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Multi-Task Learning has emerged as a methodology in which multiple tasks are jointly learned by a shared learning algorithm, such as a DNN. MTL is based on the assumption that the tasks under consideration are related; therefore it exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Dimitrios Kollias , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In machine learning, the goal of multi-task learning (MTL) is to optimize multiple objectives together. Recent works, for example, Multiple Gradient Descent Algorithm (MGDA) and its variants, show promising results with dynamically adjusted…

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Multi-modality fusion and multi-task learning are becoming trendy in 3D autonomous driving scenario, considering robust prediction and computation budget. However, naively extending the existing framework to the domain of multi-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zhijian Huang , Sihao Lin , Guiyu Liu , Mukun Luo , Chaoqiang Ye , Hang Xu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Although multi-task learning (MTL) has been a preferred approach and successfully applied in many real-world scenarios, MTL models are not guaranteed to outperform single-task models on all tasks mainly due to the negative effects of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Shijie Zhu , Hui Zhao , Tianshu Wu , Pengjie Wang , Hongbo Deng , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Multi-task learning is a popular machine learning approach that enables simultaneous learning of multiple related tasks, improving algorithmic efficiency and effectiveness. In the hard parameter sharing approach, an encoder shared through…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-26 Seokwon Shin , Hyungrok Do , Youngdoo Son

In this paper, we propose a harmonized rotational gradient method, termed HRGrad, for simultaneously tackling multiscale time-dependent kinetic problems with varying small parameters. These parameters exhibit asymptotic transitions from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhangyong Liang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has gained significant popularity in recommender systems as it enables simultaneous optimization of multiple objectives. A key challenge in MTL is negative transfer, but existing studies explored negative transfer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Liangcai Su , Junwei Pan , Ximei Wang , Xi Xiao , Shijie Quan , Xihua Chen , Jie Jiang

A fundamental challenge for multi-task learning is that different tasks may conflict with each other when they are solved jointly, and a cause of this phenomenon is conflicting gradients during optimization. Recent works attempt to mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Guangyuan Shi , Qimai Li , Wenlong Zhang , Jiaxin Chen , Xiao-Ming Wu

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

Multi-task learning (MTL) has emerged as a successful strategy in industrial-scale recommender systems, offering significant advantages such as capturing diverse users' interests and accurately detecting different behaviors like ``click" or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuguang Liu , Yiyun Miao , Luyao Xia

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

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

Multimodal learning has developed very fast in recent years. However, during the multimodal training process, the model tends to rely on only one modality based on which it could learn faster, thus leading to inadequate use of other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zirun Guo , Tao Jin , Jingyuan Chen , Zhou Zhao

Multi-task learning has been widely adopted in many computer vision tasks to improve overall computation efficiency or boost the performance of individual tasks, under the assumption that those tasks are correlated and complementary to each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Xiangyun Zhao , Haoxiang Li , Xiaohui Shen , Xiaodan Liang , Ying Wu

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

In this paper, we consider a large network containing many regions such that each region is equipped with a worker with some data processing and communication capability. For such a network, some workers may become stragglers due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Qiyu Sun

In online convex optimization it is well known that certain subclasses of objective functions are much easier than arbitrary convex functions. We are interested in designing adaptive methods that can automatically get fast rates in as many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Tim van Erven , Wouter M. Koolen

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) enables multiple tasks to be learned within a shared network, but differences in objectives across tasks can cause negative transfer, where the learning of one task degrades another task's performance. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wooseong Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

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