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Reliable and effective multi-task learning is a prerequisite for the development of robotic agents that can quickly learn to accomplish related, everyday tasks. However, in the reinforcement learning domain, multi-task learning has not…

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In the context of multi-task learning, neural networks with branched architectures have often been employed to jointly tackle the tasks at hand. Such ramified networks typically start with a number of shared layers, after which different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Bert De Brabandere , Luc Van Gool

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

Sharing knowledge between tasks is vital for efficient learning in a multi-task setting. However, most research so far has focused on the easier case where knowledge transfer is not harmful, i.e., where knowledge from one task cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Timo Bram , Gino Brunner , Oliver Richter , Roger Wattenhofer

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims at boosting the overall performance of each individual task by leveraging useful information contained in multiple related tasks. It has shown great success in natural language processing (NLP). Currently, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jianquan Li , Xiaokang Liu , Wenpeng Yin , Min Yang , Liqun Ma , Yaohong Jin

This paper explores learned-context neural networks. It is a multi-task learning architecture based on a fully shared neural network and an augmented input vector containing trainable task parameters. The architecture is interesting due to…

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Despite significant progress, deep reinforcement learning (RL) suffers from data-inefficiency and limited generalization. Recent efforts apply meta-learning to learn a meta-learner from a set of RL tasks such that a novel but related task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Lin Lan , Zhenguo Li , Xiaohong Guan , Pinghui Wang

This paper discusses a system that accelerates reinforcement learning by using transfer from related tasks. Without such transfer, even if two tasks are very similar at some abstract level, an extensive re-learning effort is required. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-10 C. Drummond

Multimedia applications often require concurrent solutions to multiple tasks. These tasks hold clues to each-others solutions, however as these relations can be complex this remains a rarely utilized property. When task relations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Gjorgji Strezoski , Nanne van Noord , Marcel Worring

Neural network based methods have obtained great progress on a variety of natural language processing tasks. However, in most previous works, the models are learned based on single-task supervised objectives, which often suffer from…

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Many potential applications of reinforcement learning in the real world involve interacting with other agents whose numbers vary over time. We propose new neural policy architectures for these multi-agent problems. In contrast to other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Matthew A. Wright , Roberto Horowitz

Neural architecture search has attracted wide attentions in both academia and industry. To accelerate it, researchers proposed weight-sharing methods which first train a super-network to reuse computation among different operators, from…

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Multi-task learning enables the acquisition of task-generic knowledge by training multiple tasks within a unified architecture. However, training all tasks together in a single architecture can lead to performance degradation, known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Wooseong Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

This work explores how to design a single neural network capable of adapting to multiple heterogeneous vision tasks, such as image segmentation, 3D detection, and video recognition. This goal is challenging because both network architecture…

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Task-incremental learning involves the challenging problem of learning new tasks continually, without forgetting past knowledge. Many approaches address the problem by expanding the structure of a shared neural network as tasks arrive, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Azhar Shaikh , Nishant Sinha

In the paradigm of multi-task learning, mul- tiple related prediction tasks are learned jointly, sharing information across the tasks. We propose a framework for multi-task learn- ing that enables one to selectively share the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Abhishek Kumar , Hal Daume

Multi-task learning (MTL) is an effective method for learning related tasks, but designing MTL models necessitates deciding which and how many parameters should be task-specific, as opposed to shared between tasks. We investigate this issue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Phil Crone

Exploiting the great expressive power of Deep Neural Network architectures, relies on the ability to train them. While current theoretical work provides, mostly, results showing the hardness of this task, empirical evidence usually differs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Ohad Shamir , Shaked Shammah

We present methods for multi-task learning that take advantage of natural groupings of related tasks. Task groups may be defined along known properties of the tasks, such as task domain or language. Such task groups represent supervised…

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