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Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a growing subject of interest in deep learning, due to its ability to train models more efficiently on multiple tasks compared to using a group of conventional single-task models. However, MTL can be impractical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Anish Lakkapragada , Essam Sleiman , Saimourya Surabhi , Dennis P. Wall

Multi-task learning (MTL) is frequently used in settings where a target task has to be learnt based on limited training data, but knowledge can be leveraged from related auxiliary tasks. While MTL can improve task performance overall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Rafael Peres da Silva , Chayaporn Suphavilai , Niranjan Nagarajan

Multi-task learning (MTL) optimizes several learning tasks simultaneously and leverages their shared information to improve generalization and the prediction of the model for each task. Auxiliary tasks can be added to the main task to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Partoo Vafaeikia , Khashayar Namdar , Farzad Khalvati

Multi-task learning is to improve the performance of the model by transferring and exploiting common knowledge among tasks. Existing MTL works mainly focus on the scenario where label sets among multiple tasks (MTs) are usually the same,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Quan Feng , Songcan Chen

Multi-task learning (MTL) can improve performance on a task by sharing representations with one or more related auxiliary-tasks. Usually, MTL-networks are trained on a composite loss function formed by a constant weighted combination of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Sam Verboven , Muhammad Hafeez Chaudhary , Jeroen Berrevoets , Wouter Verbeke

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to leverage shared information among tasks to improve learning efficiency and accuracy. However, MTL often struggles to effectively manage positive and negative transfer between tasks, which can hinder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chenguang Wang , Xuanhao Pan , Tianshu Yu

Knowledge transfer in multi-task learning is typically viewed as a dichotomy; positive transfer, which improves the performance of all tasks, or negative transfer, which hinders the performance of all tasks. In this paper, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Olivier Graffeuille , Yun Sing Koh , Joerg Wicker , Moritz Lehmann

Auxiliary-Task Learning (ATL) aims to improve the performance of the target task by leveraging the knowledge obtained from related tasks. Occasionally, learning multiple tasks simultaneously results in lower accuracy than learning only the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Junguang Jiang , Baixu Chen , Junwei Pan , Ximei Wang , Liu Dapeng , Jie Jiang , Mingsheng Long

Human beings can leverage knowledge from relative tasks to improve learning on a primary task. Similarly, multi-task learning methods suggest using auxiliary tasks to enhance a neural network's performance on a specific primary task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yuanze Li , Chun-Mei Feng , Qilong Wang , Guanglei Yang , Wangmeng Zuo

As an effective learning paradigm against insufficient training samples, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) encourages knowledge sharing across multiple related tasks so as to improve the overall performance. In MTL, a major challenge springs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

The generalisation capacity of Multi-Task Learning (MTL) suffers when unrelated tasks negatively impact each other by updating shared parameters with conflicting gradients. This is known as negative transfer and leads to a drop in MTL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Arjun Roy , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Eirini Ntoutsi

Multi-task learning (MTL) can improve the generalization performance of neural networks by sharing representations with related tasks. Nonetheless, MTL can also degrade performance through harmful interference between tasks. Recent work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Emilie Grégoire , Hafeez Chaudhary , Sam Verboven

This paper proposes a novelty approach to mitigate the negative transfer problem. In the field of machine learning, the common strategy is to apply the Single-Task Learning approach in order to train a supervised model to solve a specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula , Paolo Rosso , Damiano Spina

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a framework, where multiple related tasks are learned jointly and benefit from a shared representation space, or parameter transfer. To provide sufficient learning support, modern MTL uses annotated data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Dimitrios Kollias , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Multi-task learning (MTL) is an efficient solution to solve multiple tasks simultaneously in order to get better speed and performance than handling each single-task in turn. The most current methods can be categorized as either: (i) hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Yifan Liu , Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Hao Chen , Wei Yin

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

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

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a subfield of machine learning in which multiple tasks are simultaneously learned by a shared model. Such approaches offer advantages like improved data efficiency, reduced overfitting through shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Michael Crawshaw

Multi-task learning (MTL) trains deep neural networks to optimize several objectives simultaneously using a shared backbone, which leads to reduced computational costs, improved data efficiency, and enhanced performance through cross-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hoang Phan , Lam Tran , Quyen Tran , Ngoc N. Tran , Tuan Truong , Qi Lei , Nhat Ho , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Sharing knowledge between tasks is vital for efficient learning in a multi-task setting. However, most research so far has focused on the easier case where knowledge transfer is not harmful, i.e., where knowledge from one task cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Timo Bram , Gino Brunner , Oliver Richter , Roger Wattenhofer
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