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Transfer Learning
3,502 papers with code · 6 benchmarks · 18 datasets archive 2025-07-28
Transfer Learning is a machine learning technique where a model trained on one task is re-purposed and fine-tuned for a related, but different task. The idea behind transfer learning is to leverage the knowledge learned from a pre-trained model to solve a new, but related problem. This can be useful in situations where there is limited data available to train a new model from scratch, or when the new task is similar enough to the original task that the pre-trained model can be adapted to the new problem with only minor modifications.
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Description from the archive archive 2025-07-28.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
6 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 6 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.
| Dataset | Best model (first row in archive order) | Paper | Code | Syntology | Compare |
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| Office-Home (5 rows) | APCLIP | Domain Prompt Learning for Efficiently Adapting CLIP to Unseen Domains | code | Syntology ran 11 of 17 samples · 6 unverified | Compare |
| 100 sleep nights of 8 caregivers (1 row) | CNN | Plant Disease Detection from Images | — | — | Compare |
| BanglaLekha Isolated Dataset (1 row) | Chatterjee, Dutta et al.[1] | AKHCRNet: Bengali Handwritten Character Recognition Using Deep Learning | code | — | Compare |
| COCO70 (1 row) | Co-Tuning | Co-Tuning for Transfer Learning | code | — | Compare |
| KITTI Object Tracking Evaluation 2012 (1 row) | Physical Access | Audio Spoofing Verification using Deep Convolutional Neural... | code | — | Compare |
| Retinal Fundus MultiDisease Image Dataset (RFMiD) (1 row) | riadd.aucmedi | Multi-Disease Detection in Retinal Imaging based on Ensembling... | code | — | Compare |
Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.
Libraries
Not in the archive: the export carries no per-task library table, so there is nothing to show at snapshot 2025-07-28.
Datasets archive 2025-07-28
18 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.
Subtasks archive 2025-07-28
4 subtasks in the archive's task tree.
Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28
30 shown of 3,502 papers with code (10,307 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.
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28 May 2019 144 repositories listed Syntology ran 171 of 302 samples · 131 unverified · 112 pointer-only (licence)Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) are commonly developed at a fixed resource budget, and then scaled up for better accuracy if more resources are available.
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18 Jan 2018 66 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 5 samples · 3 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)Inductive transfer learning has greatly impacted computer vision, but existing approaches in NLP still require task-specific modifications and training from scratch.
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27 Aug 2019 64 repositories listed Syntology ran 20 of 58 samples · 38 unverified · 11 pointer-only (licence)However, it requires that both sentences are fed into the network, which causes a massive computational overhead: Finding the most similar pair in a collection of 10, 000 sentences requires about 50 million inference…
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23 Oct 2019 57 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 31 samples · 29 unverifiedTransfer learning, where a model is first pre-trained on a data-rich task before being fine-tuned on a downstream task, has emerged as a powerful technique in natural language processing (NLP).
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31 Dec 2018 45 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 23 samples · 18 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)Accurate depth estimation from images is a fundamental task in many applications including scene understanding and reconstruction.
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2 Oct 2019 37 repositories listed Syntology ran 19 of 27 samples · 8 unverifiedAs Transfer Learning from large-scale pre-trained models becomes more prevalent in Natural Language Processing (NLP), operating these large models in on-the-edge and/or under constrained computational training or…
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19 Apr 2020 36 repositories listed Syntology ran 8 of 48 samples · 40 unverified · 23 pointer-only (licence)It is well known that featuremap attention and multi-path representation are important for visual recognition.
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4 Dec 2018 28 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 15 samples · 11 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)Much of the recent progress made in image classification research can be credited to training procedure refinements, such as changes in data augmentations and optimization methods.
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29 Mar 2018 24 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 22 samples · 21 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)For both variants, we investigate and report the relationship between model complexity, resource consumption, the availability of transfer task training data, and task performance.
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23 Jan 2019 23 repositories listed Syntology ran 8 of 26 samples · 18 unverified · 7 pointer-only (licence)We introduce a new approach to generative data-driven dialogue systems (e.
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5 May 2017 23 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 7 samples · 1 unverified · 7 pointer-only (licence)Many modern NLP systems rely on word embeddings, previously trained in an unsupervised manner on large corpora, as base features.
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26 Sep 2014 22 repositories listed Syntology ran 34 of 41 samples · 7 unverified · 14 pointer-only (licence)Here, we propose a new approach to domain adaptation in deep architectures that can be trained on large amount of labeled data from the source domain and large amount of unlabeled data from the target domain (no labeled…
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31 Mar 2021 21 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 11 samples · 6 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)In particular, we investigate the interplay of architecture and optimization of such dedicated transformers.
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29 Apr 2019 20 repositories listed Syntology ran 15 of 52 samples · 37 unverified · 9 pointer-only (licence)In this work, we present a new perspective on how to effectively noise unlabeled examples and argue that the quality of noising, specifically those produced by advanced data augmentation methods, plays a crucial role in…
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2 Feb 2019 17 repositories listed Syntology ran 8 of 22 samples · 14 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)On GLUE, we attain within 0.
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14 Apr 2022 12 repositories listedOur evaluations on Image classification (ImageNet-1k with and without pre-training on ImageNet-21k), transfer learning and semantic segmentation show that our procedure outperforms by a large margin previous fully…
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9 May 2021 12 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)At longer input lengths, our FNet model is significantly faster: when compared to the "efficient" Transformers on the Long Range Arena benchmark, FNet matches the accuracy of the most accurate models, while outpacing…
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12 Jun 2018 11 repositories listedClone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time
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20 Apr 2018 11 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 14 samples · 9 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)For natural language understanding (NLU) technology to be maximally useful, both practically and as a scientific object of study, it must be general: it must be able to process language in a way that is not exclusively…
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2 Jul 2020 10 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 8 samples · 7 unverifiedWe then investigate the channel configuration of a model by searching network architectures concerning the channel configuration under the computational cost restriction.
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24 Jul 2019 10 repositories listedThe key steps of the dataset construction consist of (1) a carefully designed crowdsourcing procedure, followed by (2) systematic bias reduction using a novel AfLite algorithm that generalizes human-detectable word…
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25 May 2021 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are highly successful for super-resolution (SR) but often require sophisticated architectures with heavy memory cost and computational overhead, significantly restricts their…
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1 May 2020 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 10 samples · 10 unverifiedUnderstanding emotion expressed in language has a wide range of applications, from building empathetic chatbots to detecting harmful online behavior.
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11 Apr 2020 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)The possibility to use widespread and simple chest X-ray (CXR) imaging for early screening of COVID-19 patients is attracting much interest from both the clinical and the AI community.
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9 Oct 2019 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverifiedTransformer architectures have facilitated building higher-capacity models and pretraining has made it possible to effectively utilize this capacity for a wide variety of tasks.
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3 Jun 2019 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)Artificial neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting when they are sequentially trained on multiple tasks.
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30 Mar 2016 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 10 of 13 samples · 3 unverified · 7 pointer-only (licence)By following the principles of self-supervision, we build a convolutional neural network (CNN) that can be trained to solve Jigsaw puzzles as a pretext task, which requires no manual labeling, and then later repurposed…
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26 Apr 2020 8 repositories listedIn this work we explore the task of instance segmentation with attribute localization, which unifies instance segmentation (detect and segment each object instance) and fine-grained visual attribute categorization…
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5 Apr 2020 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 14 samples · 14 unverifiedIn this paper, we present TAPAS, an approach to question answering over tables without generating logical forms.
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7 Feb 2019 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 17 samples · 11 unverifiedWe propose SWA-Gaussian (SWAG), a simple, scalable, and general purpose approach for uncertainty representation and calibration in deep learning.
Syntology lines on 26 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.
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