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Transfer Learning with KERAS

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Transfer Learning as the name suggests, is a technique to use previously gained knowledge gained to train new similar models. This technique can also be regarded as a shortcut to solve both machine learning and deep learning problems and it's proved to be the future of machine learning. Machine learning expert Andrew Ng on transfer learning said: "Transfer Learning leads to Industrialisation". Transfer learning in Machine learning is completely inspired by humans' way of learning new things. We human beings, always use our prior knowledge to perform new tasks.


How we built an easy-to-use image segmentation tool with transfer learning

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Training an image segmentation model on new images can be daunting, especially when you need to label your own data. To make this task easier and faster, we built a user-friendly tool that lets you build this entire process in a single Jupyter notebook. The main benefits of this tool are that it is easy-to-use, all in one platform, and well-integrated with existing data science workflows. Through interactive widgets and command prompts, we built a user-friendly way to label images and train the model. On top of that, everything can run in a single Jupyter notebook, making it quick and easy to spin up a model, without much overhead.


Dynamic Knowledge Distillation for Black-box Hypothesis Transfer Learning

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In real world applications like healthcare, it is usually difficult to build a machine learning prediction model that works universally well across different institutions. At the same time, the available model is often proprietary, i.e., neither the model parameter nor the data set used for model training is accessible. In consequence, leveraging the knowledge hidden in the available model (aka. the hypothesis) and adapting it to a local data set becomes extremely challenging. Motivated by this situation, in this paper we aim to address such a specific case within the hypothesis transfer learning framework, in which 1) the source hypothesis is a black-box model and 2) the source domain data is unavailable. In particular, we introduce a novel algorithm called dynamic knowledge distillation for hypothesis transfer learning (dkdHTL). In this method, we use knowledge distillation with instance-wise weighting mechanism to adaptively transfer the "dark" knowledge from the source hypothesis to the target domain.The weighting coefficients of the distillation loss and the standard loss are determined by the consistency between the predicted probability of the source hypothesis and the target ground-truth label.Empirical results on both transfer learning benchmark datasets and a healthcare dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.


A survey on domain adaptation theory: learning bounds and theoretical guarantees

arXiv.org Machine Learning

All famous machine learning algorithms that comprise both supervised and semi-supervised learning work well only under a common assumption: the training and test data follow the same distribution. When the distribution changes, most statistical models must be reconstructed from newly collected data, which for some applications can be costly or impossible to obtain. Therefore, it has become necessary to develop approaches that reduce the need and the effort to obtain new labeled samples by exploiting data that are available in related areas, and using these further across similar fields. This has given rise to a new machine learning framework known as transfer learning: a learning setting inspired by the capability of a human being to extrapolate knowledge across tasks to learn more efficiently. Despite a large amount of different transfer learning scenarios, the main objective of this survey is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art theoretical results in a specific, and arguably the most popular, sub-field of transfer learning, called domain adaptation. In this sub-field, the data distribution is assumed to change across the training and the test data, while the learning task remains the same. We provide a first up-to-date description of existing results related to domain adaptation problem that cover learning bounds based on different statistical learning frameworks.


A No-Free-Lunch Theorem for MultiTask Learning

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Multitask learning and related areas such as multi-source domain adaptation address modern settings where datasets from $N$ related distributions $\{P_t\}$ are to be combined towards improving performance on any single such distribution ${\cal D}$. A perplexing fact remains in the evolving theory on the subject: while we would hope for performance bounds that account for the contribution from multiple tasks, the vast majority of analyses result in bounds that improve at best in the number $n$ of samples per task, but most often do not improve in $N$. As such, it might seem at first that the distributional settings or aggregation procedures considered in such analyses might be somehow unfavorable; however, as we show, the picture happens to be more nuanced, with interestingly hard regimes that might appear otherwise favorable. In particular, we consider a seemingly favorable classification scenario where all tasks $P_t$ share a common optimal classifier $h^*,$ and which can be shown to admit a broad range of regimes with improved oracle rates in terms of $N$ and $n$. Some of our main results are as follows: $\bullet$ We show that, even though such regimes admit minimax rates accounting for both $n$ and $N$, no adaptive algorithm exists; that is, without access to distributional information, no algorithm can guarantee rates that improve with large $N$ for $n$ fixed. $\bullet$ With a bit of additional information, namely, a ranking of tasks $\{P_t\}$ according to their distance to a target ${\cal D}$, a simple rank-based procedure can achieve near optimal aggregations of tasks' datasets, despite a search space exponential in $N$. Interestingly, the optimal aggregation might exclude certain tasks, even though they all share the same $h^*$.


A Foliated View of Transfer Learning

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Transfer learning considers a learning process where a new task is solved by transferring relevant knowledge from known solutions to related tasks. While this has been studied experimentally, there lacks a foundational description of the transfer learning problem that exposes what related tasks are, and how they can be exploited. In this work, we present a definition for relatedness between tasks and identify foliations as a mathematical framework to represent such relationships.


"Transfer Learning" in nutshell.

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Building the perfect neural network is Empirical Process which takes bit of a time and experiences to achieve it. But, now a days the Transfer Learning made it way faster and less hectic. So, What is…


Transfer Learning without Knowing: Reprogramming Black-box Machine Learning Models with Scarce Data and Limited Resources

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Current transfer learning methods are mainly based on finetuning a pretrained model with target-domain data. Motivated by the techniques from adversarial machine learning (ML) that are capable of manipulating the model prediction via data perturbations, in this paper we propose a novel approach, black-box adversarial reprogramming (BAR), that repurposes a well-trained black-box ML model (e.g., a prediction API or a proprietary software) for solving different ML tasks, especially in the scenario with scarce data and constrained resources. The rationale lies in exploiting high-performance but unknown ML models to gain learning capability for transfer learning. Using zeroth order optimization and multi-label mapping techniques, BAR can reprogram a black-box ML model solely based on its input-output responses without knowing the model architecture or changing any parameter. More importantly, in the limited medical data setting, on autism spectrum disorder classification, diabetic retinopathy detection, and melanoma detection tasks, BAR outperforms state-of-the-art methods and yields comparable performance to the vanilla adversarial reprogramming method requiring complete knowledge of the target ML model. BAR also outperforms baseline transfer learning approaches by a significant margin, demonstrating cost-effective means and new insights for transfer learning.


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XMixup: Efficient Transfer Learning with Auxiliary Samples by Cross-domain Mixup

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Transferring knowledge from large source datasets is an effective way to fine-tune the deep neural networks of the target task with a small sample size. A great number of algorithms have been proposed to facilitate deep transfer learning, and these techniques could be generally categorized into two groups - Regularized Learning of the target task using models that have been pre-trained from source datasets, and Multitask Learning with both source and target datasets to train a shared backbone neural network. In this work, we aim to improve the multitask paradigm for deep transfer learning via Cross-domain Mixup (XMixup). While the existing multitask learning algorithms need to run backpropagation over both the source and target datasets and usually consume a higher gradient complexity, XMixup transfers the knowledge from source to target tasks more efficiently: for every class of the target task, XMixup selects the auxiliary samples from the source dataset and augments training samples via the simple mixup strategy. We evaluate XMixup over six real world transfer learning datasets. Experiment results show that XMixup improves the accuracy by 1.9% on average. Compared with other state-of-the-art transfer learning approaches, XMixup costs much less training time while still obtains higher accuracy.