@InProceedings{daume09hiermtl, author = {Hal {Daum\'e III}}, title = {Bayesian Multitask Learning with Latent Hierarchies}, booktitle = {Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)}, year = {2009}, address = {Montreal, Canada}, abstract = { We learn multiple hypotheses for related tasks under a latent hierarchical relationship between tasks. We exploit the intuition that for \emph{domain adaptation}, we wish to share classifier structure, but for \emph{multitask learning}, we wish to share covariance structure. Our hierarchical model is seen to subsume several previously proposed multitask learning models and performs well on three distinct real-world data sets. }, keywords = {ml bayes da}, tagline = {We show that hierarchical multitask learning can be accomplished even when the hierarchical structure is not known in advance. We use the coalescent to make this happen.}, url = {http://pub.hal3.name/#daume09hiermtl} }