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In recent years, model-free methods that use deep learning have achieved great success in many different reinforcement learning environments. Most successful approaches focus on solving a single task, while multi-task reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Asier Mujika

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) algorithms extend conventional reinforcement learning (RL) to the more general case of problems with multiple, conflicting objectives, represented by vector-valued rewards. Widely-used scalar RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Peter Vamplew , Ethan , Watkins , Cameron Foale , Richard Dazeley

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

Bilevel reinforcement learning (RL), which features intertwined two-level problems, has attracted growing interest recently. The inherent non-convexity of the lower-level RL problem is, however, to be an impediment to developing bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Yan Yang , Bin Gao , Ya-xiang Yuan

Machine scheduling aims to optimize job assignments to machines while adhering to manufacturing rules and job specifications. This optimization leads to reduced operational costs, improved customer demand fulfillment, and enhanced…

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a learning paradigm in machine learning and its aim is to leverage useful information contained in multiple related tasks to help improve the generalization performance of all the tasks. In this paper, we give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

While multi-task learning based automatic radiology report generation (RRG) is widely adopted to ensure clinical consistency, most focus on architectural designs yet remain limited to coarse linear scalarization strategies. These strategies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Erjian Zhang , Yatong Hao , Liejun Wang , Zhiqing Guo

We propose gradient adversarial training, an auxiliary deep learning framework applicable to different machine learning problems. In gradient adversarial training, we leverage a prior belief that in many contexts, simultaneous gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Ayan Sinha , Zhao Chen , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Andrew Rabinovich

Multi-task learning (MTL) has been widely adopted for its ability to simultaneously learn multiple tasks. While existing gradient manipulation methods often yield more balanced solutions than simple scalarization-based approaches, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Peiyao Xiao , Chaosheng Dong , Shaofeng Zou , Kaiyi Ji

In practical applications, computer vision tasks often need to be addressed simultaneously. Multitask learning typically achieves this by jointly training a single deep neural network to learn shared representations, providing efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Konstantinos Spathis , Nikolaos Kardaris , Petros Maragos

Efficiency in optimisation and search processes persists to be one of the challenges, which affects the performance and use of optimisation algorithms. Utilising a pool of operators instead of a single operator to handle move operations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Mehmet Emin Aydin

This paper provides a review and commentary on the past, present, and future of numerical optimization algorithms in the context of machine learning applications. Through case studies on text classification and the training of deep neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-12 Léon Bottou , Frank E. Curtis , Jorge Nocedal

Medical image registration and segmentation are two of the most frequent tasks in medical image analysis. As these tasks are complementary and correlated, it would be beneficial to apply them simultaneously in a joint manner. In this paper,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Mohamed S. Elmahdy , Laurens Beljaards , Sahar Yousefi , Hessam Sokooti , Fons Verbeek , U. A. van der Heide , Marius Staring

Meta-reinforcement learning (meta-RL) aims to learn from multiple training tasks the ability to adapt efficiently to unseen test tasks. Despite the success, existing meta-RL algorithms are known to be sensitive to the task distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zichuan Lin , Garrett Thomas , Guangwen Yang , Tengyu Ma

Over the past few years, the rapid development of deep learning technologies for computer vision has significantly improved the performance of medical image segmentation (MedISeg). However, the diverse implementation strategies of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Dong Zhang , Yi Lin , Hao Chen , Zhuotao Tian , Xin Yang , Jinhui Tang , Kwang Ting Cheng

Despite the success of deep learning in computer vision and natural language processing, Gradient Boosted Decision Tree (GBDT) is yet one of the most powerful tools for applications with tabular data such as e-commerce and FinTech. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 ZhenZhe Ying , Zhuoer Xu , Zhifeng Li , Weiqiang Wang , Changhua Meng

RL-based post-training with GRPO is widely used to improve large language models on individual reasoning tasks. However, real-world deployment requires reliable performance across diverse tasks. A straightforward multi-task adaptation of…

Bilevel learning refers to machine learning problems that can be formulated as bilevel optimization models, where decisions are organized in a hierarchical structure. This paradigm has recently gained considerable attention in machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Riccardo Grazzi , Massimiliano Pontil , Saverio Salzo , Alain Zemkoho

This paper considers the problem of learning safe policies in the context of reinforcement learning (RL). In particular, we consider the notion of probabilistic safety. This is, we aim to design policies that maintain the state of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Weiqin Chen , Dharmashankar Subramanian , Santiago Paternain

We present a deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) algorithm that consists of learning-based motion planning and imitation to tackle challenging control problems. Deep RL has been an effective tool for solving many high-dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Nitish Sontakke , Sehoon Ha