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Modern Augmented reality applications require performing multiple tasks on each input frame simultaneously. Multi-task learning (MTL) represents an effective approach where multiple tasks share an encoder to extract representative features…

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Training a single model on multiple input domains and/or output tasks allows for compressing information from multiple sources into a unified backbone hence improves model efficiency. It also enables potential positive knowledge transfer…

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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

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a powerful technique that has gained popularity due to its performance improvement over traditional Single-Task Learning (STL). However, MTL is often challenging because there is an exponential number of…

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The great success of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for facial attribute prediction relies on a large amount of labeled images. Facial image datasets are usually annotated by some commonly used attributes (e.g., gender), while labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Fariborz Taherkhani , Ali Dabouei , Sobhan Soleymani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) aims to train a single agent to efficiently optimize performance across multiple tasks simultaneously. However, jointly optimizing all tasks often yields imbalanced learning: agents quickly solve…

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Deep neural networks, and more recently large-scale generative models such as large language models (LLMs) and large vision-action models (LVAs), achieve remarkable performance across diverse domains, yet their prohibitive computational…

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Multi-task learning aims to learn multiple tasks jointly by exploiting their relatedness to improve the generalization performance for each task. Traditionally, to perform multi-task learning, one needs to centralize data from all the tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Sulin Liu , Sinno Jialin Pan , Qirong Ho

Recent advances in Federated Learning (FL) have paved the way towards the design of novel strategies for solving multiple learning tasks simultaneously, by leveraging cooperation among networked devices. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) exploits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Stefano Savazzi , Vittorio Rampa , Sanaz Kianoush , Mehdi Bennis

Recent studies have shown that the choice of activation function can significantly affect the performance of deep learning networks. However, the benefits of novel activation functions have been inconsistent and task dependent, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Garrett Bingham , Risto Miikkulainen

Domain adaptation aims at training a classifier in one dataset and applying it to a related but not identical dataset. One successfully used framework of domain adaptation is to learn a transformation to match both the distribution of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Xu Zhang , Felix Xinnan Yu , Shih-Fu Chang , Shengjin Wang

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to empower a model to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously. A recent development known as task arithmetic has revealed that several models, each fine-tuned for distinct tasks, can be directly merged into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Enneng Yang , Zhenyi Wang , Li Shen , Shiwei Liu , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang , Dacheng Tao

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

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) involves the concurrent training of multiple tasks, offering notable advantages for dense prediction tasks in computer vision. MTL not only reduces training and inference time as opposed to having multiple…

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Despite their impressive performance, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) typically underperform Gradient Boosting Trees (GBTs) on many tabular-dataset learning tasks. We propose that applying a different regularization coefficient to each weight…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-25 Ira Shavitt , Eran Segal

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

Despite the recent progress in deep learning, most approaches still go for a silo-like solution, focusing on learning each task in isolation: training a separate neural network for each individual task. Many real-world problems, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Simon Vandenhende

Deep Neural Networks (or DNNs) must constantly cope with distribution changes in the input data when the task of interest or the data collection protocol changes. Retraining a network from scratch to combat this issue poses a significant…

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