Multitask learning using regularized multiple kernel learning

  • Authors:
  • Mehmet Gönen;Melih Kandemir;Samuel Kaski

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information and Computer Science, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University School of Science, Finland;Department of Information and Computer Science, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University School of Science, Finland;Department of Information and Computer Science, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University School of Science, Finland

  • Venue:
  • ICONIP'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Neural Information Processing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Empirical success of kernel-based learning algorithms is very much dependent on the kernel function used. Instead of using a single fixed kernel function, multiple kernel learning (MKL) algorithms learn a combination of different kernel functions in order to obtain a similarity measure that better matches the underlying problem. We study multitask learning (MKL) problems and formulate a novel MTL algorithm that trains coupled but nonidentical MKL models across the tasks. The proposed algorithm is especially useful for tasks that have different input and/or output space characteristics and is computationally very efficient. Empirical results on three data sets validate the generalization performance and the efficiency of our approach.