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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

In machine learning, the goal of multi-task learning (MTL) is to optimize multiple objectives together. Recent works, for example, Multiple Gradient Descent Algorithm (MGDA) and its variants, show promising results with dynamically adjusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xuxing Chen , Yun He , Jiayi Xu , Minhui Huang , Xiaoyi Liu , Boyang Liu , Fei Tian , Xiaohan Wei , Rong Jin , Sem Park , Bo Long , Xue Feng

Multi-task learning (MTL) has been widely adopted for its ability to simultaneously learn multiple tasks. While existing gradient manipulation methods often yield more balanced solutions than simple scalarization-based approaches, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Peiyao Xiao , Chaosheng Dong , Shaofeng Zou , Kaiyi Ji

Multi-label learning studies the problem where an instance is associated with a set of labels. By treating single-label learning problem as one task, the multi-label learning problem can be casted as solving multiple related tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Lu Bai , Yew-Soon Ong , Tiantian He , Abhishek Gupta

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art and sometimes super-human performance across various domains. However, when learning tasks sequentially, the networks easily forget the knowledge of previous tasks, known as "catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Shixiang Tang , Dapeng Chen , Jinguo Zhu , Shijie Yu , Wanli Ouyang

Many real-world machine learning applications involve several learning tasks which are inter-related. For example, in healthcare domain, we need to learn a predictive model of a certain disease for many hospitals. The models for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Inci M. Baytas , Ming Yan , Anil K. Jain , Jiayu Zhou

Balancing competing objectives remains a fundamental challenge in multi-task learning (MTL), primarily due to conflicting gradients across individual tasks. A common solution relies on computing a dynamic gradient update vector that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Negar Hassanpour , Muhammad Kamran Janjua , Kunlin Zhang , Sepehr Lavasani , Xiaowen Zhang , Chunhua Zhou , Chao Gao

The goal of multi-task learning is to enable more efficient learning than single task learning by sharing model structures for a diverse set of tasks. A standard multi-task learning objective is to minimize the average loss across all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Bo Liu , Xingchao Liu , Xiaojie Jin , Peter Stone , Qiang Liu

Gradient-based meta-learning (GBML) algorithms are able to fast adapt to new tasks by transferring the learned meta-knowledge, while assuming that all tasks come from the same distribution (in-distribution, ID). However, in the real world,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Min Zhang , Zifeng Zhuang , Zhitao Wang , Donglin Wang , Wenbin Li

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to build general-purpose vision systems by training a single network to perform multiple tasks jointly. While promising, its potential is often hindered by "unbalanced optimization", where task interference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yihang Guo , Tianyuan Yu , Liang Bai , Yanming Guo , Yirun Ruan , William Li , Weishi Zheng

The multi-task learning ($MTL$) paradigm aims to simultaneously learn multiple tasks within a single model capturing higher-level, more general hidden patterns that are shared by the tasks. In deep learning, a significant challenge in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Thomas Borsani , Andrea Rosani , Giuseppe Nicosia , Giuseppe Di Fatta

Neural networks are achieving state of the art and sometimes super-human performance on learning tasks across a variety of domains. Whenever these problems require learning in a continual or sequential manner, however, neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Mehrdad Farajtabar , Navid Azizan , Alex Mott , Ang Li

Multitask learning is a methodology to boost generalization performance and also reduce computational intensity and memory usage. However, learning multiple tasks simultaneously can be more difficult than learning a single task because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Sungjae Lee , Youngdoo Son

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the generalization of several related tasks by learning them jointly. As a comparison, in addition to the joint training scheme, modern meta-learning allows unseen tasks with limited labels during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Haoxiang Wang , Han Zhao , Bo Li

Multi-task learning (MTL) has emerged as a promising approach for deploying deep learning models in real-life applications. Recent studies have proposed optimization-based learning paradigms to establish task-shared representations in MTL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhipeng Zhou , Liu Liu , Peilin Zhao , Wei Gong

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

Multi-task learning (MTL) trains deep neural networks to optimize several objectives simultaneously using a shared backbone, which leads to reduced computational costs, improved data efficiency, and enhanced performance through cross-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hoang Phan , Lam Tran , Quyen Tran , Ngoc N. Tran , Tuan Truong , Qi Lei , Nhat Ho , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

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

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) involves the concurrent training of multiple tasks, offering notable advantages for dense prediction tasks in computer vision. MTL not only reduces training and inference time as opposed to having multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Maxime Fontana , Michael Spratling , Miaojing Shi

Multi-task learning (MTL) is to learn one single model that performs multiple tasks for achieving good performance on all tasks and lower cost on computation. Learning such a model requires to jointly optimize losses of a set of tasks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Wei-Hong Li , Hakan Bilen
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