Machine Learning - Special issue on inductive transfer
Proximal support vector machine classifiers
Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Boosting for transfer learning
Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Machine learning
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Parallel proximal support vector machine for high-dimensional pattern classification
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
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Traditional machine learning methods, such as Support Vector Machines (SVMs), usually assume that training and test data share the same distributions. Due to the inherent dynamic data nature, it is often observed that (1) the volumes of the training data may gradually grow; and (2) the existing and the newly arrived samples may be subject to different distributions or learning tasks. In this paper, we propose a Transfer Incremental Support Vector Machine(TrISVM), with the objective of tackling changes in data volumes and learning tasks at the same time. By using new updating rules to calculate the inverse matrix, TrISVM solves the existing incremental learning problem more efficiently, especially for high dimensional data. Furthermore, when using new samples to update the existing models, TrISVM employs sample-based weight adjustment procedures to ensure that the concept transferring between auxiliary and target samples can be leveraged to fulfill the transfer learning goal. Experimental results on real-world data sets demonstrate that TrISVM achieves better efficiency and prediction accuracy than both incremental-learning and transfer-learning based methods. In addition, the results also show that TrISVM is able to achieve bidirectional knowledge transfer between two similar tasks.