Multitask Learning: A Knowledge-Based Source of Inductive Bias

@inproceedings{citeulike:2322365, abstract = {This paper suggests that it may be easier to learn several hard tasks at one time than to learn these same tasks separately. In effect, the information provided by the training signal for each task serves as a domain-specific inductive bias for the other tasks. Frequentlythe worldgives us clusters of related tasks to learn. When it does not, it is often straightforward to create additional tasks. For many domains, acquiring inductive bias by collecting additional teaching signal may be more...}, author = {Caruana, Rich }, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning}, citeulike-article-id = {2322365}, keywords = {knowledge, learning, multitasking}, pages = {41--48}, posted-at = {2008-02-02 07:11:13}, priority = {2}, title = {Multitask Learning: A Knowledge-Based Source of Inductive Bias}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/caruana93multitask.html}, year = {1993} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2322365 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2322365 TI - Multitask Learning: A Knowledge-Based Source of Inductive Bias T2 - International Conference on Machine Learning SP - 41 EP - 48 N2 - This paper suggests that it may be easier to learn several hard tasks at one time than to learn these same tasks separately. In effect, the information provided by the training signal for each task serves as a domain-specific inductive bias for the other tasks. Frequentlythe worldgives us clusters of related tasks to learn. When it does not, it is often straightforward to create additional tasks. For many domains, acquiring inductive bias by collecting additional teaching signal may be more... KW - knowledge KW - learning KW - multitasking AU - Caruana, Rich PY - 1993/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/caruana93multitask.html ER -