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Many problems in machine learning rely on multi-task learning (MTL), in which the goal is to solve multiple related machine learning tasks simultaneously. MTL is particularly relevant for privacy-sensitive applications in areas such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Shengyuan Hu , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Virginia Smith

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 problem of class incremental learning (CIL) is considered. State-of-the-art approaches use a dynamic architecture based on network expansion (NE), in which a task expert is added per task. While effective from a computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zhiyuan Hu , Yunsheng Li , Jiancheng Lyu , Dashan Gao , Nuno Vasconcelos

We present a joint model for entity-level relation extraction from documents. In contrast to other approaches - which focus on local intra-sentence mention pairs and thus require annotations on mention level - our model operates on entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Markus Eberts , Adrian Ulges

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a common paradigm that seeks to improve the generalization performance of task learning by training related tasks simultaneously. However, it is still a challenging problem to search the flexible and accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Yingru Liu , Xuewen Yang , Dongliang Xie , Xin Wang , Li Shen , Haozhi Huang , Niranjan Balasubramanian

Classical theory in reinforcement learning (RL) predominantly focuses on the single task setting, where an agent learns to solve a task through trial-and-error experience, given access to data only from that task. However, many recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Aldo Pacchiano , Ofir Nachum , Nilseh Tripuraneni , Peter Bartlett

In recent years, Multi-task Learning (MTL) has yielded immense success in Recommender System (RS) applications. However, current MTL-based recommendation models tend to disregard the session-wise patterns of user-item interactions because…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ziru Liu , Jiejie Tian , Qingpeng Cai , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingtong Gao , Shuchang Liu , Dayou Chen , Tonghao He , Dong Zheng , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Clinical notes contain an abundance of important but not-readily accessible information about patients. Systems to automatically extract this information rely on large amounts of training data for which their exists limited resources to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Andriy Mulyar , Bridget T. McInnes

Connections between relations in relation extraction, which we call class ties, are common. In distantly supervised scenario, one entity tuple may have multiple relation facts. Exploiting class ties between relations of one entity tuple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hai Ye , Wenhan Chao , Zhunchen Luo , Zhoujun Li

Despite recent advancements in offline multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) have harnessed the powerful capabilities of the Transformer architecture, most approaches focus on a limited number of tasks, with scaling to extremely massive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yilun Kong , Guozheng Ma , Qi Zhao , Haoyu Wang , Li Shen , Xueqian Wang , Dacheng Tao

To minimize the accelerating amount of time invested in the biomedical literature search, numerous approaches for automated knowledge extraction have been proposed. Relation extraction is one such task where semantic relations between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Shweta Yadav , Srivatsa Ramesh , Sriparna Saha , Asif Ekbal

One of the main motivations of MTL is to develop neural networks capable of inferring multiple tasks simultaneously. While countless methods have been proposed in the past decade investigating robust model architectures and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Dayou Mao , Yuhao Chen , Yifan Wu , Maximilian Gilles , Alexander Wong

Split Computing (SC), where a Deep Neural Network (DNN) is intelligently split with a part of it deployed on an edge device and the rest on a remote server is emerging as a promising approach. It allows the power of DNNs to be leveraged for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Luigi Capogrosso , Enrico Fraccaroli , Samarjit Chakraborty , Franco Fummi , Marco Cristani

Deep neural networks trained for predicting cellular events from DNA sequence have become emerging tools to help elucidate the biological mechanism underlying the associations identified in genome-wide association studies. To enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Mohammad Shiri , Jiangwen Sun

Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables an intelligent agent to optimise its performance in a task by continuously taking action from an observed state and receiving a feedback from the environment in form of rewards. RL typically uses tables…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Alberto Castagna

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims at achieving a better model by leveraging data and knowledge from multiple tasks. However, MTL does not always work -- sometimes negative transfer occurs between tasks, especially when aggregating loosely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jingwei Ni , Zhijing Jin , Qian Wang , Mrinmaya Sachan , Markus Leippold

Multi-task learning (MTL) has emerged as an imperative machine learning tool to solve multiple learning tasks simultaneously and has been successfully applied to healthcare, marketing, and biomedical fields. However, in order to borrow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yang Sui , Qi Xu , Yang Bai , Annie Qu

Federated Multi-Task Learning (FMTL) enables multiple clients performing heterogeneous tasks without exchanging their local data, offering broad potential for privacy preserving multi-task collaboration. However, most existing methods focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yipan Wei , Yuchen Zou , Yapeng Li , Bo Du

Transfer learning through fine-tuning a pre-trained neural network with an extremely large dataset, such as ImageNet, can significantly accelerate training while the accuracy is frequently bottlenecked by the limited dataset size of the new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Xingjian Li , Haoyi Xiong , Hanchao Wang , Yuxuan Rao , Liping Liu , Zeyu Chen , Jun Huan

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a powerful approach in deep learning that leverages the information from multiple tasks during training to improve model performance. In medical imaging, MTL has shown great potential to solve various tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sangwook Kim , Thomas G. Purdie , Chris McIntosh