Flexible latent variable models for multi-task learning

Machine Learning

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 221-242

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Ghahramani, Zoubin ^b,c   Yang, Yiming ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical Bayesian models; Latent variable models; Model selection; Multi task learning; Transfer learning

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EDUCATION; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SILVER;

HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODELS; LATENT VARIABLE MODELS; MODEL SELECTION; MULTI-TASK LEARNING; TRANSFER LEARNING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 55149096818     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: 15730565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10994-008-5050-1     Document Type: Article

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