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Transferring Knowledge from Large Models to Small Models
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We discuss a research paper that proposes a new method called Adaptive Feature Transfer (AFT) for transferring knowledge from large foundation models to smaller, task-specific downstream models. AFT prioritizes transferring only the most relevant information from the pre-trained model to the downstream model, leading to improved performance and reduced computational cost. The paper showcases AFT's effectiveness on various vision, language, and multimodal datasets, demonstrating its ability to achieve significant performance gains compared to existing transfer learning methods. AFT's design decisions, such as using a kernel formulation and learning feature weights, are analyzed and shown to be essential for its robust performance.
Read it here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07337
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