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We propose a novel deep network architecture for lifelong learning which we refer to as Dynamically Expandable Network (DEN), that can dynamically decide its network capacity as it trains on a sequence of tasks, to learn a compact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Jaehong Yoon , Eunho Yang , Jeongtae Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has been successfully used in many real-world applications, which aims to simultaneously solve multiple tasks with a single model. The general idea of multi-task learning is designing kinds of global parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xuewen Tao , Mingming Ha , Xiaobo Guo , Qiongxu Ma , Hongwei Cheng , Wenfang Lin

Pre-trained generalist policies are rapidly gaining relevance in robot learning due to their promise of fast adaptation to novel, in-domain tasks. This adaptation often relies on collecting new demonstrations for a specific task of interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Marco Bagatella , Jonas Hübotter , Georg Martius , Andreas Krause

It is common to have continuous streams of new data that need to be introduced in the system in real-world applications. The model needs to learn newly added capabilities (future tasks) while retaining the old knowledge (past tasks).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Md Sazzad Hossain , Pritom Saha , Townim Faisal Chowdhury , Shafin Rahman , Fuad Rahman , Nabeel Mohammed

Learning automatically the best activation function for the task is an active topic in neural network research. At the moment, despite promising results, it is still difficult to determine a method for learning an activation function that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

Multi-task learning is a learning paradigm which seeks to improve the generalization performance of a learning task with the help of some other related tasks. In this paper, we propose a regularization formulation for learning the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yu Zhang , Dit-Yan Yeung

Neural networks are the state-of-the-art approach for many tasks and the activation function is one of the main building blocks that allow such performance. Recently, a novel transformative adaptive activation function (TAAF) allowing for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Vladimír Kunc

Tabular data is the most abundant data type in the world, powering systems in finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and beyond. As tabular datasets grow and span multiple related targets, there is an increasing need to exploit shared task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Dimitrios Sinodinos , Jack Yi Wei , Narges Armanfard

Transfer learning in Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables agents to leverage knowledge from source tasks to accelerate learning in target tasks. While prior work, such as the Attend, Adapt, and Transfer (A2T) framework, addresses negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Abhishek Verma , Nallarasan V , Balaraman Ravindran

Multi-task learning (MTL) has recently contributed to learning better representations in service of various NLP tasks. MTL aims at improving the performance of a primary task, by jointly training on a secondary task. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Davis Liang , Yan Shu

Network regularization is an effective tool for incorporating structural prior knowledge to learn coherent models over networks, and has yielded provably accurate estimates in applications ranging from spatial economics to neuroimaging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Hongyuan You , Furkan Kocayusufoglu , Ambuj K. Singh

Artificial neural networks (ANN), typically referred to as neural networks, are a class of Machine Learning algorithms and have achieved widespread success, having been inspired by the biological structure of the human brain. Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Murilo Gustineli

Deep learning approaches have achieved great success in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, directly training deep neural models often suffer from overfitting and data scarcity problems that are pervasive in NLP tasks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shijie Chen , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

To efficiently select optimal dataset combinations for enhancing multi-task learning (MTL) performance in large language models, we proposed a novel framework that leverages a neural network to predict the best dataset combinations. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zaifu Zhan , Rui Zhang

The scope of research in the domain of activation functions remains limited and centered around improving the ease of optimization or generalization quality of neural networks (NNs). However, to develop a deeper understanding of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Mohit Goyal , Rajan Goyal , Brejesh Lall

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) can enhance a classifier's generalization performance by learning multiple related tasks simultaneously. Conventional MTL works under the offline or batch setting, and suffers from expensive training cost and poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Peng Yang , Peilin Zhao , Xin Gao

Deep neural networks have become a standard building block for designing models that can perform multiple dense computer vision tasks such as depth estimation and semantic segmentation thanks to their ability to capture complex correlations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Wei-Hong Li , Steven McDonagh , Ales Leonardis , Hakan Bilen

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

Deep learning (DL) advances state-of-the-art reinforcement learning (RL), by incorporating deep neural networks in learning representations from the input to RL. However, the conventional deep neural network architecture is limited in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Yuhang Song , Main Xu , Songyang Zhang , Liangyu Huo

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a foundational machine learning problem that has seen extensive development over the past decade. Recently, various optimization-based MTL approaches have been proposed to learn multiple tasks simultaneously by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhipeng Zhou , Linxiao Cao , Pengcheng Wu , Peilin Zhao , Chunyan Miao