Transductive transfer learning via maximum margin criterion

Authors

1 Faculty of IT & Computer Engineering, Urmia University of Technology, Urmia, Iran.

2 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a transductive transfer learning framework, referred to as Transfer Maximum Margin Criterion (T-MMC). This framework is suitable to transfer the knowledge acquired in one domain, the source domain, to another domain, the target domain, where no labeled examples are available in the target domain. We introduce an e ective feature weighting approach, which proceeds to reduce the domain di erence between the source and target domains. Moreover, we exploit maximum margin criterion to well discriminate various classes in the reduced domains. We simultaneously transfer knowledge from the source domain to target domain and also discriminate various classes in the reduced domains. Comprehensive experiments on the synthetic and real datasets demonstrate that T-MMC outperforms existing transfer learning methods.

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Volume 23, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Transactions on Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering (D)
June 2016
Pages 1239-1250
  • Receive Date: 25 June 2016
  • Revise Date: 21 December 2024
  • Accept Date: 27 July 2017