A convex formulation for learning task relationships in multi-task learning

Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 733-742

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Yeung, Dit Yan ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ALTERNATING METHOD; BENCHMARK DATA; GENERALIZATION PERFORMANCE; LEARNING PARADIGMS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; REGULARIZATION FRAMEWORK; SINGLE TASK LEARNING; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES;

MULTI-TASK LEARNING;

EID: 80053162594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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