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Multimodal meta-learning is a recent problem that extends conventional few-shot meta-learning by generalizing its setup to diverse multimodal task distributions. This setup makes a step towards mimicking how humans make use of a diverse set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Milad Abdollahzadeh , Touba Malekzadeh , Ngai-Man Cheung

Despite the promise of Multi-Task Learning in leveraging complementary knowledge across tasks, existing multi-task optimization (MTO) techniques remain fixated on resolving conflicts via optimizer-centric loss scaling and gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zedong Wang , Siyuan Li , Dan Xu

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

When learning a new skill, you take advantage of your preexisting skills and knowledge. For instance, if you are a skilled violinist, you will likely have an easier time learning to play cello. Similarly, when learning a new language you…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Johannes Bjerva

Multitask learning aims at solving a set of related tasks simultaneously, by exploiting the shared knowledge for improving the performance on individual tasks. Hence, an important aspect of multitask learning is to understand the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Changjian Shui , Mahdieh Abbasi , Louis-Émile Robitaille , Boyu Wang , Christian Gagné

Multi-task learning enables the acquisition of task-generic knowledge by training multiple tasks within a unified architecture. However, training all tasks together in a single architecture can lead to performance degradation, known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Wooseong Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

In recent years, multi-task learning has turned out to be of great success in various applications. Though single model training has promised great results throughout these years, it ignores valuable information that might help us estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yeshwant Singh , Anupam Biswas , Angshuman Bora , Debashish Malakar , Subham Chakraborty , Suman Bera

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) can enhance a classifier's generalization performance by learning multiple related tasks simultaneously. Conventional MTL works under the offline or batch setting, and suffers from expensive training cost and poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Peng Yang , Peilin Zhao , Xin Gao

We introduce initial groundwork for estimating suicide risk and mental health in a deep learning framework. By modeling multiple conditions, the system learns to make predictions about suicide risk and mental health at a low false positive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Adrian Benton , Margaret Mitchell , Dirk Hovy

Multi-task learning (MTL) is often achieved by merging datasets before fine-tuning, but the growing availability of fine-tuned models has led to new approaches such as model merging via task arithmetic. A major challenge in this setting is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Brahim Touayouch , Loïc Fosse , Géraldine Damnati , Gwénolé Lecorvé

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

Is more data always better to train vision-and-language models? We study knowledge transferability in multi-modal tasks. The current tendency in machine learning is to assume that by joining multiple datasets from different tasks their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Tianwei Chen , Noa Garcia , Mayu Otani , Chenhui Chu , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Multitask learning (MTL) has recently gained a lot of popularity as a learning paradigm that can lead to improved per-task performance while also using fewer per-task model parameters compared to single task learning. One of the biggest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Dimitrios Sinodinos , Narges Armanfard

Predicting multiple heterogeneous biological and medical targets is a challenge for traditional deep learning models. In contrast to single-task learning, in which a separate model is trained for each target, multi-task learning (MTL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Raquel Aoki , Frederick Tung , Gabriel L. Oliveira

We study the multi-task learning problem that aims to simultaneously analyze multiple datasets collected from different sources and learn one model for each of them. We propose a family of adaptive methods that automatically utilize…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-19 Yaqi Duan , Kaizheng Wang

Multi-task multi-agent reinforcement learning (MT-MARL) has recently gained attention for its potential to enhance MARL's adaptability across multiple tasks. However, it is challenging for existing multi-task learning methods to handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Guobin Zhu , Rui Zhou , Wenkang Ji , Hongyin Zhang , Donglin Wang , Shiyu Zhao

This study aims to explore the performance improvement method of large language models based on GPT-4 under the multi-task learning framework and conducts experiments on two tasks: text classification and automatic summary generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zhen Qi , Jiajing Chen , Shuo Wang , Bingying Liu , Hongye Zheng , Chihang Wang

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

In recent years, Multi-task Learning (MTL) has yielded immense success in Recommender System (RS) applications. However, current MTL-based recommendation models tend to disregard the session-wise patterns of user-item interactions because…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ziru Liu , Jiejie Tian , Qingpeng Cai , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingtong Gao , Shuchang Liu , Dayou Chen , Tonghao He , Dong Zheng , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

The increasing size of data generated by smartphones and IoT devices motivated the development of Federated Learning (FL), a framework for on-device collaborative training of machine learning models. First efforts in FL focused on learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Othmane Marfoq , Giovanni Neglia , Aurélien Bellet , Laetitia Kameni , Richard Vidal