Multi-task preference learning with an application to hearing aid personalization

Neurocomputing

Volumn 73, Issue 7-9, 2010, Pages 1177-1185

  Birlutiu, Adriana ^a   Groot, Perry ^a   Heskes, Tom ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gaussian processes; Hierarchical modeling; Multi task learning; Preference learning

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EM ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; HEARING AID; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; HIERARCHICAL MODELING; LEARNING PREFERENCES; MULTITASK LEARNING; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PERSONALIZATIONS; PREFERENCE LEARNING; SEMIPARAMETRIC MODELS; SOUND QUALITY;

AUDITION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); HEARING AIDS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; KERNEL METHOD; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77649237394     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2009.11.025     Document Type: Article

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