Multi-task Learning for Software Agents

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  • Stephen A. Hockema
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This paper describes experiments done to demonstrate the effectiveness of Multi-task Learning (MTL) for software agents. The experiments were carried out on an agent for processing electronic mail (email). MTL is shown to slightly improve the learning rate in this domain over Single-task Learning (STL) in a k-nearest-neighbor implementation. We then introduce a new method of lazy learning we call Neural Neighbor which lends itself much better to the incorporation of MTL and outperforms both our STL and MTL k-nearest-neighbor implementations.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007