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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| Slides | |
| 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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