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Multi-task learning (MTL) is a widely explored paradigm that enables the simultaneous learning of multiple tasks using a single model. Despite numerous solutions, the key issues of optimization conflict and task imbalance remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhipeng Zhou , Ziqiao Meng , Pengcheng Wu , Peilin Zhao , Chunyan Miao

When a number of similar tasks have to be learned simultaneously, multi-task learning (MTL) models can attain significantly higher accuracy than single-task learning (STL) models. However, the advantage of MTL depends on various factors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Afiya Ayman , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Aron Laszka

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the generalization performance of multiple tasks by exploiting the shared factors among them. Various metrics (e.g., F-score, Area Under the ROC Curve) are used to evaluate the performances of MTL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Ge-Yang Ke , Yan Pan , Jian Yin , Chang-Qin Huang

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

When modeling related tasks in computer vision, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) can outperform Single-Task Learning (STL) due to its ability to capture intrinsic relatedness among tasks. However, MTL may encounter the insufficient training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Caoyun Fan , Wenqing Chen , Jidong Tian , Yitian Li , Hao He , Yaohui Jin

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has achieved success in various fields. However, how to balance different tasks to achieve good performance is a key problem. To achieve the task balancing, there are many works to carefully design dynamical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Baijiong Lin , Feiyang Ye , Yu Zhang , Ivor W. Tsang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has become an essential machine learning tool for addressing multiple learning tasks simultaneously and has been effectively applied across fields such as healthcare, marketing, and biomedical research. However, to…

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

In order to create machine learning systems that serve a variety of users well, it is vital to not only achieve high average performance but also ensure equitable outcomes across diverse groups. However, most machine learning methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Atharva Kulkarni , Lucio Dery , Amrith Setlur , Aditi Raghunathan , Ameet Talwalkar , Graham Neubig

Learning two tasks in a single shared function has some benefits. Firstly by acquiring information from the second task, the shared function leverages useful information that could have been neglected or underestimated in the first task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Jonghwa Yim , Sang Hwan Kim

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

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) enables a single model to learn multiple tasks simultaneously, leveraging knowledge transfer among tasks for enhanced generalization, and has been widely applied across various domains. However, task imbalance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaohan Qin , Xiaoxing Wang , Ning Liao , Junchi Yan

Multi-task learning (MTL) has shown effectiveness in exploiting shared information across tasks to improve generalization. MTL assumes tasks share similarities that can improve performance. In addition, boosting algorithms have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Seyedsaman Emami , Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz , Daniel Hernández-Lobato

Multi-task learning (MTL) jointly learns a set of tasks by sharing parameters among tasks. It is a promising approach for reducing storage costs while improving task accuracy for many computer vision tasks. The effective adoption of MTL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Lijun Zhang , Xiao Liu , Hui Guan

Meta-learning leverages related source tasks to learn an initialization that can be quickly fine-tuned to a target task with limited labeled examples. However, many popular meta-learning algorithms, such as model-agnostic meta-learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-24 Diana Cai , Rishit Sheth , Lester Mackey , Nicolo Fusi

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

Meta-learning methods have shown an impressive ability to train models that rapidly learn new tasks. However, these methods only aim to perform well in expectation over tasks coming from some particular distribution that is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Liam Collins , Aryan Mokhtari , Sanjay Shakkottai

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

In recent years, Multi-task Learning (MTL) has yielded immense success in Recommender System (RS) applications. However, current MTL-based recommendation models tend to disregard the session-wise patterns of user-item interactions because…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ziru Liu , Jiejie Tian , Qingpeng Cai , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingtong Gao , Shuchang Liu , Dayou Chen , Tonghao He , Dong Zheng , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Multi-task learning (MTL) in materials science relies on the assumption that physically related properties share learnable representations. We challenge this assumption using a 54,028-sample metal alloy dataset exhibiting extreme task-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sungwoo Kang

Model agnostic meta-learning (MAML) is a popular state-of-the-art meta-learning algorithm that provides good weight initialization of a model given a variety of learning tasks. The model initialized by provided weight can be fine-tuned to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Thanh Nguyen , Tung Luu , Trung Pham , Sanzhar Rakhimkul , Chang D. Yoo