MARLINE: Multi-Source Mapping Transfer Learning for Non-Stationary Environments
Abstract
Concept drift is a major problem in online learning due to its impact on the predictive performance of data stream mining systems. Recent studies have started exploring data streams from different sources as a strategy to tackle concept drift in a given target domain. These approaches make the assumption that at least one of the source models represents a concept similar to the target concept, which may not hold in many real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called Multi-source mApping with tRansfer LearnIng for Non-stationary Environments (MARLINE). MARLINE can benefit from knowledge from multiple data sources in non-stationary environments even when source and target concepts do not match. This is achieved by projecting the target concept to the space of each source concept, enabling multiple source sub-classifiers to contribute towards the prediction of the target concept as part of an ensemble. Experiments on several synthetic and real-world datasets show that MARLINE was more accurate than several state-of-the-art data stream learning approaches.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2509.08176,
title = {MARLINE: Multi-Source Mapping Transfer Learning for Non-Stationary Environments},
author = {Honghui Du and Leandro Minku and Huiyu Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08176},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Published in the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)