A survey on multi-task learning

Y Zhang, Q Yang - IEEE transactions on knowledge and data …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a learning paradigm in machine learning and its aim is to
leverage useful information contained in multiple related tasks to help improve the …

Optimistic rates for multi-task representation learning

A Watkins, E Ullah, T Nguyen-Tang… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of transfer learning via Multi-Task Representation Learning (MTRL),
wherein multiple source tasks are used to learn a good common representation, and a …

Sharper generalization bounds for clustering

S Li, Y Liu - International Conference on Machine Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Existing generalization analysis of clustering mainly focuses on specific instantiations, such
as (kernel) $ k $-means, and a unified framework for studying clustering performance is still …

Multi-class learning: From theory to algorithm

J Li, Y Liu, R Yin, H Zhang, L Ding… - Advances in Neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In this paper, we study the generalization performance of multi-class classification and
obtain a shaper data-dependent generalization error bound with fast convergence rate …

Trace norm regularization for multi-task learning with scarce data

E Boursier, M Konobeev… - Conference on Learning …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Multi-task learning leverages structural similarities between multiple tasks to learn despite
very few samples. Motivated by the recent success of neural networks applied to data-scarce …

Non-IID federated learning with sharper risk bound

B Wei, J Li, Y Liu, W Wang - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In federated learning (FL), the not independently or identically distributed (non-IID) data
partitioning impairs the performance of the global model, which is a severe problem to be …

Optimistic Rates for Learning from Label Proportions

G Li, L Chen, A Javanmard, V Mirrokni - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.00487, 2024 - arxiv.org
We consider a weakly supervised learning problem called Learning from Label Proportions
(LLP), where examples are grouped into``bags''and only the average label within each bag …

Auc-oriented domain adaptation: from theory to algorithm

Z Yang, Q Xu, S Bao, P Wen, Y He… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Area Under the ROC curve (AUC) is a crucial metric for machine learning, which is often
a reasonable choice for applications like disease prediction and fraud detection where the …

Towards empirical process theory for vector-valued functions: Metric entropy of smooth function classes

J Park, K Muandet - International Conference on Algorithmic …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper provides some first steps in developing empirical process theory for functions
taking values in a vector space. Our main results provide bounds on the entropy of classes …

Heterogeneous multi-task feature learning with mixed regularization

Y Zhong, W Xu, X Gao - Machine Learning, 2024 - Springer
Data integration is the process of extracting information from multiple sources and jointly
analyzing different data sets. In this paper, we propose to use the mixed ℓ 2, 1 regularized …