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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

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. However, their deployment in safety-critical domains poses significant challenges. Existing safety fine-tuning methods, which focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yi Ding , Lijun Li , Bing Cao , Jing Shao

Multi-task learning (MTL) improves prediction performance in different contexts by learning models jointly on multiple different, but related tasks. Network data, which are a priori data with a rich relational structure, provide an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-11 Chen Fang , Daniel N. Rockmore

Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), particularly through the introduction of Foundation Models (FMs), have significantly enhanced surgical scene understanding within minimally invasive surgery (MIS). This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ufaq Khan , Umair Nawaz , Adnan Qayyum , Shazad Ashraf , Yutong Xie , Muhammad Haris Khan , Muhammad Bilal , Junaid Qadir

Laparoscopic Surgery (LS) is a modern surgical technique whereby the surgery is performed through an incision with tools and camera as opposed to conventional open surgery. This promises minimal recovery times and less hemorrhaging. Multi…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil , Rositsa Bogdanova , Irene Cheng , Anup Basu , Bin Zheng

With Transformers achieving outstanding performance on individual remote sensing (RS) tasks, we are now approaching the realization of a unified model that excels across multiple tasks through multi-task learning (MTL). Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Qingyun Li , Shuran Ma , Junwei Luo , Yi Yu , Yue Zhou , Fengxiang Wang , Xudong Lu , Xiaoxing Wang , Xin He , Yushi Chen , Xue Yang

Flexible robots hold great promise for enhancing minimally invasive surgery (MIS) by providing superior dexterity, precise control, and safe tissue interaction. Yet, translating these advantages into endoscopic interventions within open…

Lung cancer and covid-19 have one of the highest morbidity and mortality rates in the world. For physicians, the identification of lesions is difficult in the early stages of the disease and time-consuming. Therefore, multi-task learning is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Weronika Hryniewska-Guzik , Maria Kędzierska , Przemysław Biecek

In the field of medical imaging, AI-assisted techniques such as object detection, segmentation, and classification are widely employed to alleviate the workload of physicians and doctors. However, single-task models are predominantly used,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Fan Li , Arun Iyengar , Lanyu Xu

Medical visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging multimodal task, where Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models can effectively improve the generalization performance. However, most methods in the medical field treat VQA as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jiawei Chen , Dingkang Yang , Yue Jiang , Yuxuan Lei , Lihua Zhang

A common problem with segmentation of medical images using neural networks is the difficulty to obtain a significant number of pixel-level annotated data for training. To address this issue, we proposed a semi-supervised segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ange Lou , Kareem Tawfik , Xing Yao , Ziteng Liu , Jack Noble

Multitask learning (MTL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm that leverages similarities among multiple learning tasks, each with insufficient samples to train a standalone model, to solve them simultaneously while minimizing data sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 John Abascal , Nicolás Berrios , Alina Oprea , Jonathan Ullman , Adam Smith , Matthew Jagielski

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to leverage shared information among tasks to improve learning efficiency and accuracy. However, MTL often struggles to effectively manage positive and negative transfer between tasks, which can hinder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chenguang Wang , Xuanhao Pan , Tianshu Yu

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims to enhance the model generalization by sharing representations between related tasks for better performance. Typical MTL methods are jointly trained with the complete multitude of ground-truths for all tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yufeng Wang , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chih Hung , Wenrui Ding , Shuo Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The recent success of interleaved Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in few-shot learning suggests that in-context learning (ICL) with many examples can be promising for learning new tasks. However, this many-shot multimodal ICL setting has one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Brandon Huang , Chancharik Mitra , Assaf Arbelle , Leonid Karlinsky , Trevor Darrell , Roei Herzig

Model merging-based multitask learning (MTL) offers a promising approach for performing MTL by merging multiple expert models without requiring access to raw training data. However, in this paper, we examine the merged model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Enneng Yang , Li Shen , Zhenyi Wang , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang , Xiaocun Cao , Jie Zhang , Dacheng Tao

While Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as a promising direction in computational pathology, the substantial computational cost of giga-pixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs) necessitates the use of Multi-Instance Learning (MIL) to enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhenfeng Zhuang , Fangyu Zhou , Liansheng Wang

In recent years, multi-task learning has turned out to be of great success in various applications. Though single model training has promised great results throughout these years, it ignores valuable information that might help us estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yeshwant Singh , Anupam Biswas , Angshuman Bora , Debashish Malakar , Subham Chakraborty , Suman Bera

Meta-learning (ML) has emerged as a promising learning method under resource constraints such as few-shot learning. ML approaches typically propose a methodology to learn generalizable models. In this work-in-progress paper, we put the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Aroof Aimen , Sahil Sidheekh , Vineet Madan , Narayanan C. Krishnan

Surgical tool presence detection and surgical phase recognition are two fundamental yet challenging tasks in surgical video analysis and also very essential components in various applications in modern operating rooms. While these two…

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