Is Learning The n-th Thing Any Easier Than Learning The First?

NIPS 1995: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 640-646

  Thrun, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING APPROACH; LEARNING TASKS; LIFE LONG LEARNING; OBJECTS RECOGNITION; TRAINING DATA;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 85031124575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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