Enhancing Transfer Learning with Flexible Nonparametric Posterior Sampling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07282v1
• Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:26:58 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Transfer Learning with Flexible Nonparametric Posterior Sampling
• Authors: Hyungi Lee, Giung Nam, Edwin Fong, Juho Lee
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces nonparametric transfer learning (NPTL), a flexible posterior sampling method to address the distribution shift issue. NPTL is suitable for transfer learning scenarios that may involve the distribution shift between upstream and downstream tasks.
• Score: 22.047309973614876
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Transfer learning has recently shown significant performance across various tasks involving deep neural networks. In these transfer learning scenarios, the prior distribution for downstream data becomes crucial in Bayesian model averaging (BMA). While previous works proposed the prior over the neural network parameters centered around the pre-trained solution, such strategies have limitations when dealing with distribution shifts between upstream and downstream data. This paper introduces nonparametric transfer learning (NPTL), a flexible posterior sampling method to address the distribution shift issue within the context of nonparametric learning. The nonparametric learning (NPL) method is a recent approach that employs a nonparametric prior for posterior sampling, efficiently accounting for model misspecification scenarios, which is suitable for transfer learning scenarios that may involve the distribution shift between upstream and downstream tasks. Through extensive empirical validations, we demonstrate that our approach surpasses other baselines in BMA performance.

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