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Curriculum learning in reinforcement learning is used to shape exploration by presenting the agent with increasingly complex tasks. The idea of curriculum learning has been largely applied in both animal training and pedagogy. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Francesco Foglino , Christiano Coletto Christakou , Matteo Leonetti

The paradigm of multi-task learning is that one can achieve better generalization by learning tasks jointly and thus exploiting the similarity between the tasks rather than learning them independently of each other. While previously the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-19 Pratik Jawanpuria , Maksim Lapin , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Multitask learning aims at solving a set of related tasks simultaneously, by exploiting the shared knowledge for improving the performance on individual tasks. Hence, an important aspect of multitask learning is to understand the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Changjian Shui , Mahdieh Abbasi , Louis-Émile Robitaille , Boyu Wang , Christian Gagné

In multi-task learning, a learner is given a collection of prediction tasks and needs to solve all of them. In contrast to previous work, which required that annotated training data is available for all tasks, we consider a new setting, in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-09 Anastasia Pentina , Christoph H. Lampert

In this paper we consider a problem known as multi-task learning, consisting of fitting a set of classifier or regression functions intended for solving different tasks. In our novel formulation, we couple the parameters of these functions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Juan Cervino , Juan Andres Bazerque , Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Alejandro Ribeiro

Visual attributes, from simple objects (e.g., backpacks, hats) to soft-biometrics (e.g., gender, height, clothing) have proven to be a powerful representational approach for many applications such as image description and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Theodore Giannakopoulos , Christophoros Nikou , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

We study three general multi-task learning (MTL) approaches on 11 sequence tagging tasks. Our extensive empirical results show that in about 50% of the cases, jointly learning all 11 tasks improves upon either independent or pairwise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Soravit Changpinyo , Hexiang Hu , Fei Sha

Key to multitask learning is exploiting relationships between different tasks to improve prediction performance. If the relations are linear, regularization approaches can be used successfully. However, in practice assuming the tasks to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Carlo Ciliberto , Alessandro Rudi , Lorenzo Rosasco , Massimiliano Pontil

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to leverage shared information among tasks to improve learning efficiency and accuracy. However, MTL often struggles to effectively manage positive and negative transfer between tasks, which can hinder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chenguang Wang , Xuanhao Pan , Tianshu Yu

We consider a multitask learning problem, in which several predictors are learned jointly. Prior research has shown that learning the relations between tasks, and between the input features, together with the predictor, can lead to better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Han Zhao , Otilia Stretcu , Alex Smola , Geoff Gordon

Multimedia applications often require concurrent solutions to multiple tasks. These tasks hold clues to each-others solutions, however as these relations can be complex this remains a rarely utilized property. When task relations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Gjorgji Strezoski , Nanne van Noord , Marcel Worring

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims to learn multiple tasks simultaneously while exploiting their mutual relationships. By using shared resources to simultaneously calculate multiple outputs, this learning paradigm has the potential to have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Maxime Fontana , Michael Spratling , Miaojing Shi

We present two architectures for multi-task learning with neural sequence models. Our approach allows the relationships between different tasks to be learned dynamically, rather than using an ad-hoc pre-defined structure as in previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Pengfei Liu , Jie Fu , Yue Dong , Xipeng Qiu , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised feature selection framework by mining correlations among multiple tasks and apply it to different multimedia applications. Instead of independently computing the importance of features for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Xiaojun Chang , Yi Yang

In multi-task learning several related tasks are considered simultaneously, with the hope that by an appropriate sharing of information across tasks, each task may benefit from the others. In the context of learning linear functions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-09-12 Laurent Jacob , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

Curriculum learning in reinforcement learning is a training methodology that seeks to speed up learning of a difficult target task, by first training on a series of simpler tasks and transferring the knowledge acquired to the target task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Sanmit Narvekar , Peter Stone

Many models of learning in teams assume that team members can share solutions or learn concurrently. However, these assumptions break down in multidisciplinary teams where team members often complete distinct, interrelated pieces of larger…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-16 John Meluso , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

Multi-task learning is to improve the performance of the model by transferring and exploiting common knowledge among tasks. Existing MTL works mainly focus on the scenario where label sets among multiple tasks (MTs) are usually the same,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Quan Feng , Songcan Chen

In recent years, multi-task learning has turned out to be of great success in various applications. Though single model training has promised great results throughout these years, it ignores valuable information that might help us estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yeshwant Singh , Anupam Biswas , Angshuman Bora , Debashish Malakar , Subham Chakraborty , Suman Bera

When a number of similar tasks have to be learned simultaneously, multi-task learning (MTL) models can attain significantly higher accuracy than single-task learning (STL) models. However, the advantage of MTL depends on various factors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Afiya Ayman , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Aron Laszka