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As deep learning applications continue to become more diverse, an interesting question arises: Can general problem solving arise from jointly learning several such diverse tasks? To approach this question, deep multi-task learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

Parametric models, and particularly neural networks, require weight initialization as a starting point for gradient-based optimization. Recent work shows that a specific initial parameter set can be learned from a population of supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Lukas Brinkmeyer , Rafael Rego Drumond , Randolf Scholz , Josif Grabocka , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

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

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) aims to translate multiple languages with a single model and has been proved successful thanks to effective knowledge transfer among different languages with shared parameters. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Qian Wang , Jiajun Zhang

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

Multi-task learning has gained popularity due to the advantages it provides with respect to resource usage and performance. Nonetheless, the joint optimization of parameters with respect to multiple tasks remains an active research topic.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Lucas Pascal , Pietro Michiardi , Xavier Bost , Benoit Huet , Maria A. Zuluaga

Multi-task learning has emerged as a powerful machine learning paradigm for integrating data from multiple sources, leveraging similarities between tasks to improve overall model performance. However, the application of multi-task learning…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-09 Parker Knight , Rui Duan

Transfer learning is a useful technique for achieving improved performance and reducing training costs by leveraging the knowledge gained from source tasks and applying it to target tasks. Assessing the effectiveness of transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Peizhong Ju , Sen Lin , Mark S. Squillante , Yingbin Liang , Ness B. Shroff

Machine learning requires exuberant amounts of data and computation. Also, models require equally excessive growth in the number of parameters. It is, therefore, sensible to look for technologies that reduce these demands on resources.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Danko Nikolić , Davor Andrić , Vjekoslav Nikolić

Multi-task networks are commonly utilized to alleviate the need for a large number of highly specialized single-task networks. However, two common challenges in developing multi-task models are often overlooked in literature. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Menelaos Kanakis , David Bruggemann , Suman Saha , Stamatios Georgoulis , Anton Obukhov , Luc Van Gool

Multi-task learning aims to improve generalization performance of multiple prediction tasks by appropriately sharing relevant information across them. In the context of deep neural networks, this idea is often realized by hand-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yongxi Lu , Abhishek Kumar , Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Tara Javidi , Rogerio Feris

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Anders T. Sandnes , Bjarne Grimstad , Odd Kolbjørnsen

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Pengfei Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Multi-agent learning provides a potential framework for learning and simulating traffic behaviors. This paper proposes a novel architecture to learn multiple driving behaviors in a traffic scenario. The proposed architecture can learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Meha Kaushik , Phaniteja S , K. Madhava Krishna

The problem of learning simultaneously several related tasks has received considerable attention in several domains, especially in machine learning with the so-called multitask learning problem or learning to learn problem [1], [2].…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Cedric Richard , Jie Chen , Ali H. Sayed

In this paper, we empirically evaluate the utility of transfer and multi-task learning on a challenging semantic classification task: semantic interpretation of noun--noun compounds. Through a comprehensive series of experiments and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Murhaf Fares , Stephan Oepen , Erik Velldal

Fine-tuning pre-trained language models for multiple tasks tends to be expensive in terms of storage. To mitigate this, parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) methods have been proposed to address this issue, but they still require a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Guangtao Zeng , Peiyuan Zhang , Wei Lu

Deep networks trained on large-scale data can learn transferable features to promote learning multiple tasks. Since deep features eventually transition from general to specific along deep networks, a fundamental problem of multi-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Mingsheng Long , Zhangjie Cao , Jianmin Wang , Philip S. Yu

Decomposing knowledge into interchangeable pieces promises a generalization advantage when there are changes in distribution. A learning agent interacting with its environment is likely to be faced with situations requiring novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Kanika Madan , Nan Rosemary Ke , Anirudh Goyal , Bernhard Schölkopf , Yoshua Bengio

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