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Learning Programs: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach

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Learning Programs: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach
We are interested in learning programs for multiple related tasks given only a few training examples per task. Since the program for a single task is underdetermined by its data, we introduce a nonparametric hierarchical Bayesian prior over programs which shares statistical strength across multiple tasks. The key challenge is to parametrize this multi-task sharing. For this, we introduce a new representation of programs based on combinatory logic and provide an MCMC algorithm that can perform safe program transformations on this representation to reveal shared inter-program substructures.
Percy Liang, Michael I. Jordan, Dan Klein
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Type Conference
Year 2010
Where ICML
Authors Percy Liang, Michael I. Jordan, Dan Klein
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