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 ====== Transfer Learning Theory Reading Group ====== ====== Transfer Learning Theory Reading Group ======
  
 +**Location**: 1102
  
-===== Schedule ===== +**Time**: Saturday 2pm (every other week)
-In this reading group, we will read classic domain adaptation theory papers discussed in the following textbook:+
  
-**Textbook**: [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9781785482366/advances-in-domain-adaptation-theory | Advances in Domain Adaptation Theory (ADAT), Redko]] +In this bi-weekly reading group, we will read classic domain adaptation theory papers discussed in the following textbook:
  
 +[[https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9781785482366/advances-in-domain-adaptation-theory | Advances in Domain Adaptation Theory (ADAT), Redko]] 
  
 +Through the readings, we hope to get a basic understanding of how and why domain adaptation algorithms work fundamentally, and in what conditions they would not work.
 +===== Reading Schedule =====
 ==== Background ==== ==== Background ====
  
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   * Ben-David, Shai, John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan. "A theory of learning from different domains." Machine learning 79, no. 1 (2010): 151-175  //(defines the HΔH-divergence, a preliminary work was published in NIPS 2007)//   * Ben-David, Shai, John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan. "A theory of learning from different domains." Machine learning 79, no. 1 (2010): 151-175  //(defines the HΔH-divergence, a preliminary work was published in NIPS 2007)//
  
-=== Week 2: Discrepancy distance I ===+=== Week 3: Discrepancy distance I ===
   * ADAT chapter 3.5.1-3.5.2   * ADAT chapter 3.5.1-3.5.2
   * Mansour, Yishay, Mehryar Mohri, and Afshin Rostamizadeh. "Domain adaptation: Learning bounds and algorithms." arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3430 (2009).//improved generalization bound using discrepancy distance//   * Mansour, Yishay, Mehryar Mohri, and Afshin Rostamizadeh. "Domain adaptation: Learning bounds and algorithms." arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3430 (2009).//improved generalization bound using discrepancy distance//
  
-=== Week 3: Discrepancy distance II ===+=== Week 5: Discrepancy distance II ===
   * ADAT chapter 3.5.3  //a discrepancy distance based generalization bound for regression problems.//   * ADAT chapter 3.5.3  //a discrepancy distance based generalization bound for regression problems.//
   * Cortes, Corinna, and Mehryar Mohri. "Domain adaptation in regression." In International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, pp. 308-323. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.     * Cortes, Corinna, and Mehryar Mohri. "Domain adaptation in regression." In International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, pp. 308-323. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.  
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 ==== Impossibility theorems for domain adaptation ==== ==== Impossibility theorems for domain adaptation ====
-=== Week 4: Impossibility theorems ===+=== Week 7: Impossibility theorems ===
   * ADAT Chapter 4.1-4.2   * ADAT Chapter 4.1-4.2
-  * David, Shai Ben, Tyler Lu, Teresa Luu, and Dávid Pál. "Impossibility theorems for domain adaptation." In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, pp. 129-136. JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, 2010. //(using the HDH-divergence)// +  * David, Shai Ben, Tyler Lu, Teresa Luu, and Dávid Pál. "Impossibility theorems for domain adaptation." In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, pp. 129-136. JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, 2010. //(using the HΔH-divergence)// 
-=== Week 5: Hardness results ===+=== Week 9: Hardness results ===
   * ADAT Chapter 4.3-4.4   * ADAT Chapter 4.3-4.4
   * Ben-David, Shai, and Ruth Urner. "On the hardness of domain adaptation and the utility of unlabeled target samples." In International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, pp. 139-153. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.   * Ben-David, Shai, and Ruth Urner. "On the hardness of domain adaptation and the utility of unlabeled target samples." In International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, pp. 139-153. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.
 ==== Integral probability generalization bound ==== ==== Integral probability generalization bound ====
-=== Week 6: Wasserstein distance  ===+=== Week 11: Wasserstein distance  ===
  
   * ADAT Chapter 5.1-5.3   * ADAT Chapter 5.1-5.3
   * Redko, Ievgen, Amaury Habrard, and Marc Sebban. "Theoretical analysis of domain adaptation with optimal transport." In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pp. 737-753. Springer, Cham, 2017.    * Redko, Ievgen, Amaury Habrard, and Marc Sebban. "Theoretical analysis of domain adaptation with optimal transport." In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pp. 737-753. Springer, Cham, 2017. 
 ===== Other candidate papers ===== ===== Other candidate papers =====
-  * Baxter, Jonathan. "A model of inductive bias learning." Journal of artificial intelligence research 12 (2000): 149-198. //Show how multi-task learning, assuming the target task is embedded within an environment of related tasks. // +  * Baxter, Jonathan. "A model of inductive bias learning." Journal of artificial intelligence research 12 (2000): 149-198. //(Show how multi-task learning can improve generalization, assuming the target task is embedded within an environment of related tasks.) //  
 +  * ERM-based Multi-source Transfer Learning //(recent work by Xinyi on the sample complexity of multi-source transfer learning)//
  
  
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