Local transfer learning from one data space to another

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This interesting paper studies transfer learning from one data space to another. The following problem is well known and fundamental in machine learning. Suppose we are given data \((x_j,y_j)\) assumed to be sampled from an unknown probability distribution. The objective is to approximate the function \(\mathcal{E}(y|x)\) from the data. Often, the points \(x_j\) belong to an ambient Euclidean space of a very high dimension, leading to the so-called curse of dimensionality. One of the strategies to counter this ``curse is to assume the manifold hypothesis that is that the points \(x_j\) live on or near to an unknown low-dimensional sub-manifold of the ambient space and there is a vast literature which covers this topic ranging from Isomaps, locally linear embeddings, Hessian locally linear embeddings, diffusion maps, semidefinite programming, local tangent space alignment, Laplacian eigenmaps, randomized anisotropic transforms and many others. The manifold is defined by the data set itself and, is designed so that the data is dense on the manifold in some well defined sense. The notion of a data space is an abstraction of a manifold encapsulating the essential properties that allow for function approximation. The problem of transfer learning is to use the learning of a function on one data set to learn a similar function on a new data set. In terms of function approximation, this means lifting a function on one data space (the base data space) to another (the target data space). In this paper, the authors study the question of such lifting when the data is assumed to be known only on a part of the base data space. The authors are interested in determining subsets of the target data space on which the lifting can be defined, and how the local smoothness of the function and its lifting are related. \N\NThe paper is well written with an excellent set of references.\N\NFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1577.65002].



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