Learning One More Thing
Abstract
Most research on machine learning has focused on scenarios in which a learner faces a single, isolated learning risk. The life-long learning framework assumes instead that the learner encounters a multitude of related learning tasks over its lifetime, providing the opportunity for the transfer of knowledge. This paper studies life-long learning in the context of binary classification. It presents the invariance approach, in which knowledge is transferred via a learned model of the invariance of the domain. Results on learning to recognize objects from color images demonstrate superior generalization capabilities if invariances are learned and used to bias subsequent learning.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADA285342
Entities
People
- Sebastian Thrun
- Tom M. Mitchell
Organizations
- Carnegie Mellon University