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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) is a common machine learning technique that allows the model to share information across different tasks and improve the accuracy of recommendations for all of them. Many existing MTL implementations suffer from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Luyang Wang , Cangcheng Tang , Chongyang Zhang , Jun Ruan , Kai Huang , Jason Dai

Multi-task learning aims to learn multiple tasks jointly by exploiting their relatedness to improve the generalization performance for each task. Traditionally, to perform multi-task learning, one needs to centralize data from all the tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Sulin Liu , Sinno Jialin Pan , Qirong Ho

Convolution neural networks and Transformers have their own advantages and both have been widely used for dense prediction in multi-task learning (MTL). Existing studies typically employ either CNNs (effectively capture local spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yangyang Xu , Yibo Yang , Bernard Ghanem , Lefei Zhang , Bo Du , Jun Zhu

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

Multi-task learning (MTL) has been widely used in recommender systems, wherein predicting each type of user feedback on items (e.g, click, purchase) are treated as individual tasks and jointly trained with a unified model. Our key…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Chenxiao Yang , Junwei Pan , Xiaofeng Gao , Tingyu Jiang , Dapeng Liu , Guihai Chen

In the era of big data, the need to expand the amount of data through data sharing to improve model performance has become increasingly compelling. As a result, effective collaborative learning models need to be developed with respect to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Huiwen Wu , Cen Chen , Li Wang

We propose a novel graph-driven generative model, that unifies multiple heterogeneous learning tasks into the same framework. The proposed model is based on the fact that heterogeneous learning tasks, which correspond to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Wenlin Wang , Hongteng Xu , Zhe Gan , Bai Li , Guoyin Wang , Liqun Chen , Qian Yang , Wenqi Wang , Lawrence Carin

In today's era, users have increasingly high expectations regarding the performance and efficiency of communication networks. Network operators aspire to achieve efficient network planning, operation, and optimization through Digital Twin…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Aijia Liu , Shiqing Liu , Xiaobing Pei

Over the past few years, deep learning methods have shown remarkable results in many face-related tasks including automatic facial expression recognition (FER) in-the-wild. Meanwhile, numerous models describing the human emotional states…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Panagiotis Antoniadis , Panagiotis P. Filntisis , Petros Maragos

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

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

Multitask learning (MTL) aims to learn multiple tasks simultaneously through the interdependence between different tasks. The way to measure the relatedness between tasks is always a popular issue. There are mainly two ways to measure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Ya Li , Xinmei Tian , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao

This paper introduces novel alternate training procedures for hard-parameter sharing Multi-Task Neural Networks (MTNNs). Traditional MTNN training faces challenges in managing conflicting loss gradients, often yielding sub-optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Stefania Bellavia , Francesco Della Santa , Alessandra Papini

Automatically detecting/segmenting object(s) that blend in with their surroundings is difficult for current models. A major challenge is that the intrinsic similarities between such foreground objects and background surroundings make the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Qiang Zhai , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Chenglizhao Chen , Hong Cheng , Deng-Ping Fan

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

Relational databases (RDBs) are ubiquitous in enterprise and real-world applications. Flattening the database poses challenges for deep learning models that rely on fixed-size input representations to capture relational semantics from the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Md. Tanvir Alam , Md. Ahasanul Alam , Md Mahmudur Rahman , Md. Mosaddek Khan

This paper explores the use of knowledge distillation to improve a Multi-Task Deep Neural Network (MT-DNN) (Liu et al., 2019) for learning text representations across multiple natural language understanding tasks. Although ensemble learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Xiaodong Liu , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Jianfeng Gao

The task of session-based recommendation is to predict user actions based on anonymous sessions. Recent research mainly models the target session as a sequence or a graph to capture item transitions within it, ignoring complex transitions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yujia Zheng , Siyi Liu , Zekun Li , Shu Wu

Multi-task dense prediction aims at handling multiple pixel-wise prediction tasks within a unified network simultaneously for visual scene understanding. However, cross-task feature interactions of current methods are still suffering from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jingdong Zhang , Jiayuan Fan , Peng Ye , Bo Zhang , Hancheng Ye , Baopu Li , Yancheng Cai , Tao Chen