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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

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a learning paradigm in machine learning and its aim is to leverage useful information contained in multiple related tasks to help improve the generalization performance of all the tasks. In this paper, we give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve estimation and prediction performance by sharing common information among related tasks. One natural assumption in MTL is that tasks are classified into clusters based on their characteristics.…

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Biological agents do not have infinite resources to learn new things. For this reason, a central aspect of human learning is the ability to recycle previously acquired knowledge in a way that allows for faster, less resource-intensive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Christian David Márton , Léo Gagnon , Guillaume Lajoie , Kanaka Rajan

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the performance of multiple related prediction tasks by leveraging useful information from them. Due to their flexibility and ability to reduce unknown coefficients substantially, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuzhao Zhang , Yifan Sun

Implicit sentiment analysis is challenging because sentiment toward an aspect is often inferred from events rather than expressed through explicit opinion words. Existing models typically learn from the final polarity label, which provides…

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Typical multi-task learning (MTL) methods rely on architectural adjustments and a large trainable parameter set to jointly optimize over several tasks. However, when the number of tasks increases so do the complexity of the architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Gjorgji Strezoski , Nanne van Noord , Marcel Worring

In multi-task learning (MTL), related tasks learn jointly to improve generalization performance. To exploit the high learning speed of extreme learning machines (ELMs), we apply the ELM framework to the MTL problem, where the output weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

With the advent of deep learning, many dense prediction tasks, i.e. tasks that produce pixel-level predictions, have seen significant performance improvements. The typical approach is to learn these tasks in isolation, that is, a separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Wouter Van Gansbeke , Marc Proesmans , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Multi-task learning (MTL) is critical in real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotics, enabling simultaneous handling of diverse tasks. However, obtaining fully annotated data for all tasks is impractical due to labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Youngmin Oh , Hyung-Il Kim , Jung Uk Kim

Multi-task learning (MTL) has become increasingly popular in natural language processing (NLP) because it improves the performance of related tasks by exploiting their commonalities and differences. Nevertheless, it is still not understood…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Zhihan Zhang , Wenhao Yu , Mengxia Yu , Zhichun Guo , Meng Jiang

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) involves the concurrent training of multiple tasks, offering notable advantages for dense prediction tasks in computer vision. MTL not only reduces training and inference time as opposed to having multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Maxime Fontana , Michael Spratling , Miaojing Shi

Multi-task learning (MTL) refers to the paradigm of learning multiple related tasks together. In contrast, in single-task learning (STL) each individual task is learned independently. MTL often leads to better trained models because they…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-03 Jian Liang , Ziqi Liu , Jiayu Zhou , Xiaoqian Jiang , Changshui Zhang , Fei Wang

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a framework, where multiple related tasks are learned jointly and benefit from a shared representation space, or parameter transfer. To provide sufficient learning support, modern MTL uses annotated data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Dimitrios Kollias , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

This paper proposes a new principled multi-task representation learning framework (InfoMTL) to extract noise-invariant sufficient representations for all tasks. It ensures sufficiency of shared representations for all tasks and mitigates…

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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

Neural-based multi-task learning (MTL) has gained significant improvement, and it has been successfully applied to recommendation system (RS). Recent deep MTL methods for RS (e.g. MMoE, PLE) focus on designing soft gating-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qi Liu , Zhilong Zhou , Gangwei Jiang , Tiezheng Ge , Defu Lian

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is widely-accepted in Natural Language Processing as a standard technique for learning multiple related tasks in one model. Training an MTL model requires having the training data for all tasks available at the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sudipta Kar , Giuseppe Castellucci , Simone Filice , Shervin Malmasi , Oleg Rokhlenko

When faced with learning a set of inter-related tasks from a limited amount of usable data, learning each task independently may lead to poor generalization performance. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) exploits the latent relations between tasks…

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