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In many machine learning contexts, tasks are often treated as interconnected components with the goal of leveraging knowledge transfer between them, which is the central aim of Multi-Task Learning (MTL). Consequently, this multi-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Pablo Hidalgo , Daniel Rodriguez

Multi-task problem solving has been shown to improve the accuracy of the individual tasks, which is an important feature for robots, as they have a limited resource. However, when the number of labels for each task is not equal, namely…

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Existing deep multitask learning (MTL) approaches align layers shared between tasks in a parallel ordering. Such an organization significantly constricts the types of shared structure that can be learned. The necessity of parallel ordering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

Scarcity of parallel sentence pairs is a major challenge for training high quality neural machine translation (NMT) models in bilingually low-resource scenarios, as NMT is data-hungry. Multi-task learning is an elegant approach to inject…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Poorya Zaremoodi , Gholamreza Haffari

Leveraging task-aware annotated data as supervised signals to assist with self-supervised learning on large-scale unlabeled data has become a new trend in pre-training language models. Existing studies show that multi-task learning with…

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Medical image classification involves thresholding of labels that represent malignancy risk levels. Usually, a task defines a single threshold, and when developing computer-aided diagnosis tools, a single network is trained per such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Vadim Ratner , Yoel Shoshan , Tal Kachman

To efficiently select optimal dataset combinations for enhancing multi-task learning (MTL) performance in large language models, we proposed a novel framework that leverages a neural network to predict the best dataset combinations. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zaifu Zhan , Rui Zhang

Multi-task learning aims to learn multiple related tasks simultaneously and has achieved great success in various fields. However, the disparity in loss and gradient scales among tasks often leads to performance compromises, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Baijiong Lin , Weisen Jiang , Feiyang Ye , Yu Zhang , Pengguang Chen , Ying-Cong Chen , Shu Liu , Ivor W. Tsang , James T. Kwok

Student assessment is one of the most fundamental tasks in the field of AI Education (AIEd). One of the most common approach to student assessment is Knowledge Tracing (KT), which evaluates a student's knowledge state by predicting whether…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Suyeong An , Junghoon Kim , Minsam Kim , Juneyoung Park

Task embedding, a meta-learning technique that captures task-specific information, has gained popularity, especially in areas such as multi-task learning, model editing, and interpretability. However, it faces challenges with the emergence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xinyu Wang , Hainiu Xu , Lin Gui , Yulan He

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

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) plays a crucial role in real-world advertising applications such as recommender systems, aiming to achieve robust representations while minimizing resource consumption. MTL endeavors to simultaneously optimize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Furkan Durmus , Hasan Saribas , Said Aldemir , Junyan Yang , Hakan Cevikalp

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has been widely employed for domain adaptation, with LoRA being one of the most prominent methods due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, in multi-task learning (MTL) scenarios, LoRA tends to…

One of the main arguments behind studying disentangled representations is the assumption that they can be easily reused in different tasks. At the same time finding a joint, adaptable representation of data is one of the key challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Łukasz Maziarka , Aleksandra Nowak , Maciej Wołczyk , Andrzej Bedychaj

Immersive analytics has the potential to promote collaboration in machine learning (ML). This is desired due to the specific characteristics of ML modeling in practice, namely the complexity of ML, the interdisciplinary approach in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Michaela Benk , Raphael Weibel , Stefan Feuerriegel , Andrea Ferrario

Although multi-task learning (MTL) has been a preferred approach and successfully applied in many real-world scenarios, MTL models are not guaranteed to outperform single-task models on all tasks mainly due to the negative effects of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Shijie Zhu , Hui Zhao , Tianshu Wu , Pengjie Wang , Hongbo Deng , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a machine learning paradigm that aims to improve the generalization performance of a model on multiple related tasks by training it simultaneously on those tasks. Unlike MTL, where the model has instant access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Amin Banayeeanzade , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Mohammad Rostami

Large language models (LLM) have recently shown the extraordinary ability to perform unseen tasks based on few-shot examples provided as text, also known as in-context learning (ICL). While recent works have attempted to understand the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Harmon Bhasin , Timothy Ossowski , Yiqiao Zhong , Junjie Hu

Meta-learning enables learning systems to adapt quickly to new tasks, similar to humans. Different meta-learning approaches all work under/with the mini-batch episodic training framework. Such framework naturally gives the information about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shiguang Wu , Yaqing Wang , Yatao Bian , Quanming Yao

Continual and multi-task learning are common machine learning approaches to learning from multiple tasks. The existing works in the literature often assume multi-task learning as a sensible performance upper bound for various continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Zihao Wu , Huy Tran , Hamed Pirsiavash , Soheil Kolouri