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Multi-task learning (MTL) has emerged as a promising approach for deploying deep learning models in real-life applications. Recent studies have proposed optimization-based learning paradigms to establish task-shared representations in MTL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhipeng Zhou , Liu Liu , Peilin Zhao , Wei Gong

Multitask learning is a framework that enforces multiple learning tasks to share knowledge to improve their generalization abilities. While shallow multitask learning can learn task relations, it can only handle predefined features. Modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Guangji Bai , Liang Zhao

The goal of multi-task learning is to learn diverse tasks within a single unified network. As each task has its own unique objective function, conflicts emerge during training, resulting in negative transfer among them. Earlier research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Wooseong Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Representation learning on text-attributed graphs (TAGs), where nodes are represented by textual descriptions, is crucial for textual and relational knowledge systems and recommendation systems. Currently, state-of-the-art embedding methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yi Fang , Dongzhe Fan , Sirui Ding , Ninghao Liu , Qiaoyu Tan

In industrial recommendation systems, multi-task learning (learning multiple tasks simultaneously on a single model) is a predominant approach to save training/serving resources and improve recommendation performance via knowledge transfer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yun He , Xuxing Chen , Jiayi Xu , Renqin Cai , Yiling You , Jennifer Cao , Minhui Huang , Liu Yang , Yiqun Liu , Xiaoyi Liu , Rong Jin , Sem Park , Bo Long , Xue Feng

Task arithmetic has emerged as a simple yet powerful technique for model merging, enabling the combination of multiple finetuned models into one. Despite its empirical success, a clear theoretical explanation of why and when it works is…

Meta-learning stands for 'learning to learn' such that generalization to new tasks is achieved. Among these methods, Gradient-based meta-learning algorithms are a specific sub-class that excel at quick adaptation to new tasks with limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

In multitask learning, conflicts between task gradients are a frequent issue degrading a model's training performance. This is commonly addressed by using the Gradient Projection algorithm PCGrad that often leads to faster convergence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Christian Bohn , Ido Freeman , Hasan Tercan , Tobias Meisen

In this paper, we propose a novel graph-based approach for semi-supervised learning problems, which considers an adaptive adjacency of the examples throughout the unsupervised portion of the training. Adjacency of the examples is inferred…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Ozsel Kilinc , Ismail Uysal

Graphs are ubiquitous real-world data structures, and generative models that approximate distributions over graphs and derive new samples from them have significant importance. Among the known challenges in graph generation tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Wataru Kawai , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

The vast majority of deep models use multiple gradient signals, typically corresponding to a sum of multiple loss terms, to update a shared set of trainable weights. However, these multiple updates can impede optimal training by pulling the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Zhao Chen , Jiquan Ngiam , Yanping Huang , Thang Luong , Henrik Kretzschmar , Yuning Chai , Dragomir Anguelov

In this paper we consider a problem known as multi-task learning, consisting of fitting a set of classifier or regression functions intended for solving different tasks. In our novel formulation, we couple the parameters of these functions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Juan Cervino , Juan Andres Bazerque , Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Alejandro Ribeiro

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a powerful technique that has gained popularity due to its performance improvement over traditional Single-Task Learning (STL). However, MTL is often challenging because there is an exponential number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ammar Sherif , Abubakar Abid , Mustafa Elattar , Mohamed ElHelw

Machine learning models are increasingly being utilized across various fields and tasks due to their outstanding performance and strong generalization capabilities. Nonetheless, their success hinges on the availability of large volumes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Shreen Gul , Mohamed Elmahallawy , Sanjay Madria , Ardhendu Tripathy

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to empower a model to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously. A recent development known as task arithmetic has revealed that several models, each fine-tuned for distinct tasks, can be directly merged into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Enneng Yang , Zhenyi Wang , Li Shen , Shiwei Liu , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang , Dacheng Tao

We study the problem of efficiently estimating policies that simultaneously optimize multiple objectives in reinforcement learning (RL). Given $n$ objectives (or tasks), we seek the optimal partition of these objectives into $k \ll n$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zhenshuo Zhang , Minxuan Duan , Youran Ye , Hongyang R. Zhang

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

One of the grand enduring goals of AI is to create generalist agents that can learn multiple different tasks from diverse data via multitask learning (MTL). However, in practice, applying gradient descent (GD) on the average loss across all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Bo Liu , Yihao Feng , Peter Stone , Qiang Liu

Deep neural networks are a promising approach towards multi-task learning because of their capability to leverage knowledge across domains and learn general purpose representations. Nevertheless, they can fail to live up to these promises…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Mihai Suteu , Yike Guo

Multi-task learning and self-training are two common ways to improve a machine learning model's performance in settings with limited training data. Drawing heavily on ideas from those two approaches, we suggest transductive auxiliary task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Johannes Bjerva , Katharina Kann , Isabelle Augenstein