6. Conclusions
Designing the classifiers from datasets with group probabilities is an important learning task for practical applications, as well as for scalable datasets. In view of this, we propose a transfer support vector machine with group probabilities (TSVM-GP) by incorporating additional group probabilities into the transfer learning framework. Furthermore, in order to make TSVM-GP scalable to large scale transfer datasets, a scalable transfer support vector machine with group probabilities (STSVM-GP) is proposed by using the representative set of the source domain as the new training set and then utilize them for transfer learning with group probability. The effectiveness of the classifiers is demonstrated using several datasets from the real-world classification datasets as well as using the synthetic datasets. Although the proposed TSVM-GP and STSVM-GP have shown promising performance, there are still many aspects that deserve further investigation. For example, how to further reduce the computation in proposed classifiers by using more efficient QP solver is a research topic worth to be studied. Furthermore, how to develop a robust classifier for noisy data with group probabilities is also worth to be studied.