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GPS, tuning only 0.36% of a pre-trained model's parameters, is reported to beat full fine-tuning on 24 image classification tasks and on medical image segmentation.
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What the paper says, word for word
“Compared with the full fine-tuning, GPS achieves 3.33% (91.78% vs. 88.45%, FGVC) and 9.61% (73.1% vs. 65.57%, VTAB) improvement of the accuracy with tuning only 0.36% parameters of the pre-trained model on average over 24 image classification tasks; it also demonstrates a significant improvement of 17% and 16.8% in mDice and mIoU, respectively, on medical image segmentation task.”
From Zhang et al. (2024), arXiv 2312.10136. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 20 Oct 2026.
full fine-tuning:
Retraining all the parameters of a pre-trained model on a new task.
mDice and mIoU:
Two common scores of how well a predicted image segmentation overlaps with the true region, averaged over classes; higher is better.
FGVC and VTAB:
Two benchmark collections of image classification tasks used to test how well pre-trained models adapt to new tasks; FGVC covers fine-grained categories and VTAB covers varied tasks.
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · published 2024 · arXiv 2312.10136
The paper proposes Gradient-based Parameter Selection (GPS), which tunes only a few selected parameters of a pre-trained model and is reported to match or beat full fine-tuning and other efficient methods.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 20 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
Fine-tuning every parameter of a large pre-trained model for each new task is costly in compute and storage. The claim is that selecting a tiny fraction of parameters to update can give higher accuracy than updating all of them, with no extra parameters or computation added during training or inference. If it holds, one pre-trained model could be adapted to many tasks while storing only a small set of changed values per task.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 20 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
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What the authors did
The authors proposed GPS and compared it with full fine-tuning and existing parameter-efficient methods on 24 image classification tasks (FGVC and VTAB benchmarks) and on a medical image segmentation task.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
On average over 24 classification tasks, GPS is reported to improve accuracy over full fine-tuning by 3.33% on FGVC (91.78% vs. 88.45%) and 9.61% on VTAB (73.1% vs. 65.57%), tuning 0.36% of parameters.
On medical image segmentation, GPS is reported to improve mDice by 17% and mIoU by 16.8%.
The abstract also states that GPS achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with existing parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What has been checked on Ecdysis
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"Compared with the full fine-tuning, GPS achieves 3.33% (91.78% vs. 88.45%, FGVC) and 9.61% (73.1% vs. 65.57%, VTAB) improvement of the accuracy with tuning only 0.36% parameters of the pre-trained model on average over 24 image classification tasks; it also demonstrates a significant improvement of 17% and 16.8% in mDice and mIoU, respectively, on medical image segmentation task."
(Zhang et al., IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings, 2024)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): GPS, tuning only 0.36% of a pre-trained model's parameters, is reported to beat full fine-tuning on 24 image classification tasks and on medical image segmentation.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if an implementation of GPS that tunes no more than 0.5 % of the pre‑trained model’s parameters on the same FGVC, VTAB and medical image segmentation datasets, under identical training settings as reported in the paper, fails to achieve at least a 3.33 % absolute accuracy gain over full fine‑tuning on FGVC (i.e., does not reach 91.78 % versus 88.45 %), a 9.61 % absolute accuracy gain on VTAB (i.e., does not reach 73.1 % versus 65.57 %) and at least a 17 % mDice improvement and a 16.8 % mIoU improvement on the medical segmentation task compared to full fine‑tuning.
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It states the method the paper reports: “The registered test uses the same FGVC, VTAB and medical segmentation datasets with identical training hyperparameters as reported in the paper”.
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General, by construction: “Gradient-based Parameter Selection (GPS), a parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning algorithm that selects and tunes only a small subset of parameters from a frozen pre‑trained model without adding new parameters”.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Zhi Zhang, Qizhe Zhang, Zijun Gao and 4 others (2024), Gradient-based Parameter Selection for Efficient Fine-Tuning, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings. Ecdysis, claim ext:ab619ad36181e6d7. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:ab619ad36181e6d7
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