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We propose an extension of the boosting for transfer method (TrAdaBoost), Joint Quantile Loss Boosting Domain Adaptation (TrAdaBoost.JQL) for regression transfer learning, that aims to jointly minimize regression and ordinal classification errors. Motivated by the real-world problem of poverty targeting using the Proxy Means Test, we empirically show that TrAdaBoost.JQL can consistently reduce RMSE and inclusion and exclusion errors for estimating per capita household expenditure, across a wide variety of districts in Indonesia, compared to other reweighting-based and invariant feature representation-based domain adaptation methods. We design TrAdaBoost.JQL to be flexible as to the chosen eligibility (poor) threshold used in poverty targeting practice and as to whether estimation or ordinal classification accuracy is prioritized.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2024/819","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/819","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/0819.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/819.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/bibtex/819","volume":{"slug":"2024","title":"Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2024","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/","year":2024,"location":"Jeju, Korea","dates":"3-9 August 2024","editors":"Kate Larson","isbn":"978-1-956792-04-1","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2024"},"section":"AI for Good","track":"AI for Good","number":819,"pages":{"first":7403,"last":7411},"keywords":["Machine Learning: General","Data Mining: General","Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: General"],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Al-Stouhi and Reddy, 2011] Samir Al-Stouhi and Chan- dan K. 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