Title
Population-based ensemble classifier induction for domain adaptation.
Abstract
In classification, the task of domain adaptation is to learn a classifier to classify target data using unlabeled data from the target domain and labeled data from a related, but not identical, source domain. Transfer classifier induction is a common domain adaptation approach that learns an adaptive classifier directly rather than first adapting the source data. However, most existing transfer classifier induction algorithms are gradient-based, so they can easily get stuck at local optima. Moreover, they usually generate only a single classifier which might fit the source data too well, which results in poor target accuracy. In this paper, we propose a population-based algorithm that can address the above two limitations. The proposed algorithm can re-initialize a population member to a promising region when the member is trapped at local optima. The population-based mechanism allows the proposed algorithm to output a set of classifiers which is more reliable than a single classifier. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves significantly better target accuracy than four state-of-the-art and well-known domain adaptation algorithms on three real-world domain adaptation problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3321707.3321716
GECCO
Keywords
Field
DocType
Transfer Learning, Domain adaptation, Classiication, Evolutionary Computation
Population,Computer science,Domain adaptation,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Machine learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6111-8
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bach Hoai Nguyen1607.22
Bing Xue291847.57
Mengjie Zhang33777300.33
Peter Andreae435831.85