Robust Tickets Can Transfer Better: Drawing More Transferable Subnetworks in Transfer Learning

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Main Authors: Fu, Yonggan, Yuan, Ye, Wu, Shang, Yuan, Jiayi, Lin, Yingyan Celine
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Published: 2023
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author Fu, Yonggan
Yuan, Ye
Wu, Shang
Yuan, Jiayi
Lin, Yingyan Celine
author_facet Fu, Yonggan
Yuan, Ye
Wu, Shang
Yuan, Jiayi
Lin, Yingyan Celine
contents Transfer learning leverages feature representations of deep neural networks (DNNs) pretrained on source tasks with rich data to empower effective finetuning on downstream tasks. However, the pretrained models are often prohibitively large for delivering generalizable representations, which limits their deployment on edge devices with constrained resources. To close this gap, we propose a new transfer learning pipeline, which leverages our finding that robust tickets can transfer better, i.e., subnetworks drawn with properly induced adversarial robustness can win better transferability over vanilla lottery ticket subnetworks. Extensive experiments and ablation studies validate that our proposed transfer learning pipeline can achieve enhanced accuracy-sparsity trade-offs across both diverse downstream tasks and sparsity patterns, further enriching the lottery ticket hypothesis.
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spellingShingle Robust Tickets Can Transfer Better: Drawing More Transferable Subnetworks in Transfer Learning
Fu, Yonggan
Yuan, Ye
Wu, Shang
Yuan, Jiayi
Lin, Yingyan Celine
Machine Learning
Transfer learning leverages feature representations of deep neural networks (DNNs) pretrained on source tasks with rich data to empower effective finetuning on downstream tasks. However, the pretrained models are often prohibitively large for delivering generalizable representations, which limits their deployment on edge devices with constrained resources. To close this gap, we propose a new transfer learning pipeline, which leverages our finding that robust tickets can transfer better, i.e., subnetworks drawn with properly induced adversarial robustness can win better transferability over vanilla lottery ticket subnetworks. Extensive experiments and ablation studies validate that our proposed transfer learning pipeline can achieve enhanced accuracy-sparsity trade-offs across both diverse downstream tasks and sparsity patterns, further enriching the lottery ticket hypothesis.
title Robust Tickets Can Transfer Better: Drawing More Transferable Subnetworks in Transfer Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11834