Exploiting unrelated tasks in multi-task learning

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 22, Issue , 2012, Pages 951-959

  Romera Paredes, Bernardino ^a   Argyriou, Andreas ^b   Bianchi Berthouze, Nadia ^a   Pontil, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; OPTIMIZATION;

ALTERNATING MINIMIZATION; DATA DISTRIBUTION; JOINT LEARNING; LOW-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION; MULTITASK LEARNING; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84908495158     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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