English
Related papers

Related papers: Mitigating Negative Transfer in Multi-Task Learnin…

200 papers

Multilingual models jointly pretrained on multiple languages have achieved remarkable performance on various multilingual downstream tasks. Moreover, models finetuned on a single monolingual downstream task have shown to generalize to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Seanie Lee , Hae Beom Lee , Juho Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Loss reweighting is a widely used strategy for long-tailed classification, but existing reweighting strategies often rely on heuristics and rarely define a well-specified target. Inspired by Neural Collapse (NC), the ideal simplex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jinping Wang , Zixin Tong , Zhiwu Xie , Zhiqiang Gao

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a powerful machine learning paradigm designed to leverage shared knowledge across tasks to improve generalization and performance. Previous works have proposed approaches to MTL that can be divided into feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Paolo Bonetti , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

Multi-task learning (MTL) allows deep neural networks to learn from related tasks by sharing parameters with other networks. In practice, however, MTL involves searching an enormous space of possible parameter sharing architectures to find…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-20 Sebastian Ruder , Joachim Bingel , Isabelle Augenstein , Anders Søgaard

With the continuous improvement of the performance of object detectors via advanced model architectures, imbalance problems in the training process have received more attention. It is a common paradigm in object detection frameworks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yihao Luo , Xiang Cao , Juntao Zhang , Peng Cheng , Tianjiang Wang , Qi Feng

Multi-task learning (MTL) has emerged as an imperative machine learning tool to solve multiple learning tasks simultaneously and has been successfully applied to healthcare, marketing, and biomedical fields. However, in order to borrow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yang Sui , Qi Xu , Yang Bai , Annie Qu

Deep learning approaches have achieved great success in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, directly training deep neural models often suffer from overfitting and data scarcity problems that are pervasive in NLP tasks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shijie Chen , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

Neural-based multi-task learning (MTL) has gained significant improvement, and it has been successfully applied to recommendation system (RS). Recent deep MTL methods for RS (e.g. MMoE, PLE) focus on designing soft gating-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qi Liu , Zhilong Zhou , Gangwei Jiang , Tiezheng Ge , Defu Lian

Multi-task learning (MTL) has shown great potential in medical image analysis, improving the generalizability of the learned features and the performance in individual tasks. However, most of the work on MTL focuses on either architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Fuping Wu , Le Zhang , Yang Sun , Yuanhan Mo , Thomas Nichols , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

In many personalized recommendation scenarios, the generalization ability of a target task can be improved via learning with additional auxiliary tasks alongside this target task on a multi-task network. However, this method often suffers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yun He , Xue Feng , Cheng Cheng , Geng Ji , Yunsong Guo , James Caverlee

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

Multi-task learning (MTL) has been widely applied in online advertising and recommender systems. To address the negative transfer issue, recent studies have proposed optimization methods that thoroughly focus on the gradient alignment of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xuanhua Yang , Jianxin Zhao , Shaoguo Liu , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

This work proposes Multi-task Meta Learning (MTML), integrating two learning paradigms Multi-Task Learning (MTL) and meta learning, to bring together the best of both worlds. In particular, it focuses simultaneous learning of multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Richa Upadhyay , Prakash Chandra Chhipa , Ronald Phlypo , Rajkumar Saini , Marcus Liwicki

Transfer Learning (TL) offers the potential to accelerate learning by transferring knowledge across tasks. However, it faces critical challenges such as negative transfer, domain adaptation and inefficiency in selecting solid source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alessandro Capurso , Elia Piccoli , Davide Bacciu

Multitask Learning is a Machine Learning paradigm that aims to train a range of (usually related) tasks with the help of a shared model. While the goal is often to improve the joint performance of all training tasks, another approach is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Rafael Kourdis , Gabriel Gordon-Hall , Philip John Gorinski

Multi-Task Learning is a learning paradigm that uses correlated tasks to improve performance generalization. A common way to learn multiple tasks is through the hard parameter sharing approach, in which a single architecture is used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Angelica Tiemi Mizuno Nakamura , Denis Fernando Wolf , Valdir Grassi

Multi-task learning (MTL) benefits the fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) by providing a single model with improved performance and generalization ability across tasks, presenting a resource-efficient alternative to developing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zi Gong , Hang Yu , Cong Liao , Bingchang Liu , Chaoyu Chen , Jianguo Li

A key assumption in supervised learning is that training and test data follow the same probability distribution. However, this fundamental assumption is not always satisfied in practice, e.g., due to changing environments, sample selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Nan Lu , Tianyi Zhang , Tongtong Fang , Takeshi Teshima , Masashi Sugiyama

Recent work has found that multi-task training with a large number of diverse tasks can uniformly improve downstream performance on unseen target tasks. In contrast, literature on task transferability has established that the choice of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Vishakh Padmakumar , Leonard Lausen , Miguel Ballesteros , Sheng Zha , He He , George Karypis

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
‹ Prev 1 4 5 6 7 8 10 Next ›