[Mike Rosenstein]
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Transfer learning with an ensemble of background tasks
Z. Marx, M.T. Rosenstein, L.P. Kaelbling, and T.G. Dietterich. To transfer or not to transfer. To appear, NIPS 2005 Workshop on Inductive Transfer: 10 Years Later, 2005.
Abstract: We demonstrate the transfer of learning from an ensemble of background tasks, which becomes helpful in cases where a single background task does not transfer well. This approach is accomplished through a simple maximum a posteriori elaboration on the logistic regression approach and tested on real world data.
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