An algorithm for transfer learning in a heterogeneous environment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5211 LNAI, Issue PART 1, 2008, Pages 71-85

  Argyriou, Andreas ^a   Maurer, Andreas ^b   Pontil, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Learning to learn; Multi task learning; Transfer learning

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ROBOT LEARNING;

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCES; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; IMAGE DATA SETS; LEARNING TO LEARN; LOW DIMENSIONAL; MULTI-TASK LEARNING; TASK LEARNINGS; TRANSFER LEARNING; TRANSFER LEARNINGS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 56049122238     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87479-9_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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