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Scalable greedy algorithms for transfer learning

Kuzborskij, Ilja  
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Orabona, Francesco
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Caputo, Barbara  
2017
Computer Vision and Image Understanding

In this paper we consider the binary transfer learning problem, focusing on how to select and combine sources from a large pool to yield a good performance on a target task. Constraining our scenario to real world, we do not assume the direct access to the source data, but rather we employ the source hypotheses trained from them. We propose an efficient algorithm that selects relevant source hypotheses and feature dimensions simultaneously, building on the literature on the best subset selection problem. Our algorithm achieves state-of-the-art results on three computer vision datasets, substantially outperforming both transfer learning and popular feature selection baselines in a small-sample setting. We also present a randomized variant that achieves the same results with the computational cost independent from the number of source hypotheses and feature dimensions. Also, we theoretically prove that, under reasonable assumptions on the source hypotheses, our algorithm can learn effectively from few examples.

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DOI
10.1016/j.cviu.2016.09.003
Web of Science ID

WOS:000395357700015

Author(s)
Kuzborskij, Ilja  
Orabona, Francesco
Caputo, Barbara  
Date Issued

2017

Published in
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Volume

156

Start page

174

End page

185

Subjects

Transfer learning

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Domain adaptation

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Visual object detection

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Greedy algorithms

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Feature selection

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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December 19, 2016
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/132087
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