Curriculum learning of multiple tasks
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Author(s)
Pentina, Anastasia
Sharmanska, Viktoriia
Lampert, Christoph H
Type
Conference Paper
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.
Date Issued
2015-10-15
Date Acceptance
2015-03-02
Citation
2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015, pp.5492-5500
ISBN
978-1-4673-6964-0
ISSN
1063-6919
Publisher
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Start Page
5492
End Page
5500
Journal / Book Title
2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
https://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/CVPR2015.py
Source
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Place of Publication
Boston, MA, USA
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2015-06-07
Finish Date
2015-06-12
Coverage Spatial
Boston, MA, USA
OA Location
https://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2015/papers/Pentina_Curriculum_Learning_of_2015_CVPR_paper.pdf