A framework for learning predictive structures from multiple tasks and unlabeled data

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ando, Rie Kubota ^a   Zhang, Tong ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LEARNING PROBLEM; MULTIPLE TASKS; PREDICTIVE STRUCTURES; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 27844439373     PISSN: 15337928     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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