Domain adaptation techniques aim at adapting a classifier learnt on a source
domain to work on the target domain. Exploiting the subspaces spanned by
features of the source and target domains respectively is one approach that has
been investigated towards solving this problem. These techniques normally
assume the existence of a single subspace for the entire source / target
domain. In this work, we consider the hierarchical organization of the data and
consider multiple subspaces for the source and target domain based on the
hierarchy. We evaluate different subspace based domain adaptation techniques
under this setting and observe that using different subspaces based on the
hierarchy yields consistent improvement over a non-hierarchical baselineComment: 4 pages in Second Workshop on Transfer and Multi-Task Learning:
Theory meets Practice in NIPS 201