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Transfer and multi-task learning have traditionally focused on either a single source-target pair or very few, similar tasks. Ideally, the linguistic levels of morphology, syntax and semantics would benefit each other by being trained in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Kazuma Hashimoto , Caiming Xiong , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka , Richard Socher

Noises, artifacts, and loss of information caused by the magnetic resonance (MR) reconstruction may compromise the final performance of the downstream applications. In this paper, we develop a re-weighted multi-task deep learning method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Kehan Qi , Yu Gong , Xinfeng Liu , Xin Liu , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Multi-task learning (MTL) allows deep neural networks to learn from related tasks by sharing parameters with other networks. In practice, however, MTL involves searching an enormous space of possible parameter sharing architectures to find…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-20 Sebastian Ruder , Joachim Bingel , Isabelle Augenstein , Anders Søgaard

Network pruning is widely used to lighten and accelerate neural network models. Structured network pruning discards the whole neuron or filter, leading to accuracy loss. In this work, we propose a novel concept of neuron merging applicable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Woojeong Kim , Suhyun Kim , Mincheol Park , Geonseok Jeon

Recent advances in deep learning have led to a surge of open-source models across diverse domains. While model merging offers a promising way to combine their strengths, existing approaches often suffer from parameter conflicts that degrade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yunfei Liang

Multi-Task Learning has emerged as a methodology in which multiple tasks are jointly learned by a shared learning algorithm, such as a DNN. MTL is based on the assumption that the tasks under consideration are related; therefore it exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Dimitrios Kollias , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Merging multiple expert models offers a promising approach for performing multi-task learning without accessing their original data. Existing methods attempt to alleviate task conflicts by sparsifying task vectors or promoting orthogonality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yongxian Wei , Anke Tang , Li Shen , Zixuan Hu , Chun Yuan , Xiaochun Cao

In image-assisted minimally invasive surgeries (MIS), understanding surgical scenes is vital for real-time feedback to surgeons, skill evaluation, and improving outcomes through collaborative human-robot procedures. Within this context, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Mithun Parab , Pranay Lendave , Jiyoung Kim , Thi Quynh Dan Nguyen , Palash Ingle

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models are usually trained sequentially from one layer to another, which causes forward, backward and update locking's problems, leading to poor performance in terms of training time. The existing parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Samson B. Akintoye , Liangxiu Han , Huw Lloyd , Xin Zhang , Darren Dancey , Haoming Chen , Daoqiang Zhang

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a framework, where multiple related tasks are learned jointly and benefit from a shared representation space, or parameter transfer. To provide sufficient learning support, modern MTL uses annotated data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Dimitrios Kollias , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to make full use of the knowledge contained in multi-task supervision signals to improve the overall performance. How to make the knowledge of multiple tasks shared appropriately is an open problem for MTL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xiaokai Chen , Xiaoguang Gu , Libo Fu

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has shown its importance at user products for fast training, data efficiency, reduced overfitting etc. MTL achieves it by sharing the network parameters and training a network for multiple tasks simultaneously.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Brijraj Singh , Swati Gupta , Mayukh Das , Praveen Doreswamy Naidu , Sharan Kumar Allur

Generative modeling has recently shown great promise in computer vision, but it has mostly focused on synthesizing visually realistic images. In this paper, motivated by multi-task learning of shareable feature representations, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Zhipeng Bao , Martial Hebert , Yu-Xiong Wang

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to enhance the performance and efficiency of machine learning models by simultaneously training them on multiple tasks. However, MTL research faces two challenges: 1) effectively modeling the relationships…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Danwei Li , Zhengyu Zhang , Siyang Yuan , Mingze Gao , Weilin Zhang , Chaofei Yang , Xi Liu , Jiyan Yang

Multi-task learning (MTL) jointly learns a set of tasks by sharing parameters among tasks. It is a promising approach for reducing storage costs while improving task accuracy for many computer vision tasks. The effective adoption of MTL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Lijun Zhang , Xiao Liu , Hui Guan

Over the past decade a wide spectrum of machine learning models have been developed to model the neurodegenerative diseases, associating biomarkers, especially non-intrusive neuroimaging markers, with key clinical scores measuring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Mengying Sun , Inci M. Baytas , Liang Zhan , Zhangyang Wang , Jiayu Zhou

Multi-task learning has been widely adopted in many computer vision tasks to improve overall computation efficiency or boost the performance of individual tasks, under the assumption that those tasks are correlated and complementary to each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Xiangyun Zhao , Haoxiang Li , Xiaohui Shen , Xiaodan Liang , Ying Wu

Modern deep learning usually treats models as separate artifacts: trained independently, specialized for particular purposes, and replaced when improved versions appear. This thesis studies model merging as an alternative paradigm:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Donato Crisostomi

Despite recent progress on semantic segmentation, there still exist huge challenges in medical ultra-resolution image segmentation. The methods based on multi-branch structure can make a good balance between computational burdens and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Tong Wu , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Bicheng Dai , Shuxin Chen

The incorporation of prior knowledge into learning is essential in achieving good performance based on small noisy samples. Such knowledge is often incorporated through the availability of related data arising from domains and tasks similar…

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