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Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is widely-accepted in Natural Language Processing as a standard technique for learning multiple related tasks in one model. Training an MTL model requires having the training data for all tasks available at the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sudipta Kar , Giuseppe Castellucci , Simone Filice , Shervin Malmasi , Oleg Rokhlenko

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims at learning related tasks in a unified model to achieve mutual improvement among tasks considering their shared knowledge. It is an important topic in recommendation due to the demand for multi-task prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Yuhao Wang , Ha Tsz Lam , Yi Wong , Ziru Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yichao Wang , Bo Chen , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Multi-task learning (MTL) is critical in real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotics, enabling simultaneous handling of diverse tasks. However, obtaining fully annotated data for all tasks is impractical due to labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Youngmin Oh , Hyung-Il Kim , Jung Uk Kim

Multi-task learning has been observed by many researchers, which supposes that different tasks can share a low-rank common yet latent subspace. It means learning multiple tasks jointly is better than learning them independently. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Wei Chang , Feiping Nie , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li

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

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful approach to complex decision making. However, one issue that limits its practical application is its brittleness, sometimes failing to train in the presence of small changes in the environment.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Jung-Hoon Cho , Vindula Jayawardana , Sirui Li , Cathy Wu

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a powerful machine learning paradigm designed to leverage shared knowledge across tasks to improve generalization and performance. Previous works have proposed approaches to MTL that can be divided into feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Paolo Bonetti , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

A traditional and intuitively appealing Multi-Task Multiple Kernel Learning (MT-MKL) method is to optimize the sum (thus, the average) of objective functions with (partially) shared kernel function, which allows information sharing amongst…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Cong Li , Michael Georgiopoulos , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

In pursuit of reinforcement learning systems that could train in physical environments, we investigate multi-task approaches as a means to alleviate the need for massive data acquisition. In a tabular scenario where the Q-functions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sergio Rozada , Santiago Paternain , Juan Andres Bazerque , Antonio G. Marques

The state-of-the-art online learning models generally conduct a single online gradient descent when a new sample arrives and thus suffer from suboptimal model weights. To this end, we introduce an online broad learning system framework with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunyu Lei , Guang-Ze Chen , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has emerged as an imperative machine learning tool to solve multiple learning tasks simultaneously and has been successfully applied to healthcare, marketing, and biomedical fields. However, in order to borrow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yang Sui , Qi Xu , Yang Bai , Annie Qu

Learning-to-Rank (LTR) is a supervised machine learning approach that constructs models specifically designed to order a set of items or documents based on their relevance or importance to a given query or context. Despite significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Camilo Gomez , Pengyang Wang , Yanjie Fu

In [1, 2], we have explored the theoretical aspects of feature extraction optimization processes for solving largescale problems and overcoming machine learning limitations. Majority of optimization algorithms that have been introduced in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

Text classification is a very classic NLP task, but it has two prominent shortcomings: On the one hand, text classification is deeply domain-dependent. That is, a classifier trained on the corpus of one domain may not perform so well in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zilin Yuan , Yinghui Li , Yangning Li , Rui Xie , Wei Wu , Hai-Tao Zheng

Multitask learning (MTL) has become prominent for its ability to predict multiple tasks jointly, achieving better per-task performance with fewer parameters than single-task learning. Recently, decoder-focused architectures have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Dimitrios Sinodinos , Narges Armanfard

Since its inception, the modus operandi of multi-task learning (MTL) has been to minimize the task-wise mean of the empirical risks. We introduce a generalized loss-compositional paradigm for MTL that includes a spectrum of formulations as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Nishant A. Mehta , Dongryeol Lee , Alexander G. Gray

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

This paper examines an online multi-task learning (OMTL) method, which processes data sequentially to predict labels across related tasks. The framework learns task weights and their relatedness concurrently. Unlike previous models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yixin Jin , Wenjing Zhou , Meiqi Wang , Meng Li , Xintao Li , Tianyu Hu

Multi-task representation learning (MTRL) is an approach that learns shared latent representations across related tasks, facilitating collaborative learning that improves the overall learning efficiency. This paper studies MTRL for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yaoze Guo , Shana Moothedath

Online metric learning has been widely applied in classification and retrieval. It can automatically learn a suitable metric from data by restricting similar instances to be separated from dissimilar instances with a given margin. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Wenbin Li , Yanfang Liu , Jing Huo , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Lei Wang , Jiebo Luo