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Fine-tuning pre-trained models on targeted datasets enhances task-specific performance but often comes at the expense of generalization. Model merging techniques, which integrate multiple fine-tuned models into a single multi-task model…

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This paper presents a novel optimization method for maximizing generalization over tasks in meta-learning. The goal of meta-learning is to learn a model for an agent adapting rapidly when presented with previously unseen tasks. Tasks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , David Eigen , Massoud Pedram

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

Deep multi-task networks are of particular interest for autonomous driving systems. They can potentially strike an excellent trade-off between predictive performance, hardware constraints and efficient use of information from multiple types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Isabelle Leang , Ganesh Sistu , Fabian Burger , Andrei Bursuc , Senthil Yogamani

As a few large-scale pre-trained models become the major choices of various applications, new challenges arise for model pruning, e.g., can we avoid pruning the same model from scratch for every downstream task? How to reuse the pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Haiyan Zhao , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

We develop task scaling laws and model ladders to predict the individual task performance of pretrained language models (LMs) in the overtrained setting. Standard power laws for language modeling loss cannot accurately model task…

We formalise the essential data of objective functions as equality constraints on composites of learners. We call these constraints "tasks", and we investigate the idealised view that such tasks determine model behaviours. We develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Benjamin Rodatz , Ian Fan , Tuomas Laakkonen , Neil John Ortega , Thomas Hoffmann , Vincent Wang-Mascianica

The method presented extends a given regression neural network to make its performance improve. The modification affects the learning procedure only, hence the extension may be easily omitted during evaluation without any change in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Konrad Zolna

Neural network based models have achieved impressive results on various specific tasks. However, in previous works, most models are learned separately based on single-task supervised objectives, which often suffer from insufficient training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Pengfei Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Task arithmetic is a straightforward yet highly effective strategy for model merging, enabling the resultant model to exhibit multi-task capabilities. Recent research indicates that models demonstrating linearity enhance the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Rui Dai , Sile Hu , Xu Shen , Yonggang Zhang , Xinmei Tian , Jieping Ye

In multitask learning, conflicts between task gradients are a frequent issue degrading a model's training performance. This is commonly addressed by using the Gradient Projection algorithm PCGrad that often leads to faster convergence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Christian Bohn , Ido Freeman , Hasan Tercan , Tobias Meisen

When finetuning multiple tasks altogether, it is important to carefully weigh them to get a good performance, but searching for good weights can be difficult and costly. Here, we propose to aid the search with fast previews to quickly get a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Hugo Monzón Maldonado , Thomas Möllenhoff , Nico Daheim , Iryna Gurevych , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Research on human reading has long documented that reading behavior shows task-specific effects, but it has been challenging to build general models predicting what reading behavior humans will show in a given task. We introduce NEAT, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Michael Hahn , Frank Keller

Recently, pre-trained language models mostly follow the pre-train-then-fine-tuning paradigm and have achieved great performance on various downstream tasks. However, since the pre-training stage is typically task-agnostic and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Yuxian Gu , Zhengyan Zhang , Xiaozhi Wang , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Pretrained models have revolutionized deep learning by enabling significant performance improvements across a wide range of tasks, leveraging large-scale, pre-learned knowledge representations. However, deploying these models in real-world…

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Multi-task learning and self-training are two common ways to improve a machine learning model's performance in settings with limited training data. Drawing heavily on ideas from those two approaches, we suggest transductive auxiliary task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Johannes Bjerva , Katharina Kann , Isabelle Augenstein

Transformer-based pre-trained language models have demonstrated superior performance on various natural language processing tasks. However, it remains unclear how the skills required to handle these tasks distribute among model parameters.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xiaozhi Wang , Kaiyue Wen , Zhengyan Zhang , Lei Hou , Zhiyuan Liu , Juanzi Li

We introduce a method to provide vectorial representations of visual classification tasks which can be used to reason about the nature of those tasks and their relations. Given a dataset with ground-truth labels and a loss function defined…

Multi-task learning, as it is understood nowadays, consists of using one single model to carry out several similar tasks. From classifying hand-written characters of different alphabets to figuring out how to play several Atari games using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Unai Garciarena , Alexander Mendiburu , Roberto Santana

Foundation models and their checkpoints have significantly advanced deep learning, boosting performance across various applications. However, fine-tuned models often struggle outside their specific domains and exhibit considerable…