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OPEN HOUSE on Multi-Task and Complex Outputs Learning
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Multitask learning: the Bayesian way

author: Tom Heskes, Radboud University Nijmegen

Description

Multi-task learning lends itself particularly well to a Bayesian approach. Cross-inference between tasks can be implemented by sharing parameters in the likelihood model and the prior for the task-specific model parameters. Choosing different priors, one can implement task clustering and task gating. Throughout my presentation, predicting single-copy newspaper sales will serve as a running example.

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0:01 Multi-Task Learning: The Bayesian Way
0:50 Contents
2:03 Newspaper sales
4:14 Data
5:56 Explanatory variables
9:17 Classical multi-task learning
11:16 Does it help?
12:33 Does it make sense (1)?
14:25 Does it make sense (2)?
15:37 The Bayesian way
18:07 Summary of the model
22:07 Priors on the task-specific parameters
25:51 Empirical Bayes
26:00 Summary of the model
28:05 Empirical Bayes
28:50 Expectation Maximization
30:46 Does it help (1)?
32:21 Does it help (2)?
35:23 Does it make sense (1)?
36:20 Does it make sense (2)?
38:16 How about different priors?
42:34 Outlook
45:21 Comparison with kernel approaches

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