Modeling Transfer Relationships Between Learning Tasks for Improved Inductive Transfer

  • Authors:
  • Eric Eaton;Marie Desjardins;Terran Lane

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County,;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County,;Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico,

  • Venue:
  • ECML PKDD '08 Proceedings of the 2008 European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - Part I
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel graph-based method for knowledge transfer. We model the transfer relationships between source tasks by embedding the set of learned source models in a graph using transferability as the metric. Transfer to a new problem proceeds by mapping the problem into the graph, then learning a function on this graph that automatically determines the parameters to transfer to the new learning task. This method is analogous to inductive transfer along a manifold that captures the transfer relationships between the tasks. We demonstrate improved transfer performance using this method against existing approaches in several real-world domains.