B0223
Title: Adaptive and robust multi-task learning
Authors: Kaizheng Wang - Columbia University (United States) [presenting]
Yaqi Duan - Princeton University (United States)
Abstract: The purpose is to study the multi-task learning problem that aims to simultaneously analyze multiple datasets collected from different sources and learn one model for each of them. We propose a family of adaptive methods that automatically utilize possible similarities among those tasks while carefully handling their differences. We derive sharp statistical guarantees for the methods and prove their robustness against outlier tasks. Numerical experiments on synthetic and real datasets demonstrate the efficacy of our new methods.
