Multi-Task Averaging
Machine Learning
2015-03-19 v4 Methodology
Abstract
We present a multi-task learning approach to jointly estimate the means of multiple independent data sets. The proposed multi-task averaging (MTA) algorithm results in a convex combination of the single-task maximum likelihood estimates. We derive the optimal minimum risk estimator and the minimax estimator, and show that these estimators can be efficiently estimated. Simulations and real data experiments demonstrate that MTA estimators often outperform both single-task and James-Stein estimators.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1107.4390,
title = {Multi-Task Averaging},
author = {Sergey Feldman and Bela A. Frigyik and Maya R. Gupta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4390},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
totally redone paper