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By jointly learning multiple tasks, multi-task learning (MTL) can leverage the shared knowledge across tasks, resulting in improved data efficiency and generalization performance. However, a major challenge in MTL lies in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hao Ban , Kaiyi Ji

Spectral clustering has emerged as one of the most effective clustering algorithms due to its superior performance. However, most existing models are designed for centralized settings, rendering them inapplicable in modern decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Suyan Dai , Gan Sun , Fazeng Li , Xu Tang , Qianqian Wang , Yang Cong

Multi-task learning (MTL) has recently contributed to learning better representations in service of various NLP tasks. MTL aims at improving the performance of a primary task, by jointly training on a secondary task. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Davis Liang , Yan Shu

Deep learning approaches have achieved great success in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, directly training deep neural models often suffer from overfitting and data scarcity problems that are pervasive in NLP tasks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shijie Chen , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

The optimal solution to an optimization problem depends on the problem's objective function, constraints, and size. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven effective in solving optimization problems, changes in the problem's size,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nikos A. Mitsiou , Pavlos S. Bouzinis , Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis , George K. Karagiannidis

The multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm can be traced back to an early paper of Caruana (1997) in which it was argued that data from multiple tasks can be used with the aim to obtain a better performance over learning each task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Andrea Ponti

Multi-task learning (MTL) can improve performance on a task by sharing representations with one or more related auxiliary-tasks. Usually, MTL-networks are trained on a composite loss function formed by a constant weighted combination of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Sam Verboven , Muhammad Hafeez Chaudhary , Jeroen Berrevoets , Wouter Verbeke

In recent years, Multi-task Learning (MTL) has yielded immense success in Recommender System (RS) applications. However, current MTL-based recommendation models tend to disregard the session-wise patterns of user-item interactions because…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ziru Liu , Jiejie Tian , Qingpeng Cai , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingtong Gao , Shuchang Liu , Dayou Chen , Tonghao He , Dong Zheng , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

This study aims to explore the performance improvement method of large language models based on GPT-4 under the multi-task learning framework and conducts experiments on two tasks: text classification and automatic summary generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zhen Qi , Jiajing Chen , Shuo Wang , Bingying Liu , Hongye Zheng , Chihang Wang

Most deep reinforcement learning algorithms are data inefficient in complex and rich environments, limiting their applicability to many scenarios. One direction for improving data efficiency is multitask learning with shared neural network…

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to empower a model to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously. A recent development known as task arithmetic has revealed that several models, each fine-tuned for distinct tasks, can be directly merged into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Enneng Yang , Zhenyi Wang , Li Shen , Shiwei Liu , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang , Dacheng Tao

Existing deep multitask learning (MTL) approaches align layers shared between tasks in a parallel ordering. Such an organization significantly constricts the types of shared structure that can be learned. The necessity of parallel ordering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

Multi-task learning is a learning paradigm which seeks to improve the generalization performance of a learning task with the help of some other related tasks. In this paper, we propose a regularization formulation for learning the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yu Zhang , Dit-Yan Yeung

This paper introduces a novel approach for multi-task regression that connects Kernel Machines (KMs) and Extreme Learning Machines (ELMs) through the exploitation of the Random Fourier Features (RFFs) approximation of the RBF kernel. In…

In this paper, we present a new MTL framework that searches for structures optimized for multiple tasks with diverse graph topologies and shares features among tasks. We design a restricted DAG-based central network with read-in/read-out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Wonhyeok Choi , Sunghoon Im

Neural network based methods have obtained great progress on a variety of natural language processing tasks. However, in most previous works, the models are learned based on single-task supervised objectives, which often suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Pengfei Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Multitask learning (MTL) has recently gained a lot of popularity as a learning paradigm that can lead to improved per-task performance while also using fewer per-task model parameters compared to single task learning. One of the biggest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Dimitrios Sinodinos , Narges Armanfard

Multi-task learning (MTL) with neural networks leverages commonalities in tasks to improve performance, but often suffers from task interference which reduces the benefits of transfer. To address this issue we introduce the routing network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Clemens Rosenbaum , Tim Klinger , Matthew Riemer

Weighted twin support vector machines (WLTSVM) mines as much potential similarity information in samples as possible to improve the common short-coming of non-parallel plane classifiers. Compared with twin support vector machines (TWSVM),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-28 Ruxin Xu , Huiru Wang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has gained significant popularity in recommender systems as it enables simultaneous optimization of multiple objectives. A key challenge in MTL is negative transfer, but existing studies explored negative transfer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Liangcai Su , Junwei Pan , Ximei Wang , Xi Xiao , Shijie Quan , Xihua Chen , Jie Jiang