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New transfer learning framework uses summary statistics for privacy-preserving AI

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Researchers have developed a novel source-data-free transfer learning framework that utilizes single-index models (SIMs) to improve learning in target domains. This method bypasses the need for raw source data by transferring only summary statistics, thereby enhancing privacy and avoiding issues with unknown nonlinear link functions. The framework incorporates a multilayer perceptron guided by pre-estimated indices from the transferred statistics to capture complex nonlinearities and reduce overfitting, showing consistent improvements in experiments. AI

IMPACT This privacy-preserving transfer learning approach could enable more efficient and secure model training across distributed datasets.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Ye Tian ·

    Multi-Source Transfer Learning of Sparse Single-Index Models

    arXiv:2606.29658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transfer learning leverages knowledge from related source domains to improve learning in a target domain. Recent theoretical advances cover a broad range of regression settings within (generalized) linear models. Despite their div…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Ye Tian ·

    Multi-Source Transfer Learning of Sparse Single-Index Models

    Transfer learning leverages knowledge from related source domains to improve learning in a target domain. Recent theoretical advances cover a broad range of regression settings within (generalized) linear models. Despite their diversity, these methods share two common constraints…

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