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Multi-task large language models (MTLLMs) are important for many applications at the wireless edge, where users demand specialized models to handle multiple tasks efficiently. However, training MTLLMs is complex and exhaustive, particularly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Aladin Djuhera , Vlad C. Andrei , Mohsen Pourghasemian , Haris Gacanin , Holger Boche , Walid Saad

Diagnosis of adverse neonatal outcomes is crucial for preterm survival since it enables doctors to provide timely treatment. Machine learning (ML) algorithms have been demonstrated to be effective in predicting adverse neonatal outcomes.…

Multi-task learning is a framework that enforces different learning tasks to share their knowledge to improve their generalization performance. It is a hot and active domain that strives to handle several core issues; particularly, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Johnny Torres , Guangji Bai , Junxiang Wang , Liang Zhao , Carmen Vaca , Cristina Abad

The tracking method based on the extreme learning machine (ELM) is efficient and effective. ELM randomly generates input weights and biases in the hidden layer, and then calculates and computes the output weights by reducing the iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jing Zhang , Huibing Wang , Yonggong Ren

Multi-Task Learning is a learning paradigm that uses correlated tasks to improve performance generalization. A common way to learn multiple tasks is through the hard parameter sharing approach, in which a single architecture is used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Angelica Tiemi Mizuno Nakamura , Denis Fernando Wolf , Valdir Grassi

Algorithmic bias often arises as a result of differential subgroup validity, in which predictive relationships vary across groups. For example, in toxic language detection, comments targeting different demographic groups can vary markedly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Soumyajit Gupta , Sooyong Lee , Maria De-Arteaga , Matthew Lease

Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification (HMC) faces critical challenges in maintaining structural consistency and balancing loss weighting in Multi-Task Learning (MTL). In order to address these issues, we propose a classifier called HCAL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ruobing Jiang , Mengzhe Liu , Haobing Liu , Yanwei Yu

Recent advances in Federated Learning (FL) have paved the way towards the design of novel strategies for solving multiple learning tasks simultaneously, by leveraging cooperation among networked devices. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) exploits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Stefano Savazzi , Vittorio Rampa , Sanaz Kianoush , Mehdi Bennis

Purpose: Surgery scene understanding with tool-tissue interaction recognition and automatic report generation can play an important role in intra-operative guidance, decision-making and postoperative analysis in robotic surgery. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Lalithkumar Seenivasan , Mobarakol Islam , Mengya Xu , Chwee Ming Lim , Hongliang Ren

Human beings can leverage knowledge from relative tasks to improve learning on a primary task. Similarly, multi-task learning methods suggest using auxiliary tasks to enhance a neural network's performance on a specific primary task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yuanze Li , Chun-Mei Feng , Qilong Wang , Guanglei Yang , Wangmeng Zuo

Heterogeneous multi-task learning (HMTL) is an important topic in multi-task learning (MTL). Most existing HMTL methods usually solve either scenario where all tasks reside in the same input (feature) space yet unnecessarily the consistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Quan Feng , Songcan Chen

Multitask learning has shown promising performance in many applications and many multitask models have been proposed. In order to identify an effective multitask model for a given multitask problem, we propose a learning framework called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yu Zhang , Ying Wei , Qiang Yang

The optimal solution to an optimization problem depends on the problem's objective function, constraints, and size. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven effective in solving optimization problems, changes in the problem's size,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nikos A. Mitsiou , Pavlos S. Bouzinis , Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis , George K. Karagiannidis

Multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) aims to train a single agent to efficiently optimize performance across multiple tasks simultaneously. However, jointly optimizing all tasks often yields imbalanced learning: agents quickly solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Nicholas E. Corrado , Wenyuan Huang , Josiah P. Hanna

Multitask learning (MTL) leverages task-relatedness to enhance performance. With the emergence of multimodal data, tasks can now be referenced by multiple indices. In this paper, we employ high-order tensors, with each mode corresponding to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Jiani Liu , Qinghua Tao , Ce Zhu , Yipeng Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Johan A. K. Suykens

While tasks could come with varying the number of instances and classes in realistic settings, the existing meta-learning approaches for few-shot classification assume that the number of instances per task and class is fixed. Due to such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hae Beom Lee , Hayeon Lee , Donghyun Na , Saehoon Kim , Minseop Park , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

In a multi-task learning (MTL) setting, a single model is trained to tackle a diverse set of tasks jointly. Despite rapid progress in the field, MTL remains challenging due to optimization issues such as conflicting and dominating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Dmitry Senushkin , Nikolay Patakin , Arseny Kuznetsov , Anton Konushin

Multi-task learning (MTL) algorithms typically rely on schemes that combine different task losses or their gradients through weighted averaging. These methods aim to find Pareto stationary points by using heuristics that require access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Surya Murthy , Kushagra Gupta , Mustafa O. Karabag , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

Meta-learning methods aim to build learning algorithms capable of quickly adapting to new tasks in low-data regime. One of the most difficult benchmarks of such algorithms is a one-shot learning problem. In this setting many algorithms face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Andrei Boiarov , Kostiantyn Khabarlak , Igor Yastrebov

Model merging and task arithmetic have emerged as promising scalable approaches to merge multiple single-task checkpoints to one multi-task model, but their applicability is reduced by significant performance loss. Previous works have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ke Wang , Nikolaos Dimitriadis , Guillermo Ortiz-Jimenez , François Fleuret , Pascal Frossard