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Multi-task learning (MTL) is critical in real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotics, enabling simultaneous handling of diverse tasks. However, obtaining fully annotated data for all tasks is impractical due to labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Youngmin Oh , Hyung-Il Kim , Jung Uk Kim

Transfer and multi-task learning have traditionally focused on either a single source-target pair or very few, similar tasks. Ideally, the linguistic levels of morphology, syntax and semantics would benefit each other by being trained in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Kazuma Hashimoto , Caiming Xiong , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka , Richard Socher

Anomaly detection in medical images is a challenging task, since anomalies are not typically available during training. Recent methods leverage a single pretext task coupled with a large-scale pre-trained model to reach state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bogdan Alexandru Bercean , Florinel Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Ciprian Mihai Ceausescu , Andreea Iuliana Ionescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Multi-task learning is a natural approach for computer vision applications that require the simultaneous solution of several distinct but related problems, e.g. object detection, classification, tracking of multiple agents, or denoising, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Carlo Ciliberto , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has shown its importance at user products for fast training, data efficiency, reduced overfitting etc. MTL achieves it by sharing the network parameters and training a network for multiple tasks simultaneously.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Brijraj Singh , Swati Gupta , Mayukh Das , Praveen Doreswamy Naidu , Sharan Kumar Allur

A fundamental problem in multi-task learning (MTL) is identifying groups of tasks that should be learned together. Since training MTL models for all possible combinations of tasks is prohibitively expensive for large task sets, a crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Afiya Ayman , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Aron Laszka

In this paper, we develop a MultiTask Learning (MTL) model to achieve dense predictions for comics panels to, in turn, facilitate the transfer of comics from one publication channel to another by assisting authors in the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Deblina Bhattacharjee , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

In this work, the human parsing task, namely decomposing a human image into semantic fashion/body regions, is formulated as an Active Template Regression (ATR) problem, where the normalized mask of each fashion/body item is expressed as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xiaodan Liang , Si Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Jianchao Yang , Luoqi Liu , Jian Dong , Liang Lin , Shuicheng Yan

The performance of multi-task learning in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) hinges on the design of feature sharing between tasks within the architecture. The number of possible sharing patterns are combinatorial in the depth of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Felix J. S. Bragman , Ryutaro Tanno , Sebastien Ourselin , Daniel C. Alexander , M. Jorge Cardoso

Multi-task learning (MTL) has become increasingly popular in natural language processing (NLP) because it improves the performance of related tasks by exploiting their commonalities and differences. Nevertheless, it is still not understood…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Zhihan Zhang , Wenhao Yu , Mengxia Yu , Zhichun Guo , Meng Jiang

This paper presents an approach to tackle the re-identification problem. This is a challenging problem due to the large variation of pose, illumination or camera view. More and more datasets are available to train machine learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Matthieu Ospici , Antoine Cecchi

Visual attributes, from simple objects (e.g., backpacks, hats) to soft-biometrics (e.g., gender, height, clothing) have proven to be a powerful representational approach for many applications such as image description and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Theodore Giannakopoulos , Christophoros Nikou , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Impulsive noise poses a significant challenge to the reliability of wireless communication systems, necessitating accurate estimation of its statistical parameters for effective mitigation. This paper introduces a multitask learning (MTL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Abdullahi Mohammad , Bdah Eya , Bassant Selim

Meta-learning often referred to as learning-to-learn is a promising notion raised to mimic human learning by exploiting the knowledge of prior tasks but being able to adapt quickly to novel tasks. A plethora of models has emerged in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jicang Cai , Saeed Vahidian , Weijia Wang , Mohsen Joneidi , Bill Lin

Recent advances in multi-modal pre-training methods have shown promising effectiveness in learning 3D representations by aligning multi-modal features between 3D shapes and their corresponding 2D counterparts. However, existing multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Liwen Liu , Weidong Yang , Lipeng Ma , Ben Fei

To enhance the generalization performance of Multi-Task Networks (MTN) in Face Attribute Recognition (FAR), it is crucial to share relevant information across multiple related prediction tasks effectively. Traditional MTN methods create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Gong Gao , Zekai Wang , Xianhui Liu , Weidong Zhao

Risk stratification of lung nodules is a task of primary importance in lung cancer diagnosis. Any improvement in robust and accurate nodule characterization can assist in identifying cancer stage, prognosis, and improving treatment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Sarfaraz Hussein , Kunlin Cao , Qi Song , Ulas Bagci

Predicting face attributes in the wild is challenging due to complex face variations. We propose a novel deep learning framework for attribute prediction in the wild. It cascades two CNNs, LNet and ANet, which are fine-tuned jointly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Ziwei Liu , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaoou Tang

We present methods for multi-task learning that take advantage of natural groupings of related tasks. Task groups may be defined along known properties of the tasks, such as task domain or language. Such task groups represent supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Shiva Pentyala , Mengwen Liu , Markus Dreyer

Adopting Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in the daily routine of primary diagnosis requires not only near-perfect precision, but also a sufficient degree of generalization to data acquisition shifts and transparency. Existing CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mara Graziani , Sebastian Otalora , Stephane Marchand-Maillet , Henning Muller , Vincent Andrearczyk