{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/universal-representationsthe-missing-link","title":"Universal representations:The missing link between faces, text, planktons, and cat breeds","arxiv_id":"1701.07275","date":"2017-01-25","proceeding":null,"authors":["Hakan Bilen","Andrea Vedaldi"],"abstract":"With the advent of large labelled datasets and high-capacity models, the\nperformance of machine vision systems has been improving rapidly. However, the\ntechnology has still major limitations, starting from the fact that different\nvision problems are still solved by different models, trained from scratch or\nfine-tuned on the target data. The human visual system, in stark contrast,\nlearns a universal representation for vision in the early life of an\nindividual. This representation works well for an enormous variety of vision\nproblems, with little or no change, with the major advantage of requiring\nlittle training data to solve any of them.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07275v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.07275v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"continual-learning","task_name":"Continual Learning"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/continual-learning-on-visual-domain-decathlon","task":"Continual Learning","dataset":"visual domain decathlon (10 tasks)","model":"BN adapt.","rank_in_archive_order":14,"of":14,"metrics":{"decathlon discipline (Score)":"1363"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1701.07275","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}