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In multitask retrieval, a single retriever is trained to retrieve relevant contexts for multiple tasks. Despite its practical appeal, naive multitask retrieval lags behind task-specific retrieval in which a separate retriever is trained for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Wenzheng Zhang , Chenyan Xiong , Karl Stratos , Arnold Overwijk

Deep learning methods such as multitask neural networks have recently been applied to ligand-based virtual screening and other drug discovery applications. Using a set of industrial ADMET datasets, we compare neural networks to standard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-16 Steven Kearnes , Brian Goldman , Vijay Pande

Measuring task relatedness and mitigating negative transfer remain a critical open challenge in Multitask Learning (MTL). This work extends data attribution -- which quantifies the influence of individual training data points on model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiwen Tu , Ziqi Liu , Jiaqi W. Ma , Weijing Tang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has recently contributed to learning better representations in service of various NLP tasks. MTL aims at improving the performance of a primary task, by jointly training on a secondary task. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Davis Liang , Yan Shu

Computational drug discovery strategies can be broadly placed in two categories: ligand-based methods which identify novel molecules by similarity with known ligands, and structure-based methods which predict molecules with high-affinity to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-30 Vincent Mallet , Carlos G. Oliver , Nicolas Moitessier , Jerome Waldispuhl

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a machine learning technique aiming to improve model performance by leveraging information across many tasks. It has been used extensively on various data modalities, including electronic health record (EHR)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Matthew B. A. McDermott , Bret Nestor , Evan Kim , Wancong Zhang , Anna Goldenberg , Peter Szolovits , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Multi-task learning (MTL) considers learning a joint model for multiple tasks by optimizing a convex combination of all task losses. To solve the optimization problem, existing methods use an adaptive weight updating scheme, where task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yifei He , Shiji Zhou , Guojun Zhang , Hyokun Yun , Yi Xu , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi , Han Zhao

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

In Meta-Reinforcement Learning (meta-RL) an agent is trained on a set of tasks to prepare for and learn faster in new, unseen, but related tasks. The training tasks are usually hand-crafted to be representative of the expected distribution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Ricardo Luna Gutierrez , Matteo Leonetti

Prediction for ADMET (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, and Toxicity) plays a crucial role in drug discovery and development, accelerating the screening and optimization of new drugs. Existing methods primarily rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Han Zhang , Fengji Ma , Jiamin Su , Xinyue Yang , Lei Wang , Wen-Cai Ye , Li Liu

To minimize the accelerating amount of time invested in the biomedical literature search, numerous approaches for automated knowledge extraction have been proposed. Relation extraction is one such task where semantic relations between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Shweta Yadav , Srivatsa Ramesh , Sriparna Saha , Asif Ekbal

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve estimation and prediction performance by sharing common information among related tasks. One natural assumption in MTL is that tasks are classified into clusters based on their characteristics.…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-28 Akira Okazaki , Shuichi Kawano

MTL is a learning paradigm that effectively leverages both task-specific and shared information to address multiple related tasks simultaneously. In contrast to STL, MTL offers a suite of benefits that enhance both the training process and…

We present a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) approach for improving predictions for rare (e.g., <1%) conversion events in online advertising. The conversions are classified into "rare" or "frequent" types based on historical statistics. The model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yuval Dishi , Ophir Friedler , Yonatan Karni , Natalia Silberstein , Yulia Stolin

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

Accurate prediction of drug-target binding affinity can accelerate drug discovery by prioritizing promising compounds before costly wet-lab screening. While deep learning has advanced this task, most models fuse ligand and protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Mohammadsaleh Refahi , Bahrad A. Sokhansanj , James R. Brown , Gail Rosen

The identification of drug-target binding affinity (DTA) has attracted increasing attention in the drug discovery process due to the more specific interpretation than binary interaction prediction. Recently, numerous deep learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Zhaoyang Chu , Shichao Liu , Wen Zhang

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

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

The classical approach to non-linear regression in physics, is to take a mathematical model describing the functional dependence of the dependent variable from a set of independent variables, and then, using non-linear fitting algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Umberto , Michelucci , Francesca Venturini