Pentina, Anastasia, Sharmanska, Viktoriia and Lampert, Christoph H (2015) Curriculum learning of multiple tasks. 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Boston, MA, USA, 7 - 12 Jun 2015. Published in: 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 5492-5500. IEEE ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 9781467369633
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Abstract
Sharing information between multiple tasks enables algorithms to achieve good generalization performance even from small amounts of training data. However, in a realistic scenario of multi-task learning not all tasks are equally related to each other, hence it could be advantageous to transfer information only between the most related tasks. In this work we propose an approach that processes multiple tasks in a sequence with sharing between subsequent tasks instead of solving all tasks jointly. Subsequently, we address the question of curriculum learning of tasks, i.e. finding the best order of tasks to be learned. Our approach is based on a generalization bound criterion for choosing the task order that optimizes the average expected classification performance over all tasks. Our experimental results show that learning multiple related tasks sequentially can be more effective than learning them jointly, the order in which tasks are being solved affects the overall performance, and that our model is able to automatically discover a favourable order of tasks.
Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics |
SWORD Depositor: | Mx Elements Account |
Depositing User: | Mx Elements Account |
Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2021 08:57 |
Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2021 08:58 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/103147 |
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