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Learning to Rank (LTR) technique is ubiquitous in the Information Retrieval system nowadays, especially in the Search Ranking application. The query-item relevance labels typically used to train the ranking model are often noisy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Debabrata Mahapatra , Chaosheng Dong , Yetian Chen , Deqiang Meng , Michinari Momma

Multi-task learning, which optimizes performance across multiple tasks, is inherently a multi-objective optimization problem. Various algorithms are developed to provide discrete trade-off solutions on the Pareto front. Recently, continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Weiyu Chen , James T. Kwok

As an effective learning paradigm against insufficient training samples, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) encourages knowledge sharing across multiple related tasks so as to improve the overall performance. In MTL, a major challenge springs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has recently contributed to learning better representations in service of various NLP tasks. MTL aims at improving the performance of a primary task, by jointly training on a secondary task. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Davis Liang , Yan Shu

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is the generalization of standard reinforcement learning (RL) approaches to solve sequential decision making problems that consist of several, possibly conflicting, objectives. Generally, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Mårten Björkman , Patric Jensfelt

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 optimization is typically characterized by a fixed and finite set of tasks. The present paper relaxes this condition by considering a non-fixed and potentially infinite set of optimization tasks defined in a parameterized,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tingyang Wei , Jiao Liu , Abhishek Gupta , Puay Siew Tan , Yew-Soon Ong

Multitask learning has shown promising performance in many applications and many multitask models have been proposed. In order to identify an effective multitask model for a given multitask problem, we propose a learning framework called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yu Zhang , Ying Wei , Qiang Yang

Multi-task learning (MTL) algorithms typically rely on schemes that combine different task losses or their gradients through weighted averaging. These methods aim to find Pareto stationary points by using heuristics that require access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Surya Murthy , Kushagra Gupta , Mustafa O. Karabag , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

Traditionally, Multi-task Learning (MTL) models optimize the average of task-related objective functions, which is an intuitive approach and which we will be referring to as Average MTL. However, a more general framework, referred to as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-21 Cong Li , Michael Georgiopoulos , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

In recent years, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has attracted much attention due to its good performance in many applications. However, many existing MTL models cannot guarantee that their performance is no worse than their single-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhixiong Yue , Feiyang Ye , Yu Zhang , Christy Liang , Ivor W. Tsang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has emerged as an imperative machine learning tool to solve multiple learning tasks simultaneously and has been successfully applied to healthcare, marketing, and biomedical fields. However, in order to borrow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yang Sui , Qi Xu , Yang Bai , Annie Qu

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

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 neural networks learn tasks simultaneously to improve individual task performance. There are three mechanisms of multi-task learning (MTL) which are explored here for the context of structural health monitoring (SHM): (i) the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Sarah Bee , Lawrence Bull , Nikolas Dervilis , Keith Worden

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) for Vision Transformer aims at enhancing the model capability by tackling multiple tasks simultaneously. Most recent works have predominantly focused on designing Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) structures and in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Hanwen Zhong , Jiaxin Chen , Yutong Zhang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Multitask Reinforcement Learning (MTRL) approaches have gained increasing attention for its wide applications in many important Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks. However, while recent advancements in MTRL theory have focused on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-07 Ziping Xu , Zifan Xu , Runxuan Jiang , Peter Stone , Ambuj Tewari

Transfer learning aims to faciliate learning tasks in a label-scarce target domain by leveraging knowledge from a related source domain with plenty of labeled data. Often times we may have multiple domains with little or no labeled data as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Tianchun Wang

Multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) aims to endow a single agent with the ability to perform well on multiple tasks. Recent works have focused on developing novel sophisticated architectures to improve performance, often resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Reginald McLean , Evangelos Chatzaroulas , Jordan Terry , Isaac Woungang , Nariman Farsad , Pablo Samuel Castro