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The terms multi-task learning and multitasking are easily confused. Multi-task learning refers to a paradigm in machine learning in which a network is trained on various related tasks to facilitate the acquisition of tasks. In contrast,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Sachin Ravi , Sebastian Musslick , Maia Hamin , Theodore L. Willke , Jonathan D. Cohen

Neural networks have been successfully applied in applications with a large amount of labeled data. However, the task of rapid generalization on new concepts with small training data while preserving performances on previously learned ones…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims at boosting the overall performance of each individual task by leveraging useful information contained in multiple related tasks. It has shown great success in natural language processing (NLP). Currently, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jianquan Li , Xiaokang Liu , Wenpeng Yin , Min Yang , Liqun Ma , Yaohong Jin

Data scarcity poses a serious threat to modern machine learning and artificial intelligence, as their practical success typically relies on the availability of big datasets. One effective strategy to mitigate the issue of insufficient data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chaozhi Zhang , Lin Liu , Xiaoqun Zhang

Multi-task learning has become increasingly popular in the machine learning field, but its practicality is hindered by the need for large, labeled datasets. Most multi-task learning methods depend on fully labeled datasets wherein each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Kento Nishi , Junsik Kim , Wanhua Li , Hanspeter Pfister

Jointly learning multiple tasks with a unified model can improve accuracy and data efficiency, but it faces the challenge of task interference, where optimizing one task objective may inadvertently compromise the performance of another. A…

Multi-task learning (MTL) has achieved great success in various research domains, such as CV, NLP and IR etc. Due to the complex and competing task correlation, naive training all tasks may lead to inequitable learning, i.e. some tasks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jun Yuan , Rui Zhang

Data augmentation is one of the most effective approaches for improving the accuracy of modern machine learning models, and it is also indispensable to train a deep model for meta-learning. In this paper, we introduce a task augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Jialin Liu , Fei Chao , Chih-Min Lin

Video frame interpolation is a challenging problem because there are different scenarios for each video depending on the variety of foreground and background motion, frame rate, and occlusion. It is therefore difficult for a single network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Myungsub Choi , Janghoon Choi , Sungyong Baik , Tae Hyun Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the performance of multiple related prediction tasks by leveraging useful information from them. Due to their flexibility and ability to reduce unknown coefficients substantially, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuzhao Zhang , Yifan Sun

Meta-learning aims to leverage information across related tasks to improve prediction on unlabeled data for new tasks when only a small number of labeled observations are available ("few-shot" learning). Increased task diversity is often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-16 Saptati Datta , Nicolas W. Hengartner , Yulia Pimonova , Natalie E. Klein , Nicholas Lubbers

Multi-task learning aims to learn multiple tasks jointly by exploiting their relatedness to improve the generalization performance for each task. Traditionally, to perform multi-task learning, one needs to centralize data from all the tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Sulin Liu , Sinno Jialin Pan , Qirong Ho

Compared to humans, machine learning models generally require significantly more training examples and fail to extrapolate from experience to solve previously unseen challenges. To help close this performance gap, we augment single-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Tailin Wu , John Peurifoy , Isaac L. Chuang , Max Tegmark

Semi-supervised learning has recently been attracting attention as an alternative to fully supervised models that require large pools of labeled data. Moreover, optimizing a model for multiple tasks can provide better generalizability than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran , Chao Huang , Hui Tang , Wei Fan , Yuan Xiao , Dingjun Hao , Zhen Qian , Demetri Terzopoulos

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a powerful technique that has gained popularity due to its performance improvement over traditional Single-Task Learning (STL). However, MTL is often challenging because there is an exponential number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ammar Sherif , Abubakar Abid , Mustafa Elattar , Mohamed ElHelw

Auxiliary tasks facilitate learning in situations where data is scarce or the principal task of interest is extremely complex. This idea is primarily inspired by the improved generalization capability induced by solving multiple tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Geri Skenderi , Luigi Capogrosso , Andrea Toaiari , Matteo Denitto , Franco Fummi , Simone Melzi

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have demonstrated promising results on complex tasks, yet often require impractical numbers of samples since they learn from scratch. Meta-RL aims to address this challenge by leveraging experience…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Russell Mendonca , Abhishek Gupta , Rosen Kralev , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Few-shot Learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Existing meta-learning or metric-learning based few-shot learning approaches are limited in handling diverse domains with various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yu Cheng , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Bowen Zhou

Multi-task learning in text classification leverages implicit correlations among related tasks to extract common features and yield performance gains. However, most previous works treat labels of each task as independent and meaningless…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Honglun Zhang , Liqiang Xiao , Wenqing Chen , Yongkun Wang , Yaohui Jin

We study three general multi-task learning (MTL) approaches on 11 sequence tagging tasks. Our extensive empirical results show that in about 50% of the cases, jointly learning all 11 tasks improves upon either independent or pairwise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Soravit Changpinyo , Hexiang Hu , Fei Sha