1. Transfer learning
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-894717-703981.html
http://www.zhizhihu.com/html/y2009/790.html
http://vipl.ict.ac.cn/members/mnkan
2. Metric learning
http://www.cppblog.com/guijie/archive/2012/04/19/172045.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~liuy/distlearn.htm (toolbox)