Multi-task learning using generalized t process

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 964-971

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Yeung, Dit Yan ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ALTERNATIVE WEIGHTS; ANALYTICAL FORMS; BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; GAUSSIAN PROCESS; GENERALIZATION PERFORMANCE; MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD; MULTITASK LEARNING; PARAMETER MATRICES;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 84862273137     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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