Positive transfer learning (TL) occurs when, after gaining experience from learning how to solve a (source) task, the same learner can exploit this experience to improve performanc...
Data sparsity is a major problem for collaborative filtering (CF) techniques in recommender systems, especially for new users and items. We observe that, while our target data are...
Weike Pan, Evan Wei Xiang, Nathan Nan Liu, Qiang Y...
Reinforcement Learning research is traditionally devoted to solve single-task problems. Therefore, anytime a new task is faced, learning must be restarted from scratch. Recently, ...
To learn a new visual category from few examples, prior knowledge from unlabeled data as well as previous related categories may be useful. We develop a new method for transfer le...
—The success of transfer to improve learning on a target task is highly dependent on the selected source data. Instance-based transfer methods reuse data from the source tasks to...