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Proceedings of the 2011 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, p. 783-794

DOI: 10.1137/1.9781611972818.67

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Gaussian Process for Dimensionality Reduction in Transfer Learning.

Proceedings article published in 2011 by Bin Tong, Junbin Gao ORCID, Nguyen Huy Thach, Einoshin Suzuki
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Abstract

Dimensionality reduction has been considered as one of the most significant tools for data analysis. In general, supervised information is helpful for dimensionality reduction. However, in typical real applications, supervised information in multiple source tasks may be available, while the data of the target task are unlabeled. An interesting problem of how to guide the dimensionality reduction for the unlabeled target data by exploiting useful knowledge, such as label information, from multiple source tasks arises in such a scenario. In this paper, we propose a new method for dimensionality reduction in the transfer learning setting. Unlike traditional paradigms where the useful knowledge from multiple source tasks is transferred through distance metric, our proposal firstly converts the dimensionality reduction problem into integral regression problems in parallel. Gaussian process is then employed to learn the underlying relationship between the original data and the reduced data. Such a relationship can be appropriately transferred to the target task by exploiting the prediction ability of the Gaussian process model and inventing different kinds of regularizers. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real data sets show the effectiveness of our method.