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Multi-task learning (MTL) trains deep neural networks to optimize several objectives simultaneously using a shared backbone, which leads to reduced computational costs, improved data efficiency, and enhanced performance through cross-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hoang Phan , Lam Tran , Quyen Tran , Ngoc N. Tran , Tuan Truong , Qi Lei , Nhat Ho , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Reducing the amount of human supervision is a key problem in machine learning and a natural approach is that of exploiting the relations (structure) among different tasks. This is the idea at the core of multi-task learning. In this context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Carlo Ciliberto , Youssef Mroueh , Tomaso Poggio , Lorenzo Rosasco

Multi-task learning (MTL) can improve performance on a task by sharing representations with one or more related auxiliary-tasks. Usually, MTL-networks are trained on a composite loss function formed by a constant weighted combination of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Sam Verboven , Muhammad Hafeez Chaudhary , Jeroen Berrevoets , Wouter Verbeke

Learning from multiple related tasks by knowledge sharing and transfer has become increasingly relevant over the last two decades. In order to successfully transfer information from one task to another, it is critical to understand the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Boyu Wang , Jorge Mendez , Changjian Shui , Fan Zhou , Di Wu , Gezheng Xu , Christian Gagné , Eric Eaton

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims at solving multiple related tasks simultaneously and has experienced rapid growth in recent years. However, MTL models often suffer from performance degeneration with negative transfer due to learning several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Xin Dong , Ruize Wu , Chao Xiong , Hai Li , Lei Cheng , Yong He , Shiyou Qian , Jian Cao , Linjian Mo

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a methodology that aims to improve the general performance of estimation and prediction by sharing common information among related tasks. In the MTL, there are several assumptions for the relationships and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-27 Akira Okazaki , Shuichi Kawano

Multi-task learning has gained popularity due to the advantages it provides with respect to resource usage and performance. Nonetheless, the joint optimization of parameters with respect to multiple tasks remains an active research topic.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Lucas Pascal , Pietro Michiardi , Xavier Bost , Benoit Huet , Maria A. Zuluaga

Multi-modal learning aims to enhance performance by unifying models from various modalities but often faces the "modality imbalance" problem in real data, leading to a bias towards dominant modalities and neglecting others, thereby limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yang Yang , Hongpeng Pan , Qing-Yuan Jiang , Yi Xu , Jinghui Tang

Meta-learning of shared initialization parameters has shown to be highly effective in solving few-shot learning tasks. However, extending the framework to many-shot scenarios, which may further enhance its practicality, has been relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Jaewoong Shin , Hae Beom Lee , Boqing Gong , Sung Ju Hwang

Regularization and transfer learning are two popular techniques to enhance generalization on unseen data, which is a fundamental problem of machine learning. Regularization techniques are versatile, as they are task- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jeongun Ryu , Jaewoong Shin , Hae Beom Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

As the range of tasks performed by a general vision system expands, executing multiple tasks accurately and efficiently in a single network has become an important and still open problem. Recent computer vision approaches address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Hila Levi , Shimon Ullman

Multi-task learning aims at solving multiple machine learning tasks at the same time. A good solution to a multi-task learning problem should be generalizable in addition to being Pareto optimal. In this paper, we provide some insights on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Yuyan Wang , Zhe Zhao , Bo Dai , Christopher Fifty , Dong Lin , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi

Multi-task learning (MTL) can improve the generalization performance of neural networks by sharing representations with related tasks. Nonetheless, MTL can also degrade performance through harmful interference between tasks. Recent work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Emilie Grégoire , Hafeez Chaudhary , Sam Verboven

Multimodal meta-learning is a recent problem that extends conventional few-shot meta-learning by generalizing its setup to diverse multimodal task distributions. This setup makes a step towards mimicking how humans make use of a diverse set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Milad Abdollahzadeh , Touba Malekzadeh , Ngai-Man Cheung

This paper introduces self-paced task selection to multitask learning, where instances from more closely related tasks are selected in a progression of easier-to-harder tasks, to emulate an effective human education strategy, but applied to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-20 Keerthiram Murugesan , Jaime Carbonell

Meta-learning has emerged as an effective methodology to model several real-world tasks and problems due to its extraordinary effectiveness in the low-data regime. There are many scenarios ranging from the classification of rare diseases to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Prabhat Agarwal , Shreya Singh

Transfer Learning aims to optimally aggregate samples from a target distribution, with related samples from a so-called source distribution to improve target risk. Multiple procedures have been proposed over the last two decades to address…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-29 Steve Hanneke , Samory Kpotufe

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims at achieving a better model by leveraging data and knowledge from multiple tasks. However, MTL does not always work -- sometimes negative transfer occurs between tasks, especially when aggregating loosely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jingwei Ni , Zhijing Jin , Qian Wang , Mrinmaya Sachan , Markus Leippold

In this work we address task interference in universal networks by considering that a network is trained on multiple tasks, but performs one task at a time, an approach we refer to as "single-tasking multiple tasks". The network thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Ilija Radosavovic , Iasonas Kokkinos

The recent advent of automated neural network architecture search led to several methods that outperform state-of-the-art human-designed architectures. However, these approaches are computationally expensive, in extreme cases consuming GPU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Martin Wistuba , Tejaswini Pedapati