Demo Data from VLDB 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Yara Bahram
dblp:414/9260
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 56% Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 28% Efficient and distributed learning · 8% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DogFit: Domain-guided Fine-tuning for Efficient Transfer Learning of Diffusion Models · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › diffusion model training
diffusion model transfer learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DogFit: Domain-guided Fine-tuning for Efficient Transfer Learning of Diffusion Models · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
domain adaptation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DogFit: Domain-guided Fine-tuning for Efficient Transfer Learning of Diffusion Models · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
model compression |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | DogFit: Domain-guided Fine-tuning for Efficient Transfer Learning of Diffusion Models · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
sample efficiency |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | DogFit: Domain-guided Fine-tuning for Efficient Transfer Learning of Diffusion Models · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
test-time guidance · 1.0fine-tuning · 1.0conditioning mechanism · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DogFit: Domain-guided Fine-tuning for Efficient Transfer Learning of Diffusion ModelsabstractTransfer learning of diffusion models to smaller target domains is challenging, as naively fine-tuning the model often results in poor generalization. Test-time guidance methods help mitigate this by offering controllable improvements in image fidelity through a trade-off with sample diversity. However, this benefit comes at a high computational cost, typically requiring dual forward passes during sampling. We propose the Domain-guided Fine-tuning (DogFit) method, an effective guidance mechanism for diffusion transfer learning that maintains controllability without incurring additional computational overhead. DogFit injects a domain-aware guidance offset into the training loss, effectively internalizing the guided behavior during the fine-tuning process. The domain-aware design is motivated by our observation that during fine-tuning, the unconditional source model offers a stronger marginal estimate than the target model. To support efficient controllable fidelity–diversity trade-offs at inference, we encode the guidance strength value as an additional model input through a lightweight conditioning mechanism. We further investigate the optimal placement and timing of the guidance offset during training and propose two simple scheduling strategies, i.e., late-start and cut-off, which improve generation quality and training stability. Experiments on DiT and SiT backbones across six diverse target domains show that DogFit can outperform prior guidance methods in transfer learning in terms of FID and FD DINOV2 while requiring up to 2x fewer sampling TFLOPS. Yara Bahram, Mohammadhadi Shateri, Eric Granger |
AAAI | 1 |