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Multi-task learning (MTL) has become increasingly popular in natural language processing (NLP) because it improves the performance of related tasks by exploiting their commonalities and differences. Nevertheless, it is still not understood…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Zhihan Zhang , Wenhao Yu , Mengxia Yu , Zhichun Guo , Meng Jiang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has achieved great success in various research domains, such as CV, NLP and IR etc. Due to the complex and competing task correlation, naive training all tasks may lead to inequitable learning, i.e. some tasks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jun Yuan , Rui Zhang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has received considerable attention, and numerous deep learning applications benefit from MTL with multiple objectives. However, constructing multiple related tasks is difficult, and sometimes only a single task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Tao Gui , Lizhi Qing , Qi Zhang , Jiacheng Ye , Hang Yan , Zichu Fei , Xuanjing Huang

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to build general-purpose vision systems by training a single network to perform multiple tasks jointly. While promising, its potential is often hindered by "unbalanced optimization", where task interference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yihang Guo , Tianyuan Yu , Liang Bai , Yanming Guo , Yirun Ruan , William Li , Weishi Zheng

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

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) enables a single model to learn multiple tasks simultaneously, leveraging knowledge transfer among tasks for enhanced generalization, and has been widely applied across various domains. However, task imbalance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaohan Qin , Xiaoxing Wang , Ning Liao , Junchi Yan

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

The Multi-Task Learning (MTL) technique has been widely studied by word-wide researchers. The majority of current MTL studies adopt the hard parameter sharing structure, where hard layers tend to learn general representations over all tasks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Dehong Gao , Wenjing Yang , Huiling Zhou , Yi Wei , Yi Hu , Hao Wang

We study and quantify the generalization patterns of multitask learning (MTL) models for sequence labeling tasks. MTL models are trained to optimize a set of related tasks jointly. Although multitask learning has achieved improved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Gabriele Bettgenhäuser , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

Multi-task neural networks learn tasks simultaneously to improve individual task performance. There are three mechanisms of multi-task learning (MTL) which are explored here for the context of structural health monitoring (SHM): (i) the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Sarah Bee , Lawrence Bull , Nikolas Dervilis , Keith Worden

Multi-task learning (MTL) improves prediction performance in different contexts by learning models jointly on multiple different, but related tasks. Network data, which are a priori data with a rich relational structure, provide an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-11 Chen Fang , Daniel N. Rockmore

Multi-task learning (MTL) is an efficient solution to solve multiple tasks simultaneously in order to get better speed and performance than handling each single-task in turn. The most current methods can be categorized as either: (i) hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Yifan Liu , Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Hao Chen , Wei Yin

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims at achieving a better model by leveraging data and knowledge from multiple tasks. However, MTL does not always work -- sometimes negative transfer occurs between tasks, especially when aggregating loosely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jingwei Ni , Zhijing Jin , Qian Wang , Mrinmaya Sachan , Markus Leippold

Efficient machine learning (ML) has become increasingly important as models grow larger and data volumes expand. In this work, we address the trade-off between generalization in multi-task learning (MTL) and precision in single-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu

In multi-task learning, difficulty levels of different tasks are varying. There are many works to handle this situation and we classify them into five categories, including the direct sum approach, the weighted sum approach, the maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Sicong Liang , Yu Zhang

We propose an approach to Multitask Learning (MTL) to make deep learning models faster and lighter for applications in which multiple tasks need to be solved simultaneously, which is particularly useful in embedded, real-time systems. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Miquel Martí , Atsuto Maki

A multi-task learning (MTL) system aims at solving multiple related tasks at the same time. With a fixed model capacity, the tasks would be conflicted with each other, and the system usually has to make a trade-off among learning all of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang , Sam Kwong

Multi-task learning (MTL) has shown great potential in medical image analysis, improving the generalizability of the learned features and the performance in individual tasks. However, most of the work on MTL focuses on either architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Fuping Wu , Le Zhang , Yang Sun , Yuanhan Mo , Thomas Nichols , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve estimation and prediction performance by sharing common information among related tasks. One natural assumption in MTL is that tasks are classified into clusters based on their characteristics.…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-28 Akira Okazaki , Shuichi Kawano

In order to create machine learning systems that serve a variety of users well, it is vital to not only achieve high average performance but also ensure equitable outcomes across diverse groups. However, most machine learning methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Atharva Kulkarni , Lucio Dery , Amrith Setlur , Aditi Raghunathan , Ameet Talwalkar , Graham Neubig