stellar spectra using unsupervised domain adaptation.
Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on multiple learning tasks, from vision to natural language modelling. With the growing adoption of ML and DL to many areas of computer science, recent research has also started focusing on the security properties of these mo…
Human activity recognition plays an important role in people's daily life. However, it is often expensive and time-consuming to acquire sufficient labeled activity data. To solve this problem, transfer learning leverages the labeled samples from the source domain to annotate the target domain which has few or none labe…
Behavior Transfer improves reinforcement learning by leveraging pre-trained policies.
Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to transfer the classifier learned from the source domain to the target domain in an unsupervised manner. With the help of target pseudo-labels, aligning class-level distributions and learning the classifier in the target domain are two widely used objectives. Existing methods often …
Time series constitute a challenging data type for machine learning algorithms, due to their highly variable lengths and sparse labeling in practice. In this paper, we tackle this challenge by proposing an unsupervised method to learn universal embeddings of time series. Unlike previous works, it is scalable with respe…
In real-world applications, it is often expensive and time-consuming to obtain labeled examples. In such cases, knowledge transfer from related domains, where labels are abundant, could greatly reduce the need for extensive labeling efforts. In this scenario, transfer learning comes in hand. In this paper, we propose D…
A new framework for robust transfer learning that avoids negative transfer in domains with unequal information.
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to learn the unlabeled target domain by transferring the knowledge of the labeled source domain. To date, most of the existing works focus on the scenario of one source domain and one target domain (1S1T), and just a few works concern the scenario of multiple source domains and…
Transferring knowledge across many streaming processes remains an uncharted territory in the existing literature and features unique characteristics: no labelled instance of the target domain, covariate shift of source and target domain, different period of drifts in the source and target domains. Autonomous transfer l…
Proposes a transfer learning method for PCA studies.
Integrates multiple datasets to solve open set crowdsourcing problems.
In this paper, we introduce an unsupervised learning approach to automatically discover, summarize, and manipulate artistic styles from large collections of paintings. Our method is based on archetypal analysis, which is an unsupervised learning technique akin to sparse coding with a geometric interpretation. When appl…
This research tackles unsupervised topic extraction in noisy social media data.
This research evaluates the quality of unsupervised embeddings using linear separability metrics.
Unsupervised pre-training improves model generalization, but lacks theoretical understanding.