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Rich Caruana's original paper on multitask learning (from the 90s) talks about this very kind of multi-headed neural networks and it doesn't appear that this Go
by iskander 12y ago
Rich Caruana's original paper on multitask learning (from the 90s) talks about this very kind of multi-headed neural networks and it doesn't appear that this Google paper has done anything new with the algorithm.
So, what's actually novel in this paper?
The AUC improvements they show are fairly modest. Training on millions of data points is pretty old hat in the neural network world.
- Houshalter 12y agoThat they can improve drug discovery? That isn't interesting enough?
- iskander 12y ago>That they can improve drug discovery? ICML is not a molecular biology journal and can't judge this paper on those merits (and probably neither can most people on news.yc). From a machine learning perspective, though, there isn't much here.
- letitgo12345 12y agoSeems like it's still under review. I feel it's a bit improper to put out a press release when the paper is still under review -- that can easily influence the review process.
- Houshalter 12y agoPresumably more accurate predictions on the dataset are beneficial. And applications of ML should be of interest to machine learning journals, but I can't speak for that.