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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 multi-task learning, multiple tasks are solved jointly, sharing inductive bias between them. Multi-task learning is inherently a multi-objective problem because different tasks may conflict, necessitating a trade-off. A common compromise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Ozan Sener , Vladlen Koltun

The benefit of multi-task learning over single-task learning relies on the ability to use relations across tasks to improve performance on any single task. While sharing representations is an important mechanism to share information across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Shagun Sodhani , Amy Zhang , Joelle Pineau

Recent multi-task learning studies suggest that linear scalarization, when using well-chosen fixed task weights, can achieve comparable to or even better performance than complex multi-task optimization (MTO) methods. It remains unclear why…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yi Yang , Kei Ikemura , Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Ci Li , Nazre Batool , Sina Sharif Mansouri , John Folkesson

The paradigm of multi-task learning is that one can achieve better generalization by learning tasks jointly and thus exploiting the similarity between the tasks rather than learning them independently of each other. While previously the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-19 Pratik Jawanpuria , Maksim Lapin , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

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 recent progress in deep learning, most approaches still go for a silo-like solution, focusing on learning each task in isolation: training a separate neural network for each individual task. Many real-world problems, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Simon Vandenhende

We propose a unified look at jointly learning multiple vision tasks and visual domains through universal representations, a single deep neural network. Learning multiple problems simultaneously involves minimizing a weighted sum of multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Wei-Hong Li , Xialei Liu , Hakan Bilen

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims to learn multiple tasks simultaneously while exploiting their mutual relationships. By using shared resources to simultaneously calculate multiple outputs, this learning paradigm has the potential to have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Maxime Fontana , Michael Spratling , Miaojing Shi

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

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Niloofar Yousefi , Michael Georgiopoulos , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

Reliable and effective multi-task learning is a prerequisite for the development of robotic agents that can quickly learn to accomplish related, everyday tasks. However, in the reinforcement learning domain, multi-task learning has not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Himani Arora , Rajath Kumar , Jason Krone , Chong Li

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to build general-purpose vision systems by training a single network to perform multiple tasks jointly. While promising, its potential is often hindered by "unbalanced optimization", where task interference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yihang Guo , Tianyuan Yu , Liang Bai , Yanming Guo , Yirun Ruan , William Li , Weishi Zheng

Multi-task learning (MTL) has shown great potential in medical image analysis, improving the generalizability of the learned features and the performance in individual tasks. However, most of the work on MTL focuses on either architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Fuping Wu , Le Zhang , Yang Sun , Yuanhan Mo , Thomas Nichols , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

Multi-domain learning aims to benefit from simultaneously learning across several different but related domains. In this chapter, we propose a single framework that unifies multi-domain learning (MDL) and the related but better studied area…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

How to effectively leverage the plentiful existing datasets to train a robust and high-performance model is of great significance for many practical applications. However, a model trained on a naive merge of different datasets tends to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yajie Liu , Pu Ge , Qingjie Liu , Shichao Fan , Yunhong Wang

Multi-task learning has been observed by many researchers, which supposes that different tasks can share a low-rank common yet latent subspace. It means learning multiple tasks jointly is better than learning them independently. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Wei Chang , Feiping Nie , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li

Deep learning yields great results across many fields, from speech recognition, image classification, to translation. But for each problem, getting a deep model to work well involves research into the architecture and a long period of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Lukasz Kaiser , Aidan N. Gomez , Noam Shazeer , Ashish Vaswani , Niki Parmar , Llion Jones , Jakob Uszkoreit

The goal of this paper is to use multi-task learning to efficiently scale slot filling models for natural language understanding to handle multiple target tasks or domains. The key to scalability is reducing the amount of training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Aaron Jaech , Larry Heck , Mari Ostendorf

Human adaptability relies crucially on learning and merging knowledge from both supervised and unsupervised tasks: the parents point out few important concepts, but then the children fill in the gaps on their own. This is particularly…

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