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Distributed Multi-Task Learning

Jialei Wang, Mladen Kolar, Nathan Srerbo

Abstract

We consider the problem of distributed multi-task learning, where each machine learns a separate, but related, task. Specifically, each machine learns a linear predictor in high-dimensional space, where all tasks share the same small support. We present a communication-efficient estimator based on the debiased lasso and show that it is comparable with the optimal centralized method.

BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v51-wang16d,
  title = 	 {Distributed Multi-Task Learning},
  author = 	 {Wang, Jialei and Kolar, Mladen and Srerbo, Nathan},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  pages = 	 {751--760},
  year = 	 {2016},
  editor = 	 {Gretton, Arthur and Robert, Christian C.},
  volume = 	 {51},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  address = 	 {Cadiz, Spain},
  month = 	 {09--11 May},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v51/wang16d.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v51/wang16d.html},
  abstract = 	 {We consider the problem of distributed multi-task learning, where each machine learns a separate, but related, task. Specifically, each machine learns a linear predictor in high-dimensional space, where all tasks share the same small support. We present a communication-efficient estimator based on the debiased lasso and show that it is comparable with the optimal centralized method.}
}
Distributed Multi-Task Learning · AISTATS 2016