{"title":"Redirected transfer learning for robust multi-layer subspace learning","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10044-024-01233-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Unsupervised transfer learning methods usually exploit the labeled source data to learn a classifier for unlabeled target data with a different but related distribution. However, most of the existing transfer learning methods leverage 0-1 matrix as labels which greatly narrows the flexibility of transfer learning. Another major limitation is that these methods are influenced by the redundant features and noises residing in cross-domain data. To cope with these two issues simultaneously, this paper proposes a redirected transfer learning (RTL) approach for unsupervised transfer learning with a multi-layer subspace learning structure. Specifically, in the first layer, we first learn a robust subspace where data from different domains can be well interlaced. This is made by reconstructing each target sample with the lowest-rank representation of source samples. Besides, imposing the <span> <span>\\(L_{2,1}\\)</span> </span>-norm sparsity on the regression term and regularization term brings robustness against noise and works for selecting informative features, respectively. In the second layer, we further introduce a redirected label strategy in which the strict binary labels are relaxed into continuous values for each datum. To handle effectively unknown labels of the target domain, we construct the pseudo-labels iteratively for unlabeled target samples to improve the discriminative ability in classification. The superiority of our method in classification tasks is confirmed on several cross-domain datasets.</p>","PeriodicalId":54639,"journal":{"name":"Pattern Analysis and Applications","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pattern Analysis and Applications","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-024-01233-8","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Unsupervised transfer learning methods usually exploit the labeled source data to learn a classifier for unlabeled target data with a different but related distribution. However, most of the existing transfer learning methods leverage 0-1 matrix as labels which greatly narrows the flexibility of transfer learning. Another major limitation is that these methods are influenced by the redundant features and noises residing in cross-domain data. To cope with these two issues simultaneously, this paper proposes a redirected transfer learning (RTL) approach for unsupervised transfer learning with a multi-layer subspace learning structure. Specifically, in the first layer, we first learn a robust subspace where data from different domains can be well interlaced. This is made by reconstructing each target sample with the lowest-rank representation of source samples. Besides, imposing the \(L_{2,1}\)-norm sparsity on the regression term and regularization term brings robustness against noise and works for selecting informative features, respectively. In the second layer, we further introduce a redirected label strategy in which the strict binary labels are relaxed into continuous values for each datum. To handle effectively unknown labels of the target domain, we construct the pseudo-labels iteratively for unlabeled target samples to improve the discriminative ability in classification. The superiority of our method in classification tasks is confirmed on several cross-domain datasets.
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