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Lifelong Machine Learning (LML) has been receiving more and more attention in the past few years. It produces systems that are able to learn knowledge from consecutive tasks and refine the learned knowledge for a life time. In the optimization process of classical full-supervised LML systems, sufficient labeled data are required for extracting inter-task relationships before transferring. In order to leverage abundant unlabeled data and reduce the expenditure of labeling data, an progressive lifelong learning algorithm (PLLA) is proposed in this paper with unsupervised pre-training to learn shared representations that are more suitable as input to LML systems than the raw input data. Experiments show that the proposed PLLA is much more effective than many other LML methods when few labeled data is available.
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This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Founding of China (61171142, 61401163, U1636218), Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province of China (2014B010111003, 2014B010111006), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2017MS045), and Guangzhou Key Lab of Body Data Science (201605030011).
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Su, G., Xu, X., Chen, C., Cai, B., Qing, C. (2018). Progressive Lifelong Learning by Sharing Representations for Few Labeled Data. In: Huet, B., Nie, L., Hong, R. (eds) Internet Multimedia Computing and Service. ICIMCS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 819. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8530-7_40
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