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Learning auxiliary tasks, such as multiple predictions about the world, can provide many benefits to reinforcement learning systems. A variety of off-policy learning algorithms have been developed to learn such predictions, but as yet there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Matthew McLeod , Chunlok Lo , Matthew Schlegel , Andrew Jacobsen , Raksha Kumaraswamy , Martha White , Adam White

Human beings can leverage knowledge from relative tasks to improve learning on a primary task. Similarly, multi-task learning methods suggest using auxiliary tasks to enhance a neural network's performance on a specific primary task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yuanze Li , Chun-Mei Feng , Qilong Wang , Guanglei Yang , Wangmeng Zuo

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…

Many applications require statistically valid inference across many related tasks, while using only a handful of high-quality labels per hypothesis. In AI evaluation, these tasks may correspond to model behaviors across prompts, subgroups,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Nicolas Emmenegger , Ellery Stahler , Chara Podimata

Continual learning of multiple tasks remains a major challenge for neural networks. Here, we investigate how task order influences continual learning and propose a strategy for optimizing it. Leveraging a linear teacher-student model with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-22 Ziyan Li , Naoki Hiratani

We investigate task clustering for deep-learning based multi-task and few-shot learning in a many-task setting. We propose a new method to measure task similarities with cross-task transfer performance matrix for the deep learning scenario.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Jinfeng Yi , Shiyu Chang , Saloni Potdar , Gerald Tesauro , Haoyu Wang , Bowen Zhou

Obtaining annotations for 3D medical images is expensive and time-consuming, despite its importance for automating segmentation tasks. Although multi-task learning is considered an effective method for training segmentation models using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Junichiro Iwasawa , Yuichiro Hirano , Yohei Sugawara

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 present a learning method for sequence labeling tasks in which each example sequence has multiple label sequences. Our method learns multiple models, one model for each label sequence. Each model computes the joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Arvind Agarwal , Saurabh Kataria

We propose an asymmetric affinity score for representing the complexity of utilizing the knowledge of one task for learning another one. Our method is based on the maximum bipartite matching algorithm and utilizes the Fisher Information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Cat P. Le , Juncheng Dong , Mohammadreza Soltani , Vahid Tarokh

Multitask algorithms typically use task similarity information as a bias to speed up and improve the performance of learning processes. Tasks are learned jointly, sharing information across them, in order to construct models more accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Marco Frasca , Giuliano Grossi , Giorgio Valentini

This work extends the theory of identifiability in supervised learning by considering the consequences of having access to a distribution of tasks. In such cases, we show that linear identifiability is achievable in the general multi-task…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-26 Wenlin Chen , Julien Horwood , Juyeon Heo , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

The problem of multilabel classification when the labels are related through a hierarchical categorization scheme occurs in many application domains such as computational biology. For example, this problem arises naturally when trying to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Sara Mostafavi , Quaid Morris

In recent years, deep learning algorithms have outperformed the state-of-the art methods in several areas thanks to the efficient methods for training and for preventing overfitting, advancement in computer hardware, the availability of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-30 Ahmet Sureyya Rifaioglu , Tunca Doğan , Maria Jesus Martin , Rengul Cetin-Atalay , Mehmet Volkan Atalay

This paper proposes a joint multi-task learning algorithm to better predict attributes in images using deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). We consider learning binary semantic attributes through a multi-task CNN model, where each CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Abrar H. Abdulnabi , Gang Wang , Jiwen Lu , Kui Jia

One crucial objective of multi-task learning is to align distributions across tasks so that the information between them can be transferred and shared. However, existing approaches only focused on matching the marginal feature distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Fan Zhou , Brahim Chaib-draa , Boyu Wang

Sharing information between multiple tasks enables algorithms to achieve good generalization performance even from small amounts of training data. However, in a realistic scenario of multi-task learning not all tasks are equally related to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-04 Anastasia Pentina , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Christoph H. Lampert

Multi-task learning aims to boost the generalization performance of multiple related tasks simultaneously by leveraging information contained in those tasks. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning framework, where we utilize prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Mengyuan Zhang , Kai Liu

Prediction of molecular properties, including physico-chemical properties, is a challenging task in chemistry. Herein we present a new state-of-the-art multitask prediction method based on existing graph neural network models. We have used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Fabio Capela , Vincent Nouchi , Ruud Van Deursen , Igor V. Tetko , Guillaume Godin

When faced with learning a set of inter-related tasks from a limited amount of usable data, learning each task independently may lead to poor generalization performance. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) exploits the latent relations between tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Niloofar Yousefi , Michael Georgiopoulos , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos