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Meta-Reinforcement Learning addresses the critical limitations of conventional Reinforcement Learning in multi-task and non-stationary environments by enabling fast policy adaptation and improved generalization. We introduce a novel Meta-RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Théo Zangato , Aomar Osmani , Pegah Alizadeh

In recent years, multi-task prompt tuning has garnered considerable attention for its inherent modularity and potential to enhance parameter-efficient transfer learning across diverse tasks. This paper aims to analyze and improve the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Ahmad Pouramini , Hesham Faili

We study the benefit of sharing representations among tasks to enable the effective use of deep neural networks in Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning. We leverage the assumption that learning from different tasks, sharing common properties,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Carlo D'Eramo , Davide Tateo , Andrea Bonarini , Marcello Restelli , Jan Peters

We present an end-to-end framework for the Assignment Problem with multiple tasks mapped to a group of workers, using reinforcement learning while preserving many constraints. Tasks and workers have time constraints and there is a cost…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Sharmin Pathan , Vyom Shrivastava

Transfer Learning has shown great potential to enhance single-agent Reinforcement Learning (RL) efficiency. Similarly, Multiagent RL (MARL) can also be accelerated if agents can share knowledge with each other. However, it remains a problem…

Semantic composition functions have been playing a pivotal role in neural representation learning of text sequences. In spite of their success, most existing models suffer from the underfitting problem: they use the same shared…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Junkun Chen , Xipeng Qiu , Pengfei Liu , Xuanjing Huang

Meta-reinforcement learning algorithms can enable robots to acquire new skills much more quickly, by leveraging prior experience to learn how to learn. However, much of the current research on meta-reinforcement learning focuses on task…

Learning-based methods have been used to pro-gram robotic tasks in recent years. However, extensive training is usually required not only for the initial task learning but also for generalizing the learned model to the same task but in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Tianying Wang , Hao Zhang , Wei Qi Toh , Hongyuan Zhu , Cheston Tan , Yan Wu , Yong Liu , Wei Jing

In the age of large and heterogeneous datasets, the integration of information from diverse sources is essential to improve parameter estimation. Multi-task learning offers a powerful approach by enabling simultaneous learning across…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-11 Sohom Bhattacharya , Yongzhuo Chen , Muxuan Liang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has shown considerable practical benefits, particularly when using language models (LMs). While this is commonly achieved by learning $n$ tasks under a joint optimization procedure, some methods, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Markus Frohmann , Carolin Holtermann , Shahed Masoudian , Anne Lauscher , Navid Rekabsaz

Transfer effects manifest themselves both during training using a fixed data set and in inductive inference using accumulating data. We hypothesize that perturbing the data set by including more samples, instead of perturbing the model by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 András Millinghoffer , Bence Bolgár , Péter Antal

Enabling robots to solve multiple manipulation tasks has a wide range of industrial applications. While learning-based approaches enjoy flexibility and generalizability, scaling these approaches to solve such compositional tasks remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Michael H. Lim , Andy Zeng , Brian Ichter , Maryam Bandari , Erwin Coumans , Claire Tomlin , Stefan Schaal , Aleksandra Faust

Transfer learning is a useful technique for achieving improved performance and reducing training costs by leveraging the knowledge gained from source tasks and applying it to target tasks. Assessing the effectiveness of transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Peizhong Ju , Sen Lin , Mark S. Squillante , Yingbin Liang , Ness B. Shroff

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Zhuosheng Zhang , Shuohang Wang , Yichong Xu , Yuwei Fang , Wenhao Yu , Yang Liu , Hai Zhao , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng

Through many recent successes in simulation, model-free reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising approach to solving continuous control robotic tasks. The research community is now able to reproduce, analyze and build quickly on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-21 A. Rupam Mahmood , Dmytro Korenkevych , Gautham Vasan , William Ma , James Bergstra

We introduce a novel method that enables parameter-efficient transfer and multi-task learning with deep neural networks. The basic approach is to learn a model patch - a small set of parameters - that will specialize to each task, instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Mark Sandler , Andrey Zhmoginov , Andrew Howard

Transfer learning is an emerging and popular paradigm for utilizing existing knowledge from previous learning tasks to improve the performance of new ones. Despite its numerous empirical successes, theoretical analysis for transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Haoyang Cao , Haotian Gu , Xin Guo , Mathieu Rosenbaum

In this work we introduce a self-supervised pretraining framework for transformers on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data. First, we pretrain our architecture on two self-supervised tasks simultaneously to teach the model a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Sean Paulsen , Michael Casey

Transfer learning (TL) is a promising way to improve the sample efficiency of reinforcement learning. However, how to efficiently transfer knowledge across tasks with different state-action spaces is investigated at an early stage. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yu Chen , Yingfeng Chen , Zhipeng Hu , Tianpei Yang , Changjie Fan , Yang Yu , Jianye Hao

Efficient and robust bioprocess control is essential for maximizing performance and adaptability in advanced biotechnological systems. In this work, we present a reinforcement-learning framework for multi-setpoint and multi-trajectory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Sebastián Espinel-Ríos , José L. Avalos , Ehecatl Antonio del Rio Chanona , Dongda Zhang