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In this paper, we introduce multi-task learning (MTL) to data harmonization (DH); where we aim to harmonize images across different acquisition platforms and sites. This allows us to integrate information from multiple acquisitions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Stefano B. Blumberg , Marco Palombo , Can Son Khoo , Chantal M. W. Tax , Ryutaro Tanno , Daniel C. Alexander

Theoretical works on supervised transfer learning (STL) -- where the learner has access to labeled samples from both source and target distributions -- have for the most part focused on statistical aspects of the problem, while efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Yuyang Deng , Samory Kpotufe

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

Transfer learning (TL) leverages previously obtained knowledge to learn new tasks efficiently and has been used to train deep learning (DL) models with limited amount of data. When TL is applied to DL, pretrained (teacher) models are…

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a methodology that aims to improve the general performance of estimation and prediction by sharing common information among related tasks. In the MTL, there are several assumptions for the relationships and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-27 Akira Okazaki , Shuichi Kawano

Molecules have a number of distinct properties whose importance and application vary. Often, in reality, labels for some properties are hard to achieve despite their practical importance. A common solution to such data scarcity is to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Chanhui Lee , Dae-Woong Jeong , Sung Moon Ko , Sumin Lee , Hyunseung Kim , Soorin Yim , Sehui Han , Sungwoong Kim , Sungbin Lim

As with any task, the process of building machine learning models can benefit from prior experience. Meta-learning for classifier selection leverages knowledge about the characteristics of different datasets and/or the past performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sebastian Maldonado , Carla Vairetti , Ignacio Figueroa

Transfer Learning (TL) aims to transfer knowledge acquired in one problem, the source problem, onto another problem, the target problem, dispensing with the bottom-up construction of the target model. Due to its relevance, TL has gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Ricardo Gamelas Sousa , Luís A. Alexandre , Jorge M. Santos , Luís M. Silva , Joaquim Marques de Sá

Practical machine learning systems often operate in multiple sequential stages, as seen in ranking and recommendation systems, which typically include a retrieval phase followed by a ranking phase. Effectively assessing prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yunpeng Xu , Mufang Ying , Wenge Guo , Zhi Wei

Large language models (LLMs) face significant challenges when balancing multiple high-level objectives, such as generating coherent, relevant, and high-quality responses while maintaining efficient task adaptation across diverse tasks. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yupeng Chang , Yi Chang , Yuan Wu

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful approach to complex decision making. However, one issue that limits its practical application is its brittleness, sometimes failing to train in the presence of small changes in the environment.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Jung-Hoon Cho , Vindula Jayawardana , Sirui Li , Cathy Wu

Numerous recent techniques for text style transfer characterize their approaches as variants of reinforcement learning and preference optimization. In this work, we consider the relationship between these approaches and a class of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shuai Liu , Jonathan May

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a supervised learning paradigm in which the prediction models for several related tasks are learned jointly to achieve better generalization performance. When there are only a few training examples per task, MTL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Azad Naik , Anveshi Charuvaka , Huzefa Rangwala

Transfer reinforcement learning (RL) methods leverage on the experience collected on a set of source tasks to speed-up RL algorithms. A simple and effective approach is to transfer samples from source tasks and include them into the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Alessandro Lazaric , Marcello Restelli

Prompt tuning, in which a base pretrained model is adapted to each task via conditioning on learned prompt vectors, has emerged as a promising approach for efficiently adapting large language models to multiple downstream tasks. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zhen Wang , Rameswar Panda , Leonid Karlinsky , Rogerio Feris , Huan Sun , Yoon Kim

Typical multi-task learning (MTL) methods rely on architectural adjustments and a large trainable parameter set to jointly optimize over several tasks. However, when the number of tasks increases so do the complexity of the architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Gjorgji Strezoski , Nanne van Noord , Marcel Worring

Deep neural networks have led to a series of breakthroughs in computer vision given sufficient annotated training datasets. For novel tasks with limited labeled data, the prevalent approach is to transfer the knowledge learned in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Yi Zhu , Jia Xue , Shawn Newsam

Prompting has recently been shown as a promising approach for applying pre-trained language models to perform downstream tasks. We present Multi-Stage Prompting (MSP), a simple and automatic approach for leveraging pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhixing Tan , Xiangwen Zhang , Shuo Wang , Yang Liu

The performance of machine learning models can significantly degrade under distribution shifts of the data. We propose a new method for classification which can improve robustness to distribution shifts, by combining expert knowledge about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Souradeep Dutta , Yahan Yang , Elena Bernardis , Edgar Dobriban , Insup Lee

Classification on long-tailed distributed data is a challenging problem, which suffers from serious class-imbalance and hence poor performance on tail classes with only a few samples. Owing to this paucity of samples, learning on the tail…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Taha ValizadehAslani , Yiwen Shi , Jing Wang , Ping Ren , Yi Zhang , Meng Hu , Liang Zhao , Hualou Liang