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Scarcity of parallel sentence pairs is a major challenge for training high quality neural machine translation (NMT) models in bilingually low-resource scenarios, as NMT is data-hungry. Multi-task learning is an elegant approach to inject…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Poorya Zaremoodi , Gholamreza Haffari

Multi-task learning (MTL) is frequently used in settings where a target task has to be learnt based on limited training data, but knowledge can be leveraged from related auxiliary tasks. While MTL can improve task performance overall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Rafael Peres da Silva , Chayaporn Suphavilai , Niranjan Nagarajan

With the rise of neural networks in various domains, multi-task learning (MTL) gained significant relevance. A key challenge in MTL is balancing individual task losses during neural network training to improve performance and efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Lukas Kirchdorfer , Cathrin Elich , Simon Kutsche , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Lukas Schott , Jan M. Köhler

Humans are incredibly good at transferring knowledge from one domain to another, enabling rapid learning of new tasks. Likewise, transfer learning has enabled enormous success in many computer vision problems using pretraining. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yipeng Zhang , Tyler L. Hayes , Christopher Kanan

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong task-specific capabilities through fine-tuning, but merging multiple fine-tuned models often leads to degraded performance due to overlapping instruction-following components. Task Arithmetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yan-Lun Chen , Yi-Ru Wei , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Chun-Ying Huang , Ying-Dar Lin , Yu-Sung Wu , Wei-Bin Lee

In this work, we propose a novel and scalable solution to address the challenges of developing efficient dense predictions on edge platforms. Our first key insight is that MultiTask Learning (MTL) and hardware-aware Neural Architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Thanh Vu , Yanqi Zhou , Chunfeng Wen , Yueqi Li , Jan-Michael Frahm

Hard parameter sharing in multi-domain learning (MDL) allows domains to share some of the model parameters to reduce storage cost while improving prediction accuracy. One common sharing practice is to share the bottom layers of a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Lijun Zhang , Qizheng Yang , Xiao Liu , Hui Guan

Meta-learning enables algorithms to quickly learn a newly encountered task with just a few labeled examples by transferring previously learned knowledge. However, the bottleneck of current meta-learning algorithms is the requirement of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Huaxiu Yao , Linjun Zhang , Chelsea Finn

This paper proposes a novel learning method for multi-task applications. Multi-task neural networks can learn to transfer knowledge across different tasks by using parameter sharing. However, sharing parameters between unrelated tasks can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Krzysztof Maziarz , Efi Kokiopoulou , Andrea Gesmundo , Luciano Sbaiz , Gabor Bartok , Jesse Berent

Can deep learning solve multiple tasks simultaneously, even when they are unrelated and very different? We investigate how the representations of the underlying tasks affect the ability of a single neural network to learn them jointly. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Atish Agarwala , Abhimanyu Das , Brendan Juba , Rina Panigrahy , Vatsal Sharan , Xin Wang , Qiuyi Zhang

This paper presents a novel method that allows a machine learning algorithm following the transformation-based learning paradigm \cite{brill95:tagging} to be applied to multiple classification tasks by training jointly and simultaneously on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Radu Florian , Grace Ngai

Deep neural networks trained for predicting cellular events from DNA sequence have become emerging tools to help elucidate the biological mechanism underlying the associations identified in genome-wide association studies. To enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Mohammad Shiri , Jiangwen Sun

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

Representation multi-task learning (MTL) has achieved tremendous success in practice. However, the theoretical understanding of these methods is still lacking. Most existing theoretical works focus on cases where all tasks share the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Ye Tian , Yuqi Gu , Yang Feng

As an effective learning paradigm against insufficient training samples, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) encourages knowledge sharing across multiple related tasks so as to improve the overall performance. In MTL, a major challenge springs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Modern NLP applications have enjoyed a great boost utilizing neural networks models. Such deep neural models, however, are not applicable to most human languages due to the lack of annotated training data for various NLP tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Xilun Chen , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Hany Hassan , Wei Wang , Claire Cardie

Multi-task learning, as it is understood nowadays, consists of using one single model to carry out several similar tasks. From classifying hand-written characters of different alphabets to figuring out how to play several Atari games using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Unai Garciarena , Alexander Mendiburu , Roberto Santana

Multi-task learning aims to learn multiple related tasks simultaneously and has achieved great success in various fields. However, the disparity in loss and gradient scales among tasks often leads to performance compromises, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Baijiong Lin , Weisen Jiang , Feiyang Ye , Yu Zhang , Pengguang Chen , Ying-Cong Chen , Shu Liu , Ivor W. Tsang , James T. Kwok

Tabular data is the most abundant data type in the world, powering systems in finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and beyond. As tabular datasets grow and span multiple related targets, there is an increasing need to exploit shared task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Dimitrios Sinodinos , Jack Yi Wei , Narges Armanfard

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a powerful approach in deep learning that leverages the information from multiple tasks during training to improve model performance. In medical imaging, MTL has shown great potential to solve various tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sangwook Kim , Thomas G. Purdie , Chris McIntosh