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Scene understanding is crucial for autonomous systems which intend to operate in the real world. Single task vision networks extract information only based on some aspects of the scene. In multi-task learning (MTL), on the other hand, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Naresh Kumar Gurulingan , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

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

Multitask learning is a widely used paradigm for training models on diverse tasks, with applications ranging from graph neural networks to language model fine-tuning. Since tasks may interfere with each other, a key notion for modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Dongyue Li , Aneesh Sharma , Hongyang R. Zhang

We address the problem of learning a single model for person re-identification, attribute classification, body part segmentation, and pose estimation. With predictions for these tasks we gain a more holistic understanding of persons, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Kilian Pfeiffer , Alexander Hermans , István Sárándi , Mark Weber , Bastian Leibe

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

Neural network based models have achieved impressive results on various specific tasks. However, in previous works, most models are learned separately based on single-task supervised objectives, which often suffer from insufficient training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Pengfei Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

One of the main arguments behind studying disentangled representations is the assumption that they can be easily reused in different tasks. At the same time finding a joint, adaptable representation of data is one of the key challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Łukasz Maziarka , Aleksandra Nowak , Maciej Wołczyk , Andrzej Bedychaj

A key assumption in multi-task learning is that at the inference time the multi-task model only has access to a given data point but not to the data point's labels from other tasks. This presents an opportunity to extend multi-task learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Kaidi Cao , Jiaxuan You , Jure Leskovec

We combine multi-task learning and semi-supervised learning by inducing a joint embedding space between disparate label spaces and learning transfer functions between label embeddings, enabling us to jointly leverage unlabelled data and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Isabelle Augenstein , Sebastian Ruder , Anders Søgaard

We consider a distributed multi-task learning scheme that accounts for multiple linear model estimation tasks with heterogeneous and/or correlated data streams. We assume that nodes can be partitioned into groups corresponding to different…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Lingzhou Hong , Alfredo Garcia

Computer vision is driven by the many datasets available for training or evaluating novel methods. However, each dataset has a different set of class labels, visual definition of classes, images following a specific distribution, annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Jasper Uijlings , Thomas Mensink , Vittorio Ferrari

Many computer vision applications require solving multiple tasks in real-time. A neural network can be trained to solve multiple tasks simultaneously using multi-task learning. This can save computation at inference time as only a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Trevor Standley , Amir R. Zamir , Dawn Chen , Leonidas Guibas , Jitendra Malik , Silvio Savarese

Multi-task learning promises better model generalization on a target task by jointly optimizing it with an auxiliary task. However, the current practice requires additional labeling efforts for the auxiliary task, while not guaranteeing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Menelaos Kanakis , Thomas E. Huang , David Bruggemann , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

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

Shared training approaches, such as multi-task learning (MTL) and gradient-based meta-learning, are widely used in various machine learning applications, but they often suffer from negative transfer, leading to performance degradation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Anshul Thakur , Yichen Huang , Soheila Molaei , Yujiang Wang , David A. Clifton

One of the major challenges for evaluating the effectiveness of data visualizations and visual analytics tools arises from the fact that different users may be using these tools for different tasks. In this paper, we present a simple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Laura Matzen , Kristin Divis , Deborah Cronin , Michael Haass

The success of gradient-based meta-learning is primarily attributed to its ability to leverage related tasks to learn task-invariant information. However, the absence of interactions between different tasks in the inner loop leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Oscar Chang , Hod Lipson

Recently, multi-modality scene perception tasks, e.g., image fusion and scene understanding, have attracted widespread attention for intelligent vision systems. However, early efforts always consider boosting a single task unilaterally and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Zhu Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Guanyao Wu , Long Ma , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

This manuscript presents a series of my selected contributions to the topic of label-efficient learning in computer vision and remote sensing. The central focus of this research is to develop and adapt methods that can learn effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Minh-Tan Pham

Multi-step manipulation tasks where robots interact with their environment and must apply process forces based on the perceived situation remain challenging to learn and prone to execution errors. Accurately simulating these tasks is also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Christoph Willibald , Dongheui Lee