Computer Science & Technology

Multi-Step Bridged Refinement for Transfer Learning

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  • School of Computer Science and Engineering,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510006,Guangdong,China
覃姜维(1984-),男,博士生,主要从事机器学习、文本挖掘研究

Received date: 2010-10-22

  Revised date: 2010-12-08

  Online published: 2011-04-01

Supported by

广东省自然科学基金资助项目(9451064101003233);广东省科技攻关项目(2007B010200044);华南理工大学中央高校基本科研业务费资助项目(2009ZM0125,2009ZM0189)

Abstract

In the traditional machine learning methods,it is assumed that the training and test data have an identical distribution.However,this assumption is not valid in many cases.In order to solve this problem,a non-parametric transfer learning algorithm named Multi-Step Bridged Refinement is proposed.In this algorithm,a series of intermediate models is constructed to bridge different domains,and the label propagation between neighboring mo-dels is performed,through which the discriminative information is transferred from the source domain into the target one.Experimental results show that the models with similar distribution contribute to smooth transfer and make the refinement results insensitive to the initial label,and that the proposed algorithm attains a classification accuracy higher than that from other algorithms.

Cite this article

Qin Jiang-wei Zheng Qi-lun Ma Qian-li Wei Jia Lin Gu-li . Multi-Step Bridged Refinement for Transfer Learning[J]. Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science), 2011 , 39(5) : 108 -114 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-565X.2011.05.019

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