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cs.LG2025

Residual Feature Integration is Sufficient to Prevent Negative Transfer

Yichen Xu, Ryumei Nakada, Linjun Zhang +1

Transfer learning has become a central paradigm in modern machine learning, yet it suffers from the long-standing problem of negative transfer, where leveraging source representati…

cs.LG2025

A Theoretical Framework for Prompt Engineering: Approximating Smooth Functions with Transformer Prompts

Ryumei Nakada, Wenlong Ji, Tianxi Cai +2

Prompt engineering has emerged as a powerful technique for guiding large language models (LLMs) toward desired responses, significantly enhancing their performance across diverse t…

cs.LG2024

SFT: Efficient, Scalable and Generalizable LLM Fine-tuning by Structured Sparsity

Xinyu Yang, Jixuan Leng, Geyang Guo +5

Current PEFT methods for LLMs can achieve either high quality, efficient training, or scalable serving, but not all three simultaneously. To address this limitation, we investigate…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

PEANuT: Parameter-Efficient Adaptation with Weight-aware Neural Tweakers

Yibo Zhong, Haoxiang Jiang, Lincan Li +5

Fine-tuning large pre-trained foundation models often yields excellent downstream performance but is prohibitively expensive when updating all parameters. Parameter-efficient fine-…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Safeguarding Data in Multimodal AI: A Differentially Private Approach to CLIP Training

Alyssa Huang, Peihan Liu, Ryumei Nakada +2

The surge in multimodal AI's success has sparked concerns over data privacy in vision-and-language tasks. While CLIP has revolutionized multimodal learning through joint training o…

cs.LG2023

Understanding Multimodal Contrastive Learning and Incorporating Unpaired Data

Ryumei Nakada, Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Zhun Deng +3

Language-supervised vision models have recently attracted great attention in computer vision. A common approach to build such models is to use contrastive learning on paired data a…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

The Power of Contrast for Feature Learning: A Theoretical Analysis

Wenlong Ji, Zhun Deng, Ryumei Nakada +2

Contrastive learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance in various self-supervised learning tasks and even outperforms its supervised counterpart. Despite its empirical succ…