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A fundamental problem in multi-task learning (MTL) is identifying groups of tasks that should be learned together. Since training MTL models for all possible combinations of tasks is prohibitively expensive for large task sets, a crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Afiya Ayman , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Aron Laszka

Most deep reinforcement learning algorithms are data inefficient in complex and rich environments, limiting their applicability to many scenarios. One direction for improving data efficiency is multitask learning with shared neural network…

The success of gradient-based meta-learning is primarily attributed to its ability to leverage related tasks to learn task-invariant information. However, the absence of interactions between different tasks in the inner loop leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Oscar Chang , Hod Lipson

Multi-task learning (MTL) is frequently used in settings where a target task has to be learnt based on limited training data, but knowledge can be leveraged from related auxiliary tasks. While MTL can improve task performance overall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Rafael Peres da Silva , Chayaporn Suphavilai , Niranjan Nagarajan

Deep multitask learning boosts performance by sharing learned structure across related tasks. This paper adapts ideas from deep multitask learning to the setting where only a single task is available. The method is formalized as pseudo-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve generalization performance by learning multiple related tasks simultaneously. While sometimes the underlying task relationship structure is known, often the structure needs to be estimated from data…

Multi-task learning (MTL) has gained significant popularity in recommender systems as it enables simultaneous optimization of multiple objectives. A key challenge in MTL is negative transfer, but existing studies explored negative transfer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Liangcai Su , Junwei Pan , Ximei Wang , Xi Xiao , Shijie Quan , Xihua Chen , Jie Jiang

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

Transferring knowledge from one neural network to another has been shown to be helpful for learning tasks with few training examples. Prevailing fine-tuning methods could potentially contaminate pre-trained features by comparably high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Farshid Varno , Behrouz Haji Soleimani , Marzie Saghayi , Lisa Di Jorio , Stan Matwin

Meta-learning aims to leverage information across related tasks to improve prediction on unlabeled data for new tasks when only a small number of labeled observations are available ("few-shot" learning). Increased task diversity is often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-16 Saptati Datta , Nicolas W. Hengartner , Yulia Pimonova , Natalie E. Klein , Nicholas Lubbers

Multi-task learning (MTL) has been widely applied in online advertising and recommender systems. To address the negative transfer issue, recent studies have proposed optimization methods that thoroughly focus on the gradient alignment of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xuanhua Yang , Jianxin Zhao , Shaoguo Liu , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

Multi-task prompt tuning utilizes multiple high-resource source tasks to improve performance on low-source target tasks. Existing approaches transfer the soft prompt trained by combining all source tasks or a single ``high-similar'' source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Pieyi Zhang , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie

Multi-task learning aims to boost the generalization performance of multiple related tasks simultaneously by leveraging information contained in those tasks. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning framework, where we utilize prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Mengyuan Zhang , Kai Liu

We build a theoretical framework for designing and understanding practical meta-learning methods that integrates sophisticated formalizations of task-similarity with the extensive literature on online convex optimization and sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mikhail Khodak , Maria-Florina Balcan , Ameet Talwalkar

Recommender systems usually leverage multi-task learning methods to simultaneously optimize several objectives because of the multi-faceted user behavior data. The typical way of conducting multi-task learning is to establish appropriate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yi Ren , Ying Du , Bin Wang , Shenzheng Zhang

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a framework, where multiple related tasks are learned jointly and benefit from a shared representation space, or parameter transfer. To provide sufficient learning support, modern MTL uses annotated data with…

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To train neural machine translation models simultaneously on multiple tasks (languages), it is common to sample each task uniformly or in proportion to dataset sizes. As these methods offer little control over performance trade-offs, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Sébastien Jean , Orhan Firat , Melvin Johnson

Multilingual models jointly pretrained on multiple languages have achieved remarkable performance on various multilingual downstream tasks. Moreover, models finetuned on a single monolingual downstream task have shown to generalize to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Seanie Lee , Hae Beom Lee , Juho Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Designing shared neural architecture plays an important role in multi-task learning. The challenge is that finding an optimal sharing scheme heavily relies on the expert knowledge and is not scalable to a large number of diverse tasks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Junkun Chen , Kaiyu Chen , Xinchi Chen , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang