A convex formulation for learning shared structures from multiple tasks

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference On Machine Learning, ICML 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-144

  Chen, Jianhui ^a   Tang, Lei ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Ye, Jieping ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATA; CONVEX RELAXATION; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; GENERALIZATION PERFORMANCE; GLOBAL OPTIMUM; LARGE DATASETS; MULTIPLE TASKS; MULTITASK LEARNING; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; EDUCATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; ROBOT LEARNING; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 71149094644     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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