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Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

1．1 Background and Motivation

1．2 COntributiong

1．2．1 Extended MDLP for Transfer Learning

1．2．2 Compact Coding for Hyperplane Classifiers in Transfer Learning

1．2．3 Transfer Active Learning

1．2．4 Gaussian Process for Transfer Learning

1．3 Book Overview

Chapter 2 Literature Review and Preliminaries for MDLP

2．1 Transfer Learning

2．2 Active Learning and Transfer Active Learning

2．3 Preljminaries for MD[．P

Chapter 3 Extended MDL Principle for Feature-based Transfer

Learning

3．1 IntroductiOn

3．2 Problem Statement

3．3 Preliminaries for Encoding

3．3．1 Theoretical Foundation of the EMDLP

3．3．2 Adaptation of the EMDLP to Our Problem

3．4 Supervised Inductive Transfer Learning Algorithm

3．4．1 EMDLP with Incremental Search

3．4．2 EMDLP with Hill Climbing

3．5 Experiments

3．5．1 Experimental Settings

3．5．2 Experimental Results on Synthetic Data Sets

3．5．3 Experimental Results on Real Data Sets

3．6 Summary

Chapter 4 Compact Coding for Hyperplane Classifiers in a

Heterogeneous Environment

4．1 Introduction

4．2 Problem Setting

4．3 Compact Coding for Hyperplane Classifiers in

Heterogeneous Environment

4．3．1 Macro Level：Arrange Related Tasks

4．3．2 Micro Level Evaluation

4．3．3 The Transfer Learning Algorithm

4．4 Experiments

4．4．1 Experimental Setting

4．4．2 Experimental Results

4．5 Summary

Chapter 5 Adaptive Transfer Learning with Query by

Committee

5．1 IntroductiOn

5．2 Problem Setting and Preliminaries

5．3 Probabilistic Framework for ALTL

5．4 The ALTL Algorithm and Analysis

5．4．1 The Procedure of ALTL

5．4．2 Termination Condition and Analysis

5．5 Experiments

5．5．1 Experimental Setting

5．5．2 Results on Synthetic Data Sets

5．5．3 Results on Real Data Sets

5．6 Summary

Chapter 6 Gaussian Process for Transfer Learning through

Minimum Encoding

6．1 IntrOduction

6．2 Gaussian Process for Classification

6．3 The GPTL Algorithm

6．3．1 Arrange Related Tasks

6．3．2 The Instance Level Similarities

6．4 Experiments

6．5 Summary

Chapter 7 Concluding Comments

Appendix A Target Concepts in Chapter 3

Bibliography