Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative PriorDownload PDF

26 May 2022 (modified: 05 May 2023)ICML 2022 Pre-training Workshop ContributedTalkReaders: Everyone
Keywords: Bayesian Deep Learning, Transfer Learning, Self Supervised Learning
TL;DR: Learn an informative prior for transfer learning
Abstract: Deep learning is increasingly moving towards a transfer learning paradigm whereby large ``foundation models'' are fine-tuned on downstream tasks, starting from an initialization learned on the source task. But an initialization contains relatively little information about the source task. %, and would not affect the final solution at all if we do a good job of optimization. Instead, we show that we can learn highly informative posteriors from the source task, which serves as the basis for priors that modify the whole loss surface on the downstream task. This simple modular approach enables significant performance gains and more data-efficient learning on various downstream classification and segmentation tasks, serving as a drop-in replacement for standard pre-training strategies.
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