Title
Feature-Based Transfer Learning Based on Distribution Similarity
Abstract
Transfer learning has been found helpful at enhancing the target domain's learning process by transferring useful knowledge from other different but related source domains. In many applications, however, collecting and labeling target information is not only very difficult but also expensive. At the same time, considerable prior experience in this regard exists in other application domains. This paper proposes a feature-based transfer learning method based on distribution similarity that aims at the partial overlap of features between two domains. The non-overlapping features are completed by leveraging the distribution similarity of other features within the source domain. Features of the two domains are then reweighted in accordance with the distribution similarity between the source and target domains. This, in turn, decreases the distribution discrepancy between the two domains, therefore achieving the desired feature transfer. Results of the experiments performed on Facebook and Sina Microblog data sets demonstrate that the proposed method is capable of effectively enhancing the accuracy of the prediction function.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2843773
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Distribution similarity,feature transfer,KL divergence,transfer learning
Data mining,Data set,Social media,Computer science,Transfer of learning,Microblogging,Probability distribution,Feature based,Kullback–Leibler divergence,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaofeng Zhong114329.85
Shize Guo214523.21
Hong Shan311.70
Liang Gao430.71
Di Xue581.88
nan zhao652.07