Heterogeneous domain adaptation using manifold alignment

  • Authors:
  • Chang Wang;Sridhar Mahadevan

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab, Hawthorne, New York;Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume Volume Two
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose a manifold alignment based approach for heterogeneous domain adaptation. A key aspect of this approach is to construct mappings to link different feature spaces in order to transfer knowledge across domains. The new approach can reuse labeled data from multiple source domains in a target domain even in the case when the input domains do not share any common features or instances. As a pre-processing step, our approach can also be combined with existing domain adaptation approaches to learn a common feature space for all input domains. This paper extends existing manifold alignment approaches by making use of labels rather than correspondences to align the manifolds. This extension significantly broadens the application scope of manifold alignment, since the correspondence relationship required by existing alignment approaches is hard to obtain in many applications.