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Multi task learning
The MALSAR package implements several methods for multi-task learning, but is only available for MATLAB.
TODO: discuss other R packages that implement methods for multi-task learning. glmnet?
- Convert the MATLAB code to an R package. TODO: details about which functions we want to focus on?
The R community will for the first time be able to solve a variety of multi-task learning problems.
Ideally this project should have one mentor who is familiar with the original MALSAR code, and another who is an expert R package developer. If there are any interested students, please try to email the MALSAR authors, and ask if they can mentor. If they can, TD Hocking <[email protected]> could be the R co-mentor.
TODO Several tests that potential students can do to demonstrate their capabilities for this particular project. Please modify the suggestions below to make them specific for your project.
- Easy: something that any useR should be able to do, e.g. download some existing package listed in the Related Work, and run it on some example data.
- Medium: something a bit more complicated. You can encourage students to write a script or some functions that show their R coding abilities.
- Hard: Can the student write a package with Rd files, tests, and vigettes? If your package interfaces with non-R code, can the student write in that other language?
Students, please post a link to your test results here.