arXiv:2502. 11331v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The proliferation of data has sparked significant interest in leveraging findings from one study to estimate treatment effects in a different target population without direct outcome observations.
By Seok-Jin Kim, Hongjie Liu, Molei Liu, Kaizheng Wang
arXiv:2507. 14661v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) seeks to achieve accurate predictions in a target domain with limited labeled target data by exploiting abundant source and unlabeled target data.
By Wooseok Ha, Yuansi Chen
Causal Foundation Models (CFMs) are pretrained neural networks designed to estimate causal quantities—such as the average treatment effect—across new datasets using in‑context learning, eliminating the need for bespoke pipelines or model updates. The paper introduces CFMs, reviews foundational concepts in causal inference and machine learning, and provides practical code examples and Jupyter notebooks to illustrate their application.
By Christopher Stith, Hossein Rahmani, Jesse C. Cresswell
The paper investigates the theoretical limits of transfer learning, demonstrating that careful selection of transferable information and its dependence on target problems is crucial. It establishes that the degree of probabilistic change in a transfer-learning algorithm imposes an upper bound on achievable improvement. These findings extend the algorithmic search framework to a broad class of learning tasks involving transfer.
By Jake Williams, Abel Tadesse, Tyler Sam, Huey Sun, George D. Montanez
arXiv:2412. 18081v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study Heterogeneous Transfer Learning (HTL) for high-dimensional regression with differing feature sets.
By Jae Ho Chang, Massimiliano Russo, Subhadeep Paul
arXiv:2607. 03005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In high-dimensional Ising model estimation, target sample sizes are often limited, and effectively using auxiliary binary datasets of unknown relevance remains challenging.
By Joonho Kim, Seyoung Park
arXiv:2605.13054v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Cross-domain offline reinforcement learning learns a target policy from pre-collected source and target datasets with different dynamics. Whe...
By Minung Kim, Jeongmo Kim, Gwanwoo Choi, Seungyul Han
arXiv:2606. 18567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a methodology-centered transfer learning framework for fragility adaptation under domain shift, class imbalance, and scarce target labels while preserving engineering interpretability and supporting decision-making under uncertainty.
By Narges Saeednejad, Jamie Ellen Padgett
arXiv:2605.04469v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large-scale population-level datasets, such as the UK Biobank and the All of Us Research Program, often lack covariates needed for a specific...
By Huali Zhao, Tianying Wang
arXiv:2609. 26290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal tabular foundation models amortize effect estimation across synthetic mechanisms, but latent-effect supervision rewards posterior shrinkage instead of directly encoding the repeated-sample response needed in a fixed deployment population.
By Zhiheng Zhang
arXiv:2607. 16090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transferring policies across domains poses a vital challenge in reinforcement learning, due to the dynamics mismatch between the source and target domains.
By Hanyang Chen, Anirudh Satheesh, Longchao Da, Hua Wei
The paper introduces Transfer Learning for Evolving Domains (TrED), a framework that models how data availability changes over time in real-world applications. TrED treats the entire trajectory of model updates as a single learning problem, rather than isolated snapshots, and defines a data availability process, a flexible learning protocol, and an evaluation criterion that scores the whole trajectory. The authors review existing transfer learning methods, noting that most are tailored to specific regimes and do not optimize the full trajectory, and argue that TrED is a well‑posed, unsolved research direction.
By Ricardo Ribeiro Pereira, Jacopo Bono, Hugo Ferreira, Pedro Ribeiro, Pedro Saleiro, Pedro Bizarro, Carlos Soares