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This paper addresses the challenge of training a single network to jointly perform multiple dense prediction tasks, such as segmentation and depth estimation, i.e., multi-task learning (MTL). Current approaches mainly capture cross-task…

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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 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

Deep learning (DL) techniques have been widely used in prestack three-parameter inversion to address its ill-posed problems. Among these DL techniques, Multi-task learning (MTL) methods can simultaneously train multiple tasks, thereby…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Yingtian Liu , Yong Li , Huating Li , Junheng Peng , Zhangquan Liao , Wen Feng

Given the ubiquity of multi-task in practical systems, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has found widespread application across diverse domains. In real-world scenarios, these tasks often have different priorities. For instance, In web search,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhengxing Cheng , Yuheng Huang , Zhixuan Zhang , Dan Ou , Qingwen Liu

Practical machine learning systems often operate in multiple sequential stages, as seen in ranking and recommendation systems, which typically include a retrieval phase followed by a ranking phase. Effectively assessing prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yunpeng Xu , Mufang Ying , Wenge Guo , Zhi Wei

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

Deep learning-based automated contouring and treatment planning has been proven to improve the efficiency and accuracy of radiotherapy. However, conventional radiotherapy treatment planning process has the automated contouring and treatment…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Sangwook Kim , Aly Khalifa , Thomas G. Purdie , Chris McIntosh

Multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm focuses on jointly learning two or more tasks, aiming for significant improvement w.r.t model's generalizability, performance, and training/inference memory footprint. The aforementioned benefits become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Nitin Bansal , Pan Ji , Junsong Yuan , Yi Xu

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims to boost predictive performance by sharing information across related tasks, yet conventional methods often suffer from negative transfer when unrelated or noisy tasks are forced to share representations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Seyedsaman Emami , Daniel Hernández-Lobato , Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz

Label Distribution Learning (LDL) is a novel machine learning paradigm that addresses the problem of label ambiguity and has found widespread applications. Obtaining complete label distributions in real-world scenarios is challenging, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Zhiqiang Kou , Haoyuan Xuan , Jing Wang , Yuheng Jia , Xin Geng

Multi-task learning (MTL) seeks to learn a single model to accomplish multiple tasks by leveraging shared information among the tasks. Existing MTL models, however, have been known to suffer from negative interference among tasks. Efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Chuntao Ding , Zhichao Lu , Shangguang Wang , Ran Cheng , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Multitask learning (MTL) can utilize the relatedness between multiple tasks for performance improvement. The advent of multimodal data allows tasks to be referenced by multiple indices. High-order tensors are capable of providing efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Jiani Liu , Qinghua Tao , Ce Zhu , Yipeng Liu , Johan A. K. Suykens

Measuring the in-context computational effort of language models is a key challenge, as metrics like next-token loss fail to capture reasoning complexity. Prior methods based on latent state compressibility can be invasive and unstable. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Vincent Herrmann , Eric Alcaide , Michael Wand , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Meta learning with multiple objectives can be formulated as a Multi-Objective Bi-Level optimization Problem (MOBLP) where the upper-level subproblem is to solve several possible conflicting targets for the meta learner. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Feiyang Ye , Baijiong Lin , Zhixiong Yue , Pengxin Guo , Qiao Xiao , Yu Zhang

By leveraging large amounts of product data collected across hundreds of live e-commerce websites, we construct 1000 unique classification tasks that share similarly-structured input data, comprised of both text and images. These…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Cameron R. Wolfe , Keld T. Lundgaard

Transfer learning is widely used for training deep neural networks (DNN) for building a powerful representation. Even after the pre-trained model is adapted for the target task, the representation performance of the feature extractor is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Seunghee Koh , Hyounguk Shon , Janghyeon Lee , Hyeong Gwon Hong , Junmo Kim

In this paper, we introduce Traversal Learning (TL), a novel approach designed to address the problem of decreased quality encountered in popular distributed learning (DL) paradigms such as Federated Learning (FL), Split Learning (SL), and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Erdenebileg Batbaatar , Jeonggeol Kim , Yongcheol Kim , Young Yoon

Multi-task learning (MTL) has recently contributed to learning better representations in service of various NLP tasks. MTL aims at improving the performance of a primary task, by jointly training on a secondary task. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Davis Liang , Yan Shu

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a machine learning paradigm that aims to improve the generalization performance of a model on multiple related tasks by training it simultaneously on those tasks. Unlike MTL, where the model has instant access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Amin Banayeeanzade , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Mohammad Rostami