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Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to leverage shared information among tasks to improve learning efficiency and accuracy. However, MTL often struggles to effectively manage positive and negative transfer between tasks, which can hinder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chenguang Wang , Xuanhao Pan , Tianshu Yu

A fundamental problem in multi-task learning (MTL) is identifying groups of tasks that should be learned together. Since training MTL models for all possible combinations of tasks is prohibitively expensive for large task sets, a crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Afiya Ayman , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Aron Laszka

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…

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims to learn multiple tasks simultaneously while exploiting their mutual relationships. By using shared resources to simultaneously calculate multiple outputs, this learning paradigm has the potential to have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Maxime Fontana , Michael Spratling , Miaojing Shi

Model merging has emerged as a cost-efficient approximation to multitask learning. Among merging strategies, task arithmetic is notable for its simplicity and effectiveness. In this work, we provide a theoretical motivation for task vectors…

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

Tabular data is the most abundant data type in the world, powering systems in finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and beyond. As tabular datasets grow and span multiple related targets, there is an increasing need to exploit shared task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Dimitrios Sinodinos , Jack Yi Wei , Narges Armanfard

Although multi-task learning is widely applied in intelligent services, traditional multi-task modeling methods often require customized designs based on specific task combinations, resulting in a cumbersome modeling process. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jingxuan Zhou , Weidong Bao , Ji Wang , Zhengyi Zhong , Dayu Zhang

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a foundational machine learning problem that has seen extensive development over the past decade. Recently, various optimization-based MTL approaches have been proposed to learn multiple tasks simultaneously by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhipeng Zhou , Linxiao Cao , Pengcheng Wu , Peilin Zhao , Chunyan Miao

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a common paradigm that seeks to improve the generalization performance of task learning by training related tasks simultaneously. However, it is still a challenging problem to search the flexible and accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Yingru Liu , Xuewen Yang , Dongliang Xie , Xin Wang , Li Shen , Haozhi Huang , Niranjan Balasubramanian

We propose an end-to-end Multitask Learning Transformer framework, named MulT, to simultaneously learn multiple high-level vision tasks, including depth estimation, semantic segmentation, reshading, surface normal estimation, 2D keypoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Deblina Bhattacharjee , Tong Zhang , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

The problem of learning simultaneously several related tasks has received considerable attention in several domains, especially in machine learning with the so-called multitask learning problem or learning to learn problem [1], [2].…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Cedric Richard , Jie Chen , Ali H. Sayed

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims at boosting the overall performance of each individual task by leveraging useful information contained in multiple related tasks. It has shown great success in natural language processing (NLP). Currently, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jianquan Li , Xiaokang Liu , Wenpeng Yin , Min Yang , Liqun Ma , Yaohong Jin

Purpose: Surgery scene understanding with tool-tissue interaction recognition and automatic report generation can play an important role in intra-operative guidance, decision-making and postoperative analysis in robotic surgery. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Lalithkumar Seenivasan , Mobarakol Islam , Mengya Xu , Chwee Ming Lim , Hongliang Ren

In modern advertising and recommender systems, multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm has been widely employed to jointly predict diverse user feedbacks (e.g. click and purchase). While, existing MTL approaches are either rigid to adapt to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Zihan Lin , Xuanhua Yang , Xiaoyu Peng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Shaoguo Liu , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

Multi-task learning (MTL) is an active field in deep learning in which we train a model to jointly learn multiple tasks by exploiting relationships between the tasks. It has been shown that MTL helps the model share the learned features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Akihiro Nakano , Shi Chen , Kazuyuki Demachi

Heterogeneous multi-task learning (HMTL) is an important topic in multi-task learning (MTL). Most existing HMTL methods usually solve either scenario where all tasks reside in the same input (feature) space yet unnecessarily the consistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Quan Feng , Songcan Chen

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

In order to create machine learning systems that serve a variety of users well, it is vital to not only achieve high average performance but also ensure equitable outcomes across diverse groups. However, most machine learning methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Atharva Kulkarni , Lucio Dery , Amrith Setlur , Aditi Raghunathan , Ameet Talwalkar , Graham Neubig

Recent advances in Federated Learning (FL) have paved the way towards the design of novel strategies for solving multiple learning tasks simultaneously, by leveraging cooperation among networked devices. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) exploits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Stefano Savazzi , Vittorio Rampa , Sanaz Kianoush , Mehdi Bennis